school days

even though school's getting out and summer is technically starting, this public school poster struck my fancy...

greetings from the dirty south

i've been in tennessee for the past few days at the children's defense fund ella baker child policy training institute (i know that's a mouthful...) getting ready for something called freedom school this summer in baltimore. the entire thing has been crazy overwhelming and way out of my comfort zone. (which, in theory, was exactly what i had wanted.) still, in the jam packed get up at 6 am get back at 11, and in a sea of 1,000+ other high energy college students, finding me time was necessary. i snuck away during lunch to the knoxville museum of art. i went to see ai wei wei's dropping the urn, and ended also up really enjoying anne wilson's local industry. (a beautiful 75 ft weaving.) but reading this ai wei wei journal entry was perfect timing. to me, it seemed to be justification for everything the week of training is about, in a language i can understand.

we have nothing

once, at a dinner, i made the comment that we live in the era most lacking in creativity, but that comment was made rather hastily. i almost never use the word ‘creativity,’ rather, i am more inclined to use fantasy, suspicion, discovery, subversion, or criticism, words whose accumulated capacity, in my opinion, define creativity. these are the fundamental requirements of the very substance of life. they are indispensable.

creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. simply put, aside from using one’s imagination – and perhaps more importantly – creativity is the power to act. only through actions can our expectations for change become reality, and only then can our purported creativity build a new foundation, and only then is it possible to draw out human civilization.

closing the open city

all good things must come to an end, and this city has been open for far too long. come to the closing reception, tonight from 7 to 9m to pick up a free copy of our exhibition catalog! (126 pages, full color, essays by the likes of amy franceschini, howell baum, damon rich, doreen bolger, etc.) if you can't make it, but still want one, hit me up.

come one, come all!

for mica's senior commencement exhibition, pretty much every inch of campus is turned into gallery space, and each student gets x amount of space to show their work/thesis. definitely something that would take dedication and an entire day to see...

friday, may 13 through monday, may 16

even more open city

i had been wanting to take the power project prodigies on a little open city field trip before the exhibition closes may 15, so we finally made it out this week. they were quite the group, but it was nice to see how kids interacted with the work and the space. when we managed to pull them away from all the excitement of the sky space telescopes and the "we buy houses" house, we brainstormed a list of the things cities need, and made james rojas inspired models of our ideal open city. i was pleased to see a surplus of parks, lemonade stands, and zip lines.

still love me some bruce mau

from "the secret to making a difference"

the reason why i haven't posted anything in over a month

or at least one of them...
senior thesis = done! it feels really good. just have to figure out how to install it.