[and since the brief notes are of little value to you, dear reader, without visual aid or some sort of context, I will add if possible a short description of the work being critiqued -- ed.]

Brando  [two large black and white drawings of a featureless human in a dark, amorphous space]

bodies / motion

moving ... where?

self-portrait -> eyes closed

meditative state

a sense of place

window

background

Paolo  [a very large drawing of the facade of Paris' Notre Dame, made up of several sheets of drawing paper connected together]

flew off to Paris for a weekend, drew Notre Dame monuments

portals ->statement of the building

tourist takes a snapshot

DARKNESS

distortion of the source

Gaea[two pieces: one, a painting; another, soft amoebic sculptural shapes in bright primary colors]

3-D self-portrait "baby in photo"

photo

painting/plexi

transparent substrate -

work on back
relationship?
all self-portraits?

Objects - orange? tomato?

baby doll 8" tall torch thing

stuffed "animal"

Me  [an Italian newspaper, disfigured in various ways to make it as difficult for Italians to read as it is for me]

-- Palette to be used to manipulate.

-- Communication: what is your take on how the confusion of language barriers manifest themselves.

-- suggestions for use of "stuff"

• juxtaposition of image and words
• combination of US/English/Italian words
• Using patterns of words as pattern to build images

-- What is the importance for you of the transparent nature created by gesso.

-- Importance of the fact that people could read the Italian text as is.

-- Joni - emphasize what is your intention of communication theme & creating your frustration of language -- How can you best create a universal sense of frustration.

-- Layne - suggested using real newspapers as source of physical sketch to use gessoed pages.

-- Think about how the importance of thin transparent paper nature is to your feeling of frustration towards communication.

-- Laura - highly suggests X-acto knife.

-- Infinite # of variables for how to obscure text & importance of communication.

-- Interest in image of city/colored & possibilities of working text w/ image.