When I sit down and decide to write a blog, or I think about the niche and specifics of a blog in general, I think it's always good to have a clear intention right from the start about the hows and the whats. Maybe it's just the structuralist in me, but I like to put out a framework for the writings that will come. Partially it's for the reader to understand where I am coming from and the parameters in which I intend to work, but it also is an indicator to me as the writer about the scope and breadth of the writings that I will be creating. Honestly, it's much easier to write when given a direction and when given directions. Even when I am giving the directions to myself.
That being said, here are a few directions for this blog. I intend the posts in this blog to vary because of both the longitudinal aspect of this project (I don't expect to write about or in the same style in October that I write with in April) but also because the inherent goals of the posts will be different in scope, style and outcome.
This blog is intended to be a place where I will explore, expand, and contextualize my thesis work for my MFA in Intermedia Art at ASU. This thesis project intends to use the Geocaching pheonema (more on that later) to connect (more on that later) the community (more on that later) to the history of the canal system (more on that later) that brings water to central Arizona. That being said, with an install date of November 11, 2011 looming less than 260 days away, these posts will run the gamut of artistic research. Included will be logging hikes and experiences that I have along the canal system in Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert and Scottsdale. I will also include mental ramblings, thoughts and concepts that I garner about my artwork and project, as well as descriptions of how I intend my show to be created, decisions that I make aesthetically, historical knowledge and information that I compile as I am wandering through this maze without visible walls, and links to other work or writings that spur my project development. It may become a lot, it might get sloppy, and I'm sure there will be some sort of mental ooze that escapes through my ears at some time, but in the end I think it'll be an interesting and fascinating ride.
So with that being said, and the boundaries being laid out to be quite boundary-less, here we go!
