2024-01-23 Log Jan 23, 2024 logs Craig recommended a podcast with an interview with Arlene Shechet about ‘the studio’, which I enjoyed. Some notes: “making art is about being in 2024-01-21 Log Jan 21, 2024 logs In the studio this afternoon — trying, trying, trying to get there more frequently — and thinking about: studio practices — what are ‘practices’, Charting my fall studio activities Jan 13, 2024 logs & research a bit more of a complete account of what I was up to in my studio this first semester of my MFA What our tools say about us - Part 1 Jan 8, 2024 logs The beginning of thoughts regarding *the* topic of this season: what's going on with us and technology? How are we using technology in interacting with our world, with people? Or furthermore, how do we *want* to? What I’ve been researching so far this fall Nov 11, 2023 logs & research Hi all, How are you? It’s already the beginning of November and I’m faced with the fact that I haven’t written much here other than the piece about Nocturne Log - Art at Night Oct 27, 2023 logs & responses About Halifax's Nocturne public art festival at night, and my experience delivering soup to artists. Week 7 - Part 2 - the unbuilding game Aug 27, 2023 logs & making & research This log is a continuation of Week 7 - Part 1 - message in a bottle, where I talk about some of the work that came out of my class *Embodied Research*. Week 7 - Part 1 - message in a bottle Aug 27, 2023 logs & making & research The wrap up of my summer course and some of the things I've made, including jello experiments and making an edible board game. Week 6 - The life and times of rocks Aug 14, 2023 logs & research a DIY concrete-everything house, a human-scale camera obscura, and millions-year-old rock formations on the Bay of Fundy. Week 4 + 5 - gardens and other living places Aug 5, 2023 logs & research I'm back with another report from the past couple of weeks: a studio visit to Angella Parson's, a quick stop at Kejimkujik Park, the Alexander Graham Bell Museum and finally the Fortress of Louisbourg in Cape Breton. I'll share some things that are still lingering in me. Week 3 - connections, agency, and traces Jul 25, 2023 logs & research Hope you’ve been well! Nova Scotia got an absolute deluge of rain over the weekend, but thankfully we didn’t experience any flooding– and are Week 2 - the cloud under the water Jul 16, 2023 logs & research Exploring the physicality of internet: undersea cables that wrap the globe Week 1 - Embodied Research Jul 9, 2023 logs & research Hello! It’s been a bit since I’ve written here. A lot has been happening in life, and I’m excited to share what that is, and mark the start a new Water as a Gift - Making of - Post-Mortem Part 1 Apr 5, 2023 making & project Part 1 of a retrospective look at the successes and failings in the making of my kinetic installation project. Log 11 - Manifesto Mar 22, 2023 logs & teaching & making In one of my classes recently we introduced this idea of manifestos (which I was excited about, because I’ve been slowly collecting them for a Log 10 - Making a decision Mar 5, 2023 logs I had to make a big decision at the beginning of this month: where I would go to school for my Master's. Log 9 - A trip to the gallery Feb 25, 2023 logs & responses & drawing & teaching A zine about a trip to the gallery and illustrating my experience Notes - Cool Museums and Hot Museums Feb 20, 2023 responses Selected quotes and short notes from a book about museology and museums Log 8 - reportage drawing Feb 17, 2023 logs & drawing & teaching In one of the classes I’ve been teaching this term we introduced the illustration ‘genre’ of reportage. What is reportage drawing? Reportage is Log 7 - three old guys Feb 8, 2023 logs & responses The past week we were looking at artistic/creative influences in class and discussing them. Perhaps (probably) related, I’ve been looking back to Next page