artist + writer + perpetual home renovator

to old to hop fences when out for a walk Location:Villa De Matel Rd,Houston,United States0

people’s choice award for student show
go vote for a WASHer

19 Apr 2011

go by the Gaddis Geeslin Gallery today and vote! The awards ceremony will be Thursday, April 21 at 5pm in E108. Reception in gallery afterwards.0

lecture homework for April 15 Reading Assignment: In The Making: Choosing a Mission: pg.281-321 (Victoria Vesna, Wenda Gu, Tony Oursler, and Mariko Mori) Writing Assignment: The Dia Art Foundation’s second artists’ project for the world wide web, begun in 1995, was created by the Russian...

really long train; not rolling; dead stop; lines in the sky; searching alternate

18 Apr 2011

on getting lost in a city with an iPhone and it’s gps. pretty sure. experience isn’t even remotely similar to getting lost in paris’ historic district for eight hours a day for a week. my high point then was stumbling upon the Picasso museum and...

I dissolve my fabricated chairs

16 Apr 2011

I have this table bare laid built of soul one where I repeatedly in my recesses draw those I love I have them here against their spoken wills as I awaken I latch on to their stay naked in heart speaking pleading I hear my...

oh honey!

14 Apr 2011

yipee. my first flowers on my capetown honey suckle.0

the mat

12 Apr 2011

as I was revisiting the story of the man who’d sat at the healing pool for decades whom Christ asked, “do you want to get well?”, it was suggested to explore who you are in the story. my head just screamed, “you are the mat!”...

The BIG IDEA [final project]

11 Apr 2011

Download your BIG IDEA handout and thoroughly verse yourself with the handout and begin your brainstorming.0

maybe a little rain ahead

11 Apr 2011

the other side0

Lecture 8 [4/8] reading and writing assignment
due Monday, April 18

11 Apr 2011

Download handout Lecture homework for April 8: Fantasy Due Monday, April 18, posted to blog. Reading: In The Making: Relating to The Audience: pg.74- 119 (Charles Ray, Will Schade, Arnaldo Morales, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Gillian Wearing) Writing: Research the work of Survival Research Laboratories and...

Transformation vs change

10 Apr 2011

“There’s a difference between change and transformation. Change happens when something old dies and something new begins. Transformation happens when we personally change in the process of outer change. Did you know that planned change is even more troublesome to the ego than unplanned change?...

didn't expect this in my eastend backyard

09 Apr 2011

discovered it when i decided this morning i just had to go walk even if it was urban walking and not drive to a park! michael showed me something like this but required a short drive to get to it. this is an extension of...

a few of my students’ work
following my feminist art lecture

08 Apr 2011

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

Here are a few IDENTITY ESSENTIALS (student assignment sheet) produced by my students this past week. They were considering the use of the body as a vehicle to communicate, using it as art. the feminist artists of the 70s often used their own bodies to...

your IDENTITY ESSENTIALS should be posted today

08 Apr 2011

and your inflatable model images, proposal boards and crit write up should show up before Monday. Here are a few IDENTITY ESSENTIALS (don’t forget to include what category you are working within). Plus, don’t know if it is my connection, but a number of your...

Crit guide for Inflatatopia Models

06 Apr 2011

Here is the guide we will be using to review your models and proposal boards. You may use it now to be sure you’ve addressed everything requested. Model/Proposal crit guide0

install for tx biennial

04 Apr 2011

what under structure looks like sans the tubes the piece is composed of fleshy/hide like tubes used repetitively at primary threshold with five doors slamming closed or being flung open, and a hallway passage leading into/out of the primary doored portal which is...

I am the old woman

03 Apr 2011

I find I am the old woman with a loosening of my hands I sense and recognize the rocks there in each I’ve been slowly plucking my collection free from my swollen knobby rock worn pockets I intimately attend to why each was gathered, stored,...

my butter leaf lettuce is beautiful

03 Apr 2011

though I am going to have to pull some cause I planted them too closely. but they sure are pretty.0

edamame!!

02 Apr 2011

gotta make some more planters! arugula, butter leaf lettuce, tomatoes and purple onions are absolutely flourishing! I also picked up a raspberry thingy. trying to decide best place for it. tempted to pull out the two 12 foot halves of my rebar spheres left over...

bonnets and what is under the hood.

01 Apr 2011

ones/fives it is dang pretty outside and green and sunny and my arugula and tomatoes are doing their thing! pretty pretty focus. tomorrow i am off to finish installing a piece for the texas biennial…maybe that is why i keep looking under the hood in...

MW Performance Schedule
WASHey Awards

01 Apr 2011

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most excellent
inflatable teams

01 Apr 2011

Emily H Hannah Emily T Naomi Malicia … Chinedu Janna Shelby Wendy Casey … Lauren Mirella Selena Ollie Kim … Maggie Allison Lee Ann Megan Alex … Krystal Jackie Brittani Danielle Jada … Josh JP Tray Donovan … Martin Tayler Dante Ryan David … Jeremy...

Inflatatopia Happening

29 Mar 2011

Please download and read the Inflatatopia Happening handout (project parameters). Read carefully. Inflatatopia Happening teams will be announced tomorrow in class.0

MUST HAVE TOMORROW…
stuffed animal to dissect
performance brainstorming lists
color supplies

28 Mar 2011

Initiation into inflatables bring two (or more) stuffed animals–one to share with a table-mate! I didn’t get by store to get you one = bring your own plus extra to share if you have some. what else for 3D: scissors/exacto (something to rip seams with)...

her understructure

28 Mar 2011

I enjoy the way my work evolves when others are at hand to help. I learn something new about the piece and constructing each time. my work becomes better, more ambitious when others enter in. I am grateful. > have to tube up! next weekend....

exhausted

27 Mar 2011

all arm and hand muscles = jello-fied! will repeat tomorrow! when I return to my box within the BOX, time to do some serious clean up including courtyard. then a few mor planters for edamame, jalapeños, some berries and something else which slips my mind....