It feels lovely to try on a different pair of eyes and a different set of memories and appreciate urban/rural spaces and potentials unencumbered by my own history. Truly, thank you for sharing!!
A recent moment of joy & queer metamorphosis: I'm finally starting work on a mask made of broken glass I scavenged around off-campus in September. I love looking past form/function, loving beyond taboos, and giving discarded materials a chance to be something else. It gives me hope for myself. Also, free art supplies!
Morsel-wise, I'm a big David Getsy fan. He came up in one of the art history classes, and reading his essays has been formative; I wish I had time to go through the rest of the stuff on his website.
Sorry if this is long lol, head full, many thoughts. Hope you're having a lovely day!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read and share your thoughts! There’s a cool project called Queering the Map that shares queer peoples experiences/thoughts around the world and it gives that same chance to see beyond our own perspectives. It’s pretty cool.
I’d love to hear more about the broken glass mask project and see how it progresses; that sounds awesome.
Art history reads are some of the best morsels. If you have any recommendations for Getsy’s work, I wanna read!
No need to apologize, I’m so happy to receive such a thoughtful comment and I welcome more in the future. I hope you have a great day too. Thanks Aldo!!
I think I've heard of Queering the Map, but I've never gone to explore it; might finally be time.
I started making masks and thinking about the story potentials of materials and arrangement while working on the final project for Art 470, and Getsy's writings were very formative for that. Here's two of my favorites from him!
Tl;dr when you choose to put two objects together, how do they talk to each other? How can you map queerness onto objects that engage in subversive relationships?
Getsy has done a lot of writing on using transgender studies as a lens to look at art, and especially sculpture, abstracting bodies into materials as a way of escaping from categorization and binary. He did a recent reflection on Manet's "Olympia" that broke my brain in a liberating way. I hope there's something freeing or affirming in there for ya!
beautiful! all of it
thank you<3!!!!
It feels lovely to try on a different pair of eyes and a different set of memories and appreciate urban/rural spaces and potentials unencumbered by my own history. Truly, thank you for sharing!!
A recent moment of joy & queer metamorphosis: I'm finally starting work on a mask made of broken glass I scavenged around off-campus in September. I love looking past form/function, loving beyond taboos, and giving discarded materials a chance to be something else. It gives me hope for myself. Also, free art supplies!
Morsel-wise, I'm a big David Getsy fan. He came up in one of the art history classes, and reading his essays has been formative; I wish I had time to go through the rest of the stuff on his website.
Sorry if this is long lol, head full, many thoughts. Hope you're having a lovely day!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read and share your thoughts! There’s a cool project called Queering the Map that shares queer peoples experiences/thoughts around the world and it gives that same chance to see beyond our own perspectives. It’s pretty cool.
I’d love to hear more about the broken glass mask project and see how it progresses; that sounds awesome.
Art history reads are some of the best morsels. If you have any recommendations for Getsy’s work, I wanna read!
No need to apologize, I’m so happy to receive such a thoughtful comment and I welcome more in the future. I hope you have a great day too. Thanks Aldo!!
I think I've heard of Queering the Map, but I've never gone to explore it; might finally be time.
I started making masks and thinking about the story potentials of materials and arrangement while working on the final project for Art 470, and Getsy's writings were very formative for that. Here's two of my favorites from him!
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d40a0bea6305d0001bc1663/t/5dce201fd1d2ac7adf4d4f82/1573789728013/Getsy-Queer+Relations-2017.pdf
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d40a0bea6305d0001bc1663/t/5dcdc553b67aa26494d14ab7/1573766485409/Doyle-Getsy+final.pdf
Tl;dr when you choose to put two objects together, how do they talk to each other? How can you map queerness onto objects that engage in subversive relationships?
Getsy has done a lot of writing on using transgender studies as a lens to look at art, and especially sculpture, abstracting bodies into materials as a way of escaping from categorization and binary. He did a recent reflection on Manet's "Olympia" that broke my brain in a liberating way. I hope there's something freeing or affirming in there for ya!
Happy morsel-ing!!