At eight days until this project goes up, I keep trying to find ways to keep my motivation high...
At times I feel so excited about it, things make sense, ideas fit together, images do too...but I worry of how people will respond to it. It's not a flashy, come-look-at-me-piece. Will they see it as a history lesson that will make them wanna go to sleep, or will they stay within it for some time, listening to these voices?

Sometimes I'm happy that I'm working in this way, using images that blend into each other along with strangers' narratives of what Tampa was like.
Something I wrote one day:
I've been working on a project for the senior thesis show, a sound and video installation. My subject matter is place/history, focusing on Tampa. I'm using oral history interview excerpts in which people discuss Tampa and Ybor city's history, small art community, historic buildings, etc. mixed with my own sounds recorded in different cities around the world. I feel like the project itself is somewhat simple, but it's led me to do some great research. I've been reading a little bit of Paul Virilio, Michel Foucault's "Of other spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias", and I'm HAPPY that I get to work with these sort of ideas while making art!!!!!

I think starting with ideas that concern me, such as the conservation of these places that have witnessed many things through the years, helps me understand that its not just about the finished product on display, but about learning to manifest those thoughts in the physical world.

Sometimes the positive feeling is overshadowed by the fact that it hasn't yet reached the state of completion it needs to have at the show...


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