So I'm back from Banff, bringing alot with me, even if it is a bit cracked and water logged.
What did I do? I made enormous round sheets of paper and served beverages over top of them in an effort create topological stains. I met a number of interesting artists such as Melanie Gilligan, Sarolta Cump, Helen Cho, Parastoo Anoushah Pour, Holly Schmidt, Hazel Mayer and Natalie Draz to name a few, but that was what I was hoping for. I didn't expect to get back into ceramics, discover Judith Butler and Mikail Bahktin, or of all things to get the bug for stop action animation.
People asked me my favourite part. I have lots of favourite parts like dancing to live jazz at a studio party, having an enormous studio, seeing magpies and columbian ground squirrels and meeting so many people that thought the dinner table was such an fascinating psychological and sociological site. The best thing that happened however was a realization that it is okay to bring writing into my art, be it through image text, recordings or live performance... look for new directions at my next show.
Here's what I got done...
A 60 inch sheet of cotton paper and 15 pinch pot cups with holes.
60 inch abbica paper before and after the opening of Skyline and Coastline an exhbition with with Natalie Draz in the Philosopher's Knoll.
Surrealist pottery with multiple spouts and handles. The colour choices are meant to relate to the tone of the table cloth and to mask what kind of drink was being served. Any other ressemblance is accidental...
Collaborative Surrealist Poetry by Natalie Wuerth and I.