Archive for April, 2008

Eva Hesse – Contingent

April 27th, 2008

Contingent, Eva Hesse, 1969
This piece has been the focus of my attention for the last several weeks. I just finished writing a research paper on it for my Understanding Visual Culture class. Eva Hesse created this work during the last year of her life, mostly through the assistance of other people, because of her illness [...]

Starting to flail a bit …

April 14th, 2008

Between the Lines, 60 x 26 inches (each of two), © 2007
I’m getting down to the wire in the semester; only 4 more weeks to go. But that does mean the due dates are stacking up quickly. I have to come up with a design for a “social issues” poster by tomorrow, as well as [...]

ArtQuilt Elements & Breaking New Ground

April 7th, 2008

Shades of White, 48 x 48 inches, ©2007 Deidre C. Adams
This past weekend I’ve been at the joint SAQA/SDA conference, Breaking New Ground, which was held in conjunction with the opening of ArtQuilt Elements in Wayne, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. This was a great opportunity for me to meet a lot of people whom [...]

Maybe I really am crazy …

April 6th, 2008

Work glove ©2008 Deidre C. Adams
Closely related to the one-shoe phenomenon is the one-glove phenomenon. This particular specimen was located at a new-home construction site near my dad’s house in Albuquerque, where I had been visiting him a couple of weeks ago. In all the time I was growing up in that neighborhood and for [...]