artist + writer + perpetual home renovator

of a haiku (WASH 2d project)0

compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience

11 Apr 2010

Col. 3:12-14 – “… clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all...

Tastes just as I remember it

11 Apr 2010

Just hope no body sprayed pesticides on that honey suckle.0

this week she turns 16!

10 Apr 2010

my niece is a pretty amazing young woman! happy birthday. may it be the best year yet with so many more to follow!0

Still

08 Apr 2010

Driving has always soothed me.

05 Apr 2010

Something about the landscape rolling past me0

Eerek

04 Apr 2010

That is not a stick! And I am such a girl.0

Period.

03 Apr 2010

“The lives of other people are unknowable. Period. I wouldn’t go as far as a poet colleague of mine who says that ‘representation is murder,’ but I would acknowledge that to represent is to maim.” -Mark Doty, Return to Sender…0

Menil fieldtrip Thursday.

31 Mar 2010

The Menil0

Text for Team Names

31 Mar 2010

exclamation point danny, melissa, ike, jessell, david airtyte haley, sami, jamal, rachel, spencer no pressure amanda g, kelsey, zach, jamie, jessi xxit ashley, amanda j, agnes, mckenzie, theresa trapdoor jennifer, morgan, katelyn, jack, jay island nation clark, chris, sean, kristen, courtney slurpylurp liz, amanda p,...

Fluent collaborative, it might be good, interview

27 Mar 2010

Interview with Claire Ruud The interview :: Kathryn Kelley/Claire Ruud0

Austin Statesman Art Review
Houston artist fashions domesticity from urban refuse

26 Mar 2010

“Nothing screams ‘Home Sweet Home’ in Kelley’s aesthetic – perhaps theatrical? – vocabulary like `As the Ache.’ … But Kelley’s home is not to be feared. Stitched and nailed and stapled together from whatever our over-consuming industrial culture has left behind, this home sweet home...

Lunch break

25 Mar 2010

How could I not go outside today. To beautiful to stay indoors. Deep blue depth of sky, vivid green of new life. How could I not step out into this?0

treading where no one hears the echo of her foot fall
Solo Exhibition @ Women and Their Work
up until April 15, 2010.

25 Mar 2010

kathryn kelley Women and Their Work 1710 Lavaca Street Austin, TX 78701-1316 march 6-april 15, 2010 each piece in the exhibition, instead of being titled, is associated with a poem written during the same approximate timeframe in which i was making the work (i write–i...

Blustery blue sky day with mi mom

21 Mar 2010

Texture studies

21 Mar 2010

Am looking forward to seeing all 30 of your texture studies on Tuesday as well as your self portrait projects. Be sure to bring materials to create 30 new textures–consider bringing a variety of different surface materials to work with as well as a variety...

cold day, studio sort of tidy, naturally i put my space heaters away this morning…

20 Mar 2010

now i’ve broken them back out, curled up on my futon, turning brain off, time to revisit hensen’s movie, THE DARK CRYSTAL…0

my morning reading

20 Mar 2010

Got stuck on just a few paragraphs. So I will ponder them for awhile. I think it will mean different things to different people. I do not know what it means to me yet but it resonates with what I sense as mercy and meaning...

They’re stacked and sorted by size

19 Mar 2010

Now some more tidying and then it’s time to make.0

Goat cook off on saturdAy

18 Mar 2010

I think i am in the middle of no where, USA, perhaps0

Wind farms

18 Mar 2010

As far as the eye can see. Beautiful.0

Mecca is in Lubbock

18 Mar 2010

process

The margins and the center

16 Mar 2010

“I always feel that the margins tell you more than the center of the page ever could.” Marcia Tucker In life and art I totally concur. So I again study my margins opening myself to be taught and refined at my center. And I see...

T-shirt yesterday and warm

15 Mar 2010

Right now…I believeit’ss called sleet.??? Zoom on this pic, the white stuff = sleet. Lubbock suppose to be hot, dry and windy. Instead it’s cold and really slopey wet. But enjoying visiting my friends regardless. Tracto tube harvesting may be alittle chilly.0

Turbine vs train

15 Mar 2010

Massive

15 Mar 2010

Wind turbines. They amaze me every time0

So what am I going to do with the rest of this one wild and precious gift of life i have been given?

14 Mar 2010

After the last 18 months with 5 solo shows (too many for sanity but they kept me sane), being peri-menopausal, having my t3 and t4 totally out of wack (thyroid drugs), having my marriage implode after 21 1/2 years, loosing my best friends of 17+...

Seagulls

14 Mar 2010

Today is the first good day to work outside my studio in BOX courtyard. The weather is perfect and it is so weird and wonderful to hear the seagulls.Maybe today will be a good day. I will try to make it so.0

March tenth two thousand and ten

11 Mar 2010

This is what I will choose to believe about this day. It is how I am going to choose to remember it. So I will store it away as a mercy, I will ascribe to them acts of kindness; I will not analyze for fault;...