Working on some things for the Senior Show. 

Hey! I’m in The Baltimore Sun!

This is part of my on going analysis of identity and personal image as seen through the lens of contemporary culture and the Apple Store.

Work in progress. Collecting images from apple stores. I’m not sure how I feel about any of it yet or how to talk about it, but it is proving quiet interesting.

I got into the On Loan show at Area 405. I’ll be showing my Facebook Wall (or half of it because that’s all they can accommodate). The opening is Friday March 30th so keep your eyes peeled for updates on that!

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I’m just getting around to putting these ‘thank you’ cards in my shop, and it took me like 6 days to even get them to tumblr. I’m slacking. Come to the UMBC craft fair to pick some up.

Photos of my Facebook Wall installed in my studio. 

It is almost impossible to have relationships with people in todays world without being connected to them online. It seems that there is a great distinction between peoples online and offline lives, and when they intertwine, it makes people feel very nervous. In a world with unlimited digital security, how can we break these boundaries while still maintaining people’s security and trust?

 

In 787 Minutes I am interested in what happens between those worlds, and aim to touch upon what we recognize as social media. I have taken peoples Facebook profile pictures, something that is seen as ordinary and often times abundant, and used them as a source to create a new body of work. I used every profile picture from all 787 of my Facebook friends, and redrew the image in one continuous line for one minute each. This amount of time, one minute, I felt referenced the fleeting amount of time given to judging people online. I used one continuous line to reference a thread of similarity between all photographs on Facebook, as well as free myself from the need to create an accurate portrait.

 

Once the drawings were complete, I scanned each image and uploaded it back on to Facebook. I created a total of four albums (Facebook only allows 200 images per album), and tagged each friend in their new portrait. Within minutes, I had 50 notifications of people liking and commenting on the portraits. Within a couple of days, I had over 500 notifications, and over 50 people had made my portrait their own profile picture, thus perpetuating the sphere of ownership and connotation of art and persona on the internet. People, whom I was not friends with, began to ask questions like ‘Who made this?’, ‘What is this?’, ‘Did a child draw this’, and even ‘Why are you flirting with my boyfriend?’. I began to touch an edge of Facebook that was unintentional, building my project outwards and reaching people who were not directly affected by it, raising the same questions about social media and anonymity that my friends were being confronted with.

Here’s another one for ya. I’ve been really inspired by the undergraduate students I’m teaching this semester. It’s so interesting to see how kids who are new to art making, approach their work in a completely different way than I could even imagine.

Space seems to be a recurrent theme for this semester’s class, so in honor of them, Spring Break’s Service Hours door signs.

Here’s an animated version that was made by someone in my office.

Doing the service hours should be part of my job description.

I was seriously having such a hard time during a creative block this morning. Sometimes you just have to start cutting up shapes and picking colors and doodling until you figure it out.