Enough with collaging, I'm off to tame some lions.Life: Lion Tamers at Work

Piggy

Darren Booth: Lord of the Flies
(Illustration and hand-lettering)

Can we all agree that Darren's LOTF cover illustration is a million times better than the one we had while in middle school?

It urges me to revisit this classic.
Kinda.

The Simpson's LOTF episode: Das Bus

a=b^{c+2}

Formula for inspiration:
Good music + Good art + Good Coffee* = creative juices flowing

Nick Drake's Pink Moon album
Listen to Things behind the sun
+

WAFA collection: mail art
we are fucking awesome

Have inspired me to make some collages this afternoon.
I will post my results.

Resources: NOTPAPER (a blog about collage)


* Having absolutely no agenda for the day helps too.

pedestaled

Caspar David Friedrich
The Tetschen Altar, or The Cross in the Mountains (1807)

I keep my babies on an altar.
22.5kt gilded pet crate

canis lupus

It's already started.

ffff

My accord of choice for this upcoming week: Chemical Series, Burnt Rubber

get along like a house on fire

Ben Grasso painting

Things are seemingly tranquil on the outside.
But looks can be deceiving.


I put in my resignation this week. After a long deliberation, I have decided to make a move. Although I'm not there yet, I've taken a few steps towards my short term goal. My goal to be happier. I don't want to get all douchebaggy on here but I'm feeling like I made the right choice even though I love second guessing myself. I'm relieved and excited for a change of pace. Change is good whether it's what you had in mind or not.

I ♡ this list of dream jobs

reality is subjective

We see what we want to see. We hear what we want to hear.

Keri Oldham: Listening Collection, 2009 Photographs, mixed media

Subjectivism

7.0

Ben Peterson: Timezone, 2007
Ink and graphite on paper , 52.8 x 96 inches

I donated today.

perfect recipe

3 - parts Daniel Day Lewis as the Butcher

2 parts Marcel Dzama
1 - cup melancolie and the infinite sadness
½ tsp of vaudeville
a dash of soul to squeeze video

yields one Paolo Ventura winter series:

Paolo Ventura Winter Stories

Digital C-Print 40 x 50" ed 5

inspiration: Sandrine Pelletier

Next weekend that I stay in I'm promising myself I'll start and finish a project. We are useless unless we make things with our hands.
I ♥ Sandrine Pelletier's work.

Charles, 2008, Fabric and thread

Flesh Crystal (Arschsaft), 2007, fabric, embroidery, lace, spangles, nylon and plastic

flash dance, acrylic,textile, latex



Etole (Dalmatiens), 2007, lace, latex and resin

framed

Valerie Hegarty
Unearthed 2008 Wood and mixed media,Approx. 36" x 22" x 10"

William Stone
Woodscape, 2008 Bark, wood;16" x 16" each

Keeping warm with books, reccords and podcasts.

Hooper Turner: GIRL WITH HEADPHONES 2009 14x11in; oil on paper

❣

Thank you for being a great friend.
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insert Golden Girl's theme song

julia fullerton-batten
deer, 2008 c-print

I survived the time vortex.

Ryan Johnson; Cyclops 2007
Aluminum, epoxy, oil paint, glass, 19" x 19" x 4"

worstspace

I hate a operating in a messy work space so I keep it relatively neat.
Neat but boring.
This melange of bare, black and beige is my world. Even though I spend a majority of my waking time here, I just can't seem to be crafty and snazzy up my little hellhole.
I like peeking into other people's nooks and seeing how they live and work.
Joseph Holmes' work space series is a growing collection of personalized commercial spaces. I love the chaos in these shots but I'd be tempted to hang myself if this were my reality.

artist statement:

Over long periods of time, workbenches, cubicles, and office desks go through an oddly natural process of accretion and erosion much like the way mountains and landscapes form over centuries. I don’t think there’s another place where evidence of an individual life is concentrated into such a tightly confined space. And I find that distillation beautiful in a way that’s artificial in the best sense of the word.