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Red Book, Red Table

Things are coming together quite nicely this school year- I've kept my momentum, inspirations, productivity and ideas while still managing to see family, friends and other assorted loved ones.
I'll have a few exciting announcements soon. :)

Stay tuned to a glowing box near you,
-CM!
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This was a nice change of pace...

To my hell of a morning. Hello guy! Look how happy and cool you are!

I'm Coming Back to Flood Your Home Pages with Posts.

Hello again! Now that the summer 'break' is in full turn, I'll have sort-of enough time to post.
I'll be posting out of my lovely summer studio at SMFA...speaking of which, here's what I've been up to for the past year. (I'm breaking it up into two posts, otherwise it's unbearably long.) So here is...

Fall 2009

[picture soon]

Resin Boxes: Series I

Resin & Plant life
November 2009

This short series of rectangular boxes were made of solid resin and dried and preserved plant life I had gathered from outside of my school. They were initially a test for a much larger (and extremely long-term) project I've been working on for a few years now, but turned into my form of hibernation for the winter approaching me. I starting looking at encasing these plants, flowers, and hard-shelled berries/seeds in an ice-like chamber. Preserving it for the winter. This mind-set could of also been caused by the amount of fumes I had been inhaling. (I was in the ventilation room, with a respirator. I'm extremely cautious with materials, don't fret.) Either way, I was pretty delusional.

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[The Video for this installation was lost in a move. Hopefully it will be found.]
6x6x6
Mixed-Media Sound Installation
November 2009

So after my resin box series, one of my mentors (Charles Goss) looked at me and said "more."
He then proceeded to tell me that every single time I asked him a question, his answer was just going to be "more." Obsession is the only word I can really tag along to this piece. Oh, and maybe determination.

The "6x6x6" piece had two simple requirements:
It must be a 6 x 6 x 6 in object that dominated, manipulated, or affected a 6 x 6 x 6 ft radius around it. I made an installation involving a 6 x 6 x 6 inch paper light box I constructed out of translucent paper and a translucent lace-paper (Thai Unryu) that I wrapped around a wooden-stick frame (I made out of chopsticks 'cause I'm so DIY, yah?") and suspended in the center of the room. I chose the ventilation room, since it's pretty tight and a tad creepy. Actually, really creepy to some. Some people can't even go in there for more than a second. I also incorporated sound within the 6x6x6 installation, which for me was the most capturing aspect of the piece. Here was the ultimate low-down on "6x6x6":

Visual:

I made a 6 x 6 x 6in light box hung by 6 strings in the center of the room, on each side of the box (6 sides) I carved out "6" 6 different time in 6 different fonts/styles in 6 different styles. I then google image-searched "color wheel six", chose the 6th option on the list, then chose the 6th color on that wheel. It was a standard green. I bought a 60 watt green light bulb, which I used in the light box.

Sound:

I recorded 6 different people in 6 different locations (one being in front of the 66 bus) saying "6 by 6 by 6" 6 times in 6 different voices in 6 different volumes within 6 seconds. With help of Gabe Solomon, the recording was fed to a 6 multi-track piece, (which took 6 steps to do) putting one voice per speaker. One speaker was placed on each side of the room (floor, walls, ceiling; 6 sides) each on a time-based repeat. The actual track was composed of the six tracks repeated multiple times to create an actual 6 x 6 x 6 equation. (Six tracks x 6= 36 tracks in one track) The final track was then repeated 6 times (36 track, track x 6) with a 6 Millisecond space in between each time the full track (6 x 6 x 6) starts over.
The entire piece took 6 days to complete (by coincidence.)

(Needless to say, I did more.)

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Of My Friends and Family
Silver and Enamel
December 2009

Throughout Elementary, Middle and High school books on Vietnam were fed to us on a yearly basis. Multiple times a trend of wearing "their [soldiers/fighters] victims' ears" on a necklace showed up in these different stories. I had multiple friends and family members sit down as I "recreated" their eyes with enamel (powered glass) on silver. I wanted to collect the eyes of my friends and family.

Detail of bottom eye

Each eye is aprox. 1 in tall/wide and 1 cm deep of pure enamel. Over 40 enamel eyes were made, but only 4 of them survived. The rest of the 36 either exploded, cracked, or (in one batch) the enamel reacted strangely and ruined the irises. The entire necklace took over 310 hours of work (mostly on the enamel work.)

Eye for an Eye

Silver and Enamel
December 2009

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Gummy Bear Necklace (Student)

Gummy Bear Necklace (Perfect, no chain)

Direct Cast in Silver
January 2009-2010

I consider these necklaces to be less of a 'fine art piece' as much as it was just something I enjoyed doing and enjoyed seeing the enjoyment off of other enjoyed people's faces. :)
This necklace took about one year to get the best cast off of, (it was directly casted from a real gummy bear) then finely-and very carefully filed, sanded and polished. These bears are more of a sculpture I make a lot of and distribute to whomever wants one! It's really switch to be able to give everyone a piece, rather than only one person, or nobody at all.


There are two different types of bears:
The Finely-Polished-Perfect-Bear (a LOT more time spent on clean-up and polishing) which I have for between $45-50 (price may vary based on chain) and a Heck-Yeah-Student Bear! which I have for between $35-40 (price may very based on chain as well...I try to keep it cheaper since I know everyone is making work. I like art to be affordable!)

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The Argument

This piece has defiantly had the longest and most 'successful' life out of all of my pieces this Fall. It was featured in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts' 2010 Student Annual, and the Silent Auction at the SMFA Medal Award Gala (honoring Omer Fast) this past May (day! 2010) There have been many different arguments since the fall, with many more to come. I only have documentation of some of them, as a result of a hard drive crash with all of my Fall semester photographs.
The original Argument has no documentation, as explained above. Here are the other Arguments that have been made so far.

(upright & turned-over)

The Crying Argument

Dripped into a drip-tray until empty. (No one can cry forever.)

(upright & turned-over)

The Argument (Narrow)
Plexiglass, Oil & Water
2009, 2010

There's a story behind this argument (narrow) It was featured both in the Student Annual and the Award Gala Silent Auction, and won by the amazingly sweet Nataly & Jens Funk, whom of which expressed their support of the piece and the kindest words anyone has ever spoken of my work before. I went to move the piece out of the way (since they did not take it with them that evening after winning) but there was a fold in the fabric, so it didn't stand evenly. It fell over, broke, and motor oil was all over the nice linen in the MFA.

Nataly & Jens were nice enough to allow me to make a second Argument especially for them, along with a Small Dispute (a handheld argument I made for them, so they could turn it over without being worried of it falling and breaking again.) This time I didn't make a narrow argument, considering I felt they would be nervous of its top-heavy nature. They decided against the main piece (Nataly vs. Gravity) since there was air trapped in the box (I miss calculated the oil/water amounts) but offered to pay for the Small Dispute that I originally gave to them as a gift. During the construction of Nataly vs. Gravity and A Small Dispute, I created A Tiff.

The Argument (Narrow)
Taken with Nataly at the SMFA Award Gala Silent Auction, May 1st, 2010
(Taken moments before it fell over)

Nataly vs. Gravity (The New Argument)

Plexiglass, Oil & Water
May 2010

A Small Dispute
Plexiglass, Oil & Water
May 2010

A Tiff
Plexiglass, Oil & Water
May 2010

A Tiff, Nataly vs. Gravity, A Small Dispute
Plexiglass, Oil & Water
May 2010

That was my past Fall semester, next post I'll sit down and share my Spring (Winter) Semester with all of you. :)
-CM!

it happens every time.

Every time I'm in my 'sophomore' or second year anywhere, I have the best year of my time in where ever I am. I know I will miss this.

I'm at Smoke or Fire/Wilhelm Scream

And this was the product of that. -Defiantly going to see Smoke or Fire again in Allston on Monday :)

Coupled Together. Coupled Apart.

The school years is very bipolar for me, as it is with most people. This is definantly a summer blog, since the fall semester is too productive and the winter is too dreary. Life will be back soon.
Salute!
-CM!

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I gave BagFriend my safety belt...

Safe and happy forever!

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I've been insanely busy..

But that's not what's important here! I'm standing infront of another Palmer piece and I want it so badly. :) (see may or june post.)

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Internet Status =

This is me.

And my defeat.

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I'm starting to believe that Comcast isn't real.

And that I will never obtain internet. It's not the fault of anyone, other than Comcast. I've found shit tons of more artists to praise, rave, and bitch about so one that bad boy of a connection gets into my life again, you bet you'll be hearing all about it.
On another note;
It's Yom Kippur. I'm fasting, in the strongest of ways. No leather. No toothpaste. I enjoy this holiday. There are four of my loved ones lit on my stove top. If I had done everyone I have loved who had passed away, I would cause a building fire.

Funny how things work out.
-CM!

being an orientation leader and being all smiles.

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I'm at Tyler's house and no body's home.

So I'm doing my own list of things that need to be done before Mr. Bisson comes home from work today at 3:30pm. Here we go:

Chelsea's Womanly To-Do List!
1. Tape drawings to albums
2. Facebook Tour Events
3. Clean Basement
4. Clean Tyler's Room
5. Tyler's Laundry
6. Promote Tonight's Show
7. Pet Isabelle (his cat.) Forever.
8. Contact Colby!
9. Shower? Maybe? Pwease?

So that's my list for today.
Yippee!

Other than that, there's a lot going on in the little life of me. Tyler and Ali leave for tour tonight, Alex, Ditrio, and Max come home from tour tonight, and Wood Spider's Coming Home Show/TRAGWAG's Kick-off tour show are tonight (see what I did there? Cute.)
I go back to Allston, for good, again, tomorrow.

Orientation Leader Training starts on the 28th,
Orientation starts on the 1st/2nd.
School starts on the 8th.

I don't know why I've written any of this down,
maybe it's just so I can feel like there's something on this blog for the current events in my life.

Either way, I'll be posting a, well, post on another stellar artist, and semi-friend of mine, Greg Haberny soon.
Let's see how many commas I can put into one sentence, eh?


,,,,,,,,,
-CM!

I'll be in NYC with my Peepop!

Our Birthday (three months late) traditions of a Broadway show, sleeping over and walking through Central Park in the morning together. It starts today. I love it. We went to see Billy Elliot tonight. I enjoy every minute I have with you.

Love, forever,
Chelsea.

Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you the Coleslaw Monter.

This

it was a good day today.

I'm without internet in my new apartment. I'm laying upside down on Chet's old couch and I'm realizing I've been saying "it was a good day" a lot.
It was a good day today.

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I'm back in Allston,

...and I'm staying this time.

It was Chris's 21st birthday yesterday, I didn't get to attend the nightly party,
but I was lucky enough to be able to spend most of the day with him.

Zach played some nifty tunes on Bill's pump organ, JJ, Joey, Schooney, Chris, Zach and I went to breakfast, and then we all (minus JJ? He vanished!) met back at The Fort! with Bill and Chris' sister, Katie. Right now I'm surrounded by everyone making something. And it's wonderful. I missed this, a lot.

It's been a lovely two days since I've really been home. (I spent one day before then, but I didn't leave my apartment, I was too busy unpacking, painting, and whatnot.

It's been nice to be home.

Oh hey, but on another note!
I got a playable guitar that I've
actually been learning how to play!
HECK YEAH!

But just in case someone started to take me seriously for once,

let me show you what my guitar looks like:

:D

Toodle-loo!

-CM

Day V! The Rise of The Horned Fruit

Day V

The Rise of The Horned Fruit

The morning was lovely. I didn't want to get out of bed again. Ever. Ben gave Tyler a horned melon as part of his birthday gifts, it had a green, liquid-gooey filling...ewwie. It was raining on and off again. After we had Tyler cut up the recordings from the set last night into tracks. It was an amazing set. I loved it. And our dear friend Patty made quite the statement, let me tell you. I love the disappearing accent trick
After this, we folded some TRAGWAG shirts (only $5-10 at Broken Records!) and headed to lunch with Tim for Friendly's. :) Tim and I found our new love,
Samantha, you had me at "Welcome to Friendly's!"

..that's was pretty much it. Went to Ben's house, gave him the recordings, and now we're off to see Make Do and Mend at the Wallingford American Legion. We're meeting up with Omeed and Emma there. Super stoked! Hopefully I'll grab their LP there. :D
Another awesome day!
-CM!

Day IV! A Very Bisson Birthday!

Day IV

A Very Bisson Birthday!

Today is Tyler and Tim's 19th birthday! :D Tyler and Ben have a show tonight as The Dreadnaughts. Irish Folk! Super good! If you can make it, please do go! Berlin Station Cafe, Berlin, CT!

I go to go to the neato birthday dinner with the Bisson family, then off to the show!
There was a very drunken, not-actually-your-accent 'Irish' man who loved Tyler and Ben. A lot. Maybe a tad too much. Thanks for the story Patty. Yeah.

It was a really, reaallyy lovely day. :}
<3cm

Day III! Rabbit Rabbit

Day III

Rabbit Rabbit

I did not want to get out of bed today. It smelled of a storm, I was very happy with where I was, and I had my first "hangover" (I cannot get hangovers, it's impossible. I should just start trying for shits and giggles, just to see if I actually can) as the result of Dr. Thunder. Tyler's dog Max was barking for an hour straight. He would not stop! So we fed, played, walked and everything else just to try and stop him, and failed. Needless to say, we were very late for another lovely Dreadnaughts practice at Ben's house. I got to meet Ben's tortoise, Turtle.

I once again enjoyed sitting in on their practice a lot. They have a show tomorrow. Check it out:

After practice, Economixx class took over again.

I know all the ins and outs of MCC now. It's pretty awesome. I'm spending a great deal of time listening to American Steel right now. I like it a lot. A lot a lot. Tyler should be getting out of class soon. Then home! And sleep! Yes!

Catch you on the side that flips!

-CM!