Thursday, January 16, 2014

2nd Residency Projects

Here are some projects for this month. I would like to touch on them all within the next six weeks and see which ones will bring me into a new direction or worth experimenting more with. Check them out and leave feedback if you have anything in mind. I know it might be hard to understand if you don't fully understand my current work.

New Projects List from Residency #2

  1. Make a series of prints
    1.  Short series
    2. all the same size
    3.  made of the prints I have currently  been working on
  2. Quilt making
    1.  weaving
    2. Making small prints on fabric, dyed fabric, and then sewing them together. 
  3. Grid of one image
    1. choose a fruit for subject
    2. make twenty different emulsions and print that subject
    3. make grid and photograph it
  4. Menus
    1. make an emulsion out of food for a recipe
    2. make a print with each part of that recipe on it
    3. create the product, photograph the product
    4. print the recipe on the coated and printed paper
    5. digital or original
  5. Make a progression of decay
    1. each day make a print of the matter
    2. each day make a photograph of the matter
    3. show the matter in a jar at its full decay
    4. display out the progression of the decay through the anthotype and photographs
  6. Snow Prints
    1. make my own paper
    2. coat the paper/spray/throw/dip etc
    3. go on a walk/hike, place the paper on the trail in the trees etc. 
    4. revisit later or at end of walk to pick up? 
    5. find a place local I like to go and place one out every time it snows? 
    6. go to that place and just place a handful around and revisit after a week or so
  7. More jar studies
    1. photograph where the jars may rest inside my house
    2. make a print and place an actual shelf where the shelf lies and place the actual jars on the shelf when the study of the decay is over? or is it?
  8. Framing
    1. make anthotypes of organic matter 
    2. make a photography of the matter
    3. frame the photograph with the varies anthotype prints of that matter
  9. Calendars 
    1. fruitful months
    2. study one fruit per month understand it/eat it every day/ make recipes for it
    3. goes along with study till decay
  10. Grocery Store Map
    1. study the layout 
    2. study the waste
    3. study the most purchased
    4. map put my own grocery store
    5. create anthotypes of products that are fresh, frozen, canned. 
    6. make paint color swatches of the three different stages which should resemble the three different types of nutrients from that product. 
    7. cardboard layout/ 3d/ actual produce and swatches above to see "what to buy"
  11. Contellations
    1. study more with the pinning idea
    2. maps/constellations/connections/symmetry
    3. is there a science behind these marks or veins?
  12. Think more about Fermentation/ Cataloging /Labeling
  13. Dinner Plates
    1. make dinner
    2. coat paper/ feed myself and paper dinner
    3. let it decompose completely? cook? uncooked?
    4. make anthotype with food. 
    5. make photograph of my place each time
    6. try coating on plates?
  14. Dirty Image
    1. play with digital prints
    2. recoat and print again?
    3. coat onto the fruit and then let outside?