this tornado loves you

this is the busiest week.

found this via Etsy Finds:

 

http://www.racheltrobertson.com/

this is related to the things I'm doing, saying, feeling, thinking.

been there done that messed around

I bought Tim Tams, an Australian biscuit (cookie), for my significantly-better-other-half for Valentines day/his birthday and we finally got around to trying the "Tim Tam Slam" last night.. (It's where you bite off the corners of the cookie, use it as a straw, then eat it as soon as the liquid hits your mouth, which makes the cookie literally melt as you're eating it) 

It's honestly delicious.

paper planes

sometimes I forget that paper is an object

 (White Hand -2007- and Down the River -2005- by Peter Callesen)

from minijetplanes.com

Summer in the city

Yessssss! I just accepted a summer fellowship in NYC. 

I am going to go broke and I am going to love it.

http://www.icantaffordtoloveny.com/

oh I believe in yesterday

tastesorangey

prettylittletheives

I'm now quite sure that what I'm attempting to communicate visually is nearly impossible to do successfully... but hopefully I'm getting closer. This weekend I started sewing onto paper again, and began to think about photographs, white, and all things that grow.

As of today, I've been thinking a lot about texture, thanks to pistachiopress' Rachael Hetzel who showed me some really interesting prints this evening. I hadn't even considered embossing the paper by hand. 

Lots to think about. On days like today I wish I could spend all of my time in the studio. and I'm still not sure if this is an "e-sketchbook" or something for general consumption. and I can't wait to start printing again. (but) there is so much to do.

temperature rising

I've been stuck at home, so I've been carving, carving, carving. For the first time ever I stabbed myself in the thumb... I blame it on Twin Peaks. (I know who killed Laura Palmer!) Now I have two blocks ready to print and a third on it's way.

 

we confided in science (we can fight our desires)

these are the current models that we believe cells use to transcribe genes (make the information in DNA into a message where things in the cell can then turn them into proteins, which are just entities in the cell that play a role or have some sort of function like being an informant or stopping another protein from being made) when their control elements (the information that tells the machinery that makes these messages whether or not to copy this particular set of info) are far away.

I think these are beautiful.
 

       

walk it out

www.hipsterpuppies.tumblr.com

I printed again today, started carving my block, found this website, and it was >30F. What a great day.

Sit on it.

I've noticed some themes in my art that I'm working though. There's a dampening of color that occurs in most of my pieces.. I seem to take bright colors and add some brown to them, make them muddier. I've also been reading about the 1920s, and bauhaus in particular... and became fascinated by their high hopes... these artists charged themselves with designing for a utopian society, and in order to do this they designed...

chairs!

(partially because there was no money to design buildings, and partially for perfectly acceptable conceptual reasons)

It's interesting to see what they thought the future would look like.. (and please, suspend all thoughts relating to 1984, We, and Brave New World for just a minute)

let it fall, let it fall

Today I began printing. It didn't work out so well (I, by traditional printing standards, wasted about 10 sheets of paper) but I made my mistakes reproducibly, and I like them. I'll spend tomorrow sanding down my block and repeating the entire process so I have an "acceptable" series, but it was really, really nice to get back to work.

  Tim Barber

I really don't love photography. I just don't get it most of the time. But I like this guy. I feel connected to this guy. This guy is great.

everybody hurts sometimes

I'm sick and feel awful so I decided to paint over some practice prints

(APs) and watch Art 21.

[distraction > laying around feeling sick]

Arrest yourself

Rebecca Ward-- uses painters/duct tape to

create her installations.

(I'm a sucker for visually arresting pieces, even if...)