Tracy Featherstone Art: Time-Based Creativity Project

This page is a documentation of my "Rapid Succession Time-Based Work" series. The creative works in this series will be direct, immediate, and multidisciplinary. Each week during the ongoing project, I will create one sculpture, one drawing, one text, and one digital artwork (video/sound) – in that order. Ideally, one layer of the artwork will be completed each day of the week. Each new week will mark the beginning of a new endeavor in the same order. My hope is that this exercise will help me to develop new ideas and forms in my artwork. Each week's project is started by a verbal prompt. I am still playing around with how to identify the best departure point so I have been trying a few different option to see what fits best.

This week and probably here on out I will be working solo again. I am continuing to use "Love in the Time of Cholera" for my subject.

“She was able to draw no conclusions because her husband’s patients, except for mutual friends were part of his private domain. There were people without identity, known not by their faces but by their pains, not by the color of their eyes or the evasions of their hearts but by the size of their livers, the coating on their tongues, the blood in their urine, the hallucinations of their feverish nights.”

Love in the Time of Cholera p. 239

Sculpture

Drawing

Words

For week 1 and 2, I collaborated with Mark Shepard. We took turns responding back and forth to the series. I used a combination of a dictionary and the date to come up with our verbal prompt. The first word is chosen at random from the dictionary page number that is the same number of the date the project begins. The second word is the page number that is the date in reverse.

Week 2: Dropshot/Blaclava