These are very short notes. I just pick up words from the general conversation that strike me as important. Please edit this post with any corrections/additions. You can also add comments if that makes more sense. We’re experimenting here.
Liz Seaton:
Feeling images of the body
Witches/ group feminism
Becoming animal… becoming
Faceless bodies
Postural schema
Hair turns to fiber
Rachel Serbinski
Potency/feminism/sexuality
Self-portraiture
Hand stitching
Scale
Missing feet in photos
Censorship re: sagan drawings
Liz had sewing solutions
Alana Kakoyiannis
Wife becoming mother
Pyrex-heated up- cold water
Aprons
“marriage shockâ€
Liz: described her own project: Willful misuse of household objects.
Eileen
Bees, Queen/King bee, Fear
Beebook
Hexagon pattern/Rebus
Egyptian embalming- folding out
Options for printing: LES Printshop, Manhattan Graphics, SVA, Art Student’s League (others?)
Francisca
Freedslaves town ritual video
Bottles, sweeping
Alana: mentioned having a relevant video (?)
Presentation: altar/oratory with video inside
Multipanel possibilities?
Context for video
Jasmine
Sacred heart: flames/crown/thorns
Batik sacred heart on sheet, white panties stretched on frame, almond shape around virgin head, black panties/white print- fluids
Sexuality/Femininity of Mother of God
Sacred Heart images: Luis Jimenez/Mexico
Hankerchief
Sheet as shroud, elvis in a donut…
Jennifer Carpenter
Disquieting imagery= religious images
Sewing on prayer cards, Ayn Rand pose
Things to think about: presentation/line up/ scale/vertical/ascension, descension/ implication of cross/circle/ tactility/mobility.
Michelle Levante
Algos Botanica (sp?)
Video- peppers/sex/death
Season of Healing
Bark/tree growing over fences
Materiality- beeswax
Varnish
Connectivity/ roots& fencing. Flesh photography added
Plaques for station of cross.
Edging- respond to image?
Quilts/sampling
Healing over trauma
Perfect shellack- wet sanding
Mortification of flesh. Woods of suicide- dante’s inferno
