yep. I’m at a blank for my thesis. I have two directions, I want to go in both, so yeah. what to do, what to do.  I’m going to try not to over think this one.

so I took the lights home and played around with what I had, only this time out in the environmental goodness that is southern Maryland. I just wanted to take them away from the similar modern/unnatural that the photos seemed to concentrate on before, so I took the lights and put them in some places […]

After watching the Art:21 video of James Turrel in thesis class the other day, his work reminded me of this one house that I read about while I was in Japan, although I couldn’t remember anything about it except where I read about it, so after a good while of looking I found it again, […]

ok, this is just a remindeer for me to post all the things I’ve been meaning to post on the blog.
-new light photos
-thoughs about other art pieces (reso-net, etc.)
-discussions on culture and having to forget old culture to assimilate in to a new one. (lan samantha chang, john okada, and the one piece from james’s […]

I’ve decided on at least some concrete things about what the physical manifestation of my thesis will have/be. I want there to be some dialog between the dual existence of cultures in someone/or place. Almost like a confusion of source and identity. I’ve been in this Asian American Lit class and one of the early […]

so for some time now I’ve bee thinking about doing a set of stickers that allow people to rate the tags and graffiti that they see on the streets or wherever.  The basic idea is that there is a sticker with stars on it next to, on or around a tag/street art, and the person […]

So for the longest time I think I’ve had this self induced barrier in not only my work, but how I am when it comes to learning things and becoming skilled in a specific thing. This can be anything from a video game, to language, and sports, activities, just about anything. It usually happens when […]

these are more images that I took using the neon lights and the ideas that I had. I would like to take the lights out into the public / nature and take more photos. I think they’d be a bit more descriptive and accurate to what sort of aesthetic I enjoy.

these are some notes that I took while reading about tea architecture and tea gardens, possibly relate to the aesthetic of my thesis.
Four main styles of tea architecture:
-large drawing room (shoin)
-the rustic hut style (kozashiki) this appealed to merchant tastes
- the samurai class tea hut, also aristocrat’s tea pavilion (sukiya)
-the (soan) can only be considered […]

so, forcing myself to do some work on this project before its way too late, I did some experimenting with the neon lights and placing them in  an environment  and seeing how the light changes the look.  Well, it didn’t go as well as I wanted it to, I see to have these big ideas […]