the ghost factory: friendology

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11.24.2011

::thank you::

Happy Thanksgiving. I am thankful to all the wonderful teachers I've had:

For Miss Lipe, my kindergarten art teacher who was a friend and encouraged me.

For my seventh grade teacher who, in our conservative catholic school, wore a button proclaiming "Hail to the Thief" on Wednesday, November 8th.

For an eight grade substitute English teacher who allowed us to analyze and explore the lyrics of our favorite songs.

For Mrs. Courtney, my high school sophomore English teacher who drilled Appalachian values and literature into us for 1/2 a year, much to my dismay (at the time).

For Mrs. Williams, who, my junior year, combined our U.S. history and U.S. literature courses and assigned us to read The People's History of the United States along with State mandated textbook.

For my Art History Professor Marion Lee, whose courses on Contemporary Asian Art and The Visual Culture of China in the 19th C. forever impressed upon me the importance of the post-colonial perspective. And for the time she asked me how I thought I did on the exam, and I replied that I thought I flunked the geography portion, and she said, "Elodie. Forget about it and move on."

For my B&W photography professor Laura Larson, from whom I only took one class but inspired me to study and experiment with photography and its history.

For my Art History adviser and professor Jennie Klein, and her support and understanding, as well as her contribution to my feminist and gender studies. She always had time to meet with me.

For my Art History Methods professor Jaleh Mansoor who encouraged us to share opinions and thoughts and, however intelligent or ignorant, treated them all with validity, thus creating an incredibly effective seminar.

For my Sculpture and Expanded Practice professor Duane Mcdiarmid, and our enlightening and frustrating discussions of my thesis that I still think about frequently.

For Marilyn Poeppelmeyer, my Sculpture adviser, who shared with me her collections and who both nurtured and pushed my friend Halle's and my collaborations. Even though she didn't go out late, she still managed to come out to an evening performance my friend and I did in town.

For the countless graduate students who treated the sculpture undergrads as colleagues and readily shared their perspectives. And for my undergraduate friends who loved collaborations and interdisciplinary research and work.

For my AmeriCorps teacher pairing, Amy Davison, who taught me how to be more charming and how to be generous. But mostly I am thankful for her friendship.

For those who dare to become teachers today, like my father, Julie Freeman and Chris Luessen.

And for my mother, who taught me humility and strength, and how to cook.

Thank you all very much. Teachers forever!

9.26.2011

mend piece

hello friends!
i have started a new project that i would like to share with you because it needs participation!

what:
do you have items that need mending? i would like to help you. if you don't mind a "home mend" (less professional than a "professional mend"), please contact me with the item and details of the mend-in-need. i will do my best to make a lovely mend.

why:
a few weeks ago, my friend cayla shared this instruction from yoko ono: “Mend an object. As you mend, you mend something inside your soul as well. You mend something in the world as well.” i quite enjoy mending- it shows a well-loved item is one worth saving (loving more). mending for oneself, although satisfying, is not really communicating with others. doing another’s mending, however, is sharing action in which i would like to participate.

how:
my email address is elodie.freeman@gmail.com, but you may choose to contact me via your preferred method of exchange.

also:
i would like to help out friends-of-friends or strangers. if you know of someone who has a large to-do mend pile, please let them know about this project. if you see a stranger who needs a mend and appears they would not be offended if you suggested it, give them my contact information.

thank you!
elodie freeman

7.30.2011

via: a view from the middle

7.02.2011

via: FYLG

6.19.2011

Alexander Calder
Snow Flurry, 1948
painted sheet steel and steel wire
7'10" x 6'10 1/4"in diameter
MoMA, New York

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Marcel Duchamp
In Advance of the Broken Arm, 1915
wood and galvanized iron snow shovel
52" high
the fourth version of 1964, (after lost original of November 1915), MoMA, New York

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SNOW PIECE

Think that snow is falling. Think that snow is falling
everywhere all the time. When you talk with a person, think
that snow is falling between you and on the person.
Stop conversing when you think the person is covered by snow.

Yoko Ono
Snow Piece, 1963
from Grapefruit
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