Nothing much really happened in terms of work for Practicum this week; my residency at MIA occurs once a month, and my shadowing at Juxta doesn't start until February. However, tomorrow (Monday the 29th) is the first day of my placement at Perpich, which I'm looking forward to for a variety of reasons. I'll be assisting visual arts department teacher Jeremy Lundquist with the printmaking classes on Mondays and Wednesdays, one being a digital printmaking processes class and the other being either intaglio focused or more of a "personal project" class, depending on what the students want. I haven't been as focused on printmaking lately, but I still think in terms of multiples, process, appropriation and consider myself a printmaker; its what I focused on for years and it has really shaped my practice. As a Perpich alum, I'm also excited to work with students who are at a pretty formative place in life and are presumably pretty dedicated to art or creativity. I enjoy and have experience working with students of all ages, but working with students that are old enough to have a bit more personal vision sounds interesting right now.
The upside of having a more low key week was that I was able to pick at some personal work that I've been mulling over for a while. I've been thinking for a while about the term "support", and its various meanings, from justification for an argument to material that supports paint media. I don't consider myself a painter, but painting is one of the art forms I'm most interested in and something I have been interested in interrogating for a while. Thinking about a painting as a surfaces for gestures as well as a gesture in itself, and from that how objects or situations can function like painterly gestures, or paintings simply as objects. I've also been curious about how walls or architectural structure can function as (painterly) support or a picture plane. Nothing feels too definite yet, but getting to play and sketch with objects (the shaped canvas, found objects and plaster pieces pictured) was absolutely invigorating. I also got a chance to mess with music and musical composition/recording a bit, something I alwasy
