Journal Postings: Kate Casey
| (04/14/09): Three Month Residency |  The following are images from the work I did while at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Colorado |
| (04/14/09): Three Month Residency |  I started working with construction grade OSB, I liked how, when treated, it became a really beautiful material and yet its rarely utilized as a finished material. So I began using this construction material as the finished product, cutting out iconographic curtain shapes alluding to the framing device of the ornate stage curtain. I started inverting the curtain material with the construction grade OSB, which is often used for the sets that the curtains frame. |
| (04/14/09): Three Month Residency |  i also liked the idea of compressed depth and illusionary depth as is utilized in stage sets the attempt to depict a large space with layering, compression, and angles. |
| (04/14/09): Three Month Residency |  I began inking up, and printing the OSB the achieve the same patterning on a different surface. |
| (12/26/08): my economic bail out plan |  based on the strange exhibits seen at the natural history museums, as well as the universal fascination with gold, an idea for a sculpture emerged. |
| (12/26/08): my economic bail out plan |  after seeing palace after palace with overwhelming gilded ornamentation I began to think how strange it was that this metal has been, throughout history, a universal signifier of wealth class and power. and from this sprung numerous legends and myths recounting the preciousness of this substance and although its value may waver it is very consistently valuable in most all cultures. This consistency of value cannot be said for modern currency especially (as of late) the American dollar. This made me consider the checks mailed out by the Bush administration as part of his attempted "economic stimulus package" and how most Americans considering the value of the dollar would prefer their stimulus issued in gold bars. The absurdity of this idea was motivating, the idea was to see the average middle class American home with a solid gold government issued stimulus package. a series of photos followed the construction of the pyramid, these are some of the results. |
| (11/24/08): cabinet of curiosity |  Upon visiting this space I quickly realized that it was this universally intriguing scientific clutter that I was truly drawn to. I had previously said that I was interested in architectural interiors which is very vague and non-specific it was here that I realized where in particular my interests lie. When I begin making work it is almost always accompanied with a narrative, somehow this element became less and less a part of my description of the work. But by visiting these places I was able to appreciate the fantastical elements that originally inspired my work. |
| (11/24/08): cabinet of curiosity |  natural history museums tend to be the only types of museums that are completely non-age bias and have a strange captivating quality for any one. they also all pride themselves on the same types of objects, things that have interested people since their discovery. much of these objects we know little more about them now than we did 50 years ago. it is rare in such a technological age that certain things can remain a mystery, and these places left room for that |
| (11/21/08): cabinet of curiosities |  my intrigue with these places was intensified by my inability to read the description or explanation of what was inside the dated displays |
| (11/18/08): cabinet of curiosities |  after visiting palaces, zoos, and natural history museums I began to fall in love with the cabinet of curiosities idea |
| (11/18/08): cabinet of curiosities |  scientific enlightenment era, organized clutter |
| (10/09/08): My Return | | I just returned from my incredible trip from europe, it was incredible. I went with what I thought was a very clear idea of what I was interested in and what it was that I was looking for, but as I should have expected that changed quite drastically. I realized that my original interests were very broad and I quickly realized that there was a much more specific area that articulated, much more clearly, what I was referencing. |
| (10/09/08): My Return |  I just returned from my incredible trip from europe, it was incredible. I went with what I thought was a very clear idea of what I was interested in and what it was that I was looking for, but as I should have expected that changed quite drastically. I realized that my original interests were very broad and I quickly realized that there was a much more specific area that articulated, much more clearly, what I was referencing. so I think that it is important to look at my photos in the order of what i thought i "should" be taking pictures of to what I eventually realized i wanted to be taking pictures of, so with that in mind this first group of pictures is the amazing architecture that the cities if Paris, Prague, and Vienna were overflowing with. |
| (10/09/08): Wandering Paris |  My first couple of days were spent aimlessly walking in between museum visits, which actually was perfect because i would wander into beautifully manicures french parks. |
| (10/09/08): Paris Parks |  There was something that really interesting about the forced manipulation of nature in these parks, it was as if there was an obsessive compulsion to control even the fundamentally uncontrollable. I found that on par with palaces regal parks were a thing of pride, but even nature must adhere to very strict and specific standards. |
| (10/09/08): Paris Walk |  These images are from my walks around paris |
| (10/09/08): Paris Walk |  These images are from my walks around paris |
| (10/09/08): Paris Walk |  These images are from my walks around paris |
| (10/09/08): Versailles |  One of the things that was initially the most important for me to see was to see elaborate palace interiors. For me they constantly play the line of taste, more often than not crossing to gaudy and tacky. For me, it attention to detail is amazing, but because everything speaks so loudly you cant give any one thing the attention it deserves, so even the most elaborate gold leaf begins to camouflage itself on the ornate landscape. This reasoning made Versailles unmissable, another reason being that there was a Jeff Coons retrospective show throughout the palace and extending out into its gardens. I am normally not a big Jeff Coons fan, I recently saw his work in Chicago, his work was not given enough space and because it is so colorful shinny and invasive, the works seemed to battle each other rather than coexist. The curation, in the white wall gallery setting, gave you so much to look at that you couldn't really look at anything. It created a very similar feeling to many of the palace interiors that i had visited, with this in mind i became increasingly curious to see how his work would function in a space in which the architecture and design was as over the top as his sculpture. |
| (10/09/08): Versailles | | I have never seen his work function so well, there were rooms in which his work was installed where it was difficult to distinguish between his work and the permanent collection. The space was able to tame his work and his modern shinny, consumer-culture sculpture met its 17th century match. |
| (10/09/08): Versailles |  I have never seen his work function so well, there were rooms in which his work was installed where it was difficult to distinguish between his work and the permanent collection. The space was able to tame his work and his modern shinny, consumer-culture sculpture met its 17th century match. This particular picture was taken into one of his sculptures reflecting the "Hall of Mirrors" behind me. |
| (10/09/08): Versailles |  I loved how the canopy beds imitated a stage curtain, I found the whole presentation of the room strangely theatrical. |
| (10/09/08): Versailles |  I loved how the canopy beds imitated a stage curtain, I found the whole presentation of the room strangely theatrical. |
| (10/09/08): Versailles |  This picture could have served as my artist statement. |
| (10/09/08): Versailles |  the matching is almost comical, the actual room was incredible the bed seemed to move from 3D to 2D with this incredible bourgeoise mimicry. |
| (10/09/08): Versailles |  Canopy Bed |
| (10/09/08): Versailles |  The Gates of Versailles |
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