Since coming back from Mexico City in early January, it has been difficult to get moving but I am still making slow progress towards the process paper and cleaning up the pieces I showed in Mexico City.
For the paper, I have been studying the work of Gerhard Richter with whom my family-photo project has a lot on common. The descriptions of his work and process are giving me a new language through which to describe my process and aims.
My studio advisor, David Cruz, has persuaded me to think about the presentation of the pieces which I will re-present in Berlin. My original presentation was just tacking the pieces on a wall and allowing them to be shown with their rough border and the canvas’ roughly shorn edges. But in conversations with David, I have come to understand that if I am working from photos and conceptually, riffing off photos, the presentation should resemble photos.
Because of the busy nature of teaching and because I am the union representative this year of a school wherein the principal enjoys breaking the contract, it has been difficult getting all of the above accomplished but little by little I am getting there.
