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so it's been a minute, my bad. i had been prepping insanely for southerngraphics, and have been there since wednesday. i just got back after getting terribly lost in new jersey, cannot wait to share/play catch up. just need a minute to catch my breath. met so many amazing people, fellow artists and thinkers (and drinkers). talk to you tomorrow, need a goood nights rest

xx

MARCH ON!!

duality is something that is very close to the heart of me. i try not to put too much faith in astrology but being a libra (my sign is the scales), i've found myself in a perpetual pendulum swing; an up-and-down-and-across from various perspectives. never truly at rest and absorbing stimulus from all angles. as of late, well-known expressions in relation to my current state have been repeating in my mind as a kind of call-to-arms. march has been a very important month for me; many goals and ambitions in full swing thanks to a self-motivated nice little fire under their asses haha.

march comes in like a lion and out like a lamb, and for sure it's that way this year. march has been a very important month for me; many goals and ambitions in full swing thanks to a self-motivated nice little fire under their asses haha (permitting this is the catalytic leaving of my job and frantically getting back in the studio. which feels INCREDIBLE). and now, as it winds down like the lamb it truly is, i find myself in awe. in that struggle for balance, the lion and the lamb are the yin and yang and the right and wrong of my life-scales. the extremes and while i still falter daily (being a part of the human race like i am) i think i got this.

i guess i'm just doing what makes me feel good

remember that crazy storm a couple of weeks ago?

beautiful undulation of trees to the beat of animal collective from my car.

i made these guys a couple of years ago, stuffed animals based off characters from dante's inferno. had a small obsession with the concept of there being corresponding punishment specific to each 'sin' or wrongdoing, and was exploring different aspects from that book, these guys being characters that doled out those punishments. never got around to a larger piece involving the work, but produced these and am glad for it.

i'm making some stuffed animals now again; its really nice to combine printing with my passion for sewing and the handmade. i bought the plushest fabric for them the other day, don't want to say too much til their done, but i'll have pictures soon when the first one is all stuffed and sewn up!

detailed photos, check em out:

wear your horns out now

that last post was a little rushed, i was just super-eager to share what i've been up too. being back in the city, back in the studio, i'm infinitely more of a person; an enhanced, happier version of myself. pounding pavement and smelling pollution has never been more satisfying.

so this print goes along with the 'heavy hangs the head...' print, a diptych. these little guys have been filling my brain as not just standing for our physicality with one another but our collective conscious; holding their own while still representing the whole. that feeling

of being the only one in any given situation or emotional state, but the knowledge that we are all interconnected in our same innate flaws; two of which being pride (re: crown) and, respective to this print, deviance.

i think i said a little too much already; it's late and i haven't really allowed myself to wrap my own head around where i'm at. i've just kind of been doing whatever i feel like and following through with passions and ambitions without having to think too hard. very fluid, undulating, calm.

speaking of which, saw animal collective at the guggenheim: INCREDIBLE. womb-like, repetitive hypnosis. the complete opposite of their film ODDSAC, also with Danny Perez that i saw with geoff at SVA 2 days earlier. if Traverse Temporal Gyrus was a lucid dream, ODDSAC was an epileptic nightmare of anxiety; flashing vague ideas of fear and loss, lacking a real plot line and resolving itself only in it's silence after an almost entirety of high pitch and horror. we sat there jaw dropped. meeting them afterward, my heart was beating out of my chest.

so relieved to be hearing this again everyday/night

i don't run with sheep, the shepherd can't herd me

heyy!!
so, i've been furiously printing/life-enhancing, and i have my first batch of prints/shirts made and ready to go for SouthernGraphics. two-color silkscreen, lemme know if you want one.

from top left: prints on the drying rack, photoshoot with my beloved tracy of me and my new boyfriend on christopher street, awkward angle of myself at the studio.



'heavy hangs the head that wears the crown,' silkscreen 2010

correct

hey, i know it's been almost a while. my computers hard drive crashed, i'm pretty much completely devastated. years of music, photos, writing, instantaneously gone. i'm trying to find comfort in knowing that it happened for a reason, and it was about time for a clean sweep of life clutter and weighted past mementos. now i have to re-photograph all my work, (which i'll be posting as i do) and manifest myself in the work i'm making.

i had the perfect horoscope today, so fitting for positive change and life organization that the first of the month is a monday.