The Farmer’s Almanac says it going to rain with a high of 64.  The days surrounding… partly cloudy.  Yahoo (weather.com), on the other hand, has removed rain from Thursday but Monday through Wednesday forecasts are all rainy.

I don’t know which is best…  soggy building or soggy event.

I test several materials to get physical fire ascend from ground to the air.  There are two materials work well. One is the 100% cotton yarn, the other one is natural jute#28. I rubbed more than 16 lines together, you can see from the video how they work.

Fire is light. The process that fires go up slowly from ground to the air is a journey from death to rebirth.

its gotta be on the same level of sassiness as ’so’s your face’…not as serious as return to city of fire…

>better than a kick in the patanga.

>one patanga, two patanga, three patanga, four..

>he doesnt know his patanga from a whole in the ground.

>dont let the door hit you in the patanga.

>shake your patanga.

>where’s my patanga?

>your mom’s a patanga (ok its gonna get old at some point..)

>nobody puts patanga in the corner.

 >there is no patanga.

Ancient Egyptians as well as the Native Americans used color and colored light to heal.  Although color symbolism differs from culture to culture, many of the Native American color symbols have to do with the four directions or the four sacred mountains (blue, white, red, black – Cherokee or white, blue, yellow, black – Navajo)

Blue – represents tranquility, calm, stability, reliability, order, water, cold, technology and depression.  It can slow the pulse, lower body temperature and reduce the appetite.  Is considered the safest global color. China = immortality, Columbia = soap, Hindus = color of Krishna, Jews = holiness, Middle East = protection, Native American = intuition

Black = power, sexuality, formality, mystery, fear, evil, mourning, death.  Native American = harmony, listening

Green = nature, health, good luck, renewal, envy, misfortune.  It is not considered to be a good packaging color because of the varied connotations.  Some tropical countries associate green with danger. Native American = living willfully

Orange = energy, balance, vibrance, demanding attention.  native american = kinship

Purple = royalty, spirituality, ceremony, mystery, cruelty, arrogance, exotic.  Purple dye was made from the mucous gland of a snail.  It required thousands of snails to yield 1 gram of dye. NA = wisdom

Red = pay attention, love, danger, desire, speed, strength, violence, anger, blood, fight or flight response, makes heart beat faster.  Not a good choice for psychiatric wards or prisons.  China = celebration and luck, India = purity, Native American = sacred and sunlight and south and communication

White = reverence, purity, simplicity, peace, innocence, youth, birth, sterility, marriage.  Japan = white carnations signify death, eastern cultures = coldness and sterility, NA = clarity and wholeness

Yellow = joy, happiness, optimism, imagination, hope, philosophy, dishonesty, cowardice, betrayal, jealousy, deceit, illness, inspiration. NA = overcoming challenges

I think it is interesting that all the colors have both positive and negative associations which works well with the entrance and exit taking on different meanings even though they are the same thing.

I think the entrance/exit works either way with green/blue/red or switched around a bit to blue/green/red… green to symbolize a choice – misfortune or luck, blue to slow the pulse, then red to hasten it again…  I’m up for any suggestions though…

And…

Native American medicine wheel, color, animal:

east = yellow, new dawn, eagle

south = red or green, passion, porcupine

west = black, reflection, bear

north = white, wisdom, white buffalo

I’m working on images for the map and altar ideas

lets put our heart and soul into this project – lets all get spinal tap!  vicadin could be all over the place- add wine and make special cookies…the audience really wouldnt know what hit ‘em.

ok, i bought plastic drop cloth and was trying different things…put cloth on it – air – decided water was not a good idea…and just put hot glue on it.  i like the effect but its small scale – could be unreasonable larger scale.  also have cheesecloth – will play around with that in a bit.  or do something completely unrelated…like watch tv.

These thoughts were in response to a few questions Mikeila had about creating the map. It led me to think about issues of obstruction of flow caused by the position of the library.

Where is the map to be located on site? It would be cool to have the artifact and then deconstructive studies of it that were done to figure out when it was made and what it is made of. What pigments were used. Like a forensic study of photos and samples. Maybe even one that shows it x-rayed and under a black light.Maybe some really abstract 3d models of the lines and planes. And finally one that places it on the campus. So its like you have found a key and are studying it to find out where it is from and what lock it fits, and finally you show the resolution. So maybe you could include the shape of the quad without the library so that when you combine the two it shows that the key would still fit if the library wasn’t there.
I think the map should be fantastic, and have lemurs on it and yes Bosch it up so that it indicates a wealth of culture, utopia, earthly delights. In contrast the academy looks bereft of energy, vitality and the true knowledge even of its self. So you can see how curiosity and playfullness are marginalized when libraries and stadiums are the emblems of study and liesure. By doing this, learning is seperated from social interaction, play, and relaxation. It changes from an open network of paths and portals, to being centered on a visual and mental blockage that is a very compressed heavy weight, called Middleton. Middle ton.
Its as if the crossroads, where the 4 directions mingle with the four seasons, 4 winds, and where many an important meeting between a man and an angel devil or god has taken place, has been concealed beneath a collection of documents and publications that students are supposed to turn to silently for answers rather than within the self and the lives of others. Imagine how much better it would be if the library was lifted up and resting on 4 pillars transforming it from obstacle to shelter that you could see beyond and actually settle yourself under in a shaded plaza or listen to the rain while you study or rest your eyes or plot your path.

In a more physiological metaphor, its as if someone cut your spinal cord, bifurcating your nervous system to install an inferior sub functioning memory repository without caring that your body was no longer able to recognize itself and operate as a unified system.
Blah blah blah.

edward weston’s  – cabbage 

hokay.  i’ve been looking at what yuanman had posted the other day about eve ingalls work.  her forms reminded me a lot of something tortuous escaping from the ground – good energy movement of the sculptures and she an interesting use of materials.  then joan mentioned she was influenced by eva hesse – an artist that was a bright blip on the art scene during the late sixties who worked in the minimalist/post minimalist / anti-form movement…i cant say i really understand much of that but i do like her work – especially the contingent piece that i posted a few days ago. 

so what i’ve been thinking about.  i have this obsession with this energy coming out of the ground and manifesting itself as this organic energetic object but immobilized- kind of like lava but translucent in color with a skeletel underbase.  haven’t had a bit of luck going beyond that until photography class last night.  edward weston’s cabbage photo is exactly what i was thinking.  natalie suggested looking at that fabric that is used (in my words) for hippie dresses. that might be an option.

 and after seeing eva hesse’s work – i wanted to create some scrims that would also work as something like a minimalist sculptural piece and i was thinking about exoskeletens again.  having a simple straight forward form using similar materials to the cabbage idea – latex, fiberglass resin, wire, and experimenting with the type of material – cloth, etc to incorporate into the scrim.

 i made a few hand-held wire bases last night.  i posted a couple below. next i want to put a few different types of material on them and use resin to see what results.  i want to work with the idea of a ruin within a ruin so it should be rather tattered but allude to some sculpture or space or something uncovered from below.