tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17396360725408927572024-02-19T02:41:24.609-08:00Shannon G WrightShannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-71690826517449967842019-07-27T21:24:00.001-07:002019-07-27T21:24:14.285-07:00CSU Chancellor's Office ProfileIn July, 2019 the CSU Chancellor's Office published an online "profile" of four CSU art professors. I am one of the four. Many thanks to author, Michelle McCarthy, for including me!<div>
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Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-85756928509146459502017-02-24T22:57:00.001-08:002018-05-12T21:49:00.287-07:00Spatial Art Faculty Show<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Here are two models for large sculpture, which I exhibited in the Spatial Art faculty exhibition at the Natalie and James Thompson Gallery, SJSU. January and February, 2017.</div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Model for large sculpture<br />2017<br />23.5 x 11.75 x 2.5"<br />Acrylic and aluminum</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Text soon! Too tired, but here are some pictures at least!</span></div>
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<br />Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-75490603320272454212016-06-10T17:16:00.001-07:002016-06-11T17:09:21.016-07:00Amount of Pain RequiredMy mentor, Elizabeth King, has a chapter in her book, <i>Attention's Loop, </i>called "Level of Difficulty". The chapter details the process of beginning a sculpture, and the endless expansion that occurs with each step; one step forward, three steps backward, the designing of a jig to make a jig, and so on. I just came upon this reference to Nietzsche's description of the "pain required" to write a novel, in Alain de Botton's book, <i>The Consolations of Philosophy. </i>I thought it would be useful to pass on to my students. We are not writing novels, but the concerns are basically the same:<br />
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<b>If most works of literature are less fine than <i>Le Rouge et le noir, </i>it is– suggested Nietzsche– not because their authors lack genius, but because they have an incorrect idea of how much pain is required. This is how hard one should try to write a novel:</b><br />
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<b>The recipe for becoming a good novelist... is easy to give, but to carry it out presupposes qualities one is accustomed to overlook when one says 'I do not have enough talent.' One has only to make a hundred or so sketches for novels, none longer than two pages but of such distinctness that every word in them is necessary; one should write down anecdotes every day until one has learnt to give them the most pregnant and effective form; one should be tireless in collecting and describing human types and characters; one should above all relate things to others and listen to others relate, keeping one's eyes and ears open for the effect produced on those present, one should travel like a landscape painter or costume designer... one should, finally, reflect on the motives of human actions, disdain no signpost for instruction about them and be a collector of these things by day and night. One should continue in this many-sided exercise for <i>some ten years;</i> what is then created in the workshop... will be fit to go out into the world.</b><br />
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Addendum: the day after posting this, I happened to watch a TED talk featuring the psychologist, Mihalyi Czikszentmihalyi. I'm a longtime fan of his books on flow, etc. The ten-year rule came up again here:<br />
"It has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than ten years of technical knowledge, immersion in a particular field-- whether it's mathematics or music, it takes that long to be able to begin to change something in a way that it's better than what was there before."<br />
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<br />Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-25431568117595956722016-05-14T23:13:00.000-07:002016-05-15T21:26:12.912-07:00SJSU Iron Pour, 2016This August I will have been teaching at SJSU for 14 years... but in all this time I've never participated in any of our occasional iron pours at our foundry. I've attended a lot of them as a spectator, but I haven't ever had time to contribute a mold. This time, although it was quite last-minute, I put two molds in: one ceramic shell mold, and one sand mold. Neither of them were "art" pieces per se, just things that I could come up with quickly to try out the process. Unfortunately, there was a technical problem with the furnace which prevented the iron from flowing properly and getting hot enough, so the iron "froze" in many molds prematurely. One of my molds suffered from this problem, while the other, ceramic shell mold, split open while being poured. Well, very much a learning process. I'm documenting the process here mostly for my own benefit, so I remember what I did right and wrong when I try this again next year.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A urethane mold I made 21 years ago of a tile from an abandoned train station in Gary, Indiana</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wax with seven coats of ceramic shell (thanks to Steve Davis for applying most of them.) The plaster beaded up badly and rolled right off the surface. Next time: less silicone mold release on my mold.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two industrial-size egg cartons, discarded by the bakery below my apartment. I sandwiched 1/4" of celluclay (paper maché/ paper pulp) between the two to add thickness, then sanded the edges on the edge sander in our shop. I polyurethaned the crate to protect it from moisture.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was late getting back to the Foundry after my class, so one of the volunteers at the Foundry rammed up my second half when he mixed his own. This was a different batch of resin and it behaved diferently.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I painted on a solution of graphite in denatured alcohol, then set it on fire to burn off the alcohol.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The day after the pour: jackhammering out the iron that had seized up in the furnace.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My poor mold, almost untouched by the iron! The iron froze barely an inch past the pour spout. It looks like the last teaspoon of waffle batter poured into a waffle iron... So sad to throw this cool mold straight into the dumpster.</td></tr>
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<br />Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-73919916813960582012015-11-22T10:14:00.006-08:002015-11-22T17:34:37.011-08:00Carving Class, November 2015Although I've been a woodworker for over 20 years, I have never learnt to carve! No shop I've worked in has even had a set of carving tools, so I really had no clue how to even start. This past week I took an amazing five day class that did get me started. Now I need to acquire that first set of carving tools–– and, well, they are not cheap. Here are some pictures of my first two attempts at carving wood, ever.<br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; text-align: center;">I got to pick the second project myself. I chose this draping piece of fabric. Basswood was way </span><span style="color: #e69138;">more forgiving.</span></div>
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<br />Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-4432516353168667662015-06-16T10:51:00.001-07:002015-06-18T11:08:06.649-07:00The KnowledgeMy department chair sent me this beautifully-written story about what has been described as "the hardest test in the world," the London taxi-drivers' exam. The story basically embodies what I aim to communicate in my own work: the prospect of epic and irreversible loss of human knowledge and human capacity when we prioritize economic utility over all else.<br />
<a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/london-taxi-test-knowledge/?emc=eta1&_r=0" target="_blank">The Knowledge</a>Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-4037350285834814292015-06-13T21:45:00.002-07:002017-06-08T13:25:08.689-07:00"Wall (After Marfa)" at Dallas Art Fair, April 2015I installed this piece at the ADA Gallery booth at the Dallas Art Fair in April, 2015. A statement about the piece is <a href="http://www.shannonwright.org/artists-statements/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<br />Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-18590031670842338852014-12-03T20:02:00.004-08:002018-05-12T21:47:45.338-07:00Scholastic Aptitude series at Untitled Miami 2014<br />
I have work in <a href="http://adagallery.com/UNTITLED_MIAMI_ADA.html" target="_blank">ADA Gallery</a>'s booth at Untitled Contemporary Art Fair in Miami right now. One of my pieces appears in <a href="http://hifructose.com/2014/12/03/miami-art-week-2014-untitled-art-fair-recap/" target="_blank">Hi Fructose</a> today.<br />
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The three sculptures in the Scholastic Aptitude series are made from notebook and sketchbook paper that has been stack-cut, custom hole-punched a few pages at a time, and then painstakingly spiral-bound. Two of these pieces suggest mountainous terrain, while the third is a woven structure with spiral bindings serving as flexible hinges. <i>Form and Content (Internal Logic)</i> is inspired by the notion that a material object can be the “vessel” for meaning or the bearer of a theory. Notes taken in the conceptualization stage of the piece are used to build the physical piece. Among these notes are quotes from architect Christopher Alexander, art historian E.H. Gombrich, and others, on the nature of pattern and the role of "rules" in patternmaking. Additionally one of Sol LeWitt’s “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art” is transcribed. This is an absurd attempt to “overstuff” an object with meaning, resulting in an object that seems merely self-absorbed. The piece called <i>Horror Vacui</i> celebrates the moment in which the excitement of acquiring a pristine new sketchbook turns to intimidation. <i>Application of a Theory</i> acknowledges the often dubious connection between a form and its ostensible “message.” The piece might also suggest a child who has devised a labour-intensive way to avoid her written homework.<br />
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<br />Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-5395409318779116042014-04-09T19:33:00.002-07:002014-04-12T08:19:44.341-07:00Thanks for the cool review, Hyperallergic! Thanks, Allison Meier! Cool take on the show!<br />
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<a href="http://hyperallergic.com/119385/in-search-of-the-iconic-amid-urban-dystopia/"> Review in Hyperallergic.</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Folly (Colosseum of Rome) 2, </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">2014</span><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Archival
dye-infused print on aluminum</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">27.7” x
37.4”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Folly (Colosseum of Rome) 1, </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">2014</span><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">27.7” x
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Flourish (Public Art), </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">2014</span><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Galvanized
steel pipe, hardware, sandbags</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Flourish (Public Art) 1, </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">2014</span><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Archival
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After Chinese window lattice patterns, Szechwan, 1850
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Contributors to these projects: </b></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://brendancoyle.com/" target="_blank">Brendan Coyle</a>, Digital Artist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://w w w . n i n s t u d i o . c o m" target="_blank">Ninh Filip</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://steelfence.com/" target="_blank">Pete Farrell II</a>I</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://steelfence.com/" target="_blank">Michael Farrell </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">THANK YOU! </span>Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-16911204376967375742014-02-02T22:09:00.000-08:002015-06-13T22:16:45.250-07:00Coliseum Installation PicturesIn January, 2014, I installed the piece called "Folly (Colosseum of Rome)" with the help of a few current and former graduate students: Nathan Cox, Chauncey Rasmussen, Biagio Scarpello, and Nin Filip (whose chief role was photo guru.)<br />
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Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-91964280394944396672013-07-28T21:44:00.000-07:002013-07-28T21:53:55.883-07:00Summer 2013 UpdateLast year, my entire summer was stolen from me when my landlords announced that they were not renewing my lease. They explained that they were going to turn my 680 square-foot one-bedroom apartment into a two bedroom apartment by building two new walls in the living room. (They did this in about five days and raised the rent by $425.00. Impressive!) So, I spent the entire summer searching for an affordable apartment in San Jose, and then moving, during this terrible rent spike. This summer I was determined to make up as much as possible for lost time. So, I haven't done a day of vacation-type things, but have just worked on art (plus the inevitable school issues that come up on most days.)<br />
While I work on new projects, I have two pieces in a show called Navigating the New that's currently up at <a href="http://www.proartsgallery.org/exhibitions/2013_bac.php">Pro Arts</a> in Oakland. Here is a <a href="http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/a-subjective-snapshot-of-bay-area-art/Content?oid=3660595">review</a> of the show, which came out the other day. And here is a picture from Pro Arts' Facebook page.<br />
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<br />Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-86728312498288771352013-06-24T23:30:00.000-07:002013-06-24T23:30:09.404-07:00Bob Robinson Makes a Classical GuitarHey wow, a new blog post! I stumbled on this amazing video about a month ago, of my friend Bob Robinson. I worked for Bob for only about a year and a half, right after grad school, in his custom furniture shop in Chicago. It was from Bob that I learnt most of what I know about woodworking. I left when Bob decided to pursue a longtime dream of becoming a veterinarian. Fortunately for the world, he quickly changed his plan and returned to another longtime dream of making classical guitars. I suggest watching this video in its entirety, because it's really cool. <a href="http://vimeo.com/60127203#">Bob Robinson: Luthier</a><br />
Bob and his wife Deirdre have been running a high-end furniture business called <a href="http://www.troscandesign.com/">Troscan Design</a> for many years now, and he makes the beautiful guitars on the side.Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-51575993261734622882012-02-09T22:05:00.001-08:002012-02-24T21:22:33.231-08:00"Mechanical Reproduction" at Mulherin + Pollard ProjectsI spent an intense three weeks in the SJSU Art building over the winter break, completing a new piece. The heat was off in the building and the rooms were 50 Fahrenheit and below, and for some of the time the water was turned off too, while some major repairs were being done in the building. Additionally, everything that could go wrong on this project, did–– several times! I still need to make more of these stamps, both larger and smaller (with different patterns) to complete the series. The piece is called "Mechanical Reproduction"–– a reference to Walter Benjamin's famous <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1841823399">essay</a> from 1936, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Here is a brief statement I wrote about the piece:<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">The current series of oversized rubber stamps evolved as a whimsical tangent to a long-term project I am engaged in that involves casting black rubber tire treads. For me, this piece is about the tyranny of standardization. Damask wallpaper is a trope which connotes opulence and a bygone romantic era, while </span></i><i><span style="font-size: small;">rubber stamps are frequently associated with bureaucracy and mindless repetition. </span></i><i><span style="font-size: small;">These giant rubber stamps are hard to control, and their users will struggle to build up a logically repeating pattern. Perhaps they will quickly abandon all attempts at creating order, and succumb to more impulsive, chaotic overlays. In many cases there will be almost enough room for a stamped unit, but not quite, and the pattern will be forced to abruptly end.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> I am interested in exploring the many possible narratives that might arise from the use of this rudimentary but highly allusive form of mechanical reproduction. </span></i><br />
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The first step to making this piece was drawing the damask pattern in Illustrator. I spent a month at the end of last summer making the drawing, and then had to refine the mold and rubber-pouring process which I had developed with my first tire tread piece. Unfortunately, there were many more urgent refinements I had to figure out on a tight deadline over the winter break.<br />
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Here are a few process pictures of the piece, and me in the amazing new powered air purifying respirator that I purchased with a generous SJSU Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity grant. I wore this every day that I worked on the project–– it protects against both organic vapours and particulates.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyqt_gdoJKZaD2lbaQ-b_o0HWS6eMQQ_5M88DqIyivq1QLktr_DQ8EStgic7PNeOpqCjBIeLkjAiXE2uMDRW9NROv9z4tnNf-8TnECctBSOR4OlQ_wJyNYrv-Bv_2R1Tp90xDM0MkRSNtD/s1600/DSC05180smaller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyqt_gdoJKZaD2lbaQ-b_o0HWS6eMQQ_5M88DqIyivq1QLktr_DQ8EStgic7PNeOpqCjBIeLkjAiXE2uMDRW9NROv9z4tnNf-8TnECctBSOR4OlQ_wJyNYrv-Bv_2R1Tp90xDM0MkRSNtD/s320/DSC05180smaller.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Four chunks of 16/4 basswood ready to glue into a block to turn on the lathe.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">I used the dowels to keep the seams lined up perfectly.</span></div><br />
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John Pollard of ADA Gallery in Richmond, VA and <a href="http://mulherinpollard.com/current_exhibition.html">Mulherin + Pollard Projects</a> in New York, invited me to install the piece in the NY gallery, in a two-person show with artist Jared Lindsay Clark. The show opened last Friday, February 3rd.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">This is my answer</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">"<a href="http://shannongwright.blogspot.com/2008/10/lesters-laws.html">Lester's Laws</a>," which I love. I had my students read them this semester, and I realized that by now I have my own set of issues that come up semester after semester in my teaching. I thought it might save some time to just write them down and give them out in advance, to each of my classes. These are nowhere near as cool and succinct as Lester's Laws, but they do have their own very specific purpose. I intend to add to this list as I remember things that frequently come up.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Purely Practical Issues For Students In My Classes</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Please don't look for materials for use in my classes at Michael's, unless the piece you're making is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">about </i>kitsch and potpourri.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Whatever you are planning to do, do a test first on a scrap. "Scrap" doesn't mean a one-inch square morsel of your material. It means a decent-sized piece that you have set aside for testing purposes. If you are planning to drill 20 holes that need to accommodate certain hardware or a certain size of dowel, drill a test hole in a scrap of the same material, and try the hardware or the dowel. This will tell you if you've chosen the right size and kind of drill bit. If your wood (for example) tears, then you probably need a brad-point bit, not a twist bit. If you are planning to put a finish on your piece, you need to use a decent-sized scrap of the very same material you are using, sand it thoroughly, and do a series of colour/ finish tests before you do anything to your actual piece. Test EVERYTHING first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Dragging" is not an acceptable method of moving materials, art objects, furniture or pedestals from one place to another. Dragging scrapes off the surface of one material and leaves it embedded in the other. In my classes, you will pick things up and carry them. If this requires two people, then you need to ask a classmate to help you. Alternately, check out a handtruck from the wood shop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Pugin detected such an illogicality at least when illusionistic design was used for wallpapers. For if a naturalistic representation in light and shade is repeated all around the room the shadows in the design will inevitably be found to conflict somewhere with the real fall of light from the windows."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Stain is just thinned-down brown paint. There is nothing mysterious or alchemical about it. If you want a decent-looking dark wood, then use a dark wood (for example, mahogany, walnut or cherry.) Don't buy a blonde wood and stain it. The exception is, if you are making a piece predicated on the idea of trompe l'oeil, "fooling the eye." And then you had better fool us well. Otherwise, first try making some successful projects that rely on the sculptural qualities of your object, and the natural colour of the wood. Once you have demonstrated a thorough understanding of sanding and application of a clear coat ––I suggest Minwax Wipe-On Poly, Satin finish, three to four coats, sanded very delicately with 320 grit sandpaper between coats–– then it would be reasonable to start doing tests with more complicated finishes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">On the subject of getting the greatest effect from an affordable material, please read this excerpt from John Ruskin's <u>Seven Lamps of Architecture</u> (1849):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Do not confuse the art movements called "Expressionism" and "Abstract Expressionism" with the word "expressive."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Work that looks like it was made while the artist was having a temper tantrum is no more expressive than work that looks like it was done while the artist was meditating. To put it another way, a contemplative drawing made with technical pencils, rulers, and compasses </span> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} </style> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">On a related subject: the frequently perpetuated myth that the artist's self-expression is the sole purpose of art, is a meme that was generated, at least in part, by a few influential individuals during the late 1800s. In his book, <u>The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art</u>, (1979,) E.H. Gombrich explains one of the origins of this myth:</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></b>Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-61621670228963248392011-01-31T09:36:00.000-08:002012-02-12T21:17:11.911-08:00Inspiration and RealizationMy friend Tom Rebold just emailed me a fantastic quote from Wendell Berry. Although I can assume Berry was not thinking of sculpture when he wrote this, his words happen to sum up perfectly the enormous and complex challenge of making sculpture. And they parallel and complement the words of sculptors Arthur Ganson and Tony Cragg that I have included below.<br />
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"There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." — Wendell Berry<br />
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"...The real, physical world keeps me honest. Because I can <i>imagine</i> anything, but I like the discipline of the actual, physical world. It's a really good grounding plane for me."<br />
––Arthur Ganson (speaking at the DeYoung Museum, SF, October 2010)<br />
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"... although sculpture remains for the greater part useless, unlike designed objects, it is an attempt to make dumb material express human thoughts and emotions. It is the attempt not just to project intelligence into the material but also to use material to think with. Sculptures are often and at their best not just the result of an artist taking a material, for example a piece of stone or a lump of clay, out if its normal environment and forcing them into a form which expresses a preformulated notion, but rather the result of a dialogue between the material and the artist. The material finds itself in a new form and the sculptor finds himself with new content and new meaning."<br />
––Tony Cragg, from the exhibition catalog, A New Thing Breathing<br />
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It occurred to me after juxtaposing these quotes, that they bring up another, more practical, issue for sculptors. That is, if I succeed merely in "realizing" my "preformulated notion," then there is a good chance that another artist is out there realizing the same notion a week or two before me! This happens with many of my projects. In these cases, the only things that can save my work from sudden obsolescence are the richness and specificity that arise solely from process. This reminds me of yet another quote, from my longtime mentor, Elizabeth King: "It's our <i>process</i> that saves us from the poverty of our intent."Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-68792783616729103902010-10-16T16:53:00.000-07:002010-10-16T17:14:51.469-07:00The Best Artist in the WorldI first learned of the work of the Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea in the Spring of 2009. I was dumbstruck– but I wanted to imagine I could keep my discovery to myself for a while. I just checked his website to see what he's done since then, and I am re-dumbstruck. It is my duty as a good citizen of the art world to sing his praises from every rooftop, or at least every blog, that I can. Here is a link to his <a href="http://www.alexandrearrechea.com/">website</a>, and here are a few images of his work.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.alexandrearrechea.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/65.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-488" title="65" src="http://www.alexandrearrechea.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/65.jpg" alt="" height="445" width="500" /></a><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:78%;">“Elastic Time, 2010”</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:78%;">52 x 5 x 26 cm</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Transparent Lacquered Aluminum 2010</span></p><a href="http://www.alexandrearrechea.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/metropolitan-tower.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-924" title="metropolitan-tower" src="http://www.alexandrearrechea.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/metropolitan-tower.jpg" alt="" height="686" width="500" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Metropolitan Tower</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Aluminum</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:78%;">91 x 30 x 220 cm</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:78%;">36 x 12 x 87 inches</span></p><a href="http://www.alexandrearrechea.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/alexandre_arrechea_orange.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-922" title="alexandre_arrechea_orange" src="http://www.alexandrearrechea.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/alexandre_arrechea_orange.jpg" alt="" height="643" width="497" /></a><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Orange tree, 2003-2010</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:78%;">lacquered aluminum</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:78%;">7 meters height</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Location/ Jing’an Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China</span></p><span style="font-size:78%;"></span> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><span style="font-size:78%;"><img src="http://www.alexandrearrechea.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/61.jpg" alt="" title="61" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-470" height="500" width="390" /></span></td> <td width="25"><span style="font-size:78%;"> </span><br /></td> <td align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size:78%;">“Masculinity”<br />170 x 130 cm<br />Watercolor on paper<br />2009 </span><br /> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><br /></td> <td width="25"><br /> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><img src="http://www.alexandrearrechea.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/64.jpg" alt="" title="64" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-462" height="500" width="386" /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Dead bird flying 4”<br />170 x 130 cm<br />Watercolor on paper.<br />2009<br /></span><br /></td> <td width="25"><br /></td> <td align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-size:78%;">“<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td> <td align="left" valign="top"><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-74670742220994895042010-02-22T10:43:00.001-08:002010-02-23T08:02:19.247-08:00FebruaryI suspect this will be my last post from Finland, as I'm leaving soon. As I write this, it is 0° Fahrenheit, and has been between 6° and about 12° all week, with lots of snow.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPHxc7NE1Tb-ppYo3GjY1A1nTA4wbyOlopMisP9bjzvA17CbCrmifeCmey_uYLZwG9hQOFHgn6iiCaYaeh2GLR8eRT-iUJ6SgT60tVgpiWUbA_m3okD4eAfy84hTwQt1onRSUCEtb9CrpD/s1600-h/DSC01491.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPHxc7NE1Tb-ppYo3GjY1A1nTA4wbyOlopMisP9bjzvA17CbCrmifeCmey_uYLZwG9hQOFHgn6iiCaYaeh2GLR8eRT-iUJ6SgT60tVgpiWUbA_m3okD4eAfy84hTwQt1onRSUCEtb9CrpD/s400/DSC01491.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441156579220058386" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Midday sun a couple of weeks ago.</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisKbdQh8gwaNuM8-VR4gaNWWHQ2EITZlw6Q6W0RF61icmPdCsNQs78NePbmoY6DVUUT7iCry-fqPmucZhyphenhyphen7Dt3pPIgPV_ZTLBCuKNZ5njtnkmnFMkLnJ7W_bZWL8fZMhZxm1rWxBpdllQj/s1600-h/Ekenas1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisKbdQh8gwaNuM8-VR4gaNWWHQ2EITZlw6Q6W0RF61icmPdCsNQs78NePbmoY6DVUUT7iCry-fqPmucZhyphenhyphen7Dt3pPIgPV_ZTLBCuKNZ5njtnkmnFMkLnJ7W_bZWL8fZMhZxm1rWxBpdllQj/s400/Ekenas1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441156568456661266" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv5qlCO0dxAhjzSFvdF7GYAEeqBh4fECVcmV6cHeVIisp9s7TbEbKt4uHblmEGGaqskjyoltE2qCDWHcWH0Y1Wllj-F2q4cDR1e9Wfpqk6I4agzlB0zSsxJtdBA7X5LVX92b-BM-2NCvAt/s1600-h/ekenas2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv5qlCO0dxAhjzSFvdF7GYAEeqBh4fECVcmV6cHeVIisp9s7TbEbKt4uHblmEGGaqskjyoltE2qCDWHcWH0Y1Wllj-F2q4cDR1e9Wfpqk6I4agzlB0zSsxJtdBA7X5LVX92b-BM-2NCvAt/s400/ekenas2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441150829835562514" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWGCI3NylzgjwLDeaZEwWghnoIc-890XOojiN7OynjPkpzNgOvPtgKL1pOAWQXqlHbWq2-dpqFm4Ai21TVfUyUMBS6_29h7woCpxvlosoyCcg-s7ESVfzW4vBVyfI33iO5gEm0GkB9hxPO/s1600-h/DSC01517.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWGCI3NylzgjwLDeaZEwWghnoIc-890XOojiN7OynjPkpzNgOvPtgKL1pOAWQXqlHbWq2-dpqFm4Ai21TVfUyUMBS6_29h7woCpxvlosoyCcg-s7ESVfzW4vBVyfI33iO5gEm0GkB9hxPO/s400/DSC01517.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441150818806650610" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC-b5Eq9QIPQJuT_fng40OLeZJgplPZUsQ-pfmA9W6wxIoNZZCI3T2qcSpUwlx0N3kJPp7uh9z-oQH9U4280H2_PAw7qXshaFkxovifrBzvTMT-R9VIEZ07nIPeBSCDjogkLKZXZAX0KAH/s1600-h/DSC01558.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC-b5Eq9QIPQJuT_fng40OLeZJgplPZUsQ-pfmA9W6wxIoNZZCI3T2qcSpUwlx0N3kJPp7uh9z-oQH9U4280H2_PAw7qXshaFkxovifrBzvTMT-R9VIEZ07nIPeBSCDjogkLKZXZAX0KAH/s400/DSC01558.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441150816888902402" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Residency house.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuykQQEkfv2fP1hJOo7G2lmtq6avnlDGhxcpdW189A42UkdvYEa7MUZxo-PeOGXeaGx3h6vQF9pALKG_EdPuLQuUARNLz9mU797ws9jTAEpMvK1AXetDAmikJYMQCUL_BoJ6emQZrAWIBV/s1600-h/DSC01616.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuykQQEkfv2fP1hJOo7G2lmtq6avnlDGhxcpdW189A42UkdvYEa7MUZxo-PeOGXeaGx3h6vQF9pALKG_EdPuLQuUARNLz9mU797ws9jTAEpMvK1AXetDAmikJYMQCUL_BoJ6emQZrAWIBV/s400/DSC01616.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441150812236599154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">A Valentines Day Snow Carving event attracted more people than I had ever seen in Ekenas. Where have they all been hiding?<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ5a6Bhj8cqRwmDneFkCFUuctAP84qN1TaOth-UtJGe97Uwd6JyCmU5YS0O9eZoqfRzjyqPJLApYSHyGgmQcyX_dTPKSFSa1WHc_oLhyphenhyphen3PdF5DCG_pZoi5XxGOWMGQbuegtqjXXKVdisu8/s1600-h/DSC01622.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ5a6Bhj8cqRwmDneFkCFUuctAP84qN1TaOth-UtJGe97Uwd6JyCmU5YS0O9eZoqfRzjyqPJLApYSHyGgmQcyX_dTPKSFSa1WHc_oLhyphenhyphen3PdF5DCG_pZoi5XxGOWMGQbuegtqjXXKVdisu8/s400/DSC01622.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441147238393382530" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;">Double bunnies, carved by <a href="http://www.kimsimonsson.com/">Kim Simonsson</a> and the other resident artists at <span style="font-style: italic;">Villa Snacksund</span>, another Pro Artibus residency house for Finnish artists.</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9uNStTBreT5qUksAhu_knhrShLhYjNMP4qna3xSvUG2DQsPwswrxuw_tcVpmWH_zzD4ted2dWLVjwQcguQqEoSdwZDm9iBiOJo13qgrc6gah2Qc4Qfi0pVCawVQka1sb4yclpskz7v1d9/s1600-h/DSC01630.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9uNStTBreT5qUksAhu_knhrShLhYjNMP4qna3xSvUG2DQsPwswrxuw_tcVpmWH_zzD4ted2dWLVjwQcguQqEoSdwZDm9iBiOJo13qgrc6gah2Qc4Qfi0pVCawVQka1sb4yclpskz7v1d9/s400/DSC01630.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441146956946036418" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">KUVA, the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, in Helsinki. I gave a lecture about my work there last Wednesday.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibd0Ny3F6_xhaT9JW7aeUvGKzSsNtNYj9CIJ7xm6a633AQMy-8L_9S4y2f7Uxm7ddZ43QhDSMRPlad2Wpktzud1nQ2ScyhvewIgUwdBacFYNmS-d9JC1tY4RbqtVMNzOTeUXourFxl1QhW/s1600-h/DSC01640.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibd0Ny3F6_xhaT9JW7aeUvGKzSsNtNYj9CIJ7xm6a633AQMy-8L_9S4y2f7Uxm7ddZ43QhDSMRPlad2Wpktzud1nQ2ScyhvewIgUwdBacFYNmS-d9JC1tY4RbqtVMNzOTeUXourFxl1QhW/s400/DSC01640.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441146950465409554" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;">The handsome entry area/ student hangout area of KUVA, with swing and ping-pong table.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDgvVi31-i_5Ylc7Hmji0Cv1DX78NckVeuE970YsSmpKsY204FdbJCfHi_dy6ibPws7XqVYM8sWIBo_NJC3GHx7I8kGexqH_OxpZOos3xd_8QKno7b6HGl6qt07opq9SClb1AwgqbN8se1/s1600-h/DSC01641.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDgvVi31-i_5Ylc7Hmji0Cv1DX78NckVeuE970YsSmpKsY204FdbJCfHi_dy6ibPws7XqVYM8sWIBo_NJC3GHx7I8kGexqH_OxpZOos3xd_8QKno7b6HGl6qt07opq9SClb1AwgqbN8se1/s400/DSC01641.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441145904534986786" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;">The auditorium at KUVA.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiduE3vUNuQU2CJgXlQqwSvYqIn3pG78GTU4rQpWdhJjK7A4Fm5zgglAIbI9Clg5bPOrXNP1oIWZWoqA0plwehbtQxmfKgVpvq_EUfkFkSLk57L0-fqyANdfN875U97Uu_OdkEtGXmk5qCB/s1600-h/DSC01643.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiduE3vUNuQU2CJgXlQqwSvYqIn3pG78GTU4rQpWdhJjK7A4Fm5zgglAIbI9Clg5bPOrXNP1oIWZWoqA0plwehbtQxmfKgVpvq_EUfkFkSLk57L0-fqyANdfN875U97Uu_OdkEtGXmk5qCB/s400/DSC01643.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441145903533281650" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">The Helsinki</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;">railway station at night.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLC3Xr_CfFX7aDyC3a51wlJOllKUp7ITBB7SeFxEE39s1nuCA2C5gOZd19zz5_FBJKOptCnZG37ca7HSPvbfrCC9Q9jSVLiUvdSsWmmgYC9uA6LTquT4sV9srXjdy_hrcyHWqqNcYE55ay/s1600-h/DSC01644.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLC3Xr_CfFX7aDyC3a51wlJOllKUp7ITBB7SeFxEE39s1nuCA2C5gOZd19zz5_FBJKOptCnZG37ca7HSPvbfrCC9Q9jSVLiUvdSsWmmgYC9uA6LTquT4sV9srXjdy_hrcyHWqqNcYE55ay/s400/DSC01644.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441145896282903602" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;">The cafe area in Eliel Saarinen's famous railway station.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span>Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-56110622926209292152010-02-15T11:25:00.000-08:002010-04-03T22:01:51.071-07:00Michael Shanks on Craft versus Fine ArtI recently came upon this passage about the relationship of 'craft' to 'fine art,' by Stanford archaeologist <a href="http://www.mshanks.com/">Michael Shanks</a>, who was the keynote speaker at the 2009 SJSU Art History Symposium. This is transcribed from Shanks' paper on "The Craft of Archaeology" from 1996.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Craft is the intention of a unified practice–hand, heart and mind combined in critique and affirmation, a harnessing of pleasure to learning. Craft is opposed to alienated labour, the separation of working from what is produced, to a division of labour which separates reasoning from execution (as in management and workers for example) and divides tasks in the making of something (as in a factory production line). It denies the separation of reasoned decision and execution, the freeman and the slave, the philosopher and the artisan. Craft involves a rediscovery of subjugated knowledges, recovering practices made marginal in the rationalized organization of productive routine. These knowledges are to do with the affective involvement of the body in the things we do: people's experience of themselves in a sensuous understanding of materials lived and worked with. Such forms of knowledge are know-how and may be subjugated, concrete and sensuous, rather than public, abstract and intellectual, but they do not involve a primitivist reliance on the 'natural'; craft may legitimately draw on any technology relevant to its purpose.</span><br /><br />Shanks then proceeds to discuss how the practice of archaeology is itself a craft. But, as it pertains to the frequent discussions in art school about the division between art and craft, this paragraph is more useful than anything I have come across previously.<br /><br />This discussion of the separation of "reasoned decision and execution" was particularly salient to me when I came across it the other day, because my own absence from my fabrication/ shop facilities has forced me to separate decision from execution in my own work. While I have designed many projects that I would probably never have conceived back in California, most will have to wait until I get home to be realized.<br /><br />As my last blog entry discussed, having a substantial stretch of time to work for the first time since graduate school has taught me a lot about how I work, and my parameters. And my numerous forays into the realm of "what can I make without my woodshop" taught me one thing for sure: although I loved it at twelve, I am no longer cut out to use watercolour. All the watercolour materials I brought with me occupied valuable suitcase space and precious pounds, for naught!Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-44008433355960924472010-01-21T12:10:00.000-08:002015-06-26T23:36:08.377-07:00Hard-Won Revelations About My Own Artmaking Process <link href="file://localhost/Users/shannon/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> <o:words>382</o:Words> <o:characters>2179</o:Characters> <o:company>San Jose State University</o:Company> <o:lines>18</o:Lines> <o:paragraphs>4</o:Paragraphs> <o:characterswithspaces>2675</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:drawinggridhorizontalspacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:drawinggridverticalspacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:dontautofitconstrainedtables/> <w:dontvertalignintxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Wingdings; 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<span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 100%;">I have just now compiled some rules by which I (and I alone) can gauge the potential of any one of my art ideas, before committing to the grueling task of giving it tangible form.</span></div>
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<li>If it isn’t funny (at least to me,) it’s probably a dead end.</li>
<li>If it doesn’t have an elegant internal logic (with some peripheral room for interpretation) it’s also a dead end. </li>
<li>If it relies on absurd amounts of obsessive labour just to get to the point where I can visualize it <i>as </i>an idea, it will never happen. (Obsessive labour is fine and necessary in the later fabrication stages.) </li>
<li>If it has the fussy/trippy complexity or "density of information" of an image that I might see in a dream, then I won’t know how to actually make it visible to others, and I should accept that I’m not the right artist to make this piece.</li>
<li>If the “style” an idea requires is not dictated by the story it tells (its internal logic) then I will change my mind so many times that I will never commit to it. I am enthralled by style but I tend to want to show my appreciation for all possible styles rather than accepting that I have to exclude most of them…</li>
<li>If I start with an abstract concept (like “animism,” for example,) and try to summon an image or object to embody that idea, I am doomed to failure.</li>
<li>Only when the image or idea arises fully-fledged as the result of seeing an existing physical object in the world and envisioning a specific alteration to it, will the piece have a coherence of materiality and concept. Alternately, if the idea arises from a word or phrase that has caught my attention, the piece may be successful.</li>
<li>If the title isn’t obvious to me and crucial to the idea from its inception, then the piece lacks clarity and is most likely doomed.</li>
<li>If a two-dimensional image is to be the final product, that image must arise from a preordained <i>system</i> that is integral to the concept. Generally, my own interpretation and “intuition” during the making process have no place in such a system. It is the system that saves it from being “picture-making” and makes it sculpture. I am, after all, a sculptor.:-)</li>
<li>If the project isn’t virtually impossible to realize, (with my limited means,) then it’s probably not worth making.</li>
<li>I should never agree to "edition" an artwork or to make another identical piece to suit a collector's custom requirements. I am only happy when I am problem-solving the first time around. Remaking a piece is hell, and never ends up having any benefit.</li>
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<li>Materials testing/ testing of the fabrication process must happen before too much labour is invested in “designing” the object. The convergence of an idea and a viable means of realizing it can easily extend beyond a year.</li>
<li>If the finished piece could be (mis)taken for <span style="font-style: italic;">design</span>, then I guess that makes me a designer as well as a sculptor.</li>
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Will my list save me from further agonizing and wasted energy? There's no telling.
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Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-63117564612119418062010-01-18T11:44:00.000-08:002010-02-15T03:31:43.129-08:00Trip to Tallinn, EstoniaIn the first week of January a friend from California came to visit and we made the ferry trip to Tallinn, Estonia. It happened to be the same week that the BBC was declaring "the cold snap of the century" across Europe. We stayed in Tallinn's Old Town, most of which was built in the 13th through 16th centuries. A hotel staff-person mentioned that we were visiting during the week of Russian Orthodox Christmas, and that the Old Town was full of visiting Russians. This indeed seemed to be the case, and in spite of the bitter cold there was a very festive atmosphere in this jewel-like medieval city.<br /><br />On the second day we left the walled Old Town and ventured into the Kadriorg district, with its 18th century Russian palaces and parks, to go to the Kumu contemporary art museum. One piece at the Kumu that was particularly brilliant was <a href="http://www2.pirkkala.fi/villusoo/">Villu Jaanisoo's</a> regimented assembly of about one hundred and fifty sculpted busts by as many different artists--mostly from the Baltic region, I believe. Unfortunately I saw neither the title of the piece, nor any information about it. I was already familiar with Jaanisoo's work because of a bit of prior web research-- he happens to teach at the <a href="http://www.kuva.fi/portal/english/">Academy of Fine Arts</a> in Helsinki, and I've been hoping to meet him at some point during my stay in Finland. Oh, I see the Academy has an available five-year position for a professor in Site and Situation Specific Arts... any of my friends interested in applying?<br /><br />Anyway, here are some pictures from my trip to Tallinn.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu4XemwqC5H4ktcPRPVmujf4-w3hgsyvJHCVE2rY5uBTxQmrngjSSkTv_DpThB7IaDS1VeotmU1apERgbVvTec-Mwv4mP7hSb_Y4Q0fymakIqb9Ag-99liG7c7S7us1fYzdCjTqmA0WfYo/s1600-h/Tallinn1+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu4XemwqC5H4ktcPRPVmujf4-w3hgsyvJHCVE2rY5uBTxQmrngjSSkTv_DpThB7IaDS1VeotmU1apERgbVvTec-Mwv4mP7hSb_Y4Q0fymakIqb9Ag-99liG7c7S7us1fYzdCjTqmA0WfYo/s400/Tallinn1+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428922523867137474" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Ice seen from the ferry.<br /><br /></span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVqtTvgH8GSm7bKP36aMunU12NWf0sAkuxGVGPZya4Yu7PVwVG9FDrJqk9nxyzmPz0O6XCPtgLcB4FG5h5GXjfMxmG9xpORjUGKA6AGiZn_Av2BvS4KMRN4x3Ea5WwJTyrUzkskNbZnaUU/s1600-h/tallink+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVqtTvgH8GSm7bKP36aMunU12NWf0sAkuxGVGPZya4Yu7PVwVG9FDrJqk9nxyzmPz0O6XCPtgLcB4FG5h5GXjfMxmG9xpORjUGKA6AGiZn_Av2BvS4KMRN4x3Ea5WwJTyrUzkskNbZnaUU/s400/tallink+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428922519532447346" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Another Tallink ferry, seen from my ferry.</span></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpS0foB0hKinFifs8yrINMwHBnXJPCy-gORAqTDRSiOJDh-rFYq4M0MOOfNGNQU6ue_5bPLa3n3TChiiV6OErpz3QqlEjWBNAXfKPJkc10vX0_LB2zrbu1C_LaDaq467HZ4RbaLjkUMMyv/s1600-h/Tallinn3+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpS0foB0hKinFifs8yrINMwHBnXJPCy-gORAqTDRSiOJDh-rFYq4M0MOOfNGNQU6ue_5bPLa3n3TChiiV6OErpz3QqlEjWBNAXfKPJkc10vX0_LB2zrbu1C_LaDaq467HZ4RbaLjkUMMyv/s400/Tallinn3+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428544256419391442" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">One of many noteworthy house facades in the Old City of Tallin.</span></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzUdyu3gGBqcocIDjsqa-tk4iEtjCMC41lQrGqrJ17FVRlGhwh2bwglHEgNRzAsyHVCxKkyLVkbE6w6zCLxuyDnB77aLTgOGuwTWINYOLBlMUspXwf6zCZK1WEfDDa2URW2v4FGSYOoJ8X/s1600-h/Tallin4+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzUdyu3gGBqcocIDjsqa-tk4iEtjCMC41lQrGqrJ17FVRlGhwh2bwglHEgNRzAsyHVCxKkyLVkbE6w6zCLxuyDnB77aLTgOGuwTWINYOLBlMUspXwf6zCZK1WEfDDa2URW2v4FGSYOoJ8X/s400/Tallin4+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428544252046485554" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">More facades, and icicles.</span></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg39YSGDIJWv-oskMCR6iDbQ2DnihieI3WKF51vA02q8IohyphenhyphenXND6acOEcexE20V5ArcBE6bs14XFuu-e-EvaF43RYnSHu1CEbxfvAhj3e-0KBK24v2z4MdMRZFCnzcuatfp_6HXEBMeT-VD/s1600-h/Tallinn5+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg39YSGDIJWv-oskMCR6iDbQ2DnihieI3WKF51vA02q8IohyphenhyphenXND6acOEcexE20V5ArcBE6bs14XFuu-e-EvaF43RYnSHu1CEbxfvAhj3e-0KBK24v2z4MdMRZFCnzcuatfp_6HXEBMeT-VD/s400/Tallinn5+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428543656892514978" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">These windows reminded me of Christopher Alexander's discussions of "pattern language."</span></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3m26yDckjVJ-9mWtMkszaoWaBaaQO6LXThsMOunxKvj8mm1_IS73RLrPOBixcchpNaOfHGWEK8P0rhteK5z7FONebVVqwHo-PN7cdNc8gPlbb9ZZ4sXA8r9BqjdH_M4FEBD3x0ZhOnjCk/s1600-h/Tallinn6+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3m26yDckjVJ-9mWtMkszaoWaBaaQO6LXThsMOunxKvj8mm1_IS73RLrPOBixcchpNaOfHGWEK8P0rhteK5z7FONebVVqwHo-PN7cdNc8gPlbb9ZZ4sXA8r9BqjdH_M4FEBD3x0ZhOnjCk/s400/Tallinn6+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428543645333618978" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">As did the carving on this door.<br /><br /></span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn_O6TYo2-8BQ08PHFNNYxIpahZ7VOLa3DsMTrtHcHZcV54Cralt3ZzQh5TEMJDt9UdvwRflxo0RHvn7uoL3R4oCRM9sNscqIBSG6POaywaGvNoVXVE3HqXbsAKiLKON1RYmQHQTyOA6rW/s1600-h/Tallinn7+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn_O6TYo2-8BQ08PHFNNYxIpahZ7VOLa3DsMTrtHcHZcV54Cralt3ZzQh5TEMJDt9UdvwRflxo0RHvn7uoL3R4oCRM9sNscqIBSG6POaywaGvNoVXVE3HqXbsAKiLKON1RYmQHQTyOA6rW/s400/Tallinn7+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428543649196257986" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Elegantly patterned wrought-iron gate-- this may have been an ambassador's gated complex, I'm afraid I'm not clear on this!<br /><br /></span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWdSqo93YcK-9YZIlNcrq5lc-heBTHUraBUJ5iiQM5zFYf24HelQeMqJKNAuSq0jWQz8tjxsA39gbV4kYZGFAi2XKHezKi5EJnNxrYZjhk8Ea7NdnxSGqbktF1i5ZTyn5hehB1TjHFnMDf/s1600-h/Tallinn8+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWdSqo93YcK-9YZIlNcrq5lc-heBTHUraBUJ5iiQM5zFYf24HelQeMqJKNAuSq0jWQz8tjxsA39gbV4kYZGFAi2XKHezKi5EJnNxrYZjhk8Ea7NdnxSGqbktF1i5ZTyn5hehB1TjHFnMDf/s400/Tallinn8+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428543637687658818" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">The Christmas Market, (named the best in all of Europe,) lasted until January 7th. Hot mulled wine (glogi) and hand-knitted sweaters and mittens were in ample supply.<br /><br /></span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJxNO0Jb1vfGvsIjm9YTc1BIuTVWb89pdB5HyF4qjY0LAWVdNHGG15qXjhE5TNQxwYaZ22eW0kIiceLsekBHfFH5e46Uv94JoqlR1SdnT8aOhG6MUYWCfTIHkCle6QFOHKpGh8kGsJiKub/s1600-h/tallinn2smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJxNO0Jb1vfGvsIjm9YTc1BIuTVWb89pdB5HyF4qjY0LAWVdNHGG15qXjhE5TNQxwYaZ22eW0kIiceLsekBHfFH5e46Uv94JoqlR1SdnT8aOhG6MUYWCfTIHkCle6QFOHKpGh8kGsJiKub/s400/tallinn2smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428542886351659362" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Evening in the Old City. Cold, and the snow was really pelting us.<br /><br /></span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz887DMcwWzE2Lix5nn2YIH7FIjfjwLc1MPtOg8s3lTRX0M7kikbHQyFN8d1H_ESTnD-QlB3RYlBiBmW8hLU73-nNLbACF5MNhUIlPohtBFoZZmmwRuZvyUNOTVmiaoAtRa0LM_PBt0okh/s1600-h/Tallinn11.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz887DMcwWzE2Lix5nn2YIH7FIjfjwLc1MPtOg8s3lTRX0M7kikbHQyFN8d1H_ESTnD-QlB3RYlBiBmW8hLU73-nNLbACF5MNhUIlPohtBFoZZmmwRuZvyUNOTVmiaoAtRa0LM_PBt0okh/s400/Tallinn11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428542882768905234" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Alexander Nevsky Cathedral at night, busy during Russian Orthodox Christmas week.<br /><br /></span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTHC0g_PRM5QLchqx2Xhf39WKCFIqbs2GSVKRWfU6w60LdbanxQ8GYp-7HEHEggG7jjYV5Yxa6rZC8K5IjKso7ZT-qIZGr7SfrBI2wv6IVnLbKGCCN9nrQwF8fiDOUpxil79YDHCzYlPfW/s1600-h/tallinn14smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTHC0g_PRM5QLchqx2Xhf39WKCFIqbs2GSVKRWfU6w60LdbanxQ8GYp-7HEHEggG7jjYV5Yxa6rZC8K5IjKso7ZT-qIZGr7SfrBI2wv6IVnLbKGCCN9nrQwF8fiDOUpxil79YDHCzYlPfW/s400/tallinn14smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428542881208892802" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Me, freezing, on Toompea Hill, with a view of the towers of the city wall.</span></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_uRkucNDwm-a_baopPAHGC3qfrh89a06sRsm8j5sr5uqE_yTLov6-wPz5VvjYz5pay9p4zD7I0uEO181zfaHQlPEEME1WnLYV8YrvptmGdShGbmueBj8pX5Hz_q0LWQEfyLOKJCwcF0nq/s1600-h/Tallinn9+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_uRkucNDwm-a_baopPAHGC3qfrh89a06sRsm8j5sr5uqE_yTLov6-wPz5VvjYz5pay9p4zD7I0uEO181zfaHQlPEEME1WnLYV8YrvptmGdShGbmueBj8pX5Hz_q0LWQEfyLOKJCwcF0nq/s400/Tallinn9+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428541143024776274" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Kumu Art Museum<br /><br /></span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkbSpSi_5peHAA3p7abVF-zhkwbKCTj3u3S3NMS7FE6a18nB-GznDDZKDYOOOnnmhlwutGK2H58OmQyAPjvVtDW46iQzwThPPYN2AB1QYkaaW_xRhUpiyUwV7giA79wub8YvMW3zUTLXOh/s1600-h/Tallinn10+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkbSpSi_5peHAA3p7abVF-zhkwbKCTj3u3S3NMS7FE6a18nB-GznDDZKDYOOOnnmhlwutGK2H58OmQyAPjvVtDW46iQzwThPPYN2AB1QYkaaW_xRhUpiyUwV7giA79wub8YvMW3zUTLXOh/s400/Tallinn10+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428541133218651538" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Villu Jaanisoo's installation.</span></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdkE53lw1lVC8gvUyQf4z6gSExb5oOBYE2bCrTYFVgOun0coEcxFmG8PuxTgv7bydQIYsMpQqywHoGSr0aZHRXRDcA5_yyqMh23p_3VS8WVN0fUkdT5071DfRxtmDFPVD2PEdYBsb77VyY/s1600-h/tallinn12+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdkE53lw1lVC8gvUyQf4z6gSExb5oOBYE2bCrTYFVgOun0coEcxFmG8PuxTgv7bydQIYsMpQqywHoGSr0aZHRXRDcA5_yyqMh23p_3VS8WVN0fUkdT5071DfRxtmDFPVD2PEdYBsb77VyY/s400/tallinn12+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428541131171067170" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">One head made of concrete.</span></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVIoSnw0IPXmEY_ejSrApGAuF3El4qXg3UKqpv6CPhuw3Ss4XEZkw6IpYetGa3RBoZ6vckjSbm0OMdBQbJMMTWdfl3mY2LxbXgX2E24NHM5OcBjtVHdA94EG6-z92R6oKt1o87m_9dXQBg/s1600-h/tallin13+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVIoSnw0IPXmEY_ejSrApGAuF3El4qXg3UKqpv6CPhuw3Ss4XEZkw6IpYetGa3RBoZ6vckjSbm0OMdBQbJMMTWdfl3mY2LxbXgX2E24NHM5OcBjtVHdA94EG6-z92R6oKt1o87m_9dXQBg/s400/tallin13+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428541124003697666" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Bust of a child, in plaster.</span></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZe578ggw0WC4-UgXU1nm0jFK8IixBZbjizadz2kZ1nsvKO9Jf5Uk1ETc59hCNXL_nRXYbjiU7BPGIOzKArSt8S-KJEhg9lLyG6W_jfnEiO13UClfeluCfspfj6647DE5_OXbQwEHGBkD9/s1600-h/Tallinn15smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZe578ggw0WC4-UgXU1nm0jFK8IixBZbjizadz2kZ1nsvKO9Jf5Uk1ETc59hCNXL_nRXYbjiU7BPGIOzKArSt8S-KJEhg9lLyG6W_jfnEiO13UClfeluCfspfj6647DE5_OXbQwEHGBkD9/s400/Tallinn15smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428540078108207138" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Waiting at the Tallinn ferry terminal for the ferry back to Helsinki.</span></span></span>Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-66346429256705813942010-01-17T09:36:00.000-08:002010-04-03T22:08:11.335-07:00Ekenäs, FinlandI moved from Fiskars to the <a href="http://www.proartibus.fi/english/about_pro_artibus_/">Pro Artibus</a> residency in Ekenäs, Finland, at the end of December. Ekenäs (its Finnish name is Tammisaari) is a predominantly Swedish-speaking town of 14,000. Here I have supermarkets, a variety of shops, hardware stores, a library and a public swimming pool with a sauna-- all within walking distance of the residency house. The house itself is amazing, a stone building apparently built in the 1700s. The stone walls are 17 inches thick—I measured the depth of the window sill seen in the picture below. The temperature in southern Finland has ranged between -6 degrees Fahrenheit and the mid twenties in the past two weeks. I will do a post about what I'm working on, once it's further along. I've put most of my time into research since I've been here. Having this library close by now is a great advantage, saving me loads of money over resorting to Amazon UK! I have been unable to use the Helsinki National Library while I've been here, because they require me to have a Finnish social security number.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_-Pb1CfGiN9Z03kj2bMFjYv5ahVDqMiiTpovBnIK4I36GhqJZFhpDLJnPM3Pfwc1AFR8lAq2fLUUM48_qedgzhJja3k5heVcV8zt9rhmVB5ohEAzjt70DfuJjSW_h-fEXtV1e3NoKc0zc/s1600-h/DSC01374.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_-Pb1CfGiN9Z03kj2bMFjYv5ahVDqMiiTpovBnIK4I36GhqJZFhpDLJnPM3Pfwc1AFR8lAq2fLUUM48_qedgzhJja3k5heVcV8zt9rhmVB5ohEAzjt70DfuJjSW_h-fEXtV1e3NoKc0zc/s400/DSC01374.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441468238607883714" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"> Pro Artibus residency house.</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj81QdEVRUG7oqu1qD1AVdUfDMSWEFTpGciE1ZHGt6HvDUpcfYsVclbpSIZ051gFc0Rse_-rJlfo0sAF1TANRuaMQwaftAw1ihNARncpiUF3Jo6hhbzLAGl-WsdztZ-ltkoaxyws2IZlApq/s1600-h/DSC01675.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj81QdEVRUG7oqu1qD1AVdUfDMSWEFTpGciE1ZHGt6HvDUpcfYsVclbpSIZ051gFc0Rse_-rJlfo0sAF1TANRuaMQwaftAw1ihNARncpiUF3Jo6hhbzLAGl-WsdztZ-ltkoaxyws2IZlApq/s400/DSC01675.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441467000027207202" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">The living room in the residency house.</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieW29Fk3ONlvIgm_4UD0P3s5Ntp7Fxe8PfVHzKljfoe5m7Py2VIXcpCvn7BnUWjzHqM_g_PHuo99jVtOjPNfMy8e7sVZnCs13IqEzUmNdFqRW3Pv3cAmJBIZO4bKkj5HcONEFGMMFd6pV6/s1600-h/window3+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 311px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieW29Fk3ONlvIgm_4UD0P3s5Ntp7Fxe8PfVHzKljfoe5m7Py2VIXcpCvn7BnUWjzHqM_g_PHuo99jVtOjPNfMy8e7sVZnCs13IqEzUmNdFqRW3Pv3cAmJBIZO4bKkj5HcONEFGMMFd6pV6/s400/window3+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431519147537748018" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Window in the residency house.<br /><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijXsBgl2ahGHHIAomFLnT-qyS04_zatAK03TrxYyv9_gaYwxUqPoom7UZVBJseGIS5p_ZPxjyAPlR4zcjzQZp9Yzc6XmIOQeETMjC-p5H0RSajWwTM6Kcy37Nck4nNWi_TEurA_wv5oc6z/s1600-h/ent+trees+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijXsBgl2ahGHHIAomFLnT-qyS04_zatAK03TrxYyv9_gaYwxUqPoom7UZVBJseGIS5p_ZPxjyAPlR4zcjzQZp9Yzc6XmIOQeETMjC-p5H0RSajWwTM6Kcy37Nck4nNWi_TEurA_wv5oc6z/s400/ent+trees+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427773131065267730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Trees on the way from the residency house to the downtown area.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7XiYThXNyt-7-mRmmbaJWyq1KsYV5iERaVJxDY7s-kFJCiDBKX8-G9oiyPpgkO3MmHbYL0N66a7BciOpOdwPMUnzps1F9R5ct1UOEieWsgbLg2d7hyRj3JLdXd9upSIAL-43jJrZ-1vJg/s1600-h/ent+trees+2+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7XiYThXNyt-7-mRmmbaJWyq1KsYV5iERaVJxDY7s-kFJCiDBKX8-G9oiyPpgkO3MmHbYL0N66a7BciOpOdwPMUnzps1F9R5ct1UOEieWsgbLg2d7hyRj3JLdXd9upSIAL-43jJrZ-1vJg/s400/ent+trees+2+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427771500577324482" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Snow-covered trees.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix1YmP-fq-Iq5KyH7tKRPHmOdzvyb8GTOSca9yw4gk0tq009234e-AzQJ-rGWOsbKRgZNHgrIIQvOWj4Fu7xMv9_llMKKCU_7RF3x1pWOdabzUe7mCl1gVotwxPojuEbI4bZOVQsbzBqHD/s1600-h/snow+trees1smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix1YmP-fq-Iq5KyH7tKRPHmOdzvyb8GTOSca9yw4gk0tq009234e-AzQJ-rGWOsbKRgZNHgrIIQvOWj4Fu7xMv9_llMKKCU_7RF3x1pWOdabzUe7mCl1gVotwxPojuEbI4bZOVQsbzBqHD/s400/snow+trees1smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427771497481328594" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Snow-covered trees by the water's edge.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7Bo1_7Y-3igysQb-GtBYPyMYmKS0aAV5P_PChXAeQl9yEAHFC6_icDa-e9IUJzCdzJVPoQH_h3ClgKCZdOTOdMYJw7d5NGEbrpGdwA9EtEV3F0gn68Qjj3zdCqPN2AIAmmrlVCcwbxD2/s1600-h/pier+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7Bo1_7Y-3igysQb-GtBYPyMYmKS0aAV5P_PChXAeQl9yEAHFC6_icDa-e9IUJzCdzJVPoQH_h3ClgKCZdOTOdMYJw7d5NGEbrpGdwA9EtEV3F0gn68Qjj3zdCqPN2AIAmmrlVCcwbxD2/s400/pier+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427771493802687506" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">A pier and boat in the snow.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTqNasg4dBRp8cFP3B6TOE_QDy1JkOE-k-oXOL2m7WlI6jMtxHrw8LCnNxnxv51GyobjvSTQt5SCul2goHsA6D7W2gJJmM20UX_6IbtXNj1VyKIu9KphiNb81b-fSzYkI_frn6_300K2jK/s1600-h/house+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTqNasg4dBRp8cFP3B6TOE_QDy1JkOE-k-oXOL2m7WlI6jMtxHrw8LCnNxnxv51GyobjvSTQt5SCul2goHsA6D7W2gJJmM20UX_6IbtXNj1VyKIu9KphiNb81b-fSzYkI_frn6_300K2jK/s400/house+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427771484237541826" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">A house on the main street of Ekenas.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge8N0cWfgTUStRY6w2P27bdHu41TPQYtwKwnFfiALVul0eQ3Fgwy9U1iksIV2YIIbPaoivEAVTDh1fsXRriFsKLc5ssE-28mD5rizCwhOwOLVB9pIXPBTErRCuMOykADZ7ftaYz5QEIMXM/s1600-h/skola+smaller.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge8N0cWfgTUStRY6w2P27bdHu41TPQYtwKwnFfiALVul0eQ3Fgwy9U1iksIV2YIIbPaoivEAVTDh1fsXRriFsKLc5ssE-28mD5rizCwhOwOLVB9pIXPBTErRCuMOykADZ7ftaYz5QEIMXM/s400/skola+smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427770815297511138" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">A school building on the main street of town.<br /></span></span>Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-86916229602223279242010-01-13T11:12:00.001-08:002011-04-12T19:51:13.764-07:00December Update (a month late)So, although I came very close to the precipice, I'm pretty sure I didn't end up losing my mind after all. This, I believe, is because towards the end of December the snow came, and stayed, and brightened up the dark days considerably. And, on some of those dark and rainy November and December days prior to the snow's arrival, my co-resident <a href="http://www.baruel.dk/index.htm">Laura Baruel</a> and I worked in the well-heated basement of the residency house making a "swan boat" that will appear in an ambitious multimedia spectacle/ performance this March. The project is authored and directed by the Fiskars-based playwright/set designer/ multimedia artist duo, Julian Garner and Hanne Horte. Their previous performances, and information on upcoming projects, can be seen on their website: <a href="http://www.culturamobila.com/">Culturamobila.com.</a><br /><br />The swan boat will cross the Fiskars river, igniting a huge "fire sculpture" in the middle of the river on its way. Here are some pictures of the swan in progress and completed. Although the process is very similar to the "wireframe" project I teach in my 3D Design Foundations classes, using willow branches was a new challenge for me. The branches must be painstakingly pieced together into usable lengths. They are fairly flexible while they are wet, and become rigid (and shrink considerably) when they dry. The shrinkage was enough to change the swan's original proportions to the small boat on which we built it.<br /><br />The swan is scheduled to sail in Fiskars on March 9th, playing its small role amid many large creatures and puppets made by Culturamobila. Fiskars schoolchildren will be the chief performers and prop-operators in the spectacle.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjYmTrM8vOY4K4Lz2B2GQoA6GZuprJ9w7tDt5ycu-mT-ilygNTKi_nI_q3_Aqduyw9lBeJ49xF_721zMHy5N2nuY4x_pz2V2GDtxMKoJxxB4ZujB7flFKo5oauvVGaCieEy9rqQ7qQNsqD/s1600-h/DSC00675.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjYmTrM8vOY4K4Lz2B2GQoA6GZuprJ9w7tDt5ycu-mT-ilygNTKi_nI_q3_Aqduyw9lBeJ49xF_721zMHy5N2nuY4x_pz2V2GDtxMKoJxxB4ZujB7flFKo5oauvVGaCieEy9rqQ7qQNsqD/s400/DSC00675.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426317440239909234" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Look, no 3-horsepower cabinet saw! No combination square! Just two pairs of Fiskars gardening clippers, a pair of pliers and a drill.</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmUMtLPc41jnJzt4cAUSXU4gTthPjSpLFPjBtA29OoZ-RnwELB2aOJxRIiicIoI9sHi743b2uslzoTlkk2_t4Kce-qoVas-4Dr5eBLmMvaH1ovMRV7rUGlIUEDkjgNnv1BJCBTWI8m4KDh/s1600-h/DSC01081.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmUMtLPc41jnJzt4cAUSXU4gTthPjSpLFPjBtA29OoZ-RnwELB2aOJxRIiicIoI9sHi743b2uslzoTlkk2_t4Kce-qoVas-4Dr5eBLmMvaH1ovMRV7rUGlIUEDkjgNnv1BJCBTWI8m4KDh/s400/DSC01081.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426316636443043346" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQhIZYxN1a033IRy9-uAh9ofbnE0ENycNzUTae7SMWJsj_MhtQgLu2yLSMAQfHZU4anCaidRrWxkMl9WF0xuqtpsVoR-XHGk7zCHbg0fHevvgPoC5d7uNwpIdI4q-lezhejS0fiA8uXDgK/s1600-h/DSC01104.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWQRs1YNgX8fq2qHrArjhjkaUQiVZCFyd4767KhApF28gR7WweULF9lAyBjPVcNnex7SHjikae3kCWSAmoZ_2gnhAb7AVD8T5LwlNMc8qQpSWwAVwO7y0ULvg6TJPjuG_m7pIo37vqIyDa/s400/DSC01120.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426315210321679042" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">The finished swan-boat at Culturamobila's workshop in Fiskars Village.</span></span>Shannon Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700666161311350459noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739636072540892757.post-78677401644902298002009-12-29T14:29:00.000-08:002010-01-30T02:33:16.543-08:00Fiskars Residency WindowThe view from my window at the Fiskars residency house, from October 1 through December 29th.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMzMe45BCpJGdPNpzylaUO8aL1P9Bq3ADrKS8Z5HCrX-F0aFkzUuT8XguObglaOPIqyhu832FqPvRDyUO0ks8IEajRv6YY405DQ9fJi80NvTj2KcKBzLkN7bpy-jdQoFUN991HNn_WA-gQ/s1600-h/window1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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