Katherine Does Art Sometimes

crawling my way out of the depths of art block

playing cards inspired by J. C. Leyendecker

Spades - Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 - 1653) (K) Portrait of a Condottiero (Q) Mary Magdalene (J) Esther before Ahasuerus 

Venus in horto

created using Procreate

architecture dreaming

linoleum print, edition of five

A five part photo series involving 10 negatives, a 1970s Olympus OM-1, several pieces of cardboard, one facto knife, and many hours spent stenciling and selectively exposing parts of photosensitive paper to collage two images onto a single sheet.

oil on canvas, 2019

1970s Olympus OM-1 // 11 April 2019 // Northwestern University

A visualization of Hozier’s Wasteland, Baby! album as an undirected graph, nodes represent words and node size corresponds to the number of times that word appears in the poem. Words are connected in order with edge weight representing repeated word pairs, except for edges between song title words, which are given extra weight. Made using Gephi.

This is a reworking of a previously posted project I did in junior year of high school. I worked on data entry for hours, dreaming of a graph describing the entire poem’s structure. But “The Raven” is long, so I stopped about two and a half stanzas in, which already made a beautifully complicated looking graph. Five years later, I know how to code and now I can write programs to deal with word counting and edge making for me, and what was impossible for me then is now quick and easy. 

Forgetting

It’s bby’s first zine! Chicago Art Book Fair is this weekend and I’m so excited, I loved going last year. Maybe someday I’ll rent a booth.

Crossing

Summer Tessellates

Adjusting