Kaitlyn Jo Smith: process of Shave

I thought to myself, "What do I have to do, that I hate doing, that I don't ever want to watch myself do and that nobody else wants to see either?"  The answer to that long-winded question was shaving my legs.

Kaitlyn Jo Smith: inspiration for Shave

While thinking about what kinds of art I am not attracted to yet may enjoy making I kept wandering back to the idea of durational videos.  This lead me to watching segments of many of Bruce Naumans' performance pieces.  I've included several screenshots below.

Kaitlyn Jo Smith: inspiration for You Longed Greatly For Your Fathers House.

Inspiration for this piece came while looking at Ann Hamiltons' mouth pinholes and Oddette Englands' photo series "Thrice Upon a Time".

Ann Hamilton

Odette England

I also was reading through the book of Genesis around this time and came across the following verse which really seemed to resinate with me.

And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house, but why did you steal my gods?

– Gen 31:30 (ESV)

Kaitlyn Jo Smith: Shave.

Screenshots from what I wouldn't consider "ugly", but most defiantly "boring" art.

Not I - Samuel Beckett

Not I - Samuel Beckett

Watch this in the dark it's the most fun you'll ever have.