Irvine

My ball (see below post) ended up in the mosquito breeding ground behind my apartment in Verano Place, the UC Irvine graduate and family housing complex.

I also took some photos in Irvine today as research. The paintings I'm working on lately are based on photographs of places where I've lived or visited for some time. The work (I think) has to do with both personal experience of these places and the ideology of how these places are represented. The images I've been working with are mostly from before moving out here and I hope Southern CA images will start creeping in...

If today's post is not fully in the spirit of the wandering studio, I'm trying to develop a short project with a more 'interventionist' (this word I'm taking from http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=38) for later this month.

For an interesting news story from a few years ago based in Irvine (something that could translate into some narrative art?) see http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/30/60minutes/main527530.shtml.

Enjoy! -MW