fits and starts

This week I thought a little bit more about the potential winter quilting project (that, of course, knowing me, is likely to never happen haha). When surfing YouTube for tutorial videos on how to quilt, I ran across this video which describes a little bit about traditional English hexagon patchwork. After watching that video I thought, hmmmb, perhaps I could draw up a pattern for myself on paper, cut out the shapes, and then sew the fabric around the paper - just like one would if composing a traditional hexagon quilt? Who knows, it might work, or it seems like it would? The paper template idea makes a lot of sense in terms of composing the damn thing - mostly because the shapes are not at all regular ones. All that is angular is good here because I know that round is hard to sew.

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I've been reading/watching tutorials on quilting and it makes me want to quilt one of the microtexture compositions. It would be challenging, but naturally I'd be pumped about it. Over winter break my main project is to cleaning up the sides of the round paintings and get them to a point where they'll be ready to hang. I will be entering them into the student show in January. Too bad they wont be varnished by then :(

This guy = inspiration:

IAN HUNDLEY

Apparently, about a year ago, there was a fiber arts exhibition at ISU which he was a part of. I missed it, ugh.

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Painting last night was wonderful. I like to paint at night when there aren't any distractions. I can't wait to paint tomorrow.

Mike Glier

April 27, 2008: Wall St, New York, New York, 59°F

MIKE GLIER - ALONG A LINE

a series of paintings he did from four regions which fall on either side of 74°00W line of longitude.

How inspiring.

Sean McNulty; fractals

SEAN MCNULTY - EXTRA LARGE PAINTINGS

This guy does some really interesting work.

These abstract lanscapes that McNulty paints look like aerial images to me, and that's probably what they are inspired by if I had to guess. Sure, I certainly find aerial images to be interesting as well, but really only in their relation to microscopic rock textures. A lot of it has to do with the fact that it reminds me of fractals - no matter how far or close you are zoomed in or out, the image is seems to be repeated. It looks so similar that it seems uncanny. Last year, Vincent and I watched this video from the library about fractals and it nearly blew my mind. Goddamn, I love science. Learning about the repetition in coastlines really tied some things together inside my brain. I mean, of course I find everything to be significant haha.

This is a simplified explanation of what I've mentioned poorly:
APPLICATIONS OF FRACTALS

gah, dilemma

I would really like to go to the university of New Mexico in Albuquerque because I think that New Mexico would be inspirational to my work with all of the mountains, monoliths, rocks, and etc. around. I would enjoy painting landscapes for a while.