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I've lost several notebooks, but, the most significant one I left on an airplane. It was a notebook I had with me throughout the year and a half I moved from Chicago to Indiana. I think about that notebook all the time but I know some people don't privilege things like that. I don't remember a lot of things. Taking notes is important to me.

some reality poem collage (mainly people said these things):

On circuit bending:

Is the music beautiful?
Does it make harmonious sound?


on digital and physical media:

Impersonal, impersonal
we companion jolts
in person
we afford
what we don't
compute
really listen to
what that does
and yet points
never
facing directional
delicate shifting of the device
which moves while we are

still.

on walking:

The human
animal body
knows when you
step into the dark room
you'll stumble down
but, human animal
every step is a fall

goodmorning MilwaukeeChicago Morning

Chicago looked very beautiful from the bus this morning. I woke up for a minute to see the skyline in such subdued pink, grey, and blue. No black and grey sky. I wasn't unhappy to be arriving.

My sister made the sailboat collage, and I made the lady one and the painting (I did it with wet pastel chalk). I was here for her birthday party. It was pretty fun. I like how she matched the horizon lines and used an ugly picture of a clown. I never would have done that. She might be a genius.

Installation

This is an installation I did at MIAD for class. I'm going to rebuild a set like this to shoot youtube videos in, more on that later. It's meant to act as the conceptualization of an interior, private space, and to reference classic sitcom type set conventions. More on this later, you may recognize some of the images from my earlier post SPACE MELT

I'd like to point out in the video the telephone that I circuit bent. In general I think of circuit bending as just a hobby, or something kids should do. but, I do like doing it and for this piece I bent a children's toy very simply; I added a few buttons and switches and a potentiometer. Things got really crazy because I decided I had enough knowledge of circuitry to try to wire the buttons of the phone to functions and bends on the toy. I thought I had it figured out but a lot of it got mixed up and confused. Still, pretty good for a first try and when you press three of the buttons they make weird noises, which is pretty sweet whether it was completely successful or not.

ya ya babooshka yaya

There is no one I want to be more right now than Kate Bush, mainly because of this:



There's a kitsch factor here that makes it a little hard to take seriously but, I'm interested in how she handles this intersection between a variety of media (video, song, dance, costuming, set design) and a number of products. There's the choreography that plays off of the song and the costumes that are dictated by the song as well, but, they all ultimately play off of eachother and could potentially carry the entire story of the piece on their own. They act as these separate artifacts that come together to create an additional communicative outlet. I think that's really cool. And also, this song is just a solid gold jam.

I want to think more about dance, and more so about making art in this way (separate objects that can exist as well on their own as they can as a whole). Here's a derp of an experiment I conducted, my body interacting with my environment as mutual sculptural forms.

re: BCWYWF

but, no, really, I made the 5X4 lithographs in the previous post from stills I took from old youtube country performance videos. Country music only became popular when "the country" only existed as an ideal. As soon as you decide to record something it's gone. Maybe that's why I miss Chicago so much, because it doesn't exist anymore as I once understood it. tragic, futile.

but, yup, that's what my PIECE OF ART is about,


Sara Caron: ARTIST.

be careful what you wish for

BECAUSE YOU'LL GET IT

SPACE MELT

These pieces are all elements of a set/installation I did for class. I'll post complete documentation of it later.

This one is the first lithograph I did for class. pretty rough.