From the posts below the top two, you can see that I started the academic year working with a writer and a musician. One of those projects has continued and one has slowed down a bit. That said, I have now begun working closely with a chef, a pilot, and a performance artist. I wish, oh I wish I could show a video on here that would show the performance, but we just did the performance last week, so I'm working on the video. On the other hand, I have work that I've done with the chef and pilot.

These are images taken of the blocks I've started working on in conversation with the pilot that I've gathered ideas and objects from. In talking with her, I've learned a lot about the path that a pilot takes to get from one place to another and how it mimics my process in that it is rather unpredictable. You might say that we both work with tools that give us a destination point, but that we never know what path we're going to take to get there. With that in mind, I began to use maps that she gave me (which articulate this unpredictable path) and various objects and ideas in a new body of photogram blocks which are much larger than before. (The big objective in my TI project is to work with others to expand my approach, but one thing that people mention consistently is that I should work larger, too.)

This is work that I've started with the chef. She and I have been tying to devise a way to lessen the predictability factor in cooking without the recipe falling flat on its face. Therefore, we're starting with recipes that really do work (that we make up and collage together and ...) and moving backwards to see if we can provide people with the starting ground they might need to have the confidence to cook with a personal vision (visual aesthetics) rather than the run of the mill concoction. We feel this will heighten the experience of cooking/baking altogether.

This is a drawing I've started for another collaborative project using hand built music boxes - music would be made with no prescribed outcome in mind.

There are several projects on the horizon, but the one that has come the farthest and that I have the most documentation for is called Speaking Volumes: http://danrtalley.com/speaking.volumes/