The wallpaper and I are fighting a battle to the death.

White. American.

Always drawing a mammoth, you child.

Sigmund will teach you everything you require to become beautiful.

I finished my first commercial assignment for Karl. This is the result:

There is a Paul Sharits exhibit in NYC next weekend. I will be attending. Here is the information:

Paul Sharits: Analytical Studies I-IV
Saturday, December 19, 3-8pm

Made between 1971 and 1976, Paul Sharits’ rarely-shown series Analytical Studies consists of four sections, each devoted to a specific aspect of film technology, containing several sub-sections that play through various formal permutations of the given characteristic.

This event will take place over an afternoon, with each work introduced by a guest speaker. After the screenings, the event concludes with a panel discussion on Sharits’ work.

Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame, 16mm, 1971-76, 25 mins

A set of pure color studies, each exploring one dominant hue. Their rhythmic structure mimics the “typical fortification illusions preceding a migraine attack.”

1. Modular Blue
2. Green Matrix
3. White Field
4. Orange Field
5. Pink Modulation A
6. Pink Modulation B
7. Temporal frameworks
8. Migraine Onset A
9. Migraine Onset B
10. Migraine Onset C
11. Migraine Onset D

Analytical Studies II: Un-Frame-Lines, 16mm, 1971-1976, 30 mins

A highly varied and playful series of short sketches involving induced camera “mistakes,” printing “errors” and various “assaults” upon film.

Analytical Studies III: Color Frame Passages, 16mm, 1973-74, 22 mins

In this series, the first section becomes the subject matter for the subsequent six, each going back to the original material with varying degrees and forms of reflexivity.

Section I: “Specimen”
Section II: “Divergent Strip Vectors”
Section III: “Document”
Section IV: “Strip in Strip”
Section V: “Strip of Strip, A”
Section VI: “Strip of Strip, B”
Section VII: “Strip of Strip of Strip B”

Analytical Studies IV: Blank Color Frames, 16mm, 1975-76, 15 mins

Like Analytical Studies I, these short works each develop a different rhythmic and/or melodic idea using only rapid successions of color frames, here analyzed through rephotography.

Specimen II
Specimen III
Specimen IV
Diagonal Temporality B
Diagonal Temporality C
Temporal Frame B