Medalta Day 8 – a minor hiccup

by | Jul 14, 2010 | Uncategorized

I woke up this morning bright and early, happy that my boys (son & husband) we’re going to be arriving for a visit, but alas as soon as I reached the studio and started up my computer I realized that the day was threatening to turn sour. A few cracks in 2 pieces I have to deal with slowly but consistently over the next few days, but it shouldn’t be too bad.

But worse than that my computer died. Won’t even start up. Can’t seem to find the start up disk. Sigh. It’s a 8 year old Mac which has survived a previous hard drive fail (2 weeks before my thesis was due) and recently (a few months back) was drown in a coke. It’s led a good life, so maybe it was just it’s time. Cruddy thing is I only have an equally temperamental and threatening to die hand me down laptop from my mom to replace this one and the monitor on that one only works a fraction of the time. But I’m not winging. I’m just letting you know in case my blogging becomes a bit more sporadic until I can get an adequate replacement. I guess this is a good excuse to have to go back to the wonders of Hycroft China again to retake all the photos I’ve lost
: )

Medalta Day 8.5

by | Jul 12, 2010 | Uncategorized


I just want to take a minute to say thank you to everyone that’s posted comments on the blog or emailed me with kind words about the stuff I’ve been posting this month. It’s been really fun so far to share all this work in progress with you and always so lovely to have feedback.
many thanks
xoxox

Now i’m off to stress about my artist talk this evening…

Medalta Day 8

by | Jul 12, 2010 | Uncategorized

LIVE ON AIR

Wanna check out what we’re up to? We’ll Mr. Brendan Tang at least? Brendan has set up a Ustream channel so that you can watch the magic that is ceramic art in production.

Check it out here.

Medalta day 7.5

by | Jul 12, 2010 | Uncategorized


Here’s tonight’s progress. A piece that is loosely titled Would she ever live up to her mother’s expectations. It aims to question both the expectations we have of our children and their potential; paired with the expectations we place on ourselves to be the children that our parents intended. Dual guilt in this one. I used the Virgin Mary mold on this one to represent an image of motherhood to present a dialogue about societal pressures to be the perfect mother. And I used a portion of a memorial baby plate to reference the ways in which is desperately attempt to mark the landmarks of our children’s lives, documenting every moment for the future, whist ignoring the chance, or being unable, to live in the present.