Notes on Thesis

1 box
2 box
3 box
4 box
5 box
6
Oh what smell!
Mmmm take it in...
Is it the lumber?
I slice the taped seam and fold over the flaps.
What smell,
How contained is the smell!
...My dad's work shop.
I sigh.
My heart beats faster,
With the opening of every box, a whif of savory scent.
The romantic smell of my father.
Lumber, motor oil, the saw dust, the great outdoors.
They barely describe the scent.
I put my head inside the box and move about the foam peanuts.
I sigh.
His aroma is contained inside the box.


ARCHEOLOGISTS make history. They dig up the treasures and arrange them with other "like objects" to create a culture. They use objects to create a COHERENT NARRATIVE.
2/4/09 A flat head screwdriver falls from the sky and nearly hits me in the head.
10/ /08 I am invited to a Vampire Masuerade in which i for the first time have my tarrot cards read. The reader says if I follow my intution i'll find the tree of life, peace, and happiness.
11/ /08 Justin suddenly started drawing the first of many trees in our collaborative sketch book.
1/ /10 Spee-dee delivery unpacks all of my art crates and repacks my art in new boxes. They fill my crates with strange articles and objects.
11/11/08 For the past 3ish years i've been coincidentally looking at the clock at 11:11AM. On the internet i stumble upon how people who see this time are really light workers called by God to keep people in high spirits during the last years before the apocolypse. Trembling after my resarch at 3:33 A.M. I happen to notice that the date is 11/11/08
2/5/09 Danielle Rosen dreams about a painting i've completed. I hadn't painted in 4 years and suddenly made a painting for a class. She walks into my studio and low and behold it was the same painting she dreamt about.
January 2009 - The phrases "chasing after the wind" and "nothing new under the sun" are spewing from the mouths of many different MIAD students.
2/18/09 A co-worker tells me I am the mother fucking daughter of Jesus Christ. I chuckle, we all are sons and daughters.
1/ /09 7 out of 17 kids wore red to class


Richard Pabst, heir to PABST BLUE RIBBON, Purchased Denis Balk's catalogs from the opening at INOVA a month ago. He is donating them to the UWM library. Curator of INOVA, Nicholas Frank says Milwaukee should feel fortunate to have such treasures of Denis Balk, as forever part of Milwaukee history. Now catalogued in the archives.
Constructions of the Gallery. Acknologing them. Defending them. Challenging them.