Quarantined Life Update

I’ve been learning Fusion 360 through Linda tutorials (I hate the name Linkedin Learning for some reason) I’m hoping I can use this time to improve my skills on all of the programs I’ve been meaning to learn for years… I actually really like a lot of the features in Fusion- there are a lot of functions they simplify compared to other 3D modeling software.

However I’ve been wracking my brain for how I can apply this mode of modeling to my own practice which is anchored in a lot more organic shapes. Right now I image it could help me model practical hardware components for sculpture installation that I’ve had to rely on Rhino in the past for. Like making wall mounts for mannequin arms and those sorts of things…

So far most of my time back home has been spent either trying to get my shit together- setting up my home studio, trying to organize to get my class online, having Bluejeans meetings or skill acquisition- evidenced through my progress towards slip casting and Fusion.

Compared to last semester I’ve spent almost no time thinking about the content aspect of my work- quite frankly I’ve been avoiding it. Here’s the “Quistine Quarantine Playlist” I made this afternoon to prove it.

I think organizing my thoughts seem simultaneously too simple to even bother with and such a chore to untangle. Even figuring out how my new modes of making situate within the context of my content seems hard.

At the beginning of the semester I was really excited about the connection between what it meant that my work was about my body but I used digital means to manifest it.

Layered on top of that is an aesthetic preference for messiness. I like evidence of the artist’s hand and frankly don’t have the patience for preciousness in making.

Then comes in the business of trying to figure out how the three main prongs of my research, a.all relate to one another and b. subsequently manifest visually.

You know, like how to make it art.