Sunday, December 12, 2010

someone else

Here is a link to When Someone Else's Art Lands in Your Neighborhood.

I'll write my comment on this later...

Thursday, December 2, 2010

i found some more images of Pillumn from Sculpture by the Sea on the internets

Here are links to my favorites:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurfun/5174015836/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tombodger/5167889257/

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=sculpture+by+the+sea+2010+dusty+folwarczny

http://www.pbase.com/lambsfeathers/image/130150959


http://www.pbase.com/george_v/image/130433242

Here is a link to the Education Kit that was put together by Sculpture by the Sea's education program. This was fun to participate in and hopefully helps kids learn about art! Scroll down the page and you can download a .pdf to use in your classroom with kid-friendly activities.

a little bit about working down under


After the installation and all the parties and openings were through, I had some time before three week long exhibition was up to explore Australia. But instead of being a free spirit, for some reason I opted to reach out to some local business contacts about working with some Aussie krews. I was hoping for maybe five days, but I was offered seven days work in Sydney and six days in Canberra.
I usually don’t talk about my pay-the-bills job on this my sculpture blog. So what is this work? Well, in addition to sculpting, I support collaborative sessions for fortune 100 companies. I am one on a team of facilitators. I most often work as a graphic facilitator, graphic recorder, visual cartographer or scribe (basically I create a real-time visual map of a discussion). But I also work in other roles.
It was a very eye opening experience. I was challenged to work in another culture with other ways of working and communicating. I learned a lot about how I interact with people (I was constantly questioning how I was perceived since I was the “American” in the room). I found that even though you share a language, you aren't always saying the same thing. For instance, a witches hat in Australia is a safety cone!
What I also found was the refreshing mix of like-minded individuals that keeps me attracted to doing this work – even though I am not really interested in “business” stuff. The folks I worked with were dedicated, fun-loving, over-achieving and sarcastic people. It is nice to be surrounded by such a lovely culture. Working in my studio with metal and a welder doesn’t leave a lot of room for conversation and exchange.  Being a people person, that can become quite isolating. Don’t get me wrong, I love it, but this job fills that gap for me and enables me to continue to “emerge” as a sculptor.

Oh and my favorite new saying instead of "I don't care about ..." is "I can't be bothered with ... "