Spent most of the day thinking about the meeting for my upcoming exhibition. I brought the Remnants of Memory, Daily Drawings, Daily Drawing collages, and the Chigasaki Community Memory Map materials as a starting point for the discussion.
The meeting helped to refine what I am interested in working on for the exhibition. It also was an opportunity to reflect upon the different projects that I have worked on this year. With regards to the Inside the Daily Drawings Universe, I realized that the analysis I did for that installation was really just the starting point of the analysis and reflection on my process.
During the course of this year, a lot of practical concerns have played into my decision making process in the studio. Storage, ecology, and time are three that come to mind for me at this point.
Moving forward, I realized that deeper analysis into different aspects of my studio practice is going to be key for the upcoming exhibition. I am going to focus on the four ongoing projects - Daily Drawings, Memory Walks, Remnants of Memory, and Stories and look at the history of all these projects. Ask questions about the works themselves, ask questions about the process for making work for each of those projects and then asking the questions about how these works relate to my interest in memory. What kind of memory are each of these projects trying to evoke?
I need to read up on the different types of memory and their mechanisms from the special of TIME that I got on my last visit to the Bay Area.
In the course of tonight’s discussion, I started to think about how my other collections such as receipts and ticket stubs might also be brought into consideration for the December exhibition.
Right now, my timeline is to focus on analyzing the four different projects over the next month and see what discoveries and results come to light. From those discoveries and results, I will work on a new installation for the exhibition.
I walked into tonight’s meeting with no sense fo what shape this solo exhibition was going to take shape or how I was going to make it take shape. However, by the end of the evening I had a better sense of what I want to do and what I do not want to do for this exhibition as well as getting a clearer sense of how to move my studio practice forward.