artist + writer + perpetual home renovator

break out the camera phone. snap. click. now pass out from moving about 2000 lbs of tubes in a day…even with 6 men helping, this chica is exhausted. Yes. The movers dropped this monstrosity. Tore it.And created a general dishevel (of course only i can...

about all the sewing i can do for the day.

11 Jan 2009

a few elements that will be going in the exhibition in the space of absence bad images from camera phone. five foot pod of about 15 pods. worked on finalizing this piece kept sewing and began stuffing….0

in the space of absence

10 Jan 2009

pieces are coming together. almost there and ready for the show. titling is complete but may be a bit to raw. In the space of absence | Kathy KelleyLawndale Art Center | John M. O’Quinn Gallery January 23 – February 28, 2009Opening Reception Friday, January...

in the space of absence

09 Jan 2009

work coming along for exhibition opening in lawndale art center’s o’quinn gallery friday, january 23 6:30-8:30. artist talks are at 6 pm the same evening. in process but almost there. 12′ x 7′ and several hundred pounds of tubes.0

still sewing but on a new frame…

17 Dec 2008

Will I be able to taste the scent of the forest?

16 Dec 2008

Will you come with me to the mountains?It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened.Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows.But will you come? C.S. Lewis0

sewing on work for in the space of absence

01 Dec 2008

working on the (w)hole of the lie a series of vacant pod like structures for my exhibition in the space of absence opening at Lawndale Art Center this January 23, 2009.0

the dust is kicked up as the cleaning proceeds

20 Nov 2008

my poor studio has become a tire grunge dust bucket. i am attempting a surgical strike at removing the filth, i have loaded up the truck with the equivalent of studio amputations that will head for some hazardous disposal unit. it may require me to...

in the space of absence coming to lawndale january 23, 2009

19 Nov 2008

i am currently working on a piece abstracted from a visual in my mind of a mama pig being suckled. thinking once again about the infantile nature of our wanting and taking…that big sucking sound i hear…0

in the space of absence travels

16 Nov 2008

to Nuevo Laredo as part of artCRUSH curated by Hector Hernandez, Michael Anthony García and Salvador Castilloas did the piece clawing for eden. A big thank you to Hector, Jaime and Michael as well as the City of Nuevo Laredo for the opportunity.0

stitching and sewing like a mad dog

12 Nov 2008

stitching and sewing like a mad dog in preparation for my show, in the space of absence, that opens at Lawndale Art Center January 23, 2009. large square nipples (the interior) in process.0

freedom dwindles.

10 Nov 2008

When language becomes exhausted, our freedom dwindles—we cannot think; we do not recognize danger; injustice strikes us as no more than “the way things are.” Madeleine L’Engle0

to affirm meaning

08 Nov 2008

to hear a melody and set the notes down for a string quartet (to make), is to affirm meaning, despite all the ambiguities and tragedies and misunderstanding which surrounds us Madeleine L’Engle you must once and for all give up being worried about successes and...

it swells in my soul and i can not contain it. where does it come from? where does it go? i grieve.0

the big picture

01 Nov 2008

i know making, writing, mentoring and loving are part of who i am. MAKING allows me to discover thingsabout my world and self that wouldotherwise remain submerged and unattainable;it brings me joy, dirt and laughter MENTORING (teaching) gets me outside of myself,teaches me, helps me...

when your gram turns 97 and wants steak; she gets steak!

31 Oct 2008

This past Sunday we celebrated my grandmother’s 97th birthday by taking her to lunch for steak (guess i came by my steak loving honestly). If i can be 1/2 as sharp as she is when i turn 97, i’ll be doing ok…oh yeah and she’s...

other peoples thoughts falling through my head

30 Oct 2008

it is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self-control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part...

suckling artifact

28 Oct 2008

suckling artifact. remnant tubes, tire and baling wire.~2′ x 2′ x 3′. 2008 freshly made. artifact for bbap silent auction to be held atBBAP 21st birthday party celebrating 21 years of public art in Houston…Saturday, November 1, 2008, 7:30pm – 11:30pmArchitecture Center of Houston, 315...

gosh dang it.

28 Oct 2008

make art or write she said while trying to smile. let things work themselves out in the making. let the angst, confusion, and fear out of the body through working it. breathe. breathe again. let the tears flow and meld with the work, but work....

currently reading

28 Oct 2008

as cheesy as it sounds, i am currently reading Getting the love you want by Harville Hendrix. Historically i would never have picked up such a book with it’s cheesy self-help psycho babble title because i am a bit arrogant and think i am smart...

treading where no one hears the echo of her footfall

24 Oct 2008

tell me a story.

04 Oct 2008

Tell me the story of when fire came down and consumed two souls into one, two melded not in sameness but in fiery harmony, where they fit together and made a wholeness, a rightness, a space of intimate belonging, where love and partnership merged in...

it whispers my name.

29 Sep 2008

as the acheswells in methere is a splinteringat the horizon of todayfragments of yesterdayand tomorrow and i listen at this abyssas the beyond beckons mewith its urgency and passion i open my splintered self to itand it whispersmy name0

reading…

22 Sep 2008