I just received this poem written by S. David which was inspired by a photograph of one of our Parsons students working out a beading pattern in Guatemala. I’m flattered that this image would inspire poetry!

The Patterning [untitled image 9426]
[by S. David] [art by Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo]

Math
Art
Geometric
Patterning
Whatever
It’s creative
Planning
Plotting
Is it
Homework
Or work
Sometimes
A picture
Tells a story
Sometimes
Only part
Of the story
And which
Is this

19§ [Orig 7/02/08]

This past June, while in Guatemala I learned how to bead, and became fascinated with the idea of each bead as a pixel. This concept is inspiring some new work – taking pixels into the material world. Here is a short animation that took me 3 weeks to bead.

A Group Show features the Artists Beate Landen, Kirt Markle, Ronda Johannessen, Whitey Flagg, Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Annie Leist

Curated by Christine Kennedy

July 16th – 31st 2008

Opening Reception Thursday July 17th 6 – 8

The Broadway Gallery is pleased to announce Flow, a summer exhibition featuring Beate Landen, Kirt Markle, Ronda Johannessen, Whitey Flagg, Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Annie Leist, artists whose work investigates the relationships between the fictional space of the artwork, the world and experience.
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I spent the month of June in San Lucas Toliman, Guatemala, with 13 students and 2 other colleagues from The New School, collaborating with the Mayan artisan women association, Ajkem’a Loy’a. I am highly inspired by this project and hope to continue practice and theory-based research on how design interventions can promote economic development.

While there, we created this blog that we updated almost daily, and of course, I also took many, many photographs of which the best are on my Flickr account.