Sleepy eyes and subzero temperatures

Hey friends,

Here are a couple more things I've been working on. They are details of paintings that are roughly 3'x5'.

Sometimes when I paint, Mother Earth is like,"yo, wtf."

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Hey yall, I'm making art again so I'm going to start blogging again.

I'm in a beautiful place called the Vermont Studio Center.

Here's something I've been working on:

The End

Hey all,

I don't really know if anyone still reads this, but this is the post that says that I won't be blogging for a while. I'll start again once I start making some more art, but right now my studio is disassembled and I'll be moving around for a little bit.

IP is over, but I'd like to continue this blog. Maybe I can rename it. I don't know much about blogger. I'll call it like . . . LP: Life Project. Part one. The reckoning.

How's that sound?

It's been great. Wonderful. Too much fun. And very rewarding. And I'm going to miss everyone and this whole experience a lot.

ta ta for now,
Emerson

Artist Statement

Hi

Sorry I haven't posted in a while.

Here's my artist's statement:

Invisible Things is a project about condensing time and blurring the boundaries between people and the space they occupy. This body of work, including paintings, drawings, and an altered book, seeks to emphasize the power and the fragility of human connection and of life itself. By obscuring the borders between figure and ground and by condensing and freezing segments of time, these works become a visual representation of things that cannot literally be seen: the emotional realm, the human spirit, and our connections to each other.

I think it's okay. Is it okay?

The show opens next week and the work is all done except for my book, but it's really close. I think a few more hours of work and it will be done. Besides that I've been working on my website non-stop. I think it's become an annual tradition for me to completely redo my website. I don't bother with updating, I just completely overhaul the whole thing. I'm hoping that will change now, because this one is going to be pretty effin classy ifidosaysomyself. Should be live by April 11.

Sorry, I only have words this week.

I did lots of things this week.

I cut my frames to size and spray painted the ones that weren't black

(with help) I made by book go from looking way worse than this

to this

and then I remembered that the inside is nowhere near complete.

But instead of working on that I decided to fuck this painting up instead

 (how humiliating)

but I also made this painting which is ok

and also I did half of the mounting on all of my works on paper

blah

timekeeping:

allthosethings:25.5 hours

Charcoal Fog

Can I just update on Sunday from now on?

This week I made good progress on this painting:

This week I only painted with charcoal, black, and white. It's almost done.

And I also made this drawing:

I'm also seeking out the help of my good friend Abby Bennet for her book-doctor skills. We're going to a workshop tomorrow where hopefully some smart book people will have an idea of how to re-bind my disaster of a book. I cut the cover off, but rebinding it is proving to be problematic because of the way I've glued some of the pages together.

I also acquired a huge amount of aluminum frames, which I've almost finished cutting to size. And I've ordered the rest to complete what I need. I've got those, plus mat board coming my way. I'll still need to get glass and spray paint to blacken the frames that are less-than-black. I'm aiming to frame 9 drawings and 2 paintings that are 7"x11". The frames themselves are 15"x20" so they will have a large border that says "look at how effing important this drawing is."

The frame-fairy saved me a ton of $$ so I am very grateful to him.

Things are on track!

Timekeeping:

painting/drawing/booking/framing: 16.5 hours 

sleep schedule is now 1 hour more stupid

Another late post.

First week back to school was not so smooth, but I had a box of oatmeal raisin cookies to help me through it and I think it's looking up, so no worries. Point being, I didn't really work on IP until this weekend. thankfully I don't have anything better to do with my weekend nights than spend them in the studio until it's light outside again.

I worked on those three paintings, but none of them look great as a whole, so I'm only going to show you details.

I started painting with a wax medium, which I really, really like.

I also continued work on my book, which is making some progress. I might have it finished for the show. Since I've glued chunks of the paper together, I discovered that if I sand the pages for long enough, the words from the pages underneath will start to show through. Some will be backwards so it's disorientating but also a cool effect. The only problem is, the book is totally falling apart . . . I think I might need to rebind it, which I know precious little about, so maybe I'll talk to Brianne.

oy vey, I need to rewrite my thesis.

timekeeping;

painting/booking:15 hours