I finally finished designing the ATA triple show that coming up soon. The idea behind the pattern is a huge field that gets washed over in layers so that areas begin to get heightened and recession occurs.

I broke my awkward not drawing block.

I have been crushing on the new Miu Miu collection. The pattern and it's inverse being laid on top of one another, has been on my mind. Thinking about maybe an envelope with a pattern, and then the inverse of the pattern being the invitation inside. I've been thinking about my next few projects, and that I want to undergo excessive amount of research, which involves making my own fabrics from a lot of on-site documentation. Camouflage is interesting in conjunction with inverse patterns because of how it blends into nature, but on it's own is psychedelic. I want to make a camouflage series that blends into flower beds or found habitats.

whew, sorry if that was exhausting.

A statement of intent for our RGBY Dreams show I thought might be interesting to post.

RGBY Dreams is an installation that examines the merging of space and time, indoors and outdoors, natural and artificial, organic and synthetic as terms that have been separated over the course of history but are strongly interconnected. Art and physics have made a significant transition from absolute to relative. It is integral to the way we think about the universe to understand time and space as particles constantly moving and overlapping. Interesting, that the place of geography has remained in the absolute. This work examines these paradoxical relationships and creates a convergence of natural and artificial space that investigates the delicate ways in which we transition between these environments. The “wearable sculptures” are presented as clothing that is activated by a ritualized relationship with locations. Their purpose, not as adornments, but as vehicles to transform the body in to a texture: making the claim that artificiality can be viewed as an evolution of nature. In fact, this show has the ubiquitous feeling that we are witnessing the transcendence of space; that we are implicated in the creation of the natural world and we are being given the tools necessary to interact with it harmoniously.

Interactive ritual spaces with fluctuating color screen. The Rainbow Grade Ritual Space above, utilizes a series of rocks and layers of sediments to create patterns in video that react to light and heat sensitivity. Each natural object changed a different facet of the video synthesis, including: color; rate of oscillation; and direction of pattern. Rainbow Grade is too, a ritual space that is affected by the amount of human contact, creating more complexity in its loop pattern with the increase of interactivity within a social atmosphere.

I have also been thinking a lot about the work I want to be making after RGBY Dreams show. Possibly returning to graphic projects while carrying similar concepts from the show, such as transforming artificial objects by transporting them out into nature. Heavy textured paper that carries stains and history.

A warm thanks to everyone who came out.

Models in order: Amanda Oetzel, Mark Roberts, Heidi Helena, Rebecca Loman, Lauren Kroneneyer, Rachel Toups.

A drawing about structure and the fragility of landscapes. Textures, defining shapes by connecting points in space in sequence. Thinking of surfaces as combinations of light and time, constantly changing, and consistently eroding.

Here is a quick image of my performance baggy, which I'm calling "A Cosmic Floral Exercise". The sculpture is intended to be portable which uses rubber tubing, creating a handle for the user to carry and use in a solo performance or private act. The user removes the objects and garments, placing them on the body, or stuffs them into the recessed floral shape. My idea for this piece is in transforming the act of clothing from something with movement which one wears to an event, to the clothing being the event in itself. The wearer stands still or completes simple tasks, in order to emphasize the event of wearing clothing.

Hopefully, in the next few days, I will have found my location to film the performance, and post images!

More graphics!! Images of the cover and end/contact page for a coffee catalogue showing images of my coffee apparatuses. I have been debating on a binding, and am leaning towards a simple machine sewn stich down the spine.

Oy vey! I have to be up in three hours at LAX.

Upon request I thought I would post an image of my blueprint for the Coffee Aquarium.

I also thought I'd mention that I added a products section to Whitemelt.

I am currently working on Mr. Luca Antonucci's computer. Mine has crashed. I think I am one of those people who will always be having a crashed, crashing or crashable computer. With that said, this post is a product I just finished helping Luca with. Cloud Face is a soft mask that trades in natural sight for a kind of ornate technological one. (those are tiny tv monitors showing male/female blinking eyes)

I've made a lot of new work these past two days, which means, I have some excellent posts approaching. But in the meantime, I thought I would share my two most recent coffee maker/aquarium purchases. Fish stickers and a plastic toy fish both of which will make excellent things to draw from or use in some coffee drawings.

I finished drafting/designing the packaging for COFFEE AQUARIUM. Tomorrow I print and assemble.

*Feel free to steal my template.

NEW TUBE FOREST SCULPTURES COMPLETE!

I didn't get the chance to post yesterday because I was feverishly finishing up my torch pieces, for the ATA show tomorrow. The idea for these started as something that could be held like a torch, or ornate staff to light the way while walking through the gallery space. As the pieces evolved however, I started liking them on the floor and how they looked like they were sprouting from the ground.

11.14.09

So, the internet in San Francisco was down. Or more so, my hosting network's internet in San Francisco was down. Actually, I am not quite sure what happened last night, but I do know that my Friday evening was spent eating bad chow mein, on the phone, yelling at the Bluehost guy about all the problems in life.

On the bright side of things, the fiasco got me out of the house early on a Saturday morning and off to the beach in Bolinas.

Today I'm posting some materials I've gathered. These include a good packaging sample; an amazing light bulb (I semi had to rip out of my local hardware store's display window); and silicone-rubber heat strips I just received in the mail.

The rest of my Wednesday off was spent gloriously working on sculptures, and skyping friends from across the globe.

Packing is hell.  I think the weekend is much harder to pack for, then say a few months. I was in Iceland for the summer and I color coded/color divided my entire suitcase. The idea was that I constructed all the clothing under the context of travel and versatility. That idea evolved plenty along the way, but I thought I would include some images in this post of what I was working on, when I was out there. I worked for the Reyjkavik Grapevine doing graphics; layout; and photo stuff.

I think artist spaces are great. Actually, I’m just a sucker for interior shots of people's spaces. I live in a tiny studio apartment, on top of a gross overpriced chinese restaurant. What’s great about studio images is seeing how the objects are lived with. I also enjoy seeing the transition from the birthplace of a piece, to the white walls of a gallery. The images in this post are a few areas of my living space/working studio that are liked by me lots and lots.

Also, I live on this interior photo/fashion blog and I suggest you give it a visit.

Window cozy. Good for smokers sitting by the window.

With the accidental destruction of my Hello Kitty Coffee maker, and the recent purchase of the new love of my life CHEMEX, it has gotten me thinking about coffee contraptions all over again. I created the Shiny Milk Machine, as well as it’s packaging, around six months ago. It dispenses milk into coffee with a super long tube, so that Shiny Milk can be pumping away in the kitchen, while I could sip away in the other room. Now I am thinking about making a new gizmo, but this one would brew the coffee and have an Arduino microcontroller element. The drawing of a fish is indeed a fish. I am thinking the fish will have a sensor that will power the machine to produce the coffee. 

Like promised, here are some images of Navy Neck Layers from the ReflectiveWOOD video.  Snap buttons make it simple to decide how many neck layers needed, depending on the weather outside. I also put in some images of the new red neck layers version I’ve started making. I envision these being more like a ginormous hood that will hook onto trees that the wearer might be standing beside.

I think I’m going to have this spell “welcome” and be flashing outside my apartment door.

Greetings from WHITEMELT: Reverberating Systems//Cold Places! This site was made to document things I make with my hands along with things I like/loathe.  I'll most likely stray, but my aim is to make something that is constantly updated and interacts with other makers on the web. 

New video called ReflectiveWOOD. It takes place in the Presdio pet cemetery. I've been thinking a lot about utopian cities above ground, and the remains of the failed city being reflected underneath. Also, made the garb for the video and will post images of the clothes soon.

White movie blanket is multifunctional. Not only does it collect dust in my closet, but it was used for the last Shimomitsu show!

Portable quilt is made out of packaging materials; faux grass and floral prints. They were designed to lie above the top layer of the earth's surface.

It's also huge. I can't completely open it all the way in my studio apartment. Which isn't saying much.

Turf houses make me think about being buried inside out. The burial site being a shelter from the elements.

It also looks like the happiest place on earth.