I travel heavy

This is one of the sculptures I applied with at KE10.

I just found out that I can find out on their homepage already tomorrow night if I´m out, or if I made it to the 3. round.

I´m just not sure I dare look? After all I was turned down for a job on tuesday, turned down for a grant for going to Miami yesterday (I think they gave around every third person that applied, so yes, I really was turned down), and then turned down at KE10 on friday? Can I do that? I´m not sure....

I´ll go to a concert tomorrow night (with Spejderrobot, I should remember to mention, since my best read posting yet was the one about him), and try not to think about it, and maybe... maybe... I´ll look on saturday morning. Maybe.

Okay. I´m not sure I really feel like this, but this is very late friday/very early saturday, and here´s this weeks update:

Tuesday: refused job application.
Wednesday: refused grant application for Miami.
Friday: refused grant application for Miami.
Friday: refused at KE10, I didn´t make it to the third round and NONE in the jury gave my work a yellow dot, which means special intrest or appreciation.

Next week? Come on! It can´t get any worse!

Eductional Plates re-worked

I re-worked my Educational Plates last week. To begin with they were about flowers and bees, but I weren´t really satisfied and thought they could do with some more edge. I think they have that now - actually I think they are a bit scary...

I´m applying at KE10 with these, amongst others, and as usually it´s impossible to know what the jury are looking for... but normally they are looking for something totally different than my stuff:-0

As usually: click to see full size.

 

 

Hoops (still in lack of a better name...)

This is that kind of project, where you start out with great enthusiasm, just to figure out that you really don´t know what to do - and then you stay like that for a loooooong time.

I think I bought these hoops a couple of year ago, and then they have been waiting in the corner of my livingroom, doing nothing but collecting dust.

Now I finally got something made. That´s fine. I just haven´t figured out yet what it is..... hence the lack of a proper title and explanation of what this is about.

The materials are hoops (made by DaneWood), silk in 2 colours, dried flowers, bird skeleton, fish skeleton, lacquer with Remazol dye (a way to colour lacquer and keep it transparent at the same time), filtet wool and horsehair, human teeths, printed text ("I have no skin, and therefore I can´t stop people from touching me inside"), pig intestine, Paverpol sculpture glue, glass beads formed as tears, white horsehair and a artificial eye (they took a lot of money for shipping it to Denmark, som I´m NOT going to advertise that company).

So in lack of an explanation, I´ll just give you the photos.

Sleep Party People photos

Actually I have a lot to post.... so maybe I´m going to be a bit hyper active the next couple of days?

I went to a concert with Sleep Party People in Little Vega, Copenhagen last saturday. It was really great, just a little short, so I´ll look forward to the time when they have a bigger pile of songs to perform.

I normally don´t take photos at concerts. I have a friend, Lars Dela, that does that very well instead, but he was busy somewhere else that night, so I decided to give it a try. Also because Sleep Party People always perform disguised as rabbits, and I wanted photos of that.
 
I have no idea of what settings to use in my camera, so I experimented a bit. And it turned out that the only thing working was something called night snap shot, so I ended up with only 3 photos that worked (and one of them needed a little help in photo editing from Janis Sawyer, thanks).

But I´m pretty proud of those 3 shots, so here they are (I even uploaded them on Gaffa Photo Award after they called for more female photographers, but I don´t have high expectations on that though):

(click on the photos to see the full version)

 

Spejderrobot

I know. I know. Yes, I DO know.

I should be posting more often. And I ought to post something about my new work, Hoops (in lack of a better title, so far). And maybe something about me applying for Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling. KE10,  very soon - one of those juried exhibits, where you pay 475 kroner to apply,  and then they turn you down on a depressingly regular basic....

And I certainly ought to post something about going to Miami in december for Art Basel Miami Beach/Pool Art Fair (see, there I did it, it wasn´t that difficult after all;-)).

Maybe I´ll post something about Hoops tomorrow, or the day after, cause Lars will come tomorrow and help me take some decent photos. At least that´s what we hope, depending on the light and the mood of the camera.

But for now I think I´ll just post that video presentation Spejderrobot did of himself and put on Youtube, cause I think it´s the coolest video in the world, and I really admire him for making it. And I´ll copy him the moment I find out how to do something similar about my mental disease:-)

The reason I came to think about him tonight is that he applied for my friendship on Facebook today. I immidiately said YES, even though I suspect it to be some kind of mistake. He accidently hit the wrong button, I think, since I had the idea he got pretty tired of me on MySpace just because I asked him a billion questions...

Anyway here´s the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbrfJAHjnhs

And this is the music (this is from the first album, you might buy the second as well;-)): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai9NHHaRxFE&feature=related