...and this time I'm ... whatever.
Horrible internet service provider (will not name the swines) tried to make out, during frequent "tech support-like" sessions that the fault lay in some kind of hardware or general incompetence with electronic equipment at my end. Even ended up buying a new modem, which BTW I have not even installed. Everything works just fine again...well, the phone is still "off-line", and the poor guys still climb the power poles in 100*F heat day after day.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Shards, shards, it's all shards now... ... ... but...
Installation of "Glass" in the landscape is one thing, installation of glass in a bleak, sheet-rocked indoor space is another. Sheetrock, malleable plastic floor, and a drop ceiling with a good, strong ceiling above it, is what I would like to find most of all. A place in London, of all weird locations, seems to fit the bill. Perhaps I will harass them.
Meanwhile...
Glass "C" fell in upon itself shattering into well proportioned shards.
The best thing I have ever done has become a dangerous ruin.
Glass "F" was meant to shatter into blackened fragments right away.
The charred remains of Glass "F" added to Glass "A" produces a Rococo Glass "A"+.
And now look how the mighty have fallen.
Not too bad. "Glass C":
Arise!("Glass E"):
Meanwhile...
Glass "C" fell in upon itself shattering into well proportioned shards.
The best thing I have ever done has become a dangerous ruin.
Glass "F" was meant to shatter into blackened fragments right away.
The charred remains of Glass "F" added to Glass "A" produces a Rococo Glass "A"+.
(but it really doesn't male much sense)
(yet)
And now look how the mighty have fallen.
Not too bad. "Glass C":
Arise!("Glass E"):
Friday, June 10, 2011
Glass 4 two
Did more work on the ground. Need to do more to the whole surrounding area.
These photographs convey more of the feeling that the piece has.
From a distance. The glass is located in the uppermost earth/rock colored area, barely visible in this photograph as in true/real life. Need to click (and then +) on image to have hope of seeing anything at all:
Not that much more visible from close-up either. It will be even less visible when I clean off the caulking on the edges, but I will allow it to matt-out over a period of time:
Tricky close-up showing bottom edge, which I might expose even more. See how it weathers:
View from above -- other side:
Foreshortened view:
These photographs convey more of the feeling that the piece has.
From a distance. The glass is located in the uppermost earth/rock colored area, barely visible in this photograph as in true/real life. Need to click (and then +) on image to have hope of seeing anything at all:
Not that much more visible from close-up either. It will be even less visible when I clean off the caulking on the edges, but I will allow it to matt-out over a period of time:
Tricky close-up showing bottom edge, which I might expose even more. See how it weathers:
View from above -- other side:
Foreshortened view:
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Glass 4
Thank you Theodore -- just as I gave up all hope of ever getting my hands on large sheets of glass.
I need to do a lot more work on shaping the ground. For now the piece is set. I hope that it looks like it fell out of the sky. I placed it by raising it by a corner up as high as I could, way over my head, arms straightening and locking at the elbow for a brief, frightening moment, and while gaining even more altitude by rising on tiptoe, I then slammed it into the ground with its edge.
(The shovel in the top corner of the top photo is just decoration; pay no attention to it.)
I might raise the sand on the right ( as in photo below) and expose more of the glass on the left side, where the bottom edge corner hangs loose.
I need to do a lot more work on shaping the ground. For now the piece is set. I hope that it looks like it fell out of the sky. I placed it by raising it by a corner up as high as I could, way over my head, arms straightening and locking at the elbow for a brief, frightening moment, and while gaining even more altitude by rising on tiptoe, I then slammed it into the ground with its edge.
(The shovel in the top corner of the top photo is just decoration; pay no attention to it.)
I might raise the sand on the right ( as in photo below) and expose more of the glass on the left side, where the bottom edge corner hangs loose.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Install or...
...what!
I do seem to be somewhat involved in installation mania. There will be a slight delay in the next piece appearing on the mesa, since I have to drag some concrete up there. However, I am still handling glass, smaller and smaller pieces all the time, since it is fragmenting. Mirrors are becoming a serious consideration, but! one thing at a time.
I do seem to be somewhat involved in installation mania. There will be a slight delay in the next piece appearing on the mesa, since I have to drag some concrete up there. However, I am still handling glass, smaller and smaller pieces all the time, since it is fragmenting. Mirrors are becoming a serious consideration, but! one thing at a time.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Glass 3 again
Very consuming, this installation.
In the image below matte, dirty glass in a slightly muted morning light. There is a forest fire, somewhere in the Jemez, the distant ranges have a blue, fuzzy tinge to them. A distant view, the stone steps on the right are a fragment of what I have been staggering up with sheets of glass:
Closer, from the other side:
The glass is dirty, I am very cautious about cleaning and applying textures to it. view at sunrise:
I did spray some DW40 along the top (just happened to have some in my pocket), and let it trickle down without wiping:
The trickle-down effect after an extended visit to photoshop:
This is where I stand right now. I cannot tell how vulnerable to the wind this piece is. Spring (our official wind season) is nearly over, but we are expecting some severe windy weather in the next few days. The glass wobbles dramatically when the wind is strong -- I will have to get some video footage of that. I hope that I will have a chance to both affect and see affected by the elements the surfaces of this piece before it breaks. Rain would be nice...will it ever rain again.
In the image below matte, dirty glass in a slightly muted morning light. There is a forest fire, somewhere in the Jemez, the distant ranges have a blue, fuzzy tinge to them. A distant view, the stone steps on the right are a fragment of what I have been staggering up with sheets of glass:
Closer, from the other side:
The glass is dirty, I am very cautious about cleaning and applying textures to it. view at sunrise:
I did spray some DW40 along the top (just happened to have some in my pocket), and let it trickle down without wiping:
The trickle-down effect after an extended visit to photoshop:
This is where I stand right now. I cannot tell how vulnerable to the wind this piece is. Spring (our official wind season) is nearly over, but we are expecting some severe windy weather in the next few days. The glass wobbles dramatically when the wind is strong -- I will have to get some video footage of that. I hope that I will have a chance to both affect and see affected by the elements the surfaces of this piece before it breaks. Rain would be nice...will it ever rain again.
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