>> Monday, November 3, 2008
Ok.
I'm a vain person.
I'm obsessed with the aesthetics of design. And... Blogger just isn't doing it for me anymore.
Please visit me at my new home:
http://andrewschroeder.wordpress.com
It's minimal and FRESH!
This blog is focussed on the ramblings and musings of Andrew Schroeder, a conceptually oriented artist living in Minneapolis, MN. With any luck the terms "maverick" and "hockey mom" will never be mentioned on this blog.
Ok.
I'm a vain person.
I'm obsessed with the aesthetics of design. And... Blogger just isn't doing it for me anymore.
Please visit me at my new home:
http://andrewschroeder.wordpress.com
It's minimal and FRESH!
I'm awake. It's early. My friend Rosie is on her way and I am supposed to take her to the airport. She is off to campaign for Barack Obama in North Carolina.
Why is it so difficult to come to terms with my lack of artistic ambition? Or, a better question: why is it difficult to make myself do things?
Have I become the master procrastinator?
I have several new projects in the works. With any luck, this will drag me away, kicking and screaming, from my personal obsessions, relationships, and other detritus.
Maybe.
I have completely neglected to explain how this blog was named.
When I first moved to Minneapolis, I knew absolutely no one. Not a soul. I was befriended by two great artists: Dave Stordahl and Rosie Kimball. Together they began our first collaborative project.
Each morning they would email me a distinctly different audio file saying good morning. Even though it may be a common,trite expression, when layer after layer of audio is blended together a meditative harmony forms.
Knowing that Dave and Rosie were out there - two welcoming forces of ephemerality and also stability got me through my first year of grad school.
I'm grateful.
(Untitled–Bushwick, 2008, 16 X 20", C-Print)
Every morning I take the Business Casual Bus (#24). This morning, while I was surrounded by the hordes of Target employees on their way to the hive, I started to think about art production. While gazing out the window I noticed that the poorly thought out construction work on 9th AVE was kicking up dust - this dust was in turn being highlighted by a single beam of light - bouncing off the IDS building.
It was perfect. Something I could never make or document - only experience.
As my hiatus from the world of perpetual art production for the sake of personal glory, esteem, and attention deepens, I'm realizing that perhaps the best work is non-work. Maybe, after all is said and done the moments of perfect atmosphere/diffused meaning/ambivalent presence can be more meaningful than any object, image, text, or sound.
(Fermin, Post-Champagne, Pre-Coffee)
I'm back from New York (where I was visiting my friend Andrea and her rather dangerously great roommates Jeff and Paul). When the $100 + bottles of champagne start mixing with the sangria, I should know that I'm in trouble. There may have been dancing involved. Just keep that in mind.
The purpose of the trip was to figure out if I can actually move to NYC this year. Or to be more accurate, to figure out if I can actually make a life work in America's largest (and maybe only true) city.
The answer is a sad no.
I lack the "making do" instinct. I've decided I'm such a flighty and escapist person that I cannot make things work as they are. I'd never be able to carve out my niche amongst the metropolis. Maybe its the modernist/utopian in me... but... I'm going to have to stick it out in Minneapolis, MN... loving my new shoes, haircut, and single life.
Perhaps my liver will recover sometime this week?
Andrew
(Squid on a Stick, Manhattan Bridge)
(Looking West, 86th Floor)