I had spent some time writing about the following three studies only to have my text disappear in the saving process. Not sure I am going to repeat or can repeat all my thoughts, but I will touch on each of the studies one more time.
Using a random number generator, I chose ten Daily Drawings from 2018 and cropped interesting or repeated motifs and made a digital collage of all the images along with the titles for the music and books I listened to while making these drawings.
For the next study, I chose all the Daily Drawings that I made between December 10 - 21 from 2017. Those dates are from my solo exhibition at Hasu no hana in 2016. Rather than using a rectangular selection tool, I used a smart lasso to digitally replicate what I was doing for the “Inside the Daily Drawings Universe” installation. Again, juxtaposing the text of the titles of music and books, I was continuing an attempt to find connections between the drawings and what I listen to. I am not convinced that this is the best approach to finding a connection, but I will persist for a bit longer.
And for the study from yesterday, I used the Daily Drawings from 2018 for the same December 10 - 21 time period. This time, I discovered the transform function and attempt to render/transform elements of each of the Daily Drawings to give a more three-dimensional feel or shape. In addition to the titles of the music and books during that period, I overplayed Memory Walks from December 10, 2018 which was the day I made two Daily Drawings. Returning to the Memory Walks in two-dimensional form in a digital format was kind of interesting and might have some possibilities. Again, combining the Memory Walks and Daily Drawings together with text was an attempt to find connections between the two projects which I am not sure is happening in an obvious way.
While working on these studies, I have spent the rest of the last few days preparing for Art Byte Critique’s participation in the Setouchi Art Book Fair this coming weekend. In addition to the administrative preparations, I found myself diving down the rabbit hole of making another book, even though I did not really have an idea until I woke up Saturday morning with the idea of improving my Perfect Binding technique. In addition, I have been working on presentations and preparations for events and workshops associated with the Fundamental Complications exhibition in the Bay Area coming up in early November. Juggling all those things, I managed to make enlarged/cropped printouts of all the December 10 - 21 drawings from 2017 and 2018 on L size photo paper which I want to use to explore three-dimensional objects in lieu of paper or the digital plane. I am looking to my experiments during the Future Sound/Future Vision exhibition at Launch Pad Gallery as a starting point for those explorations.