artist + writer + perpetual home renovator

mumbling to myself aloud with English butcheries, in public, at times it is embarrassing.

the hermitage draws close to being market ready and my floors are rocking!

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kathy wash 2012

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admittedly i’ve been showing her anyway because the micro forest and mini meadow and she built deck can sell themselves…the finishing of all the reno projects on the hermitage just make her totally smittenable. one more layer to be laid down. the final will be...

hermitage flooring coming along

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kathy wash 2012

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pro floor finisher comes next week as i have finished with cutting, fitting and securing the floors in the bedrooms, den, living, dining and stairwell. yay. I cut and laid 8″ planks in the bedrooms which contrasted nicely from the adjoining den that is laid with...

hermitage, microforest, minimeadow going on the market

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kathy wash 2012

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I have loved on this space I call home, I call gift. But I will be going to do my PhD in Lubbock and don’t know where I will land at its end so the hermitage in the woods must go. It is located on...

if I avoid the unsightly, the inappropriate, that negates the bulk of my living and leaves me straining in falsetto. damn the unseemly.

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kathy wash 2012

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I get stuck. the only way i know to unstick is to approach the very moment in which i reside. so i do. i drag myself down the aisle. pulling one more box from the shelf, the smallest yet, i trudge the cart-rolling trek back...

memory is often far too big
not actual size and most certainly not to scale

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kathy wash 2012

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stripped loveseat. who knew i could learn so much from its undoing. i did extend back new legs reassembly wing back ottoman. plus Home Depot rubbermaid lawnchair for full sized humans as a measure of scale. oh yes. it is modular. the gallery has a...

rarely do i purge but my big ass art footprint makes it necessary why isketch at full size, i don’t know

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kathy wash 2012

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my life has never been a straight path and I’ve never backtracked vocationally–jr high science teacher, youth minister, graphic designer, director of communications, interactive media instructor, art foundations professor. no back tracking. surprisingly each has built on what came before. artist isn’t a vocation, it...

new adventure that will require proofing and capitalization. dang

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kathy wash 2012

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my intent to which they’ve agreed is to drive my bum, belongings, and my big ass art footprint out to the dust driven plains of academia in lubbock, tx to pursue my Fine Art Ph.D. in Critical Studies and Artistic Practice at the crossroads of...

upcoming outdoor exhibition

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kathy wash 2012

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Color Up/Color DOWN Art Installations Opening March 15, 5-7pm Russ Pitman Park – 7112 Newcastle, Bellaire How does an artist respond to the theme: COLOR UP/COLOR DOWN, within the context of a nature conservancy? Now a sixth year tradition, this evolving group of artists called...

without residual unruly regret.

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kathy wash 2012

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at the periphery of perception, i extend my hand gropingly feeling for my dreams of future casting. i must have them, mustn’t i? i facilitate workshops in which i guide the group into the gaps of peripheral space in hopes of pulling down into recognizable...

disremembered

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kathy wash 2012

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the wind stops my gait slows rhythmically while the sun dappled canopy whispers to nothing i swing to an ever slower stillness the groan of rubber soles speak the absence with each foot fall awaiting a single delicate trickel of sun hinted sweat to slide...

killin, I am comfy with that, it's that dang maiming the tree weedbeasts may precure i fear

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kathy wash 2012

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hermitage hunker down (commonly called cabin fever) is slowly relinquishing its hold as the out of door warms. the chill proves problematic when my studio is wholly structurally decloaked from the elements. for as long as I can remember, which isn’t long at all, mind...

the social barometer of the made or at least a twist an turn

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kathy wash 2012

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art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

throw back thursday on a slightly warming saturday. PG 13 yet more moderate than a Victoria secret catalog contemporary art lecture remembered…i show the first image and it took 15 minutes before anyone identifies how offensive my choices were. the works themselves not offensive yet...

foot plod atop forested leaf fodder

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kathy wash 2012

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tuesday i took the pup and plunged into the near woods. chilly, but not totally debilitating if properly bundled. it’s not just a pedestrian passing with leaf fodder under foot that i need. i need the slow wheeled roll of entry. i go when the...

Mark making, devices, movement, methods, mood, meaning

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kathy wash 2012

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art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

ha. perhaps it is FATE that has me rethinking, reexamining and revisiting the mark and the facilitation of its practice. perhaps. (Link to associated handouts for projects) the mark and its exploration is not a new thing but ever beautiful and seductive. All images are...

gnarled trees, red dragons contained and in tow

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kathy wash 2012

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i bite into the most fertile of a sam’s club globular red dragon. an explosion of spring expands in my mouth prematurely as i roll out amongst the dormant grasses and gnarled trees, red dragons contained and in tow. how is it that these spherical...

experimental reduction
[of financial merged with sports column]

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kathy wash 2012

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one one chance the most one chance only to upset ...

it is the problem with writing
no matter what is penned to the page an unimagined selfie emerges. the single click image allows for deeply masked lies.

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kathy wash 2012

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there is a space in me dark and dank it is not a real space instead it is one of negative imaginings echoing with words both real and inferred that I’ve wrapped and wrapped hidden away i fight to stay two planes up from this...

if I avoid the unsightly, the inappropriate, that negates the bulk ofmy living and leaves me straining in falsetto. damn the unseemly, but iwrite.

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kathy wash 2012

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i get stuck. the only way i know to unstick is to approach the very moment in which i reside. i do. george is here, sitting with me in my mom’s chair. i rock wedged between the big open windows of the hermitage and its...

Spring 2014 Workshops with Kathy Kelley

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kathy wash 2012

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Listening in the Gaps: Writing Workshop +Artist Way WorkshopBegin NEXT week, January 8/9, 2014 Register today@ kk.creativehabit [at] gmail.com Listening in the Gaps: Writing Workshop Kathryn Kelley Open to non-writers and writers [adults] Thursdays, 10:00 am – noon Begins January 9 (8 weeks) Chapelwood UMC,...

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Fit Row, Photography

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Clothing, Fit Row, Life Style, Sunday Morning

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Fit Row, Life Style, Photography

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the four legged beast plunges off course

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kathy wash 2012

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and the leafy fodder rustles freeing from the moisture’s cling and the wind catches the loose tendrils escaping the warming of my hood the rhythm of each swung gait a slowing pendulum when the crisp breath of morning whispers would you turn would you come...

SoundCloud – Audio Post Format

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My Music, Sunday Morning

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My Music, Sunday Morning

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Grid Gallery – Post Format

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Life Style, Photography, Sunday Morning

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Clothing, Photography, Sunday Morning

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hermit plus some digging my way out of my belly button [perhaps]

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kathy wash 2012

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sure there is the tug to go here or there, to do what i “should.” i love the hermitage and my microforest. if i could just figure out how to navigate sanely and joyfully the periods of unpeopled days, to actively put my hand to...

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