kdrae log

2024-10-03 Log - Surfacing Developments Oct 3, 2024 logs & making The past week I’ve been working on Surfacing, the new piece I’m showing in Surface Tension in… oh, about 10 days. I’ve been running around getting 2024-09-23 Log - Joinery Sep 23, 2024 logs & making I wanted to follow up on progress made designing my little word-association ‘game’. I actually debuted it as Joinery at the Dartmouth Comic Arts 2024-09-23 Log - 9 projects Sep 23, 2024 logs & research In the studio trying to catch up and organize my thoughts on what I’ve been doing recently. I’ve been trying to conceptualise what could possibly be 2024-07-30 Log Jul 30, 2024 logs & making Had a thought this morning about this image — I had bookmarked it earlier for my thesis publication, was attracted to the idea of text written on 2024-07-28 Log Jul 28, 2024 logs In the studio today, trying to carve out some time to spend with a few looser ideas… I’m sharing a table with Charlit at the Dartmouth Comic Arts Critique as Gift Jul 19, 2024 teaching & research What’s your relationship to the word, critique? Does it bring to mind conversations about your work performance with your boss, a review of a movie 2024-07-08 Log Jul 8, 2024 logs & research I don’t know where to start, so I’ll start with: I took everything down form my studio walls and put the things I made in a box. It feels blanker, 2024-03-24 Log Mar 24, 2024 logs & making & research what I'm doing in the studio today 2024-03-23 Log Mar 23, 2024 logs & making & research To try tonight: try playing sound thry eel’s piezo try casting 2pt eel w/ gelatine (defer) try applying mirror film on top of laser-cut image try Winter semester coming to a close Mar 19, 2024 logs & responses & making & research For much of the semester my studio practise felt split between thinking abstractly and making figuratively. At this point a few resonant themes and concepts from my research are emerging… 2024-03-06 Log Mar 6, 2024 logs Notes in preparation for a conversation with my advisor. Recent work: expanding on eel trap wireframe vessel — sketching in VR frames/snapshots in Reflections on Discussing The Critical Atlas of the Internet - what we say about our tools Feb 26, 2024 responses & research For my class Research and Creation, each of us were asked to choose a text for the class to read, and then lead a discussion on it. What follows is 2024-02-22 Log Feb 22, 2024 logs At home working in VR, via. Gravity Sketch. I pulled in a bunch of reference images and am just trying to sketch, iterate on things. I can’t work in 2024-02-21 Log Feb 21, 2024 logs Testing the simple magnet wire antennae more this morning. Tried creating a second coil and attaching each one to the left and right audio jack 2024-02-20 Log Feb 20, 2024 logs Been all over the place, mentally and physically, recently. Had low energy the past two weeks, but seems to be on the up — and I’m on reading week! 2024-02-04 Log Feb 4, 2024 logs & making & research How to make a metal armature eel pot, and a two-part mold of eels. 2024-01-30 Log Jan 30, 2024 logs Was mostly gathering materials, today. Found some balsa wood sticks from the hobby store nearby, and did a trip to Value Village finally and, after 2024-01-29 Log Jan 29, 2024 logs & research It’s a snow day! Following up on recommended references by Craig and David: Craig linked me to the book created alongside this exhibition (catalog 2024-01-25 Log Jan 27, 2024 logs Went to check on my eel sculpt: cracked like crazy! Poor thing. Also probably way too big. Asked Google, then Devon, about the cracking — may have 2024-01-24 Log Jan 24, 2024 logs Had a guest speaker this morning, Connie Wilson. Enjoyed the discussion, very much! Really resonated with the methodology that she described