Artists and colleagues Christine Tillman and Terry Lansburgh are making "sculptures to be photographed". This blog will chronicle their collaboration.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

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.