Alexandria week...i've lost count...

Okay, so I still feel a little lost but I guess in a better way because i have lots of little ideas running around in my head and drawing and theme sequence are kind of getting mixed up but thats okay. I really like the idea of collections and all those taxidermy-ied/"stuffed" animals at la specola, (especially the millions of birds and amazing nests) I guess maybe because i spent half a semester making a form of stuffed stuff... So, this week i have been covering a lot of stuff white and painting over stuff with gesso and I'm kind of thinking about what we preserve or add back on top of things (like all the frescoes around here) or where pieces are missing out of them or one has been just totally transported or where one is found under a newer one. As well as making reliefs out of fabric and combining them with other drawings. Also, I was thinking of making the actual forms of the drawings on my dolls as little figurines out of white modeling clay (maybe cover them in fabric? some weird blob shape of a taxidermy doll?) thats a little creepy but anywho... and displaying them in a specimen sort of way and i feel like all the white has that museum/gallery feel (so its like that distance and attachment at the same time thing maybe?). i've also been making lots of little drawings/combinations of drawings out of the outlined figures  but i'm not positive where those are going yet but i like them so i'll see...

here are some pictures of work this week and a few cool photos