Further thinkin

Okay, so yesterday we talked about more specifics about projects to start, and also ways of taking advantage of the BCAC space, which we should find out about this week. I'll keep looking this week, but this seems like the right space for some of the ideas we're getting...

So with the first project, we could start with a 1920's character (name?) whose journals, drawings, and photos have been found (from one outing), and are being presented seriously, with as little hat-tripping at possible. One immediate venue for this is the Duke biology department, there can be other options as this progresses.

The work itself can include drawings, watercolors, prints, photo-based work (cyanotypes, black and white, etc), done in documentation style, along with a healthy amount of text, which can also help to bring in a narrative and some humor. I think working this way we can still work with the more general idea about looking at how people come up with ways of validating their way of looking at the world. A number of the drawing/photos can be arranged in various grids, etc as the work takes on it's own internal logic.

An option, versus the natural history museum option, would be to present this to local science musuems and university science departments, completely straight. Maybe one of us is related in some way. Either way, this could definitely be done after say a show at Duke, after broshures are made, could keep it going/changing it while going ahead with further projects. Proposals to science museums could help to hone the serious tone of the work, too.

I think these sorts of drawings can lead easily into ideas for the windows of the BCAC spaces, the motorized rolls that could also be shown in gallery spaces, etc, working with sequential ideas, involving the science/biology ideas, etc. The dual window thing also affords other sequencing ideas. Also, there's that the street we'd be on will be getting a good amount of foot traffic, so work should have both broad elements (to be seen by passing cars) and details (to hold in passerby).

Yeah, I think that was it.