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Day Thirteen: 2024
4 minute read – Kay navigates an unexpected water leak at their FLEET residency, adapting their plans, salvaging materials, and reflecting on the physical demands of their art-making process as they acknowledge the impact of aging on their ability to work on the floor.
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Day twelve: 2024
6 minute read – Kay reflects reflects on a challenging start to their day, receives exciting news about hosting an open house at FLEET, and outlines a detailed, accessible schedule for the upcoming event on Granville Island, focused on inclusivity, radical silence, and creative engagement.
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Day 9: 2024
More work is being done to the FLEET trailer and I am going to have water by the end of the week. I’m not actually that excited about that because access to water means drinking, which means washroom breaks – or getting my hands wet – brrrr. I was distracted by the storm tonight, watching…
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Day Eight: 2024
5-min read. Kay reflects on the tension of spending while working outside their home studio The day unfolds with the making of a kraft-paper trailer model and late-night projection tests, ending in a midnight bike ride home.
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Day six: 2024
8-minute read. Content warning: fatigue and people-pleasing tendencies chatGPT Summary: Kay works on The Unseen series, drafts a script, and begins a maquette. They reflect on the balance between public visibility and private focus, the challenges of anticipation when visitors arrive, and the momentum gained as the first week closes. Hit an energy pocket! I…
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Day five: 2024
5 minute read – Kay reflects on their ongoing work measuring the FLEET mobile trailer, navigating building codes, and addressing accessibility challenges, including their frustration with the lack of a ramp and railings.
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Day four: 2024 – in progress
Pending full post write up – for now, sighted peeps can take a gander at my early 360 captures. Non visual pals, I describe all content on instagram. This is work in progress and descriptions are coming with my next embed! Notes in progress: Matterport Tools: I have often gone into the space simply by…
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Day three: 2024
6 minute read – Kay reflects on their day at FLEET, contemplating the concept of an artist residency, discussing the pressure of opening events with a fellow artist, and capturing 360-degree shots while balancing work with personal reflections on their radical silence project.
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What is an “artist residency”?
4 minute video – Kay reflects on using the term “artist residency,” especially as they sign on social media using the initialized sign for home with the handshape R, and how that doesn’t accurately match how artist residencies – not living space – exist in Vancouver within contemporary artist culture.
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Day two: 2024
8 minute read – Kay reflects on the challenges of working in public during their residency, balancing focus, anxiety, and accessibility, while capturing a 360-degree scan of the space and contemplating their role as a guest on stolen land.