{"id":200,"date":"2015-07-08T21:35:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T01:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/sethbruggeman\/?p=200"},"modified":"2015-07-08T21:35:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T01:35:28","slug":"chips-and-sparks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/sethbruggeman\/2015\/07\/08\/chips-and-sparks\/","title":{"rendered":"Chips and Sparks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I rejoined my fellow fellows\u00a0from the Center for Art in Wood residency program,\u00a0a month since first meeting them. \u00a0Only minutes after I arrived, Albert LeCoff–the Center’s director and co-founder–joined us for a studio tour. \u00a0Albert asked that everyone browse one another’s work stations and return with an object of particular interest. \u00a0We did and for the next hour\u00a0or so the group discussed what each piece revealed about work processes, artistic goals, choices of material, and other facets of the residency\u00a0experience thus far.<\/p>\n

I learned a lot; and quickly, at that. \u00a0Most significantly, I learned how incredibly facile these folks are with their tools of choice. \u00a0For instance, Adrien Segal<\/a> digitized a form that she modeled by hand in clay so that she could then recreate it, again by hand, in plywood. \u00a0The confluence of digital and analog techniques reveal impossibly intricate contours in a material that most folks wouldn’t give a second thought to. \u00a0We\u00a0learned from Zina Manes-Burloiu<\/a>, a master of traditional Romanian chip carving, that after years of making her own tools, she can discern differences in metal by the type of spark it makes. \u00a0I find this type of material knowledge–literally, thinking WITH things–absolutely fascinating, and I intend to explore it more during my residency.<\/p>\n

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Grant Vaughan, a woodcarver from New South Wales, compares Adrien Segal’s clay and wood forms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Works in progress by Zina Manesa-Burloiu.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our micro-charrette also reminded me how useful this kind of exchange is. \u00a0It’s a type of conversation that, outside of writing workshops, doesn’t happen enough in humanities classrooms: asking about one another’s methods, proposing new ways of doing things, gently nudging one another to explain why it is we do the things we do. \u00a0It’s an incredibly useful exercise; one that helps us learn to be critical without being hostile. \u00a0And one that makes us realize that sometimes our peers are our best teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I rejoined my fellow fellows\u00a0from the Center for Art in Wood residency program,\u00a0a month since first meeting them. \u00a0Only minutes after I arrived, Albert LeCoff–the Center’s director and co-founder–joined us for a studio tour. \u00a0Albert asked that everyone browse one another’s work stations and return with an object of particular interest. \u00a0We did and … <\/p>\n

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