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February 15, 2018 Update

The intent of this month's posting is to serve as a guide for the external reader (RDC2) to viewing all work related to the project since it began in October 2016 to date. This posting consists of three lists. The first list contains the titles with embedded links to all work posted to the 'Studio- Making' page. The second list is of titles to all postings in 'Studio Writing' also with embedded links. The third list contains links to postings in 'Presentations' for the three presentations done for this project in conjunction with Transart Institute residencies. All lists are chronological - oldest to most recent - and each link should open in a new window.

I. The following is a chronological list of postings in Studio - Making. Each work is built to some extent off previous work; therefore it is important to start at the beginning to see the unfolding of the painting strategies through the techniques, methods and tools of my process. The postings include my own painting (self) and the painting with the personas - individually and in collaboration within my painting practice. I have documented the process the various works’ creation through still photos, flatbed scans of the paintings, videos. The writing in these postings is meant as documentation of the making process, not an analysis or reflection of the resulting work or contextualization through sources outside of the works themselves. Therefore, the writing here will tell the reader how a work was made and provide some ‘backstory’ -such as the origins of each persona or images used in a particular work - but little else.

Double Portrait: Self and Franz Walsh

Double Portrait: Self and Petra Nimm

Double Portrait: Self and Melusine Van de Weyden

Franz Walsh

Melusine Van der Weyden

Petra Nimm

Dissecting Double Portrait: Self and Petra Nimm

References

Good Witches of the Between, Part One

Good Witches of the Between, Part Two

Und das Lied

Patchwork Surface

Good Witches of the Between, Part Three

Influential Dressing

Franz Painting, Part One

Petra Painting, Part One

One Painting Three

A little madness in the Spring, Part One

Good Witches of the Between, Part Four

A little madness in the Spring, Part One -part two

A little madness in the Spring, Part Two

A little madness in the Spring, Part Three

A little madness in the Spring, Part Two -part two

Good Witches of the Between, Part Five -Franz’s intervention

A little madness in the Spring, Part Two -part three

A little madness in the Spring, Part Three -part two

Franzi blue

Three small asides

Good Witches of the Between, Part Six -applying Petra

Gestures of CillaVee-Gestures of Petra Nimm

Three more small asides

A little madness in the Spring, Part Three -part three

Good Witches of the Between, Part Seven -another start

A short visit in the Between

Momentary Messages of Truths as told by Petra Nimm, Image One -part one

Momentary Messages of Truths as told by Petra Nimm, Image One -part two

Momentary Messages of Truths as told by Petra Nimm with Interruptions by Robyn Thomas, Image Two

Momentary Messages of Truths as told by Petra Nimm with Interruptions by Robyn Thomas, Image Three

I am Melusine -Sütterlin

Good Witches of the Between, Part Seven -enter Franz

Good Witches of the Between, Part Eight -Petra returns

Good Witches of the Between, Part Nine -another layer of paper

Good Witches of the Between, Part Ten -Petra, watercolor, thinned gesso and acrylic

Good Witches of the Between, Part Eleven, -Robyn and oil

Photos: Subject/Object

Berlin Sketches and Melusine Writing

Another Point of View/Shadows on the Wall

Happenings in the Between: Subtext Part Twelve

Zigging and Zagging Postal Posted Posting

On Display

Eight by Ten by Twelve by Four

Petra Frottage

Concertinaed

Nonefficacious Emorhinoplasti

Playing Concertinaed

Eight by Ten by Twelve by Four: Elegy

Elegy

Playing Elegy

 

II. The following list is a chronological account of postings in Studio Writing. The writing in these postings takes a variety of forms, such as reflections on the personas and making process, readings, exhibitions, films, sketches, notes, citations, presentations, and drafts for chapters. I have found writing on the computer in either in documents or emails allows my thoughts to flow quicker - and more legibly - to the page I rarely write more than a word or two as a prompt in my notebook, sketchbook, or journals. Instead, I sit down at my laptop and write, either as myself, Melusine, Petra, and occasionally Franzi. Most of the following postings are by me unless otherwise noted, and very informal with very little editing. I return to read the postings frequently, to re-think, reflect and re-consider the thoughts I had when creating the posting; and to collect bits and pieces to add to or generate new writing, specifically the writing for presentations, reports, and most importantly, the chapters of the written dissertation.

The trick of replication

A path to Vygotsky

Mary, Mary quite contrary

Voices of a Nomadic Soul

Thoughts on Pessoa and Duchamp

Slant

Boxes and Bins

Joe Fig’s Questions, Part One

A child’s solution to the limits of space

Codes of Dressing Up, Part One

Vygotsky 101

Joe Fig’s Questions, Part Two

Notes from: Play and Its Role in the Mental Development of the Child by Lev Vygotsky

Fragments from a Fragment

Considering narrative

Petra paints with her left hand

Random Notes, Part One

Thoughts and Questions by Melusine Van der Weyden

Vygotsky in Context, Part One

Sara Berman’s Closet @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Shock and Awe, Part One

Vygotsky: The Psychology of Art, Part One

Painters of Place

The digital continuation of a walking-talking conversation between two painters

Maskenfreiheit

Smoothing the edges: an observation

(How) is adult play/creativity different?

Notes on a search of adult play

Roland Barthes on Cy Twombly: play not game

Waiting for Franz: May 8 11 AM

Philip Guston, Part One

Preliminary thoughts on the written exegesis

Petra’s statement

Quotes and Notes on Performance Studies: An Introduction

Schjeldahl on Rauschenberg

Important?

Authentic Drips and Ziggy Stardust

First, very rough draft

Notes and Quotes from Serial Imagery: Definition by John Coplans

The pleasure of The Pleasure of the Text

From Death to Birth

Bibliography as a tool for reflection

Petra responds to Melusine

Franz responds to Melusine

Notes: Important sentences from my Summer 2017 residency presentation and how my understanding of what I am doing has developed through the process of preparing it.

Melusine’s correspondences and other writings (until August 1, 2017)

Some words from some words I.

Trans-scribed

Melusine Sütterlin

Boxing Shadows with the beginning of (mainly) Melusine’s interruptions

Odds and (non)Ends, August and September

Poems by Melusine Van der Weyden

On Display

Window Shopping

Painting: a Treacherous Image

For all intent and purpose

Clarifications in a Storm

Obituary

Condolences

Petra thinking of Melusine

Life, Death and the Persona

The Relevancy of a Death in Writing

Two quotes on identity and its reception by others by a couple of recently deceased artists

Petra thinking of a friend while painting

19 by One

This increasingly fragmented pixel

Another Way of Telling My Practice

John Dogg

 

III. The final list is a chronological account of postings in Presentations.

Winter Residency 2017

Summer Residency 2017

Winter Residency 2018

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