Some video work from Freja

Hi everyone,

I've been trying to figure out how to share some videos I'm working on with you, and the best way to do it seems to be through vimeo.  Not ideal, but ok. The videos are private and the password to view all of them is watchfreja.
Below are the links to the videos.  The first two links are for clips of a longer piece called Couple on Beach.  (Vimeo only lets me upload a certain amount of video per week).  The second video is really a slideshow that I am thinking about as a projection.  I know this is a lot to watch, so thank you for taking the time. 

Couple on the Beach
http://vimeo.com/54425380

Couple on the Beach Part 2 
http://vimeo.com/56381383 

Mary's New Apartment
http://vimeo.com/56432053 

Both pieces are sketchy attempts to continue the video work I was doing at UNM where I would interview people and then film them listening to the recordings.   I am interested in working with the interview recordings now instead of having the work be silent.  I'm in the process of trying to make another video with a different couple, because I think the relationship adds an interesting layer to that work.

Mary's New Apartment is a weird piece that I'm not at all sure of.  I interviewed Mary in Albuquerque, and instead of payment for her participation, she convinced me to photograph the apartment she was about to move into.  She wanted pictures of the place empty.  She composed every picture with me, methodically opening and closing doors, adjusting the blinds, and checking the composition in the camera viewfinder.  In the end, the video I made of her didn't work, and I never showed it.  Her interview was more interesting than her video, and I recently went back to it to see if I could rework it into a new piece.  

I'd love any general feedback you feel like sharing.  I feel very inside this work in such a weird way and I have absolutely no idea if it's even interesting to anyone else, or if anyone else hears of or sees what I am seeing.  

Book works continue!

Elvis, Jesus, Coca-Cola, 2012. Approximately 5 x 6 1/2 feet. paperback book covers, spray paint. 

Elvis, Jesus, Coca-Cola (detail), 2012. Approximately 5x61/2 feet. paperback book covers, spray paint.

Elvis, Jesus, Coca-Cola (detail),  2012. Approximately 5x61/2 feet. paperback book covers, spray paint.

The Strangest Asylum, 2012. 5 x 5 1/2 feet. digital prints from scanned book covers, acrylic paint, tape.

The Strangest Asylum (detail), 2012. 5 x 5 1/2 feet. digital prints from scanned book covers, acrylic paint, tape.

 

The Strangest Asylum (detail), 2012. 5 x 5 1/2 feet. digital prints from scanned book covers, acrylic paint, tape.

Modern Romance, 2012. Approximately, 5 x 5 1/2 feet. digital prints of photographed book pages, book covers,
 spray paint.

Modern Romance (detail),  2012. Approximately, 5 x 5 1/2 feet. digital prints of photographed book pages,
book covers, spray paint.

Modern Romance (detail), 2012. Approximately, 5 x 5 1/2 feet. digital prints of photographed book pages,
book covers, spray paint.

No, Didn’t Wait, No, Wouldn’t, No, Sorry to... 2012. Approximately 6 1⁄2 feet x 6/12 feet. Digital prints from photographed book pages, paperback book covers, acrylic paint.

No, Didn’t Wait, No, Wouldn’t, No, Sorry to... (detail), 2012. Approximately 6 1⁄2 feet x 6/12 feet. Digital prints from photographed book pages, paperback book covers, acrylic paint.

No, Didn’t Wait, No, Wouldn’t, No, Sorry to... (detail), 2012. Approximately 6 1⁄2 feet x 6/12 feet. Digital prints from photographed book pages, paperback book covers, acrylic paint.

Here are four recent book-inspired pieces. Just a few notes on process and materials: I'm using both actual book covers (exclusively in the case of the first piece) as well as photographed and enlarged sections of covers and pages. The piece with a lot of blue in it is made exclusively from romance novels. Woot, woot! The other pieces are collages of a variety of different genres.  I guess I could post some kind of artist statement or something, but that seems kinda formal for this? So I'd like general feedback and impressions of the work. Thank you!

Printer

Does anyone know of a good place to send out prints? That uses good paper, etc... would love to get my stuff printed on the Hahnemulle or however you spell it, but don't know where to start...

Here is some very, disjointed other shit I've been doing. Maybe it all fits together, maybe it's best to keep things separate. Little kids, could fit with the murders, maybe? Probably not.

Tammy Z's newish work.

I guess this is the most comprehensive stuff I've been doing recently - they are portraits of child murderers. I know, Tammy Darkstuff, still in action. I'm not done with the top one, Graham Young, and very much "in progress" with this work. Very much, mostly building a house with LB and not working - but these are something I want to continue until I have a comfortable set.

I was inspired to start working on this after the Joker massacre in Colorado this summer. Although James Holmes, wasn't a kid - I started thinking about how he so desperately wanted to be an ICON. Or was crazy. I'm also thinking about ME wanting to have a baby and the possibility of getting some kind of devil child - like the little boy in the Tin Drum. So here, since I'm still in a bit of a rut technically with these cartoons  - for good or bad - I thought I could cartoon kid killers. Commenting on, of course, a history of this going on, but also a problem that I believe will only amplify over time. Also thinking a lot about the portrait, color and line - amplifying and distorting what a photograph can do in a portrait.

I'm curious about a couple things:

1.When you look at these images, what do you see? What's intriguing, where are you lost?
2. Are you conscious of their photographic roots? This is something I'm trying to stress more and more, but know there is room to push the work.
3. Do you want to know more facts about the person?
4. Should I include these with drawings of my nieces, which I have also been making? I guess I'll post a few of those.

THANKS!

These are a few charts I've been working on since graduation... I'm going to show them near Boston in the spring, possibly organized by time frame?

Mary Tyler Moore 1970-1977

90210, 1990-2000 (first 5 seasons, I am currently watching season 9 and it's SO BAD)

Ellen, 1994-1998 (all seasons)

Friends, 1994-2004

Sex & The City, 1998-2004

Gossip Girl (2007-present, chart unfinished)