artist + writer + perpetual home renovator

A series distended 10 foot nipples…it is the interior I find most fascinating…0

Like the Wash Away (reprise) at end of list. Haven’t listened through the others. I got troubles oh, but not today Cause they’re gonna wash away They’re gonna wash away And I have sins Lord, but not today Cause they’re gonna wash away They’re gonna...

Oops

30 Oct 2010

Well so much for my internal debate for a phone upgrade. Decision has been reach via Umm i just dropped (accidentally…really) and shattered the face of my phone enough so pieces are falling out. I think that qualifies as a legit excuse to a phone...

Give me a compound sliding miter or table saw and I'll figure it out…

29 Oct 2010

But what the heck am I suppose to do with a burner? So I bought this one pan cookbook. Ha. One pan multiple cutting boards, knives, a sink and what the heck is allspice which I did not have. Ah. Google — so I throw...

That’s pretty good…for a girl!

29 Oct 2010

@font-face { font-family: “Times”; }@font-face { font-family: “Cambria”; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: “Times New Roman”; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } First generation feminist art (the waves before and after) Lecture Homework assigned (10/29) Due Wednesday (11/3) This assignment...

aaaaagggh. sitting on my bum all day
researching first wave feminist art

28 Oct 2010

funniest thing (arrogant pleasure on my part) is when you image google search some of my art heros who are to be included in an upcoming lecture, eva hesse and lee bountecue, images of my work actually pop up on the first page, though you...

Ha. You guys thought I was kidding

26 Oct 2010

about grilling everyday. It is especially nice and colorful after sewing tire tubes all day. i sent my grand girl friends (60+ years of wisdom and grace) pictures of my last two meals with a standing grilling and sunset invitation. not a one of them...

Gray morning on my porch

26 Oct 2010

Sipping diet coke, actually writing the old fashion way, scratching pen to paper, a little thumb typing here while trying to get myself to pick up and read my post modernism art text in prep for a lecture I am responsible for this friday, but...

Watching this while tasting that

25 Oct 2010

all the while sitting indian style on my make shift lawn furniture made up of industrial sized wooden discs with the wind in my hair in my wife beater white tank. ahhhhh the breeze and steak really couldn’t be any better.0

gosh. i was just going to post some student samples
but there were to many wonderful ones

25 Oct 2010

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

students spent a week or so exploring mark making and then brought a quote of their choosing into the work. the goal was to express the quote in a way that mimics actual speech in creating breath (space) and emphasis, etc and yet maintain readability....

gosh. i was just going to post some samples
but there were to many wonderful ones

family gathering celebrating my gram’s 99 years lived (and still kicking and walking and thinking and doing crossword puzzles and craft projects) over pizza

25 Oct 2010

Really she requested pizza for her party. son (mi’ dad), gram (99 years old today), great grans (niece-nicole and nephew-troy) grandson (mi’ brother-paul), great grands (my niece and nephew) daughter in law (mi’ mom), grandson (mi’ brother) no she isn’t dead dead–she is just...

naming me with its soul quieting sounds
of stillness

23 Oct 2010

faintly the remembered wind whispers naming me with its soul quieting sounds of stillness it gently touches flutteringly with its caress across my dried salt streaked cheeks and as i allow it, the space opens to me even from yesterday and before tomorrow god’s lips...

excerpt from exquisite heart: cultivating compassion

23 Oct 2010

“I forgive you, completely and utterly. May you be forgiven. May all of your apparent mistakes and shortcomings be dissolved and trouble you no more, and may my misperceptions of mistakes and shortcomings within you be erased or made irrelevant to my love for you.”...

seconds have been harvested and eaten!

22 Oct 2010

yeah arrugula! sugar snaps are looking a little peeked — apparently i was suppose to be feeding them (fertilizers)…i just thought that was why i bought fertile soil. anyway i have since fed them and hope they green up a little. the squashes are producing...

Color/Texture project begins Monday 10/25

21 Oct 2010

Read Color Theory reading assignment (before 10/22). Read 2D project 3 texture/color handout. Collect 5 sets of 3 color swatches (paint section at a hardware store) and bring to class Monday. Choose color sets for each of the following based on a specific: mood temperature ...

Reading before Friday, Oct 22

20 Oct 2010

Color Reading0

Firsts

19 Oct 2010

My first salad of my own homegrown freshly washed arrugula. My first ever tomato. My first ever honey bear and winter squash. My first ever jalapeno.0

post your 10 mini poster images finish your modular madness and install it if necessary (today?) collect all materials for 2d so you are ready for the morning (review prep for tomorrow)0

good example: Top 10 Poster Pics

15 Oct 2010

dana’s WASH blog: Top 10 Poster Pics0

Mecca

15 Oct 2010

this tire towers over me even when i have my boots on (the boots making me just shy of 6′ so i suppose this tire is 8 or 9′ in diameter. super wow dang!). yea ha!! i am in Lubbock! Friends, friends and tubes. it...

Now that is funny

15 Oct 2010

I arrived in kathy’s mecca of art supplies (Lubbock the home the best old humongous rust patinad tubes ) yesterday to visit some dear friends and watch another defend his doctoral dissertation. I step into my room, more beautiful than the finest b&b, and awaiting...

Ummm crop rotation?

I know that is just wrong! So there are land rights, mineral rights, water rights, will there be atmospheric rights. When the wind farmer sells his land but maintains his mineral rights can the rancher hold on to his wind rights? A relevant question in...

Cotton?

It is either snowing or

or that’s a cotton truck up ahead. Cotton.0

mark making monday (10/18)

mark making monday 1. critique TEN refined ~11×17 mark/word solutions 2. refine final solution/prep for enlargement 3. work on mark making sketchbook (stab binding) a. select 20 of your best mark making experiments that show a good deal of variety in mark style. b. ...

Clothes pins and rubberband mark making device.

13 Oct 2010