The wildlife of Maine

I'm not in super talkative/type-ative mood right now so here are some pictures of a museum that I went to today. I use the word museum loosely as it was more just an eccentric persons house.

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So here are some photos of my fresco workshop that I said I would post.




so here are some photos of the fresco I said I'd post.

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So it's been a couple of days since I posted anything due to both me being busy but also the frequent storms that knock out the internet here/force the computer lab to close. Yesterday I worked with Fresco for 12 hours straight. It's a strange and unruly/antiquated medium that very few facilities in the US are equipped to teach. I liked the fact that it was a new skill that I feel I can use if necessary but don't really see myself getting too involved with. I don't have any photos of it but I will in the coming days so I'll post em' when I get em'. Instead here are some photos of the other night when i got invited (only a handful of people get invited) to a post-lecture reception which I went to following the really great lecture by Harmony Hammond. The post lecture receptions are held in the very secret and isolated "red barn". Its a very amazing house built in the 40s with wood and other building materials from barns and other recycled parts which make the place feel like it's from the 19th century. It's definitely haunted too.One of the participants is a bonified palm reader she read all of our palms and it was actually pretty amazing. For most of the reception I just hung out on the porch with the staff members whom after chatting up my knowledge of bad movies promised me they'd smuggle me out with them when they goes see Batman when it opens. I am very much excited about this.

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So i guess it has been officially one week since arriving here. For 5 of those days it's been pouring on a pretty regular basis. I don't actually mind too much except I've been pretty isolated in either my studio, dorm, or cafeteria which doesn't make for great photography/blog.
Though, the other day I did get a chance to loaf around Skowhegan the town for a little bit, mainly to visit a bunch of different thrift stores, which was a nice change of pace to both the school campus, and to Walmart, which seems to be the only two areas in Maine that I've seen.

Ive decided that a good way to describe this place is to compare it to Hogwarts. Actually, it's just like that except for the fact everyone here is basically 30+ and makes absurd things (including myself) rather than spells. And Honestly I would probably put money on the fact that someone here is working on spells. I guess that would make me what's his name, the big guy with the red beard in Harry Potter.

Last night was the Charles Gains lecture and today will be our lecture. We all have to present our application portfolio to all the other participants for exactly 5 minutes. I think that they actually ring a bell to get people to stay moving. There are a lot of participants so it looks like it will go from 2 until approximately 1030 at night. At which point there will be some form of large party which we all will get together and revaluate our opinions on one another. Actually I'm sure that won't happen but we've all been joking about the social restructuring that will occur around campus as we find out what each other makes or does as an artist.

This is what the front of my studio looks like at night. At night the area that my studio is in on the campus vaguely reminds me of a David Lynch film.

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So I found a faster computer that should make blogging more easy. Here are some photos of me in my studio which looks extra gross because it's at like 1 in the morning and had been pouring for about 12 hours straight.


Earlier in the day which allowed for me to take a walk and hang out with the cows that usually sleep near the studios on the top of the hill.

In other news I had my first studio visit with Julianne Swartz whose work I remember seeing at the Whitney in 2004. Here is a link to her website .

She had some nice things to say and liked two of my ideas. Ill talk about them later as I further develop them. In the meantime Im still getting my supplies together ever since giving up on the box of 400$ worth of paints that appears to be lost. Anyways Ill post again later tonight as there are a lot of people here and very few computers.

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Heres the photos I said Id put up.

Skowhegan Day 4 quick visual summary

So I'm still getting settled into both how this place works, meeting the people involved and getting my studio set up. I'm missing a box that I need. It's here but im not exactly sure where on the 300+ acres it is. Anyway that's a different story, right now the story is that it's actually kind of cold and raining for the second day in a row. I believe it will rain tomorrow but since I'm still just running around going to lectures, drinking coffee out of my free Skowhegan travel mug, and getting all the supplies I'll need, I guess it doesn't matter.

In the meantime here are some photos of some of the areas on campus. Like I posted last I'll be able to update this thing a lot more frequently now.




So the internet is slow here and I have been trying to upload two more pictures of studios but I been trying for a half an hour an have now given up. i'll upload them later when the server is less busy.

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So it sucked to get here but here is pretty cool.

Anyways, I just now got access to a proper computer so sorry to anyone who is actually bored enough to check this. I will be posting much more regularly starting...now.

Anderson Gallery

I should mention that since I will be moving to Boston I had to leave my job at VCU's Anderson Gallery. Everyone who works there is amazing and I will miss greatly.  So much of my adult life (counting college) was spent there that it'll be strange to not have that building and the people who work there included in my everyday life.  I wish everyone good luck and be assured that you will remain a part of my life.  This is the only shot I have of the goodbye party that isn't out of focus.  

Skydiving Orange County

So the Carroll men (+ Alisha) went skydiving. I only mention the gender thing so as to point that the entire Carroll line could have technically come to an end in one fiery plane wreck.  

Please note that I look really weird in the photo because Im wearing goggles.

Either way it was lot of fun.  Strangely enough I wasn't really scared at all.  I believe it may have something to do with how "boring" I actually am.  I kind of took on playing the role of a good little soldier.  You know check the altimiter- view horizon- check for rip cord- land, basically the opposite of what I learned from watching Point Break.  

This is Tim landing on a soccer field.

Blogn'

Yeah so I've been slacking on the blog recently only because of how busy I am with both the getting ready to move and wrapping up at work. So here is a bunch of new stuff.