I'm sorry I haven't said anything in a while. Life sometimes consists of thinking and quietly talking with other people about it before you can make anything concrete. Also, two of my three studio classes have their own blogs where I'm posting and the third is working with kids in Detroit so there really isn't much to physically show that's my own at the moment. That is why I'm linking this blog to my class blogs.

Time Mapping
Borrowing Light

Strike from Laura Thompson on Vimeo.

Borrowing Light Sketch

Sketchbooks are not my thing.

How do you sketch when you think in motion?

This has been my dilemma for quite some time. I don't think in shapes or how something is built (well sometimes I do but then it's just a material study because all of my work seems to have an idea...and even then I think about how it moves or how I move). I think about how I move when I build it, see it, experience it, perform it. I think about how the material(s) feel in my hands.

I think I am going to start making some "sketches" that are what my body parts are doing when I make something. So if I was working with my hands I would use a different color for each hand and progressively draw what they were doing...pulling tape, cutting, shaping. This could be very interesting...

I want to see this once I'm done with the book.