It has been 8 days now and I am so happy I decided to do this residency. The summer was getting swallowed up by my serving gig and a lot of useless worry about the future.
This residency has helped me flip a switch and I am so grateful. I have been drawing, working with new mediums, trying new things and giving a daily recap on my instagram stories. I would love to have you come along on this journey with me, it is helping me grow artistically and many of the viewers are asking questions and engaging. I am thrilled you are here watching and even more grateful for your questions.
I have been drawing. I went pasting with 35 prints I made from a silkscreen I created at Blim. I have been trying to figure out how to work with spray paint. I have a photoshoot once a week and used some expired polaroid for the shoot. I have also been spending the mornings sending out marketing material before I begin the daily residency tasks. I make a list and usually accomplish what is on that list, sounds keen and fancy I know but I am realistic, it has been hot AF here and I have been doing my best to pace myself and work within an 8 hour day.
I will finish on September 3rd and have been accepted into a two-week artist residency in Sutton Montreal. I am so glad I took this time to do a virtual one to figure out a flow, schedule and give myself goals to work with.
My goal is to use the Vogue prints I have made, so far I have 6, and put vellum over top and add my lines. I want to have a show of these, to paint 1 live during the opening and also release an NFT that has animated lines. It is all about the lines.
Have I shared with you the quote from William Blake from the book Fake like Me? Read It! It is so good.
Here’s the quote, the response is ‘we know each other by our lines’.
If you think about how a line connects us that is the same idea behind me making my lines. The connection of people and intention that go into creating a shoot and then taking final images and making drawings is a final step for me in recognizing all of the people that are involved in the process. You can draw a line to mark a journey, these lines mark the steps and people who made them possible in one continuous process.
