Open Studios is Octover 16th and 17th. I think I will have less space and need to stop trying to top myself with my need for "creating an environment", being that I'll be on one side of a well-lit hallway with a jeweler or something 4 feet across from me. So, I'll skip the installation involving my bed this year and focus on ladders.
Anyhow, sadly, not much new stuff to show. I spent just about every moment of my functioning free time this summer working on a chapter that is DONE, more on that later, and now and am readying for a traip that will take me overseas for my prime artmaking time (september).
HOWEVER, I do have a goal of learning some basic wiring skills to make pieces using LED lights work forever. I also "have to" finish stuff i meant to do last year but didn't. So there's a key chime ready to be made. I started tuning the keys tonight after building the apparatus to hold the thing up and test the keys. Here's the fascinating video. I forgot the interesting part, which is that pitch is not really related to how the keys look or feel. It's pretty dang random. Which is why I have to test each one. Arranging them by size etc is a waste of time. Even the exact same key, in duplicate, somehow often has a different pitch. I like it. It matches my systemless brain.
And here is some unfortunate footage of visitors uncharacteristically destroying, being disinterested in, or making a bizarre underwater cosmic sound much less beautiful than the actual chime i made for the children's museum. I swear.
