Musings on the creative process

Got to see Primus last night, after a 20year hiatus, excellent!  Very very!  Standing, dancing, enjoying the ear-splitting noise got me thinking as only ear damage will do:  that real, hard, physical experience is my creative gold mine. 

Art is experiential-the creative/making process comes from what viscerally shakes our core!

Now, I gotta find a way to translate that into a sculpture, and find a way to convey this to my summer sculpture students....Gonna make a smashup sculpture. 

Take a broken down recycled lawn mower;  smash into a pancake with a sledge hammer;  and sandwich it inside one of the wooden logs rotting in our yard.  Kind of an homage to the utilitarian tool we are married to-as post-colonial suburban consumers.  Gotta love all those bright green chem-lawn lawns in lovely arid central Texas, as we recreate the English fantasy of an arcadian garden of Eden

Casey D Cooper at Weil Gallery

Got to see the MFA exhibit of Casey D Cooper at Texas A&M Corpus Christi last week, pretty nice work.  Welded thin sheet metal, inflated.  I'm interested to learn the details of the inflationary process....

Article about show

 Photo of Sebastian Stoddart inside one of Casey's pieces, thanks for giving us the deluxe tour Sebastian!

Here is a video of what seems to be Casey working on one of inflation sculptures...hard to tell for sure

Dirt Dauber Clay Festival

First annual Dirt Dauber Festival, A Celebration of Clay Art in Texas!
at the Eye of the Dog Art Center in San Marcos.

http://www.eotdac.com/dirt-dauber-festival-2011/

There will be 20 amazing clay artist exhibiting their works, music, and a kid's tent.  JoLea will have a booth set up with lots of new work-www.jolea.net

MAY 14/15, 2011 

Sunday:  10 – 5
Saturday:  NOON – 5