A Brief History Part Two

At the time Terry and I were first talking about working together I was making drawings like the one above. They're botanical and natural forms drawn on a handmade grid pattern. I'm also really into knitting and embroidery, but am taking a break from that due to my high-five induced tendinitis.



Since Terry works with landscape we wanted to find a place that was extra perfect and that we could control for a couple of hours. What we hoped would be the Suburban Club a local golf course quickly had to become the hill leading to Boy's Varsity Field back at Park School.



Here's an image of me installing Dandelion Landscape. I wanted to work with something, flat, colorful, abundant, and very temporary- Astrobrite copy paper and golf tees. The image is based of a grid drawing. I had to make a map for the piece based on a rectangular grid not a square one and brought a laminated version of the drawing and overhead markers to install with so I would know where I was going and where I had been.



Terry made sure to show just a hint of the scoreboard in the background. Probably at my request. We included this piece in the Faculty Show at Park School in Fall 2007, it was even on the postcard. It was fun at the time fielding questions from students during gallery talks.

A Brief History Part One

Back in 2006 when my website first launched Terry and I were talking about some of my work while hanging out in the Art Office. He was really interested in the documentation of the forest from the trees piece. He liked that because the piece was so temporary that the photograph became even more powerful and he suggested that we collaborate. I would make even more temporary sculptures that can only be seen in a photograph that Terry would shoot and edit.



Later that day I made this drawing in my sketchbook, on the a page opposite where woodgrain lamp from West Elm that Venuta put in my mailbox on the same day.

We're Funded!

Thanks to Park School's generous F. Parvin Sharpless Faculty and Curricular Advancement Program (FACA). Our proposal focus on creating more collaborative "sculptures to be photographed". We'll do the actual sculpting, photographing, and printing in three weeks this coming summer. In the mean time we plan to use this blog to document the whole process from start to finish, not to mention share it with our students, colleagues, and the rest of the world.