WTF FML SMD

Four years of learning about original ideas, aesthetics, things that are awesome and things that are not.
This falls in to the category of not.
this poster is ment to entice people to come and look at my art, what my four years of study has amounted to.
It has a gradient.
And a lame comical novel font.
It could have been made in word.
I feel violated

My Exhibition Space

These walls have been filled, sanded and painted THRICE so should be pretty damn smooth

small works

derived from boredom and wanting to use the amazing photography in my 1950's knitting book

Drawings of hair

the end is neigh

I had a meeting with Mike and Gina about ten minutes ago and they said.. much to my delight and disgust,
"don't use the lenses, it becomes a new work when you add them and your work should stay subtle and delicate" or something to that effect.
*blank stare*
YESS!!!!! no more spending money on things that won't even work YAY but in the same breath BOOO i could have spent the past two weeks making more lace or being at work earning money. Pressure is off now phew so all i have to do is...
-set up the works exactly how i want them, photograph it X
-plaster and sand the walls immaculately X
-paint walls X
-bribe tim to help paint walls XX
-sort out my research and present it clearly
-print business cards
-clean the light box and possibly get a new cord put on it X
-think of titles, i have a few ideas but the words have to be perfect or i will go without

apparently we have to leave business cards. sigh. because i will not be there i will be getting on the piss in a woolshed in the depths of western southland. here are a few ideas. tell me what you think. guess which one is the one i made trying to be funny, go on.

magnifying lenses are stupid

i hate sketch up too. when i think green axis it should intuitively know and just make the shape on that axis WALL NOT FLOOR PLEASE

Why? because they're impossible to fix to a wall. ROAAARRRRR.
I went to modern plastics last week and looked at getting acrylic rods to somehow drill into the walls and fix the lenses to. It cost $42.90 per 2metres for the 10mm stuff, and can only be bought in 2m lots so i would be looking at getting roughly 4 metres. This isn't too extortionate but the man there reckoned that it would not be able to be glued to my lenses and that i would have to find some sort of glass clips. I didn't entirely believe him so went back to school and talked to Greg and he said the same thing, its too hard to try and glue things to a convex surface. feck. Greg suggested the above as a solution but i think it will look to heavy compared to the work, wooden structures overshadowing my little objects. fuck me i am stressing out right now. need icecream and wine.
I went to Atlas glass and had a good chat to the hairy man there who will win at movember at he said 'go and die, you cannot get anything to clip on to curved glass nor can you drill through it', and with that i hopped back in to Jim's Holden barina and promptly got lost somewhere in Waitakere City.
Eventually i found Cambrian plastics, the lovely people there cut me a sheet of acrylic for about $10 cheaper than the price they quoted me which was $10 cheaper again than anywhere else i rang. Score! except when i got home i found that he cut it slightly crooked so it does not fit my light box. wanker. Not to worry i will have to go back and get acrylic for Francoli's light box too so i can say hey motherfucker do your job and cut this right. Everything is a little bit intense right now you see.
I got another sheet of acrylic so that i can drill through it and hammer little nails in to it to hang my work from. yeaaah. If i decide to do this i need to find some longer square hooks and ones that aren't that heinous gold colour. maybe i could paint the hooks a see through colour. excellent.

box'o'lightern

how the fick am i meant to float these exactly here?? i wish they could just hang from strings. I quite like that you can pick up the lenses and play around with the magnification, i just don't know that people would participate in this way.

curlies from being stuck on a bobbin all day. I left these on the end of the lace as a trace of the method used to create it, not many people would guess this though.
Chantilly style lace that isn't really Chantilly because i couldn't find a pattern, google it and you get the song by the Big Bopper. I made up a pattern based on what i know from lace making and it turned out ok, i made a few mistakes along the way but i like this one better than the braid lace
I have no idea how to set my camera to photograph a light box, cannot sus the light balance at all!!
amanda lace. I can't wait to spend a decent amount of time learning these techniques properly, possibly getting lessons then making something magnificent out of hair. maybe a project for next year :) This one is a strand of my DNA.
every single lace making pin i have is right here in this forest of hairyness. smear on my lens btw.
I got some square hooks and think these are a great way of holding the lenses to the wall, maybe silver ones would look better, these are the longest i could find so i have to get on the hunt and find bigger ones to allow more magnification