Autumn has passed and winter has made me deal with my discontent. So I say farewell to a midwestern city that was pretty okay in this Boston boy’s eyes. If you’re heading through Ohio, check out Columbus, you’ll be surprised. Short North, Houndogs pizza, the Wexner Center, and some lovely little suburbs like Worthington. Zayt gesunt.
Here the Sherman Crew are controlling the burn out of the vessels that will be the receptacles to be cast in bronze.
Another shot from the action over at the Sherman Art Center.
Today I chose to skip my weekly meshugah assistantship meeting in order to actually have a learning experience. The crew over at the Sherman Art Center were conducting a Bronze pour with a sand casting. I’ve read about it, heard about it, seen images of it, but it is truly cool to see it actually done.
The 2008 Faculty Show is up and we had the opening tonight. Glad that is over; last show of Autumn quarter! No more crazy marathon installations days! And a good two weeks until the take-down.
A crosswalk has always seemed precarious to me. As a Bostonian it often felt like the double lines just acted as a guide to help motorists size you up for a run down. An intersection after all gives you 4 danger angles to fear some wreckless schmuck. Hence we tend to cross in the middle of the street where chances get narrowed to only two oncoming directions. When I moved back from Seattle in the mid 90’s, where jaywalking was a shunning offense, I actually had to relearn how to cross mid-street. So I like this new Columbus cubist crosswalk – I think it gives the legitimacy to the pedestrian, while also providing an optical barrier that is far from the traditional cross-hairs.
Okay my Graduate Assistantship is in assisting in the college gallery with installations of shows. My buddy here Ryan is almost ready to collapse in this picture cause this is the third day in a row he worked on the show. On this day, we worked from 9am to to 3:30am. So long story short – all my fellow artists, remember to be kind to the people who put up your show. It is a lot of work. Cheers to Sugar Bain who has been doing this at Hemphill for over a year!
Autumn in Ohio is calling me. I am off.
Heather took this photo while I was interviewing at OSU.
