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Drawings For a Funnel Cloud Book
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Amy Wilson is an artist who has shown her drawings and paintings with Bellwether, PS1, The Drawing Center, The Warhol Museum, the Grolier Club, Josee Bienvenue Gallery, PPOW, and many other spaces. Her work has been reviewed in the NY Times, Art in America, Time Out NY, the Village Voice, as well as other publications. Amy represented by Bravin Lee in NYC. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts (1995) and her MFA from Yale (1997). She teaches in the Art History, Fine Arts, and Visual and Critical Studies departments at SVA. amy-wilson.com
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Amy Wilson
October 12, 2009
In Limbo?
Is it me, or…
Do you find it really hard to make any kind of substantial decision until after the election is over? I can get up and go to work, go grocery shopping and do the kinds of things I have to do, but when it comes to doing anything substantial (like making art), I just feel crippled. I’m spending too much time nervously checking news headlines, watching the Nikkei plunge (since when do I really care about the Japanese stock market?), and being preoccupied with trying to figure out what it all means.
I need all this to end so I can get back to some sort of peace within my own mind and make some work again. I am really looking forward to November 5th and hope that it all comes rushing back then.
Slowly but surely I’m getting back to work – it’s still hard; I’m still lacking that kind of great drive that I get, the one that kicks me out of bed early on a Saturday and forces me into the studio because an idea is burning up in my head. I (still) blame it on the election and on all the stuff that’s going on in the world which I’ve found to be so distracting, but time rolls on regardless. I gotta get back.
I’ve been tossing around an idea of making a funnel cloud book – a tornado that pops out of the centerfold of a book, like either this:
or this:
The second one looks more like the pictures of funnel clouds I’ve seen online and in books. I tend to think that the first one looks more like a funnel cake than a cloud, but it also seems to have more of that swirling motion built into its shape, so I’m not immediate dispensing with it. The other idea is to just knock the whole thing around so that it’s more like a mushroom cloud, but I like the “act of nature” reference a lot more than the “act of war” one.
So anyway. I’m thinking. That’s a start.
