Howdy
Janu 31, 2022
Lake City, Seattle
Howdy,
It’s Joe! Thank you for catching up with the 2022 OS & Liminal Lab Autonomous Mechanics Radical Field Practice Cohort, which I’m very excited to join! Writing virtual correspondence has always been an important part of my art practice, so I decided to bring the joyful attitude, levity, and attention I typically reserve for a friendly email sent from the middle of the ocean (my emails were typically long-winded, intense bursts sent from the Engine Control Room while I was on the evening 8x12 watch as 2nd Assistant Engineer on a research vessel, prefaced by my exact latitude and longitude) to my documentation here — think of these notes as little messages in a bottle that a warm, lapping surf washed up at your feet in the sand. Since this is the first of a series of Field Notes that will document my work this year, I wanted to give a bit of information about myself and what I plan to explore in my work. As a poet and multimedia artist who primarily documents artwork on Instagram (@roflcoptermcgee, @joe_notepad) and TikTok (@joenasta), I am excited to use these Notes in a way that inspires new work and shares my latest projects with clarity.