Collection Piece

Jon — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:31:30 +0000

This project for my Research Studio class was derived from a collection process. My collection comprised of phrases that I recorded in a bedside notebook upon waking each morning. Most days I would not remember what I had actually written and so I began folding the pages over as soon as I wrote and then recorded all the sloppily scrawled phrases into a spreadsheet with their corresponding dates and times. During the in-process critique I presented this spreadsheet along with two other different collections. I decided to employ my normal painting process but changed things up by attacking the canvas in a more hurried time frame and by approaching it from a more calculated space. I first extracted the twelve most compelling phrases and interpreted them visually omitting any personal relationship with the phrases. The resulting images much like the phrases were almost pure nonsense. I then approached the images, read them omitting any relationship to their origins, discovered their sameness and linkage. I then added and adjusted in order to give the piece some cohesiveness and legibility as an artwork.

Total Re-arrangement and Simplification

Jon — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:44:21 +0000

I think this is probably version 5.0 of the site. It is newly redesigned and restructured and should be easier to use and is more Facebook and Twitter friendly. I think I’ve got a good base set up here. Instead of slowly piecing things together on my own, I went ahead found a content management system that will be able to adjust and grow with my needs. So even if the look changes a bit, all the basic pages and galleries will stay in the same places. Blog posts will come more frequently and won’t get discarded. Galleries will be easier to update and so they’ll also get more frequent updates.

Jon Rehwoldt

Collection Piece

Total Re-arrangement and Simplification