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Welcome To My Study by artist/comedian Mitchell Magee.

From his artist’s statement:

Although deriving much from a formalist vocabulary of the 1960’s, I think of my work as displaced objects from some forgotten window display, or the leftover prop from a play, or part of a sign from some unknown business.

I’m guessing this was written a little while ago when he was getting his MFA, but you can see how it still infuses his comedy performance.

Via Laughing Squid.

Hilariously enough, I spent the past week feverishly trying to find a new place to live and moving all my belongings for the second time in a month. This was not planned at all, but instead came as a quick reaction to a few unexpected surprises with the place I moved into on July 1st. Once I realized that my current housing situation was less stable than I had anticipated, I acted quick to escape. As much as it sucked having to search for new apartments at the same time that I was interviewing potential replacements, I’m still glad that I was able to deal with it now, rather than in the middle of the school year. Suffice it to say, my new resolution to blog more is not exactly off to a great start. The good news is that I did finally find a new place. And it’s beautiful!

So I am establishing this blog as a place to update friends and other folks about my experiences at graduate school. I just started a program in digital arts and new media at UC Santa Cruz. Hopefully this blog will be a place where I can also share video and other artwork that I’m producing. We’ll see how much gets produced in my first year (as I’ve heard from previous cohorts that the initial year can be extremely busy with other demands), but in the meantime I will be posting work that I completed while I was at Berkeley.