Hunter and I spoke a few weeks ago about the necessity for us to begin to get our heads out of our asses and go ahead and book a space. Maybe we should sort of take another vote as to who is truly in. Or is that unnecessary? I am just thinking so we have a better idea about the physical size of the potential space so we know what we'll have to fill. I am all in for Chitown. I guess when is the big question.
I finally have some work of my own to put out there and contribute to the blog. I guess immediate reactions would be cool to hear. I also plan on responding in more detail or responding in the first place to some of the last blogs. I sort of check out the last few months. Readjusting back US side has been a bit of a drag. I think out of sheer angst and for the sake of my sanity I made this. It is called Unremarkable Parking Garage 1. 1 because it is the first one (more to come). I don't at the moment have all that much to say about it other than when I went to school in Vancouver for my first year of college a good friend and I would spend a lot of nights hanging out in the parking garage near our dorm smoking incredible amounts of weed, staying out of the rain. Sometimes we would organize mid-week indoor soccer games in there. We shot a few short films as well using the parking garage as our set. Since that time I have always taken to parking garages and structures. I think part of me still connects them to creative endeavors like making weird amateur videos. I also find them to be incredibly lonely and alienating places, most all of them void of identity and occupying sizable amounts of space. They seem like architectural no-brainers, yet some our better (by that I mean clearly more thought was put into the design of them) than others.
So, the other night I photographed a parking garage on UNM campus. Stitching it together in the way I did, I guess I wanted to created a fractured sense of space and reality. Not to mention parking garages are in my experience incredibly boring spaces. I'm sort of curious to see if it is possible to make something visually engaging from kind of boring material.
Tomorrow I am going to print it. probably 24 x 60 or so. I showed the file to a friend while it was in a much more incomplete stage. He told me it looked cubist. For some reason that made me very sad. I think it came across in my mind as a dismissive statement when in fact it was more like an honest observation.
I'll post more shit as it comes out of me ; ) In the meantime I welcome any and all criticism and feedback.

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