Wrapping up

So my time here at VSC is just about over.

It's been really great.

I mean, what could be better?

So, let me show you some drawings

                        L'Orgine du Monde

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Emerson Finishes things

Hey friends,

So, I wasn't sure if it was going to happen, but I finished a painting. It's tentatively titled, "Wait." 

The texture here is achieved with several layers of oil paint, which after dry, I rub over with charcoal, and then push around with mineral spirits. While that's still kind of wet I put a dry wax medium over it with a palette knife. It makes this really beautiful transparency, and you can sort of control how translucent you want it to be. Then I flicked a little bit of white paint on top of that, and that's pretty much it. Is this sort of thing interesting? I am really tired.

Okay, so actually I had finished another painting before that one, but I only kind of count it since it's quite small (around 16"x20"). This one is titled, "Meditation at the End of the World."

I have one more day to paint in oil and then I need to start letting things dry if I'm going to be able to ship them before I leave here. I'm reaaally hoping to finish this other painting, but we'll see.

until next time

Em

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."

VSC

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