with Jean Marie Casbarian (studio advisor)

• Continue to experiment with the light drawings. Build up the charcoal heavily on a page and see what happens when you pierce the paper - place the second sheet of paper under the drawing and as you pierce the paper let the charcoal fall onto the page below as evidence of the act. 

• Think about other forms of documentation of the process.

• Revisit Gibson and Recoder.

• Gary Hill

• Book Recommendation for Iceland:  

  • The Far Away Near By

  • The importance of being in Iceland

• Try to Visit Mass MoCA to see the James Turrell works there.

• Look into other people who have done a similar thing in terms of isolation. Think about following someone else's trajectory – retrace somebody else who has done this before.

• Research the area & see whats there before you go

• What mark is that environment going to leave on you and you on the environment? Psychologically, physically and document how?

• Research other at writers and artist who have written about this kind of experience or about Iceland

• Mans Search for Meaning  - Victor Frankl

• Revisit Roni Horn

• How to work within a practice of isolation or deprivation

• Herb Thomas Merton

• Hone in on the meaning of the research question

• Joan Jonas watch her interviews

Meeting 2

• Chasing Ice – captures largest glacier calving ever filmed

• Think about what tools to take - redefine tool

• Look at Mini projectors

• Torches and other light sources

• Build an "emergency kit" - Tools that will help with your practice

• Think about Extremes and Weather; light and darkness – the black paper is curiously more visible than the light paper. You are already working with light and dark

• Look at James Turrell's black pieces 

• What 3 books will you take? Think about books maybe not related to art – the anatomy of the eye, for example - the eye is a representation of a camera – think about those connections

• Curious about what happens when you remove things – how will you make do with the bare minimum.

• Al Gore's new film

• Extremes – contemplate that word

• What are other ways in which you can create extremes – tension with string for example

• What are specific words that you can attach to the daily practice?  Think about the opposites.

• Play with light and projections

• When you get home – what kernel could you take from the residency that could instill a shift – add text, for example, can you interrupt what you are doing?

• How to connect Australia and Iceland? Pigment; light; air; extremes...