Explorar y Crear

Use this blog as part of your attempts to start making sense of your experiences in Ecuador. Where are the experiences leading you? What has challenged your way of thinking? Again, use this time to pose questions to the group. How are your ideas for doing art based on your experiences beginning to form? What questions are beginning to surface regarding culture, teaching, learning, art..? Perhaps a story from the trip will help begin to frame your thinking. Tell us a story – and ‘telling’ is not necessarily only done by writing. And, if possible, relate your posts to specific readings, events, and experiences.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

i sit like a cat

i sit like a cat atop my coffee table as i begin packing with no other furniture left in my apartment and similar to sarah, i still am in disbelief that i traveled to the southern hemisphere a mere month and a half ago. it all seems to be a dream; i am not the type of person to just go galavanting across the globe. but i did.

i recently finished scanning all of my 4x5 film from the trip and am very excited. some of you saw a few snippets while in studio investigations, but for the rest of you i will leave them as a surprise. i've even had to hide them from my mom! i'm just as surprised by their beauty as the fact that i was in ecuador. my jaw dropped when i made the first scan. i allowed for accidents to happen and for myself to purposely make mistakes, so the photos are very unreal.

it all seems to come together after recently working on a paper in teaching in new media about the "new sublime" (as i call it) and how the terror isn't something you can always see. these pictures are quite terrifying for me. when they were being taken, they were shot in a foreign place for me, amidst the mountains, even in the sky, all above the land. it seems as if the majority of the images are unplaceable and have begun making me think more about this theme further.

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