What Time is This Place?

The one below is a detail from the drawing i did on my own for the first 2 days.

This last week I had a group exhibit at the gallery on campus. It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun. We had 72 hours to create the work inside the gallery, and I opted to work directly on the walls with graphite. Those of you who know my work, I tend to draw very small so it took a long time to fill up space on the wall. After the second day, I thought it would be a good change to work in collaboration with my soon to be studio mate and good friend in the program, Derek. Derek and I are complete opposites and he makes everything big! As you can see from the pictures of us working, we are complete opposites physically too. I look so tiny next to him! Anyway, it was a really great experience to work with him and it got me out of my box, which is good. I was pretty happy with the results of the project and I think it was pretty well recieved too. The pics aren't the greatest, my work is so small and so detailed its hard to get an accurate representation of it.

More Images from Exhibit

So, a little background. For this project I wanted my drawing to serve as a type of documentation of what was going on in the gallery duirn the 72 hours we spent installing the show. I would draw objects, ideas, conversations or anything that transpired during that time. When Derek joined up with me the idea was to see how different people filter the same experience differently, and how the same idea can be expressed with a different visual symbol. For the large drawing we would both simultaneously draw the same thing such as a chair, a power cord or a conversation and it was interesting to see how differently we represented the same idea.

This image is a detail from my individual drawing the first day: Here is our crazy collaboration.

Chicago!!!

This last weekend I flew out to meet my friend Alma in Chicago. He had a business conference there and it was the perfect excuse to get aways from Columbus and see one of the most amazing cities in the world. I think Chicago might be one of my favorites. And New York! And London! And Seattle! And Boston! and Rome! Oh and Paris!!! What can I say? I am a city girl. It was really great because during the days Alma (who yes we are JUST FRIENDS) was in meetings that meant I could do whatever I wanted by myself!!! Which is my ideal way to spend a vacation. There is not much that I love as much as being alone in a big city walking down new streets and taking in all the beautiful architecture and sites. So fun!!! Of course most of my time was spent at the art museums. We also went to Millennium Park, Taste of Chicago Food Festival, Navy Pier and the musical Wicked, which was really good.

This picture is really funny, because we went to Alma's nephew's performing group, Clayton Productions, and I knew Nicole and Tasha would LOVE this!!! I was so embarrassed.