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The Artist & Accomplices

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The Artist:

Amy Sujae Lee is a 4th year Visual Arts Studio student at York University. She has asked herself many times why she got fixated on such a big project for a class assignment while working on it, but today she is quite satisfied as a result.

The Accomplices:

 - Silver metal ladder from mommy: there is no picture because last week somebody took it somewhere. I still haven't told my mom that it's gone missing, and I'm hoping she would forget about lending it to me. If whoever that took it is reading, if you could please return it to its original position I will gladly take it home.

- The tall, cushiony chair:

I found this chair hanging out one day beside the CFA cafe; as it was easy to move around because of its wheels, and rose up pretty high with its height adjustable handle, I hired it immediately as one of my main accomplices.

As expected it proved to be useful. This chair would hold my script (notebook with the glued and typed notes of what I was going to write on the walls), ink container and brush while I'm working away on the ladder on higher parts of the wall.

Maybe it was the owner of the chair that took my ladder.....

The blue chair:

This one's a strange one. It's been there before I was, it's still here and it probably will remain much longer after I'm gone. I have no idea what it's doing there, but it was very very helpful during all production stages of the installation. It held many of my things before the tall cushiony chair came around, and is very versatile at being a support for higher and lower places for both gluing paper and writing, although its very versatility did make it a kind of mediocre support for reaching even higher places. Nonetheless, it has all my gratitude for supporting my aching back and limited arm reach day after day.

Chinese brush from Curries: I bought a small Chinese brush specially for this project because I thought the ones I owned were too big. I was right, except it turned out that the new brush wasn't small enough for my purposes either. but I worked around it somehow so it's all good. It lost quite a bit of its hair during the production..

Packages and packages of newsprint paper: I was originally going to cover the walls in Chinese rice paper. I wanted to make the walls look pristine white, with gracious calligraphy-like writing on it. But soon, I realized it would end up impossibly expensive if I were to do that, so I gave up and turned to the cheapest paper I could find instead - newsprint paper. However, in the end, the paper proved my preconceptions wrong in two ways; first, it did not look cheap once it was up on the walls. Second, it really was not cheap once the costs added up.

Black india ink: I had this plastic bottle of india ink from at least grade 11 of high school. I guess it was a pretty big bottle for ink; I used it and used it time after time, but it just never ran out.

With this project, I finished the bottle to the last diluted drop. I'd say it was a pretty long-lived life.

Ladder from the painting studio: This ladder is quite tall, but it's quite heavy as well; it was a little tough trying to work with it for so long, as I'd get tired very soon using it. Nonetheless, it played an indispensible role during the paper-pasting stage.

Ink container: I'm sure I can squeeze out some kind of an interesting narrative out of this one too if I tried, but I'd rather play online rpg flash games, so let's skip this one.

Cut and pasted script in modern art history notebook: I am an obsessive writer and note-taker; I like to keep my head active with this and that thoughts, and I like to record them whenever they arise so I won't have to hold on to them to reflect on them later. For this project I complied my writings of past three and half years loosely based on the subject of art, and selected a few of them to write. I have a lot more I want to say about this, but let's leave that for later. (Maybe)

Various kinds of adhesives strong enough to hold the paper for however long the installation had to last but weak enough to make no marks once the paper comes off: Let's not go there. It was depressing. Actually it's still depressing.