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Progress is Annoying

4/30/2015

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This is why my projects never end. In the studio this week I found myself playing around with an installation idea I had for the Service Project, which was a performance/video project I worked on in 2011-12 but was never really satisfied with the way it displayed. Well, I think I just figured out how I want to display it. 
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The only problem is this: now that I know how I want to display it, I can see what is really required is to redo the project. Which will take 7 months. It will also require the purchase of a about $2000 worth of digital equipment, plus another $700-1000 or so worth of other materials and many, many hours of tinkering- both with materials and with video. (As a side note, this is where I wish I had a "team," ala Doris Salcedo,  that could help me get things done more efficiently.) The end result, I think, would be something powerful, but amount of energy/resources required is daunting. Especially when I have no venue committed to exhibiting it. 
Sadly, this is what progress looks like for me. Often what I consider the "project" is really the experimentation, the sketches, for the real Project.  

Onward. 
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David J. P. Hooker lives and works in the greater Chicago area, where he is an artist and Chair of the Art Department at Wheaton College. He received an M.F.A. in Ceramics from Kent State University and a B.A. in English from Furman University. 
 
His artistic practice explores the inherent value of materials, objects, and places, hoping to find ways to better connect and understand the world we live in. Recently he was awarded the Dunhuang Ceramic Residency and spent two months as artist in residence in Lanzhou, China. 
 
When David is not freaking out over deadlines, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Elaine, his children Abbey and Samuel, and the family cat, Evee. He also enjoys baseball, BBQ, and tennis—not necessarily in that order.

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