George and the Cat

Happy Winter

Right now performance in ATA WINDOW 992 Valencia @ 21st St

Hello

I'll cut your hair

Haircut anyone?

Relative Performance Saturday November 28, 4-8 PM

Federina's Costume from 10-29-15 - Oct 31, 2015

http://bloomingbabel.blogspot.com

Test shot for Weird Garden Scene

> To be performed and filmed live on November 28 in the afternoon/evening at Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia St., San Francisco.
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Healing Moment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBXkU_wknw

More realistic Night views | the graffiti wants itself to be seen where they leave off

It's kind of unfortunate, the way somebody has gone and etched graffiti into the places along Valencia that can't really afford to buff it out.
It's one reason that I put the little hanging caterpillar forms in the window, they blend with the shape of the glass graffiti.

A Night View of where we leave off

https://youtu.be/-7u2QFG6uBM

Where We Left Off at the Reception

It was at the reception for the window installation at ATA, this was the seventh anniversary of my sister Yolanda's death. She died on September 11*, 2008 from ovarian cancer. This is a picture of her very close friend Elizabeth,in a photo booth I had made. It was a film noir setup with window blinds. It had nothing to do with the window installation, except that it involved light and a boundary - a leaving off, as it were. That's what a window is, what Shadow is: a leaving off, transparent or insolid in some way. Visitors to the reception were invited to pose in the booth, and I would direct them in acting out poses. In this photograph, my prompt was that Elizabeth was looking out the window and seeing Yolanda.

Behind the Scenes | Where we leave off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzMVQ3QmYrw&sns=em

I must confess that some of these little kinetics systems I made ended up being more for my entertainment than for any outside viewers, unless they happened to step in the doorway and look behind the paper that divides the front of the window from the back. My intention was for this contraption to cause movement in the rest of the installation. I also planned to backlight and project its shadow onto the paper. I may yet get the opportunity, but the space is very small and difficult to work in, and it's hard to go work at night because there are often programs at ATA, which is great.

Day for Night | where we leave off

Day for night is a film term: shooting films in the daytime and just closing down the camera shutter, or putting filters over the lens, so it looks like night time. (Sort of)
This has nothing to do with this installation, except that I come in the daytime and work for the night time. I try to imagine how it'll look when lit and moving at night.

Very soon I will be working day for day.

New Inhabitant | Where We Leave Off

In the window again. I'll be here til about 12:30 I guess.

Best,

Claire

LED lights cast nice shadows

And so can you! Tomorrow night 6-9pm

ATA 

992 Valencia Street

http://www.atasite.org/?p=10128

Best,

Claire

More detail of hangers on. | where we leave off today

The little hairs broke off the turning part of this kinetic system. I fixed them using one of the Caterpillar shapes and reconfigured it a little.
I'm in the window until 2 o'clock

Hangers On | where we leave off

I made a good discovery: while making the internal support for "wall thorns" that I make out of plaster, I usually use a pipe cleaner as the armature. At some point I tried pulling a pipe cleaner quickly through my fingers and it formed a curl, an element of its structure. It's what-? The crystalline structure of the metal wire? - I don't know. I liked the shape and dipped it in plaster.
I made a lot of them after I realized that if I hang them from clear strings, they are like some funny caterpillars that were hanging over a trail by a river in France. This was during an amazing hike, and possibly the most difficult one I've ever been on.

Hopefully we'll get more and more movement in the window with the hanging caterpillars. I'm trying to animate them by different means, like pointing the fan at the paper that they're connected to, thus seeing that I can make a web with the clear plastic string. Then, using the principle of a spiderweb, I can have one of the kinetic sculptures tap the web, causing movement throughout.

Though more challenging than coming in with a preset plan, it's best to work this way: using bits of ideas and letting the space reveal what's interesting to pursue.

WHERE WE LEAVE OFF - Labor Day

I'm in the window now until 6pm. my favorite thing today is the tiny projection that the magnifying glass makes of the street.

WHERE YOU LEFT THE SMILE OF YOUR SHADOW

Wearable Shadow component of WHERE WE LEAVE OFF

WHERE I Left Off Today

ATA
992 Valencia St (near 21st)

WHERE WE LEAVE OFF

September 3, I was trying to use the magnifying glass to project some lace, but it was too bright. That led me to discover a nice little projection of the buildings illuminated by the sun. Then I noticed how lovely the shadows of passersby looked on the paper I installed.

WHERE WE LEAVE OFF In the window again. I'll be here til about 2:30 I reckon.

In the window again. I'll be here til about 2:30 I reckon.

Day 1 of WHERE WE LEAVE OFF

I set up 2 pieces and found that the motion detector doesn't work through glass. I visited with a passerby.
Yes, on the way there the box of supplies made a great sound. I'm looking forward to setting up the sound part.

It's nice to build the installation bit by bit. It will grow, shrink, and change throughout the month.

WHERE WE LEAVE OFF UPDATE

In the window for the first time. It's already interesting. Passers by are curious and I haven't even started. I'll be here til about 2:30, I reckon. Come on by anytime.💡🔋

WHERE WE LEAVE OFF RECEPTION Friday Sept 11, 6pm Artists Television Access

http://clairebain.com

WHERE WE LEAVE OFF September Window installation at ATA, 992 Valencia Street, (near 21st) San Francisco

I'll have an installation in ATA's window at 992 Valencia Street (near 21st St) for the whole month of September 2015. Check back here to see when I'll be there working/performing...come on by and join it maybe.

Free Reception Friday September 11, 6-10PM. Music, refreshments, performance, screening, interactive art, +