more on my workload
May. 4th, 2001 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saint_monkeyi am no longer neglecting my interviews, i did two today, and i'll do one more on Tuesday, the pro affirmative action interview was uplifiting, my subject had been so set upon with obstacles, and she overcame them all to become a well respected and recognized authority in her field.
the anti-affirmative action interview with a person who had lost their position was uplifting in a weird way, filled with testosterone and anger and strangely overpowering. All in all, much more negative in tone though. My subject said that since they were no longer in a university setting, they felt liberated to speak their own mind, and did not feel the pressure to be "nice" anymore. interesting. kind of like that old saying :
Only your enemies feel free enough to tell you the truth.
I am working on my "challenge the diptych" book. It's just layers of pages with designs carved in them with an x-acto (again with the knives.) they are different colors, and my "picture" is made by layering the pages and looking back and forward at the combination of shapes and colors made by the overlay. looking at the pages as a diptych only gives you a little of the picture. i hope that's challenge enough for my prof.
mystery and i finsihed cutting the ouzzle blocks out, and i melted down the crayons and painted the pages. The effect is nice, the little newsprint book takes on a weight and smell with all the wax, becoming more of an object that demands space, instead of a book that lays sterile, taking up space. But the crayons were far too pigmented, and the colors completely cover the words, with only a ghost of a poem every now and then. I like it, but for legibility, i'll have to sand off some of the encaustic. Next time, i'll "cut" the crayons with Parafin or Beeswax, to introduce some more "transparency" by adding more "Medium."
I got wax all over the inside of our pasta pot.
the anti-affirmative action interview with a person who had lost their position was uplifting in a weird way, filled with testosterone and anger and strangely overpowering. All in all, much more negative in tone though. My subject said that since they were no longer in a university setting, they felt liberated to speak their own mind, and did not feel the pressure to be "nice" anymore. interesting. kind of like that old saying :
Only your enemies feel free enough to tell you the truth.
I am working on my "challenge the diptych" book. It's just layers of pages with designs carved in them with an x-acto (again with the knives.) they are different colors, and my "picture" is made by layering the pages and looking back and forward at the combination of shapes and colors made by the overlay. looking at the pages as a diptych only gives you a little of the picture. i hope that's challenge enough for my prof.
mystery and i finsihed cutting the ouzzle blocks out, and i melted down the crayons and painted the pages. The effect is nice, the little newsprint book takes on a weight and smell with all the wax, becoming more of an object that demands space, instead of a book that lays sterile, taking up space. But the crayons were far too pigmented, and the colors completely cover the words, with only a ghost of a poem every now and then. I like it, but for legibility, i'll have to sand off some of the encaustic. Next time, i'll "cut" the crayons with Parafin or Beeswax, to introduce some more "transparency" by adding more "Medium."
I got wax all over the inside of our pasta pot.
