embodied process + consequence [art]

day 4 | revisiting my writings unarchiving them from their short livedassumed as i begin the dreaming with movement

13 Jun 2013

artist residency, June 2013, VSC

kathy wash 2012

June 11, 2013 April 2013 dehinged dehoused I am looking for a door I’ve a stack clustered leaning dehinged dehoused more in my box absent passages invisible thresholds vacant nowheres there is no through there is a work buried in this thought....

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day 4 | fidget, cut, revisit writings — the twits and twitches read uncannily accurate in the foretelling

13 Jun 2013

artist residency, June 2013, VSC

kathy wash 2012

original blog, Vermont Studio Center

i fidget, worry, fret, wonder of dream, revisit ideations of risk, tentatively scratch and stroke the keys. in silence i unpack two years of untruths that i’ve allowed to be strapped to my back. around an agressor, i recess, withdraw,...

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day 3 | i bump about the cyber social media water cooler [fb] forsomedistraction in attempts to avoid the hole

12 Jun 2013

artist residency, June 2013, VSC

kathy wash 2012

original blog, Vermont Studio Center

there is a hole. i find it. i remember the Units nonverbal disdain when i would step in it, real or metaphorical. i may not see it but inevitably i sense it coming. others, as he did, just stood and...

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day 3 | plastic + paper down; ready to haul tubes now that the bed magnet has released.

12 Jun 2013

artist residency, June 2013, VSC

kathy wash 2012

Vermont Studio Center

Mmmmm, alarm goes off with the light leaking round the walled curtain crevasses. I jump from the bed, grab the rumbling device from its charge, putting an end to its rhythmic aural harpy reminder that I cognitively premeditated this getting...

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day 2 | bite sized

12 Jun 2013

artist residency, June 2013, VSC

kathy wash 2012

original blog, Vermont Studio Center

Disassembled, added cross beams, a few more to add, to whittle pieces down to small. Small meaning transportable, bahahaaaa, but doesn’t really mean small since they are still eight feet in height and about four feet in width. But much...

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Finding ground in Vermont (June Residency)

11 Jun 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog, Vermont Studio Center

Putting my feet down for the month of June and a smidge of July as part of a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. As is my practice, I will write my way through as I find ground in this...

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day 2 | still finding my ground

11 Jun 2013

artist residency, June 2013, VSC

kathy wash 2012

Vermont Studio Center

A tad discombobulated, as I am still coming off 3 1/2 half years (plus a fourth year prior but that one is a blur) of push and shove mostly in silence interspersed with blurts…I loved every moment of finding and...

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day 1 | arrival

10 Jun 2013

artist residency, June 2013, VSC

kathy wash 2012

Vermont Studio Center

Wanna back track and unpack my five day passage to this space, but my mind has already moved forward and as is my habit, much get swallowed in the wake of this moment. My norm is that a huge portion...

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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

08 Jun 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog, Vermont Studio Center

Love After Loveby Mary OliverThe time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcomeand say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give...

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missing my black shadow beast

07 Jun 2013

kathy wash 2012

original blog, Vermont Studio Center

at the candy store

04 Jan 2013

harvesting, home depot, process

kathy wash 2012

process

perhaps most women my age are in the process of redecorating. pretty sure my afternoon will be spent building in the drizzle. by days end, I am pretty sure my back will be tired, I’ll have breathed more saw dust...

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brrrrrouchy

02 Jan 2013

art, hands, process

kathy wash 2012

process

as fast as I am wearing through these gloves, I’ve got to marvel that I still have finger tips since I typically work gloveless. and brrrrrr on my wimpy response to the cold. I am bundled up like the Michellin...

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ahhh, my new portable pretty

15 Dec 2012

mundane ramblings, power tools, process

kathy wash 2012

process

finally broke down and replaced my pancake with one that rolls and occupies the same floor space. yay! ok well, truth be told, I did spill a gallon of wood glue across the control panel of my pancake and I...

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test run for upcoming exhibition

15 Dec 2012

art, art league, process

kathy wash 2012

art, process

a test run for a sense of scale of chair to space (11′) at art league houston (opening January 18, 2013). yay, it visually fits with the slick gray floor providing a fabulous contrast. bonus, i can see how the...

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The art object simply as an access point to the splintering path oftomorrow

03 Dec 2012

art, process

kathy wash 2012

mundane ramblings, process

the art object, so what! the artifact itself simply residue of its making like the sound of a word hovering in space as it slowly dissapates after the conversation wans. my walls stand bare of artifacts and trinkification housing only...

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seems like the right thing to do

based on the itches I got from unloading the rubber, seems like some type of fiberglass residue. don’t want to breathe that while I am cutting it. attractive! right, but tis the healthy choice.0

OMGosh. 3,250 pounds of rubber unloaded

01 Dec 2012

art, harvesting, materials, process, tubes

kathy wash 2012

original blog, process

that is 5 pallets; 2 left on the trailer, but the stack shoulder height is about as high as I can lift each bundle, thus time for second stack. ummm…my “dealer” has 4 to 5 more trailer loads for me...

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bahaahaaaa. four thousand seven hundred pounds of rubber….this trip

30 Nov 2012

art, harvesting, process, rubber, tubes

kathy wash 2012

original blog, process

domestic thresholds deconstructed and now ready for reconstructing

23 Nov 2012

art, bellows, process

kathy wash 2012

process

should keep me busy for the day. cut from old discarded domestic thresholds [door and window frames] 0

ummmm. long day, but good

22 Nov 2012

art, harvesting, process, selfie

kathy wash 2012

process

trailer to H-town, loaded domestic thresholds to be deconstructed, arranged for an 18 wheeler load of rubber (waterproofing) stripped from high rises (Goodyear). bahahaaaa — though it will take me several trips to get it to the studio; loading with...

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embodied process + consequence [art]

day 4 | revisiting my writings unarchiving them from their short livedassumed as i begin the dreaming with movement

day 4 | fidget, cut, revisit writings — the twits and twitches read uncannily accurate in the foretelling

day 3 | i bump about the cyber social media water cooler [fb] forsomedistraction in attempts to avoid the hole

day 3 | plastic + paper down; ready to haul tubes now that the bed magnet has released.

day 2 | bite sized

Finding ground in Vermont (June Residency)

day 2 | still finding my ground

day 1 | arrival

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

missing my black shadow beast

at the candy store

brrrrrouchy

ahhh, my new portable pretty

test run for upcoming exhibition

The art object simply as an access point to the splintering path oftomorrow

seems like the right thing to do

OMGosh. 3,250 pounds of rubber unloaded

bahaahaaaa. four thousand seven hundred pounds of rubber….this trip

domestic thresholds deconstructed and now ready for reconstructing

ummmm. long day, but good

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