artist + writer + perpetual home renovator

locked, loaded and ready to roll. no sideways implication, just happy trailer talk.0

morning pushes me into its gentle wake

02 Dec 2011

I need to stir my attention basking in these splinterings that move me from yesterday to today turn off the noise of human cannibalistic climbing and clamoring step out of its destructive funeral wake0

I shot my parents today without going postal.
well, they will go postal
after they get printed for Christmas cards.

29 Nov 2011

I’d tell you what my mom and dad said to get themselves laughing but then I’d have to kill you because omg its just wrong at their age and MY parents!0

chasing the sun into the night

29 Nov 2011

beckoned by the edge where today splinters into tomorrow. I am done with yesterday both near and far, yet the griefs and unresolvables cling. shyness bares down more now then ever.0

Impression Journal Checklist

29 Nov 2011

WASH 2011

impression journal checklist [download pdf] In The Making (3) brief + thoughtful chapter summaries ____ artistic attitude ____ choosing a mission ____ measuring success Themes in Contemporary Art (4) brief + thoughtful chapter summaries ____ place ____ language ____ science ____ spirituality Art Fundamentals (2)...

I see; most the time.

28 Nov 2011

“‘Learning to see’ is learning to recognize…seeing, in this sense, is not a thing of the retina and lenses, it is an activity that circumscribed the whole soul.” –Heinrich Wolfflin0

second coat, shade darker. mmm better.

28 Nov 2011

hard to tell with the lighting but bathroom and guest room are same green just different values (bedroom being a lighter tint).0

guest room. shazaam.

much paler version of what I put in bathroom–meaning it reflects more light. no, no, it’s not BOX 13, 1948 hospital, green!! it has a smidge of gray in it. I have lots of light through the day but because of the microforest canopy it...

bed linens + dishes

ha. coordinate with bathroom. the dishes bought in 2009; linens in 2011. I hadn’t realized I had such color leanings till I got home and noticed my bed linens perfectly matched my plates. funny to me. must be my natural color palette. I’d painted my...

cast of the gray morning laden with release

translation: yay i hear the drizzle running from my tin roof. more please.0

maybe should’ve split the difference

between loud and muted…both are in house in other places as well. hmmmm.0

down playing stupid hap-happy green

25 Nov 2011

to a more sophisticated muted green as in pic below which coordinates both with my bedroom linens and dishes. well because you know how important it is to coordinate with you dishes and linens while eating or sleeping in the tube! a can of paint,...

see. I do sometimes.

25 Nov 2011

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

“psychology’s main field of operations was not in controlled environments…but in the free-wheeling discursive practices of philosophers, historians, avant-garde artists, cultural reformers…psychology is to the modern age what perspective was to the renaissance, for there is no aspect of our world that has not been...

for which i am grateful

24 Nov 2011

hermitage

the hermitage microforest mini meadow meandering graveled pathways with vaulted swaying canopies the howl of the wind and moon light in the trees silly light fixtures i’ve made from others’ trash cheese foggy mornings dad/mom kin grand girlfriends shot by Katy...

morning day.

23 Nov 2011

maybe a smidgen tooo happy of a green or it is the mild sheen

23 Nov 2011

maybe should have gone with a flat matte vs flat enamel (washable and rec for bathrooms). I’ll live with a bit. put sink stuff back in may down play the screaming happy green. still some touch up to do where green meets cottage white. remind...

cottage white to baby &#%*¥!

22 Nov 2011

it looked happy happy green under home depot lights, mustard yellow by daylight, back to a greenish happy green by night. we’ll see. it’s only one can. perhaps it functions like a mood ring of the mid seventies I wore in junior high. I tend...

lights. check.

22 Nov 2011

hermitage

add bathroom exhaust vent, close ceiling, then on to the floor. I think. I am kind of growing accustom to the paint splattered, plywood subfloor. it’s a statement. unfortunately I alone have grown partial to this particular statement. I’ve got three good sized collaborative artworks...

it is

21 Nov 2011

I can’t decide if I am more overwhelmed by the feel of the wind through my hair, across my arms, whipping my shirt to and fro or the howl through the flailing vaulted tree canopies.0

taped, floated, sanded, textured and primed

21 Nov 2011

dry time then final color plus light fixtures. TA-da. then on to next…item.0

“If you didn’t get to Austin to see the Texas Biennial” Houston Press By Kelly Klaasmeyer “The show’s title pretty much says it all: It’s a group exhibition of Darke Gallery artists who were included in the 2011 Texas Biennial. There’s some nice work here,...

ok. pulled all out of context but good thoughts or goals none the less

18 Nov 2011

“…seek…’sameness’ and ‘difference’ in a perpetual state of mutual negotiations were neither swallows or ejects the other?…this shifting experience and thought are embodied…by an absence of fixity that attends to the ambiguous, the permutating, the composite, the flexible, the ephemeral…the image comes to mind is...

the woods still drip and are saturated a few inches deep

16 Nov 2011

I’ve never seen fungus spring up so quickly and vividly. little moisture and rot really begins. the drought dedicated limbs creak and moan with the surface moisture that clings. there is the snort. focused on the fungus I didn’t notice the deer fifty feet away–holding...

Yay + thank you. it did

16 Nov 2011

a smidgen of water still standing plus flow patterns amongst the needles and almost an instant greening. not that I am not grateful, but more please.0

really hopeful

15 Nov 2011