discombobulate table legs and attach;
design rebar tire tube holding table hook in;
disassemble (omg) and transport to site;
lacify tubes;
stitch, siitch;
foot document on forest floor;
show off (July 14);
disassemble and load in my truck;
drive home;
unload;
reload;
transport;
install;
oh daunt me and wear me out you floating forest tabletop composed of domestic thresholds!!!
:D!
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
2012 day 12 | bum sitting, BIG BUTings, feminine framed fatiguing and torquing
begin to synch into meaningful makings. ummm. though table top frame just swung up with the weight of test clamped on leg...oops. there goes gravity having its way with my work! no harm.
2012 day 13 | oh my BIG BUT, she is problematic no matter that i balance her cheekly on the edge plummeting neither to nor fro
consume line after line of text, scratch pen across slick unlined weighted page, thumb out cyber friendships, submit-update-edit-update, repost after repost of blog entries, tilt digital-capture-do-everything-device and click another world, I only really note on screen, click, upload, join it to some thoughts, post, share, compulsive check for its liking, this may occur while I am upright bipedaling myself along a trail, in the shade, mostly though this all takes place with my bum fully reclined in my cheap multicolored (ouch) portable low slung chair. the chair moves about a bit has having strong locational habits, like its master--floating pond dock as morning burns off, just inside studio with door flung open, in-out in-out in-out again of barn dependent on the depth of heat from the kiss of the sun or the degree to which the sky leaks. I sit. a lot. sun glasses on and off again, once more, as they obscure my screen view simultaneously needed for the intensity of the glowing orb's kiss. crusty, filthy, straw woven, wire shaped, once vomited in, cowboy hat, also on and off again, once more, but more from the tick induced paranoid itch and scalp crawl (one town north of Old Lyme, one town east of HadLyme).
I sit. on again off again and once more.
tick tock my making time syphoning away. mild anxiety. I relax trusting it'll (what ever it is) be there.
between the sittings lay short bursts to exhaustion or over rattled, jiggled and torqued my digits and wrists (the weak links) which come quickly to this female frame of fifty (yes I am currently hung up on my age!!!). I'd work longer, in more time consumptive stretches, however, I've learned there is a crazy and very direct link between female muscle fatigue, rattled and torqued digits and joints (don't smoke that) AND making unsafe decisions, exabberating (made up word) a technical, gravitational or visual problem, and escalating my Eeyore state. such an odd link between body and mind! yet I've adapted to listen to her -- honestly I don't have the heart or time for unsafe, exabberating, Eeyore conditions!
I stop. I recline. I sit. sunglasses on and off, again. hat on and off, again. tick scratch and check. I've conformed to the frame-mind needs, but rebel even still with MY BIG BUTs. but I am wasting time. but I am lazy. but I’ll look lazy, ungrateful. but I won't get it done. but it won't be enough. but I’ll get stuck in a hole. but I might not get up again. but. but. but. tick tock. tick check. but I am wasting a gift. but. but. but. OH MY BIG BUTs are problematic! and I precariously situate, balance, her on the edge of reason--I don't want to be squished, maimed or dead yet, I don't have luxurious time for a do-over based on stupid catastrophic gravity exabberated decisions, my female frame will frailly rebel!
so I attempt to graciously recline my bum and big BUTs in spite of the personal podcasts going off in my head.
even funnier and perhaps baring (wicked grin) perspective is as I sit pondering my big BUTs, the others meander by, or over a meal, go on about my work and production kick assedness. I disclaimer their barings with all my naked BUT-time. honestly, I think my stink and grim lead them to assume that my tic tocks are filled with constant making and my BUTs are not so big. oh if only I could make my frame comply to filling my non eating and prone moments with making!
I sit. on again off again and once more.
tick tock my making time syphoning away. mild anxiety. I relax trusting it'll (what ever it is) be there.
between the sittings lay short bursts to exhaustion or over rattled, jiggled and torqued my digits and wrists (the weak links) which come quickly to this female frame of fifty (yes I am currently hung up on my age!!!). I'd work longer, in more time consumptive stretches, however, I've learned there is a crazy and very direct link between female muscle fatigue, rattled and torqued digits and joints (don't smoke that) AND making unsafe decisions, exabberating (made up word) a technical, gravitational or visual problem, and escalating my Eeyore state. such an odd link between body and mind! yet I've adapted to listen to her -- honestly I don't have the heart or time for unsafe, exabberating, Eeyore conditions!
I stop. I recline. I sit. sunglasses on and off, again. hat on and off, again. tick scratch and check. I've conformed to the frame-mind needs, but rebel even still with MY BIG BUTs. but I am wasting time. but I am lazy. but I’ll look lazy, ungrateful. but I won't get it done. but it won't be enough. but I’ll get stuck in a hole. but I might not get up again. but. but. but. tick tock. tick check. but I am wasting a gift. but. but. but. OH MY BIG BUTs are problematic! and I precariously situate, balance, her on the edge of reason--I don't want to be squished, maimed or dead yet, I don't have luxurious time for a do-over based on stupid catastrophic gravity exabberated decisions, my female frame will frailly rebel!
so I attempt to graciously recline my bum and big BUTs in spite of the personal podcasts going off in my head.
even funnier and perhaps baring (wicked grin) perspective is as I sit pondering my big BUTs, the others meander by, or over a meal, go on about my work and production kick assedness. I disclaimer their barings with all my naked BUT-time. honestly, I think my stink and grim lead them to assume that my tic tocks are filled with constant making and my BUTs are not so big. oh if only I could make my frame comply to filling my non eating and prone moments with making!
Monday, July 2, 2012
2012 day 12 | awe. I waited. good thing
no way I was strong enough. definitely a two person job. only minor tweaking to the under tabletop joist system in order. thankful all system slides so just a littl sliding and wa-la. then to start on top ends. will put some lateral support at back base of each chair where it strikes ground so it won't tip over sideways will I work the under structure. no squishing kathy, kathy. so a little more in structural safety aspects!!!
2012 day 12 | stalling stalling wait for it wait
back up spotter for under table joist lifting. wait for it. wait. ok. ok. already. fidget. WAIT. really kathy, wait. yes. some mutter to themselves under their breath, I mutter with my thumbs on my blog! mutter.
2012 day 12 | time is seriously clicking by
check. four back of chair hinge/hook sliders operation.
_____. two ladders out.
_____. spare muscles for lifting.
_____. lifting in place.
_____. check stability so I don't get squished.
_____. add stabilizing system of needed.
_____. determine table width.
_____. tablify end corners of floating forest tabletop.
_____. design suspension MODULAR units from which to suspend tubes.
_____. have a jacob dinner + pass out!
OR
_____. lunch break and rest wrists (the current weak link).
_____. alt. based on body abuse. prep a bunch of wire units for tube sewing.
_____. alt. smell the flowers. read a book. rest wrists. got to work more thoughtfully to not abuse the skinny weak links.
_____. two ladders out.
_____. spare muscles for lifting.
_____. lifting in place.
_____. check stability so I don't get squished.
_____. add stabilizing system of needed.
_____. determine table width.
_____. tablify end corners of floating forest tabletop.
_____. design suspension MODULAR units from which to suspend tubes.
_____. have a jacob dinner + pass out!
OR
_____. lunch break and rest wrists (the current weak link).
_____. alt. based on body abuse. prep a bunch of wire units for tube sewing.
_____. alt. smell the flowers. read a book. rest wrists. got to work more thoughtfully to not abuse the skinny weak links.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
2012 day 11 | oh how I lied!
lies
I am not reading
with my feet still kicked up
in my studio door.
I am sweating.
I am prototyping (working).
I've followed the rules
using only scrap to
fabricate extendable
chair hook hinge
for underjoist of
floating forest tabletop
(plus a store bought bolt-
hence morning hardware-bagel run). yay!
i am heroine-ing in my own art making.
and yes I've over dramatized the photo of the sky with a silly little filter app.

truths
the sky rumbles and rolls and leaks.
welder and grinder re-stored away (safety precaution as I don't weld or grind in an enclosed wooden barn with a cedar chip strewn floor).
so tomorrow final four sliders will be welded and slider slot in wood cut.
now I can get back to mindless reading. oh yes. oh yes.
no superhero tights required!
2012 day 11 | waaaawhooo!
so I kick back in my studio door, bowl of popcorn and book 3 of the hunger games in hand, as I watch the rains roll in! I am not totally lazy, but it is Sunday, so I'll use the sky rumble and drip as my excuse to lullify this day! heroine-ing will begin tomorrow!

ps. how about the view from my studio door. double waaaawhooo!
ps. how about the view from my studio door. double waaaawhooo!
2012 day 11 | breaking my rules again
we'll see how these porch posted soon to be distended from floating forest tabletop table legs plays out. would have loved to trash harvested some legs, but alas I'll just gave to age, crapify them myself. kind of like singing falsetto. sing. sing.
2012 day 11 | besides the superhero fashions for the feminine are by far more aesthetically pleasing then men in tights!
being the heroine of my life set off so many personal podcasts (i'd say tapes but that would date me!) that on the last leg of my return from the hardware store, past the devil's hopyard, I thought I was going to toss my cookies from motion sickness all the while dodging bicyclists and countering mind musings. (gosh that's one long sentence paragraph!)
wham!
so I thumb out a text to myself. yes dad, I am not driving and texting (unlike texas, it is actually against the law in connecticut.)! when has the heroine ever been a self serving egotistical megalomaniac!?! yes, they almost all are seriously a bit idiosyncratic, imperfect, pushed to their edge, but never self centered. instead they tend to be the ones who good naturedly with the occasional undisclosed cursing, pushing past hardships, obstacles or wrongs, AND almost always bringing others along with them!
shazam!
now to finish fabricating the clasping system for my floating forest table top with my new cut off wheels and a little more metal hot glue (welding). naturally I've dilly dallied til the heat of the day :)
wham!
so I thumb out a text to myself. yes dad, I am not driving and texting (unlike texas, it is actually against the law in connecticut.)! when has the heroine ever been a self serving egotistical megalomaniac!?! yes, they almost all are seriously a bit idiosyncratic, imperfect, pushed to their edge, but never self centered. instead they tend to be the ones who good naturedly with the occasional undisclosed cursing, pushing past hardships, obstacles or wrongs, AND almost always bringing others along with them!
shazam!
now to finish fabricating the clasping system for my floating forest table top with my new cut off wheels and a little more metal hot glue (welding). naturally I've dilly dallied til the heat of the day :)
2012 day 11 | Above all, be the heroine of your life!
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. -- Nora Ephron (1941-2012), author of when Harry met Sally
My faith and friend background would unhealthily tell me this is wrong, selfish and deletes god from the equation. a weird part of my eeyore disposition whole heartily agrees. yet my innards know this statement to be ringing soundly with a multiplicity of important truths, my history causes me to qualify and preface each phrase with various forms of contractual disclaiming fine print. so engrained that even here I have to force myself not to thumb out the qualifiers. instead I am learning to snip, snip, these tethers that bind me in the mental musings of contractual obligation and bar me from being a candidate for the leading role of heroine of my own life. even as I type, more qualifiers emerge, "in a healthy way," "in a non self serving mode," and on and on (see I've thumbed some of my fine print!!! aaaagh) . I've spent my life so entrenched in these qualifiers that I haven't lived the truth of the call of this statement. so today I continue my quest to undig and untether myself from worm wretchedness theology and to become the heroine of my life.
I munch my bagel, toasted well, revisit my hardware list and prepare for a hot day of making! mmm. to be the heroine of my own life. yes, I like the ring, even with its responsibility, and the joy inherent in this adventure. now if I can just maintain that in my thoughts* long enough to live it.
My faith and friend background would unhealthily tell me this is wrong, selfish and deletes god from the equation. a weird part of my eeyore disposition whole heartily agrees. yet my innards know this statement to be ringing soundly with a multiplicity of important truths, my history causes me to qualify and preface each phrase with various forms of contractual disclaiming fine print. so engrained that even here I have to force myself not to thumb out the qualifiers. instead I am learning to snip, snip, these tethers that bind me in the mental musings of contractual obligation and bar me from being a candidate for the leading role of heroine of my own life. even as I type, more qualifiers emerge, "in a healthy way," "in a non self serving mode," and on and on (see I've thumbed some of my fine print!!! aaaagh) . I've spent my life so entrenched in these qualifiers that I haven't lived the truth of the call of this statement. so today I continue my quest to undig and untether myself from worm wretchedness theology and to become the heroine of my life.
I munch my bagel, toasted well, revisit my hardware list and prepare for a hot day of making! mmm. to be the heroine of my own life. yes, I like the ring, even with its responsibility, and the joy inherent in this adventure. now if I can just maintain that in my thoughts* long enough to live it.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
2012 day 10 | weld that you little dog %¥}!!^%^~#!?!!
not to shameful for "an artist!" who only sporadically glues metal together. got temp to feed on the little Lincoln a little more appropriately balanced in ratio which made all the difference in my little swirligig metal glue wads (welds). metal hot glue gun. nice toy. though I definitely have splatter issues! and who designs these silly little don't-burn-my-scalp caps?!. they aren't fooling any one with zebra stripe fashions. welding caps make any one look like a goober!
2012 day 10 | undisclosed dog turd welds -- oh the shame of it!
Friday, June 29, 2012
2012 day 9 | I broke the rules and now I must fake reruleifying
yesterday afternoon I slapped some neutralizing paint down to minimize my structural material adaptions.
OMG what was I thinking!

naturally this broke my rule of rawness, of using the recovered materials as is in all their own glory and shame. but I formally had inclination to reduce the visual color disjunct. my bad. so now I am trying to sand down to the natural rust patina. it is just not the same. real sameness is never attainable offline. in failing to follow my ruled system with redemptive attempts at command z (edit > undo), it has come out even better than I could have hoped for. fail that! and my Eeyore lethargy moves just a little more forward in enjoying my hopes of a piglet day.

OMG what was I thinking!

naturally this broke my rule of rawness, of using the recovered materials as is in all their own glory and shame. but I formally had inclination to reduce the visual color disjunct. my bad. so now I am trying to sand down to the natural rust patina. it is just not the same. real sameness is never attainable offline. in failing to follow my ruled system with redemptive attempts at command z (edit > undo), it has come out even better than I could have hoped for. fail that! and my Eeyore lethargy moves just a little more forward in enjoying my hopes of a piglet day.
2012 day 9 | untangle but whatever the hell I do, don't pull the threads!
without the click or slide of plastic, I extricate myself from the isles I found myself meandering. I'd intended a hardware run with list in hand. but like a mindless drunk lifting the bottle to my lips, at the circle circled red dot, I turned in. what the hell!?! how is it that I am at this residency at capacity with amazing artists, in a drop dead gorgeous landscape at my senses beck and call, pampered with chef and housekeeper and my legs are pumping me up and down the isles of Target? omg. is it about some freakin kind of safe sameness that I cling even when there is so much before me, right here, right now? perhaps it is the illusion that the next cute outfit will move and motivate me out of isolation, smooth my innard awkward social gate, or with the latest 5 buck video, I'll be hunkering down in the hermitage. I know why Target--pacification--mind eye candy without costly plastic sliding damage. but it doesn't work. I have so much to do, that I actually want to do, I've only got this one life so I actually don't understand this regular stuckness which naturally replicates... stuckness I keep embedding in.
I wonder how our culture, how i, would be different if we/I simply went back to thumb sucking. just think of all the money we would save and how sober we would be, if we quit trying to mask our awkward thumb sucking innard anxieties in our consumptive grown up ways.
needless to say and obvious by this post, I awoke kind of internally funky this drizzly morning, contemplating several tasks at hand to be used to redirect whatever thinkings got me stuck again.

awe my morning on the pond not thwarted as I write and thumb my iPhone under the canopy of my purple poncho. yes I came prepared! so my morning ritual continues as the drizzle and the funk tapers off. so each morning I try to future cast my way and untangle that which hinders. remembering to untangle the lines and whatever the hell I do, don't pull the threads Kathy!
chairs and table call me.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
2012 day 8 | my fabricated chairs

now to design and build floating table! yay. some work just starts feeling right somewhere along the build phase (or wrong). this one feels right and I am pretty dang excited about it. it will be perfect her amongst the trees with an undulating grass carpeted meadow underfoot!


Wednesday, June 27, 2012
2012 day 7 | one more run then on to the seating unit
c-2 should be done mid day tomorrow. by afternoon that day, I'll be off on the floating table top then secure a site. will tubify it on location.
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