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This week I took a different approach in the studio. I think I just wanted to take a week from what I was preciously doing and try it in a different way. I created a ceramic bowl that I threw that I will be turning into a loom. I just finished putting notches in the rim so that I will be able to warp it like a loom. I just have to wait for it to be fired but I am pretty excited to see how it comes out. With the bowl being circular, I decided to go ahead and loom on a circular shaped loom. Its funny how different something can look just by what it starts as. I thought this was really fun I think just because it was something new, but hoping to find some more answers with experimenting more. My work still continues to come from the inspiring Ana Teresa Barboza, although its funny, this week I didn’t even reference her work, but looking back at it I can see how she is inspiring me in ways without me even knowing. My work still comes back to hers and how she creates a space.  ...

This week I decided to work on my loom in shorter increments, working slower with better craft in mind.  I think overall, it was successful, as the outcome of it definitely looks better crafted. Although craft is what we as artists usually strive for, I’m not positive if that’s actually the direction I need to take with this.  As of now I have completed two looms, so now I can see how I would like them to relate, I already carried on the same color pattern to the next, so now I could think about actually playing with connecting the looms. This idea comes from Ana Barboza, although I have found inspiration from here work in previous weeks, as I actually complete her similar process I find even more of an influence.    This week our reading discusses fear and its root. Fears can keep an artist from doing their best work as well as not doing what they really want, while worrying about what others will think. Sometimes, I get caught up in the aspect of find...

This week in the studio I realized that I want to slow down my process of the loom, not because I don’t want to move quickly but because I think I need to take into account my use of craftsmanship. I think if I speed through these, I will be overwhelmed at the end, as I try to put them all back in their frames and fix them. I realize that I wont be able to make final formal decisions until the end when they are all completed, but I want to at least work as if they are the final pieces. One major thing I did learn about my process of looming is that its not like a painting where you can go back through it and change and cover things up, once you complete a section that’s that and its almost permanent, unless you go back and cut it all out of course. Its also very directional, having to start from one place and moving in a line. This process is actually a cool reflection of my life and how I can’t necessarily turn back and change the past, all I can do is move forward and see where the ...

 This week in the studio was exciting yet also stressful. I definitely did not wait until the last minute to begin creating things but I felt so much pressure to create that at first I was not having fun with it. Once I really started getting into it, it became a lot more exciting for me. Eventually, I couldn’t even put it down, I realized how awesome it was just seeing the results and progress of my time.  So far, Ana Teresa Barboza’s work has had the most influence on me and what I have created so far. Her work inspires me and pushes me to create in a similar process that she does. I think her work as a whole is beautiful, but what I most enjoy about her work is her use of space within the actual surface of the loom. Her use of negative space I think takes what would be a simple wall decoration to a piece of art as it creates time in space as it forces your eye to move throughout the surface.  I found the reading this week extremely informat...