describing de-scribing

Mortal in process

2012-02-10T11:16:00.000-08:00

My brother-in-law has a very bad memory, nonetheless, he refuses to write anything down. Should this be called a bravery or a stupidity, I wonder.

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Words、言葉、言の葉、詞

2011-12-10T11:55:00.000-08:00

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Working with elements of painting

2011-08-19T21:14:00.000-07:00

As they surely are also some of the elements of what I am trying to make, they are treated as such. as they should be.

Approximately 1/10 way done so far. Frankly, I am starting to doubt that I will really bring this to the level of completion and excellence on time, now that I have exactly 12days left to go.

this mount of letters is now waiting for me at the studio to go back and start working in the morning.

concealed truth

2011-07-11T19:08:00.000-07:00

found!

2011-07-09T11:48:00.000-07:00

8 footer masonite found in front of my studio( a.k.a. dumpster)!

...

work in progress

2011-06-05T18:31:00.000-07:00

oasis in the desert (working title)

many small hours

2011-05-17T18:46:00.000-07:00

Finally!
Message To, 60 x 80", 2011

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Instinct

2011-05-04T06:09:00.000-07:00

I knew this long time ago.
I know it today.
and I will know that tomorrow, too.

can I

2011-04-17T21:15:00.000-07:00

Dear diary,
Maybe I can finish this piece soon, and send this out to the world...

not quite...

2011-04-10T16:29:00.000-07:00

...finished, yet. Probably another couple of working days on it will do it.

Summer-like sky, Summer-like feeling

2011-04-05T14:02:00.000-07:00

A view of my studio window. on a perfect day-off for a productive studio day.

false hopes

2011-03-25T10:50:00.000-07:00

A jar of coffee and a jar of coffee flavored candle on my kitchen table.

Still too silly, too beautiful

2011-03-21T10:28:00.000-07:00

The pieces of what are never supposed to be true. Are they the idea of reality, or the fictional dream of an ideal world? Beyond intention, there is something so ridiculously strong that is followed by something so beautiful that we are too small and silly to even think of knowing.

suddenly make sense with the involvement of a great distance

2011-02-27T20:26:00.000-08:00

Took me almost a year to get to it, and here they are, coming to alive...!

working video recording project

2011-02-26T16:10:00.000-08:00

"hellogoodevenings"(working title) (2011) ...to be continued...to be worked more...!

Day off = Studio time！

2011-02-22T19:37:00.000-08:00

Working on one side of a diptych piece, "this side what side".

2/26 Finished!! You can check this piece out on my other online presence here.

being

2011-02-19T00:00:00.000-08:00

needed, or being useful. That is the question.

'till I find the battery charger for my good camera

2011-02-16T18:30:00.000-08:00

A detail snap shot of a new work, "The source of the spaces".

train of thought

2011-02-13T14:45:00.002-08:00

the ability to forget is one of the privileges we have as humans

Forgetting = human

Adopting new environment= evolution

Humans adopt and evolve

Not adopting and not evolving = inhuman(?)

Adopting a new environment that is good for humans

Adopting a new environment that is not good for humans

Adopting a new environment that seems to be good for humans

Adopting a new environment that seems to be not good for humans

Adopting a new environment knowing that is good for humans

Adopting a new environment knowing that is not good for humans

Inhuman always has options

Humans don't

Dilemma

2011-02-11T20:31:00.000-08:00

"...which is going to be very difficult to reproduce. And at this point, I really kind of need... to reproduce well... to win an award, but..."

It's just a beginning, but then...

2011-02-09T20:25:00.000-08:00

"...this piece."

Work a bit tonight and a bit more in the morning

2011-02-08T20:59:00.000-08:00

"...yeah... I think I'm going to do that"

in response to "people change but memories don't"

2011-02-06T18:05:00.000-08:00

"memories do, too."

The Clock at Paula Cooper

2011-02-05T16:42:00.000-08:00

"One moment you are looking at this peaceful morning scene, somebody beautiful laying on a bed, but then all the sudden..."

That is the question

2011-02-04T15:24:00.000-08:00

環境に適するように進化して来た、そして、進化するようにデザインされている人間の能力だが、ではその能力が一番効率よく発揮されるその環境をその能力に合わせて用意するべきか、または、反対に、その能力に挑戦するように、その能力が持ち備えているとされる進化の習性を刺激し、促するべきか。
人の為になる結果をもたらすには果たしてどちらが正しいのか。

Completing

2011-02-03T16:50:00.000-08:00

"Tada~! I've finished it. Yesterday."

Still working on it

2011-02-02T07:54:00.000-08:00

"it doesn't feel like it's going to end, but it will... soon."

Dissapointment

2011-02-01T19:44:00.000-08:00

"I was going to finish this part last night, but I didn't and..."

Figuring out the method

2011-01-31T07:58:00.000-08:00

"one layer of blue tape, this... paper...newsprint, and then a copy paper..."

Sharing is

2011-01-30T18:20:00.000-08:00

"...and the Chrysler Building next to one another."

On "you-never-know-until-you-try-it"

2011-01-28T18:00:00.000-08:00

"I'm going to have to put this down today and then see if this is going to be any good."

2011

2011-01-01T14:54:00.000-08:00

Happy New Sunrise.

virtual "Humanizer"

2010-03-08T20:19:00.000-08:00

Some installation shots from the exhibition, "Humanizer", which had its closing reception on last Friday.

Mona, who?

2010-02-01T20:26:00.000-08:00

She is very famous. Too famous almost. So much so, the people who have never actually laid eyes on her know as much of her as people who have. But the truth is, we don't know anything about her. We know nothing at all.
I suppose we know at least what she looks(ed) like. But do we, really?

Mona who? (The Truth x 1/9)
A B5 size puzzle made to be 31x21", the "actual size" on board

Déjà vu??

2010-01-30T08:18:00.000-08:00

This could be my imagination, but I think I remember seeing something like this almost exactly a year ago...

Trick or Treat...?

2010-01-25T08:12:00.000-08:00

All I wanted was to make a reflective surface that was interesting to look at. Following a suggestion of using a silver mylar, I got a roll of metallic silver mylar to experiment, but soon after it clear that the surface wasn't going to be interesting enough so I got a couple other similar materials with different reflective surfaces and cut them in one inch square pieces to cover a foam boards with. Peculiarly enough, once I had covered the whole thing of the board, its surface became not only reflective, but an interesting surface that reflects the pixcellated image of the world. (To be exact, the world is not pixcellated, but the image reflected on the reflective surface now looks as though it has been.)
All I wanted was to make an interesting surface. I really wasn't going for a-pretend-digitization-effect. Honestly.

R.I.P my dearest worst enemy

2009-11-15T10:45:00.000-08:00

My 5-year-old computer died last week and took all the information that I had been storing in it with it. I don't care much about the data that are re-write and re-creatable, but I felt sad for all the memories that were to be triggered by the data that was in the computer.
This occurrence proves not only my self-contradicting existence, but also my point that I'm trying to achieve with my thesis.
I'm very tempted to live through the rest of my school year without the computer, however unlikely an option it might be for me.

Memory and Record

2009-11-10T21:22:00.000-08:00

I have been thinking on this quite a bit for some time. Because I have been interested in the notion of nuance, which is a thing that cannot be quite recorded, sustained, or preserved in any way, I wanted to explore the ways how recorded subject could be distinguished from non-recorded memory of a subject that might possibly able to bear some touch of nuance that was present with the occurrence of the subject.
With my new painting Memory and Record I try to represent my view of how memory and record function respectively in relation to one another.
The actual Post-it notes and the images of them are used in the painting to represent subjects that can only be present in either revisiting experience or in recalled memory.

A Statement on Mediation

2009-11-04T19:52:00.000-08:00

With this work, I have written up a short statement on consequences of mediation. To me, the biggest problem with mediation is the further removal from the original reality. When mediated, a new reality occurs based o the new context. In a matter of time, the original reality is buried deep under the layers ad layers of mediation and become inaccessible.
When scribing is a form of mediation, my statement loses original meaning as it is written down over and over again. The texts may not serve its original purpose, but here, the statement does demonstrate a consequence of mediation.

laundry

2009-02-11T06:34:00.000-08:00

"I don't think it's going to happen, tonight, either..."

Brian Dewan

2009-02-02T10:39:00.000-08:00

"...it completely transformed that space."