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March 19, 2008
checklist, march 19
After today, there are only four days left in The Wardrobe Project. I have three dresses waiting to be worn one more time: #7, #19 and #20. Tomorrow or Friday I will print dress #3 a final time and wear it Sunday, the last day, since it's the oldest dress still in the project.
Cabinets are painted but for one more coat on the inside of the drawers. Hanging hardware for the maps has been picked up, not yet assembled. Building a table has been removed from my list; Stacy Isenbarger, a second year sculpture grad, is building me a steel table frame (because she's fabulous like that). The books are still barely started: paper has been cut and I'm working tonight on getting the images ready so that I can print at least some of them (all of them if they'll all fit on my usb drive thing at once) tomorrow. I still have to fill in the dress tags and print the map legend (this will be silkscreened instead of letterpress printed, so that it will match the tags, which are silkscreened). It's starting to sound scary but is still quite doable in the time that is left.
The large prints are finished and I've finally settled on which two I'm going to use. I already cut down some of the others and printed a bit more on them this morning, in hopes of having something new to show in the open portfolio session at the Southern Graphics Council conference next week, since I can't take any of my thesis work with me. The last two large prints I'll be cutting into long strips over the weekend and spinning on a borrowed wheel; these will become a knitted wrap that I'm hoping to wear to the exhibition opening (I'll be taking this as my travel knitting project to SGC, and should have plenty of time on the road there and back to make some good progress on it).
I talked before about making some sort of transition dress to wear for the first week after the project, beginning on the day I deliver the work to the Museum and then wearing it all through the conference. Although I bought fabric for it yesterday, I've changed my mind about this. I just don't want to wear a dress anymore, or to be obligated to wear a certain dress. Instead I'm going to get out the skirts I made at the beginning of the project and wear them all week with regular shirts, because I still don't feel quite ready to go back to just wearing regular clothes altogether. I think I'll continue to take daily photos, at least until the exhibition opening (for which I am making a special dress).
Next on the agenda after these next four days of frantic work: writing my thesis. I have a meeting about that tomorrow, but to be honest I really haven't done any writing at all, having decided a while ago just to leave that until after the studio component is finished. I'm currently reading Anne Hollander's Seeing Through Clothes and Richard Shusterman's Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art. Any other suggestions at this time from those of you who've been following the project would be much appreciated.
Posted by jodi at March 19, 2008 08:09 PM | categories: the rules
Comments
I wanted you to know that I have very much enjoyed the journey. It's been fascinating.
I hope this blog is part of your thesis. I think it's an excellent reflection of where you started and how you refined the project. We didn't have blogs (and, no, we didn't have the internet either - hell, Microsoft Windows hadn't been invented yet!) back when I was in undergrad, but it adds a really interesting element to your work. Sort of like a permanent traveling exhibition, but you only have to put it in one place (if that makes any sense).
Best wishes and good vibes for finishing and for your show.
Posted by: liz at March 20, 2008 08:36 AM
i came in around the middle of this project and have followed you since then - fascinated. yours is one of the most interesting textile/garment/artMaking/cultural projects i have ever seen and you have done an incredible and consistent job of carry-out and completion. it has been a great treat to be an observer. sniff. i think i am sad that it is done! but congratulations and ONWARD!
peace,
bobbi
Posted by: bobbi at March 21, 2008 06:57 PM