Ribs, Nipples, and Pubes

Back to my old ways of sketching emaciated woman with minimal, but fabulous clothing.

garbage bag filled with post-it ideas

sleep with books under your pillow

School is out and after I threw all my papers in the air and proceeded to skip down State Street singing "We Go Together"(see Grease for pop culture reference), I headed to library - Poetry and surrealism studies continue (best combined in the Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology by Mary Ann Caws).

And then there is Alan Ginsberg and William Blake...let's be honest at time I have no clue what they are talking about, but the simply the sound of it can be satisfying, yes, I am the roommate that plays Tupac in the morning and is reading Ginsberg aloud in the evening. Lucky roommates I have.

In addition to the poets I got 

This book is a lovely way to combine both my vice and my schooling. As I've always said I could talk to you for hours about fashion history and maybe, about 10 minutes about art history. As I was looking through I came across this photo from  Dali's film Venusberg (1939)

and all I could think about was Tim Walker's photo in one of last seasons fashion editorials.

Not the same, but could be cousins. 

"The 20th century has begun to realize that most of life's meaning is lost without play_____In play the mind is prepared to accept the unimagined and incredible, to enter a world where different laws apply, to be free, unfettered"
- Eileen Agar, Am I Surrealist?

Proud Moments in a Young Girl's Life.

Diploma in Collaging

free books from the library and magazines bought with airline miles make for a super fun night.

IP it's been fun.

The work is finished...at least for IP. It's a strange weight to be lifted off my shoulders....I was mildly enjoying carrying my invisible baggage stocked full of due dates and the occasional panic attack (we all have our ideas of a good time). I'm definitely not happy to see IP go, this has been a ridiculous opportunity - that somehow people have been able to complain about (always loudly too). Really, is life that hard when you think about your feelings all day and then make art about them in the studio that is provided for you? 

 Anyhow, the next step is the hanging process, which I'm sure will provide hints of drama due to my struggles with the idea of things being level or straight.

But as my father, or as I like to call him "Big Steve", always says,  "there's never a time to learn like the present". 

Back to studios to start making again - mounting and bookmaking these past couple weeks has made me feel like a single-woman factory.

Let's start making things like Brandi Strickland