Thursday

Friday, 12 March 2010 09:02

I am busting my ass trying to get ready for the Texas Museum of Fiber Arts exhibit. So far it's not going so well! I am hoping I am able to bust ass Saturday and Sunday nights to get my Petronas Towers piece done in time. I know, fortunately, what it's going to be. For once I actually have enough foresight to execute the piece completely. What I'm lacking is the time. I have resigned myself to not being done with it before the exhibit, but I am going to attempt it anyway.

I am currently taking suggestions on the next piece in the series, which is going to be named Fabrications, following the suggestion of Gary joon. :) Fabric+vacations Fabric+recreation. I am toying with doing the Hagia Sophia, but heaven help me, it's a hard fucking structure to recreate out of fabric without having all the tools I need. (Like a printer or a projector!) 

For the 6x6 exhibit in New York in June I am going to be doing a series of small pieces inspired by airplane flight cards. In addition to the half dozen or so I have collected from my flights in the past 2 months, Hadi's brought me one from a flight in Europe which is delightfully odd and will make for good subject matter. The 6x6 exhibit will be smaller versions of the flight card series I am planning on releasing later this year. - Good practice, if you will. 

I have had a few people ask for my web address these past few days and I've been out of cards. I gave in and ordered new business cards. I just ordered the regular photo cards that I always get, but with new images and new details on the back. Photos to come once they arrive at the end of the month.

Anyway, my heart is acting up suddenly, so I'm off to bed. Wish me luck! :) 

Alice wants to send Bob a message.

Thursday, 11 March 2010 10:21

So I've had a very long day. I didn't really get any work done on my Kuala Lumpur piece, but I have made considerable progress in other aspects of my life that had been getting neglected. (IE: Housework!)

I'm on my way to bed, but there's something I've been thinking about that I want to put out there to my lovely viewers in hope I get some insight.

The topic is quantum crytpography.

A brief overview: Quantum cryptography relies on the principals of quantum mechanics to secure data using the transmission of photons through polarized filters to the other end where they are received and decoded with the use of corresponding filters. Based on the alignment of the photons they can be assigned a 1 or a 0 producing binary data. 

Alice would start sending Bob a set of photons randomly polarized rectilinearly. Bob would use a randomly assigned set of filters to decode the message keeping the photons that matched and discarding the photons that didn't match to create a key. 

Now let's say Chuck wants to eavesdrop to figure out what this key is. Chuck can't start listening in without intercepting some of the photons which, in turn, alerts Alice and Bob to an eavesdropper therefor letting them create a new key. 

My question is this: How much knowledge of said eavesdropper are you given? By intercepting and changing the stream of photons one would naturally be aware of their existence, but is the way in which they interrupt measurable? The anomalies are detectable, yes, but do they leave a trail back to the eavesdropper? Would the data leave behind any fingerprints, so to speak, of who or where the eavesdropper is? 

I'm off to bed!

(Left to my own devices this is the kind of shit I think about that keeps me up nights.)

Another day in paradise

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 09:03

Today I awoke.

That's it. 

I awoke. 

Much to my chagrin, honestly. I was not at all thrilled to be awoken by the sound of footsteps going up and down the stairs above my room, but even most importantly, I was dismayed to look at my phone, see I slept way past my alarms, and was STILL exhausted. I got 11 hours of sleep and I felt like shit. I have spent this entire day feeling downright miserable. I feel as though I have wasted a day, and on that note, I am going to go to sleep so I can spend tomorrow as productive as humanly possible. I have to do laundry, work on my Petronas Towers piece, start thinking about what I'm going to make for 6x6x2010, update my website with new work, give some boxes to a woman from Freecycle, pick up my paycheck, go to the bank, and what else? Oh, yes. I am going salsa dancing in the evening. It is my last day off for a week, so I have to make the most of it.

I *need* to get this piece done for the Texas Museum of Fiber Arts call. It's due on Monday, but I don't think I'm going to get it done! At least I have one finished for the exhibit, but I really, really want to have two there. I even know how this one is going to turn out. There is no frustrating second thoughts or do-overs like my Paris piece, but I made the mistake of choosing a very detailed structure...

What can I say? I'm up to my ass in alligators.

One fish, two fish...

Tuesday, 09 March 2010 11:20

So after a considerable amount of thinking, I have finally made two fairly large goals for my work for 2010 (if not the foreseeable future!).

With my paintings I aim to bring to light some of the inner workings of my imagination and lift back this veiled curtain of reality to entertain and enthrall and beg my viewer to ask "What if?" 

Using primarily fabrics I resolve to use fiber as a medium to recreate some of my dreams and fantasies while further exploring a skill passed through my family for generations.

I aim to document the journey in better detail now that my housing situation is under control. I am excited to participate in such a journey and I encourage you to join me. I use twitter for frequent updates; Facebook for exclusive behind-the-scenes updates, and my newsletter for the larger once-a-month update that really is just an overview of what I've been up to! 

I encourage all forms of participation and insight into the creative process. I hope you can join me on an interesting journey through the daily life and (not so!) exciting times of a contemporary (workaholic) artist. Watch while I balance my art career, my other two jobs, my sports, my dysautonomia, and my spirituality.