Field Notes | The blurring of art, text + life

really surprisingly not a boring thesis. much of it already exists in various forms on the initial portions of this blog (back track to 2006). it reminds me both of where i’ve been and that it is time to more fully embrace where it will...

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a gurney! my new best friend

12 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

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it matches trailer height. OMGosh heavenly deinstallation. I need a gurney!!!0

what a mess

12 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

hermitage

she's dark and digs dusted with dirt I am pale and sew trash and renovate the hermitage darkened with grim she abounds with energy and wiggles like one big giggle I work up to the move and slide slowly into a tentative smile a definite...

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stargazing platform almost complete
an edge worth falling off (well not if it’ll hurt)

12 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

hermitage

twelve by sixteen add on. need to trim edges then she's ready for a some kicked back late night stargazing! I may be a smidgen earthy but I really don't want to lay in the grass with the bugs skittering across me in the dark...

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the joy of apple nibbling

11 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

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my previous red pup, devoured apples in about a minute. the Dopt nibbles at them almost human like, savoring it for up to ten minutes or so. :)0

wondering from edge to edge

11 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

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smart dog.0

naturally one board shy

11 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

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and, conjoined with the naturally deep sigh (secretly a break), the boards are from lowes in college station not huntsville home depot. they differ a smidgen in size, treatment coloring, and edge cut (rounded corners vs crisp angle). o_O umm road trip for one more...

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straighten that!

11 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

original blog

I thought the top would be the quickest part, slap it down and bang bang with my sweet new nail gun but it seems each board must be pulled or pried as I work my way down each 16 foot stretch. better to put it...

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early morning flop down mid walk.

11 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

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coloring between the lines has not been a functional advantage

10 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

in exploring cultural production or in art foundations for as long as i can remember (ok well that is not all that long) except within environments that primarily emphasize compliance, though I do recommend driving between the lines (compliance in this case is about survival)....

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I’d say I was projecting, buuutt

10 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

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Dopty literally ran donuts as fast as she could throughout my dad's house including dashing across the tops of beds in the process. I think perhaps she was glad I returned!! relieved I am not alone in the bond. am a little worried about leaving...

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making space for the unruly, the resistant, and the radical

09 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

original blog

“in a hostile academic environment that seems often devoted to the goal of composing students through a disciplinary curriculum that renders them docile, we hope that this volume encourages the process of de-composing composition itself, making space for the unruly, the resistant, and the radical.”...

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it will just be one more place to dig and sleep

05 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

original blog

I am sure she’s looking forward to my completing the deck for her just so that she can have even more space for digging and dirty covered snooZing.0

C & S

04 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

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I would eat chips and salsa with you (plus a margarita on the rocks or a huge ice tea) but I am a bit stinky and the gulf between is too far for me to even begin to know how to cross. random. I know.0

always be especially kind

04 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

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to a woman with her new nail gun even if she is stinky!0

oh my pretty little spacer boards and new framing gun, you rock!

04 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

original blog

you make it all so structural and so prettily aligned! oh yes, though I gnarly like sew tire tubes and call it art, I do require craft where appropriate! this rocks and I am tired (and stink)!0

lustful envy

04 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

original blog

received a lot of envious stares today at lowes. though it was the box they were looking at not the 50 year old build. bahahaaaa. :)0

oh the joist of it

04 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

hermitage

a few more to heavy hoe into place, then I'll add spacers and pick up surface decking. deal with railing another week since neither the Dopt nor I have fallen off the edge to date. the real reason men should definitely consider a sculptress or...

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spot on relative to gravity

04 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

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smidgen of bow (though base of posts are in alignment). time for my lag bolts and to throw up my joists. such girl work. ok well maybe not the lifting of the 16’x12″ crossbeam thingies. but I rigged a little system so I could do...

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top chopped; sliced and diced

04 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

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already for header board doohickey and then I’ll throw on the joists, secure, and slap down the top.0

passed out in a hole of her own digging

03 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

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debowelled box of 1015 lbs of rolled rubber

02 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

original blog

thankfully no bodies were found. deboweling a box of 1000 lbs of rubber in June means a break between each box. dopty didn’t even to stay to help with one! smart dog. black rubber on a sunny June day :) but needs done. there seems...

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skin on or off

02 Jun 2012

kathy wash 2012

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TED Talk: Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability0

different would be nice.

31 May 2012

kathy wash 2012

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oh. what to do. what. this way. that. which is forward. which is back. is it a giving. in or up. perhaps better. at least different. different would be nice. A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong…-Robert Frost. there...

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three thousand and 51 pounds of rubber!

30 May 2012

kathy wash 2012

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yay! was scared my baby truck couldn’t haul more (more importantly was worried about capacity to stop). now get to work kathy!!!0

and so that passage to china has begun

29 May 2012

kathy wash 2012

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translation: evaporation is a cooling process and so she digs for cool moist soil0

even the frig

29 May 2012

kathy wash 2012

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gets a paint job, though much stinker than the rest. why it was rusted, I don’t really know (oxidation process I understand, why this occurred to this frig…shoulder shrug). gray walls, black cabs, galvanized light fixtures built from scrap, and galvanized ceiling fans, white electrical...

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not even satellite can reach the hermitage

29 May 2012

kathy wash 2012

hermitage

well, first wildblue put the big hurt on my wallet with their start up and equipment fees, then they arrive for install only to let me know, “NO GO.” but wait the old direct tv dish points to the southern sky!? but the wildblue weighs...

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I soooo lost

29 May 2012

kathy wash 2012

original blog

so freaking weird how happy she was AFTER her baby pool bath, but I definitely lost on the frontend when she wigged out and those back claws found ground (flesh) from which to spring. the bright side is that it's just one leg and by...

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in a pollock moment, I inadvertently struck every surface in my blackcabinetted kitchen

28 May 2012

kathy wash 2012

original blog

it was not a formal or expressionistic gesture, gosh dang it, but a result of a sudden gravity surge. this can is sitting a 180 degrees in opposition to its design — now debowelled of all it’s contents double dang, I was only touching up....

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artist + writer + perpetual home renovator

a revisiting of my mfa design grad thesis (not boring)

a gurney! my new best friend

what a mess

stargazing platform almost complete
an edge worth falling off (well not if it’ll hurt)

the joy of apple nibbling

wondering from edge to edge

naturally one board shy

straighten that!

early morning flop down mid walk.

coloring between the lines has not been a functional advantage

I’d say I was projecting, buuutt

making space for the unruly, the resistant, and the radical

it will just be one more place to dig and sleep

C & S

always be especially kind

oh my pretty little spacer boards and new framing gun, you rock!

lustful envy

oh the joist of it

spot on relative to gravity

top chopped; sliced and diced

passed out in a hole of her own digging

debowelled box of 1015 lbs of rolled rubber

skin on or off

different would be nice.

three thousand and 51 pounds of rubber!

and so that passage to china has begun

even the frig

not even satellite can reach the hermitage

I soooo lost

in a pollock moment, I inadvertently struck every surface in my blackcabinetted kitchen

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