work in progress - costay family tree - first layer

RunningBlind

A gif rough before moving on to AE. Zinglada is running blind and 'bumping' into trouble.
or something.

Work in progress...

Who Am I?
Costay Family Tree

each stone will have some work painted, carved or overlayed...

Costay (first draft artist statement)

Who am I?

Why do we feel compelled to search and trace our family roots?

When we find them, these names are just that, names, and in many occasions not linked to the immediacy of our current lives.

But they do root us in history. They make us feel connected to something, however obscure and seemingly aimless.

Connected to everything, where if you go back far enough, you can see we are related to everyone.  Deep. We all have shared blood in our veins. Are we family?

Who are you?

IMPORTANT INFO: we @ you me 2015 catalog information

Here are some more things we all need to know:

1) The catalog is a square 7" x 7" format with a soft cover.

• Everyone will have 4 consecutive pages in the catalog - each layout will be a double page spread (2 sets of 2 facing pages).
• Your first spread will have your name, project name & copy on the left page and a single full size image on the right hand page. This will be consistent for everyone.
• The second set of pages will follow a format that is more specific to what you will be providing, dependent on number of images and any other copy.
•  We will create the catalog in alphabetical order by last name.

2) Materials you will need to prepare for the catalog:

    You will need to provide an artist's statement and 3-5 photos of your work.

A) Your artist's statement

1. Please prepare your artist's statement with enough time to review it with Vjane; she will provide input/feedback for the final document
2. Please supply the artist's statement in a plain, unformatted Word document with your name and title of your work at the top. Attach your artist's statement to an email and send it to me. Please do not send it to me in the body of an email.
3. Please make sure you have spell checked it.
4. Please make sure your word document is saved/named as follows: FirstnameLastname.doc  For example, mine would be ShelleyYampolsky.doc
5. If you will have copy on your second set of pages, please clearly indicate 'page1', 'page2', 'page3'.  Note, there will be no copy on your first right hand page other than a caption.

B) Photos of your work

1. Please provide a minimum of 3 photos of your work: 1 feature image and 2 (minimum) - 4 (maximum) detail or support images
2. Please supply these as jpgs, 150dpi - 300 dpi. A general rule of thumb to see if your images are high enough resolution is to increase the size of the image 200%. If the image is still sharp at 200%, you are generally 'safe'. If you are unsure, please connect with Dean for feedback.
3. Note that if your original image is not completely sharp, the final printed image will not be sharp.
4. Please make sure your jpgs are saved/named as follows: LastnameImagenumberTitleofwork.jpg.  For example, my feature image would be called: Yampolsky1Horse.jpg; additional support or detail images would be titled: Yampolsky2Horse.jpg, Yampolsky3.jpg, Yampolsky4.jpg and Yampolsky5.jpg.
5. If you want captions on your images, please provide the captions in your word document with your artist's statement and reference the image numbers.

3) March 18 is the due date for everything emailed to me at this address.

Please respect my time :)

March 18 deadline only gives me 7 working days to put the whole thing together in order for us to have the files out the door in time for production.  If you are waiting to provide the feature photo until the last possible minute, I understand and will do my best to accommodate; understanding you may have to push the 'go' button before you are totally ready to do so. 

I cannot physically place 14 images into the catalog the night of March 24 - which is our 'out the door' date.

4) If you have any questions, please post them here on the blog so we can all see them. I will answer them there.

Here we go!  Hold onto your hats! It's going to be fun :)

Shelley

PS: I may have inadvertently not included some of our class mates on the email. If that is the case, can you please forward this to them and copy me on the email so I can be certain to include them in future communications.

Notes on the publication for YouMe exhibition

Hello all, here follow my notes re the publication discussion at DVSA on Wednesday this week. If anyone remembers more or notices a misunderstanding on my part, please add a comment or post. thanks, rika

vJane spoke about how part of the artist's practice is to 'become the beholder' of one's own work. This means In my simplistic terms, putting work up for others to see and preparing one's artist's statement. The artist's statement helps one separate from one's work in order to become the beholder. Or something like that :) 

The publication is a catalogue of the exhibition. It represents each artist and includes a foreword or introduction from/by vJane. These are useful for the artist going forward making presentations or applying for grants and such. It makes sense to me as a portfolio piece. A convenient way to show someone what you participated in. The new online digital publishing has made this affordable.

In recent years, for this class, the group have produced a small format catalogue. Our group more or less agreed this was the route to go vs many artist statements in a binder like in the good old days.

We will be asked to prepare an artist's statement, an image representing our work as well as a series of partial images, fragments or images of work in progress (cannot remember vJane's exact words) to accompany the text/comments from others in the show.

Each artist will be represented by 4 pages (2 spreads). 

One spread with Artist's Statement text page and image of work on facing page. 

The 2nd spread will be the fragments of work images and the selected comments.

We will each provide comments on the others works, which vJane will choose from to accompany the reference work. 

Shelley and Dean have offered to steer this publication. It will be published online via Blurb. And likely the content needs to be uploaded to Blurb at least 2 weeks before our show. 

They will need some days to do the online formatting and preparation. 

With that in mind, Shelley will prepare and circulate a list of due dates and requirements in order for us to get the content collected, so it can then be uploaded to the Blurb site, and books be available for purchase in time for our opening.

You can see samples of the last year by visiting Blurb.ca and searching Tony Vander Voet.

YouMe 2014 Catalogue as reference

Not my usual  blog but just had lunch at Chateau Marmont Hollywood with Annie Lennox does it get any better