BTS of the Empty Pockets recording at Abbey Road Studios in London last week. It was an amazing experience to walk the halls of giants who recorded in Studio 2 - Kate Bush, the Beatles, & Oasis to name a few. Thanks for bringing me along for the 🌍 tour. Swipe for cigarette stains from the Beatles on the vintage keys.
BTS from Friends & Family night in my Digital Photo class. I’ve wanted to do an event like this for a while now; Students invited their people to class for an evening portraiture + light play. Thanks to my wonderful students for making it a huge success and for bringing meatballs (+cinnamon rolls + Cheetos + donuts + cheese + camera-shaped cookies).
Photo 1 - Set Design by Cayden Benezra
New Riso postcard đź“« for the Pool V cohort, based in collaboration with our workbooks created by @sonja_rthomsen & @thom_bridge and the many hands in wild clay during our week together.
Many thanks to the brilliant @meh.work for the Riso expertise and printing!
#PoolV @theopen.fund
Pool V installation at Harbor View Plaza
- The nomadic workshop of Pool V brought together by @sonja_rthomsen & @thom_bridge . I’m very proud to be part of this first cohort and the generosity of each collaboration.
W/ brilliant 16mm film curation “Pool Projection: What the Water Says” by @be_right_balcom
#poolv #poolmilwaukee
Made possible by @theopen.fund
Second photo and miraculous clay sculpture by @kyle.six
BTS of Pool V Workshop in Milwaukee this week. Including visits to the beautiful @villaterracemuseum gardens, @milwaukeeart curator tour of Erin Sheriff’s Permanent Drafts & lake walks with poet laureate Brenda Cárdenas.
We are showing experiments, films, and more tomorrow night at Harbor View Plaza. Come see our wild clay frames from land surrounding the lake:)
#poolv #poolmilwaukee
Thank you to the @theopen.fund for supporting such important comings together for artists & @sonja_rthomsen & @thom_bridge for creating this Pool
Start to finish ~ processing wild clay from Lake Michigan Milwaukee shores to pit-firing the pieces in 4 days at Chop Wood Carry Water Residency. It was an absolute dream to learn this process start to finish. Theoretically, I now have way to be a ceramicist for free - foraging and firing myself without a studio. If anyone wants to join my next fire in Milwaukee or Chicago, let’s team up.
Slide 1 - drying the work in the greenhouse pre-fire
2 - collecting at Grant Park in South Milwaukee on the beach
3 - drying it all out, later sifted it through a crack in a bucket to get out the rocks, mixed with some sand with a drill attachment
4 - test tiles
5 - @spontaneousvegetation beautiful ceramics studio at #ChopWoodCarryWaterResidency locked in to make as many pieces as I could in one day
6 & 7 - more greenware pre-fire. All the tiles have different natural slips or underglazes or terra sigillata to test
8 - pre warming by the fire to mitigate shock as we create hot coals
9 - this was the final bed of coals after 2 hours of firing. The Eye of Sauron was an accidental omen.
10 - sandhills cranes passing over the pieces burning. The pieces probably got to around 1200 degrees F since the aluminum was most melted.
11 & 12 - pulling them out in the morning, about 8 hours later, still hot
13 & 14 & 16 - results
15 - notes
A huge thank you to @spontaneousvegetation for all your knowledge, guidance, and care for hosting this experience.
That’s a wrap to the spring semester! I had to share a few things that really made me laugh. Thank you to my wonderful students in digital and darkroom for making it so much fun to teach.
