If I had had to to this on my own I think I would have jumped off the ladder and over the edge.

I was so lucky to have the assistance of my friends Chad, angiereedgarner and her brother and my new aquaintence considerphlebas. It is such a cliche that I was too afraid to climb the ladder (being that I am in posession of a vagina), and that the boys did all the climbing.


Here is a detail. There are 125 of them. I made a stick so I could wimpily climb halfway up the ladder and pop them up there. It took me an hour to put up 5 - 4 of which were tangled beyond redemption and had to be cut down. Then Chad showed up. He shimmied right up there and started poking them into the ceiling.

Here's a view from below the stairs:


When Angie Reed and Will showed up we'd gotten pretty far in a couple of hours. I was so scared they would get tangled again, I might have been a bit of a Nazi, but an apologetic one, anyhow. In less than 3 hours, Angie Reed and I on the ground, measuring and tying off the string to the tacks and handing them up to the brave, ladder climbing, illegal wage earning Will, we got the rest up in less than 3 hours.

This is what it looks like from the side with a little help from Photoshop:


If you'd like to come to the show and are in the area, you can find details at: http://pyrogallery.com/

Man alive! I'm glad that's overwith and I'm glad to have friends who will spend monotonous hours laboring for the sake of art. That is all.

I'm a member of Pyro Gallery in downtown Louisville. Last night was First Friday - a day when everyone wanders around grazing off the tables that have been put out by the galleries. Pretty much every time you go, you'll overhear someone say "How whimsical!" about a piece of work that is really not whimsical. Depending on your mood, this can be very amusing.

Keith Auerbach's show is upstairs. If you're interested, you can look at his work at the Gallery website at: Pyro Gallery Website

"Five" is downstairs. There are five people with work in the show, but I have only put my own work up here. To check out the other artists at the gallery, please check out the member's galleries at the Pyro website.

Here are a few shots of the work I have up now:



Guitar Amp



Closet (exerior)



Closet (interior)



TV Chair



On The Shelf



I was totally uninspired, but I wanted to make something different than pictures in a frame. The idea to glue the photos to objects was the impetus for the photographs themselves. To keep them all tied together, I decided to make the shots reflections that could be associated with or illustrative of the objects. What you see is the result.

Silly me. I never took a picture of the car as it was. This is her 2nd skull. The checks are relatively new, too. Didn't think to take a picture until she was all papered off.




Ghost of the original skull lurks beneath the paint.




The new mascot. What's the new black, kids?



Here is the rear. I have been eviscerating Barbie and anyone else who happens to be the right size. I have a pile of decapitated barbies in my dwelling.



I HEART them.



Even monsters can have a whole new look with a makeover.



Side view.

I've been running around like a dope, but gotten a couple of things accomplished. I just created a new MySpace page so my last body of work can be viewed online.

You can check it out here if you'd like:

http://www.myspace.com/sedgwickhealthyself

I made it a music page so the audio track that accompanied the show could be readily accesable as well as the images from the show. I've been trying like gangbusters to get the word out about it.

I hope to start making overtures to mental hospitals about installing or showing the work on hospital grounds so inpatient clients can have a look at the work, and maybe get some professionals who forgot what they were doing to reconsider things from another point of view.


I also went on a great trip recently with my fella. It was an art car tour and we went to Eureka Springs and Houston. It was lots of fun and there were plenty of terrific photo opportunities. You can check out my photos from the trip here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/katesedgwick/

I recommend the firecracker hats the most. They're tagged so you can find 'em really quick if you want.

Signing off for now,


Kate