blaaaaaaarrrgh!!!

Well, nothing is perfect. After about 6 hours of rendering (stupid school lab computers - you can't change the computer sleep settings on them), this animation is done - sort of...
It's supposed to start with the legs walking in and yes, I am aware it is not of the best quality. I'm getting there. I finished rendering it for archives and since it took so long, I just gave up and went home for the day. But it will be remedied and put up much better soon. I think this one I'm going to reflect off of mylar too and see what happens.

so much to do

Things to do this week:
{} export new animation (render time gives me 6 hours so far...ha)
{} finish buck head mount sculpture
{} mentor meeting
{} draw
{} draw
{} ... draw some more
{} sending proposals to spaces for performances
{} create 2 more dolls


FINAL CRIT is December 15th! Work goes up on the 14th!!
Hopefully I can get the animation and photos of installation up by the end of today!

^ how I feel today...

one of three

The past couple of months I have been working on a particular set of rules from the rules of engagement :

punkin.
buckwheat.
tinkerbell.

My dad called all three of us kids that interchangeably. These terms are something that remind me of how he cared for us. I also consider them as something that represents his thoughts of us, his kids. I have been making costumes the coincide with these rules, all child's sized - a Halloween pumpkin costume, Tinkerbell wings, and rolled pants with suspenders like Buckwheat wore in Li'l Rascals. Finally, I figured out to make dolls to wear them. I thought I would make something that would kind of go with the legs I made before. There will be three and they will be suspended from the ceiling, kind of head height. I'm thinking the kind of height that Annette Messager suspends her sculptures.

Today, I finally have one mostly completed. This is the doll wearing the 'punkin' costume. I will be tailoring the costume to the doll a little more and make finishing touches on the doll like closing up seams, etc.

Here's the doll in punkin costume in my studio space at home.

burt reynolds?

So for the past couple months, I have been creating these really bad Photoshop collages (with a program that isn't even photoshop, but a free one that pretends to be) of Burt Reynolds's face put on top of my dad's face in family photographs that I have collected. The reason for Burt Reynolds is my dad's 'look' that he kept for years. The delicately placed hair and perfectly trimmed mustache. At first, it started as just a thing I was doing that coincided with the rules of engagement project. However, I've started to like them more and more as things. I've started printing them on transparencies and created mixed media works on top of that. But I am struggling with display issues as of right now.

Pretty Face, Culprit Hands 2012 Mixed Media collage - work in progress

I'm hoping to get these printed large on acetate or mylar and continue the same kind of work.

I lied...

So obviously when I said more to come soon, I lied. So much has happened. Where to start?

Well, since my last post, I had been working on a continuing list which is what I call "rules of engagement" when it comes to my dad. These are brief statements that relate to things he did, things he said to me, or just little quirks that I always remember about him.
Here is a link to the full list: http://www.caitlinpeck.com/rules-of-engagement---list.html
 From there, I began making work and I created this drawing:

The coordinating rule with this is: 'short shorts and long socks are appropriate.' because my dad wore these embarrassingly short shorts usually in an awful 80s tracksuit teal or purple and long white socks because the man didn't own any other kind of socks. I then felt the need to create this in 3 dimensions, which led to the sculpture:

Since then, the work has continued to grow. The drawing in this post and a photograph of the installation of the WAITING video on this blog (the red mask with the white background), were selected for the Portfolio section of CRED magazine, a local Philadelphia magazine featuring artists 25 years old and younger.

Much more has been done since then (this was in mid-August) and more will come soon! (this time I promise for real). But I think this is enough for this blog post for now.