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chatGPT Summary: Kay reflects on gesture and texture in their artistic process, deciding to seek feedback from collaborators rather than force a final product.
Vancouver, occupied terrtirory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Waututh-Early in the month, I had thought to respond to the prompt about “what made me, me” in relation to my two summer collaborators, as I am only partially made up of my own decisions and otherwise made up by my environment and society. I am both nature and nurture.
KM has a strong textile practice. SC has a printmaking practice and has explicitly said they wish to review and consider how their practice has changed and evolved over the past few years. Pulling from those two distilled ideas, I decided I would explore some gesture and texture-making through the use of printing to form some materials that I would ultimately weave into a paper textile. I successfully transferred my gesture onto a few different types of paper, but it never reached that point.
Rather than force it in these final days of the month and knowing that I will meet with my two collaborators in a week, I have decided to bring the paper and ask them what they think would be an interesting next step.
Image description: a white paper with a fuzzy dark ink imprint. A spiralling or spring-like line is repeated in rows, filling the page. The gesture is loose and large towards the top of the page but dense, with smaller gestures near the bottom.
Technology note:
I continue to test the use of AI within my writing and artistic practice. I used chatGPT to create a summary and reading estimate, and recommend some content warnings for this blog, and Grammarly to assist me in spelling and grammar.