Heather Beardsley
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  • 2018
    • Fictive Fossils
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    • Die Sammlung
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    • Batiks
  • 2016
    • Mapping Migrations
  • 2015
    • Taxonomy
    • Institute for the Study of Fabulatory Epistemology and Fantasy Football
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Lab Notebook

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The lab notebook is a project I began in February of 2014 to track my work and studio practice.  It is a useful tool for tracking the evolution of my work and ideas, as
I make a lab report for each new project I undertake:

PURPOSE
HYPOTHESIS
MATERIALS
PROCEDURE
DATA
CONCLUSION

The data I collect about my work involves cataloging my thoughts, technical issues, and analyzing material choices, time spent on pieces, etc.  This allows me to not only understand my own progress as these pieces develop but to evaluate what happens when an objective empirical method used by scientists is applied to something considered subjective like art.  The irony of this juxtaposition becomes a critique of both disciplines as I survey their means of collecting and evaluating information, as well as their written and visual languages.

Lab Reports

Selected Pages from Notebook




Other Projects:

Continuous Drawing
Continuous Installation
Specimen Vials
Muscle Wire Specimens
OCD Drawings
Model Magic Cultures
Frankensteinian Transfers