The Magnificent Seven: Capp Street Project: Abraham Cruzvillegas

The Magnificent Seven: Capp Street Project: Abraham Cruzvillegas

Below is the bicycle "surrey" that Allison Rowe, Carlos Ramirez, and myself constructed. Ahead of the bicycle is a "flock of birds", made to look like they are helping pull the surrey along.  All parts were made from recycled elements. The seat upholstery was made from the inner tubes of bicycle tires, the roof and birds were made from a kite surfing sail.

Blogging is...

Blogging is proving to be more difficult to keep up with than I thought. Plus, I can barely keep up with the pace of my life. Grad school, family, work. Forget going to the gym, forget getting sleep, forget lazy days, forget ever seeing movies, or TV for that matter! So, I apologize for not being more on top of this! I promise, promise, promise to write more Blog.

I have my bicycle project due this Saturday. This is the Pedi Cab/ Bird Surrey thing I mentioned many weeks ago. Well, my team (Carlos and Allison) and I are putting on the finishing touches and figuring out the aesthetics of it. Its been a challenging project because of its collaboration with very very busy grad students, its recycled nature (which is actually also why it is cool), and some technical engineering problems that arose. All in all, its pretty amazing what we made. I will post a picture when its displayed Saturday. Hopefully when we race it on November 21st, it stays in one piece! ;)

My final critique is scheduled for December 4. I don't know what I will put in it. I am halfway through a second painting, yet I am not 100% into what the painting is turning out like. I am doing b & w paintings (really blue black and white) and they have a cut-out look to them. Thing is, I YEARN for color, but have no idea how it is going to make it back into my painting.

I do know that I am enjoying my research though! I have really saturated myself with the history of the women on my mother's side of the family. Some really interesting photos and stories have surfaced and I am eager to learn more. I have been thinking of creating a narrative based on fictional/non-fictional characters within a historical context. Concurrently, I am trying to figure out how I can get to London during my spring break and do a proper investigation/excavation of locations, artifacts, stories to further enrich this process. Maybe do some audio recordings, make castings, rubbings. I don't know! It will be fun to see how this all presents itself as an art form.