standing still...

At Standing Still I Have a Skill
by Kenn Nesbitt

At standing still I have a skill that truly is unique.
At sleeping I’m unquestionably on a winning streak.

At lying down I’m unsurpassed; I’m simply undefeated.
At sitting I’m the reigning champ; I’ll never be unseated.

At drifting in a daydream it is obvious I’m blessed.
At starting at the TV I’m undoubtedly the best.

At doing nothing I’m even better than you’d think.
At everything besides that, though, I’d have to say I stink.

I hope someday I’ll maybe learn another kind of skill.
Until then I’m content to be the best at standing still.

blinding light...

the light is blinding me!!! Not really I just am a bit rough around the edges from attending the Sculpture Center Summer Session. Not much food and lots off free cheap vodka, hm, not a good mixture...
It was my first time to the center and it is a great space, juts a big open gallery with fabulous old brick walls...definitely check it out if you are out in LIC, it is near PS1.

... the groggy cloud has not lifted, I think it is an embroider all day kind of work day that might be all my brain can handle..... mindless and satisfying work...I will have to do simple spots on my new piece.
I can't wait until I have enough done to share it with you, I am super excited about it...
and don't forget to check out my new project...

found and connected...

I recently saw 2 pieces of work by artist Robyn Love.
Baby Pictures: a piece with hospital employees baby pictures framed by a a hand knit tiny sweaters:

And Knit Two Together about what brought people to knitting:



This work really reminded me on one of my favorite pieces by one of my all time favorite artists, Annette Messager.....The boarders


The little boarder images suck, I know, but its the best I could do. Boarders are little taxidermy sparrows that Messager found outside her studio building (killed by flying into the big windows) she then hand knit little sweaters for each sparrow. The sparrows are displayed and lovingly laid out in a vitrine. The vitrine has changed with different installations....
So beautiful, sweet, and sad.
Making work with knitting always build so much love into the meaning....

so here goes...

This is my new project...waking with you... is an attempt to document my thoughts and bed each day as I enter my life...
focusing on the process of waking with someone or without someone... since my someone is so important to my day...
and I am obsessed with photographing beds....

Beds fascinate me as it is the place we are conceived, born, fall in love, conceive, and die a place of such life and intimacy...it justs grabs me as one of the most beautiful spaces of our lives....

maybe this image should got to my heart wanders

Politics can make beautiful art...

I recently got reminded of some amazing craft artists by flipping through this book....
and saw the work of Margarita Cabrera a Mexican born artist who made a body of work which is...
appliances made from sweatshop labourers in Mexican villages, she purchases the product, partially hand makes them with thread and fabric and the reincorporates this into the original object... commenting on labor and border politics....


She has also made VW's, tractors, bikes, and hummers!!!


She has also done a series of Desert Plants, and since I am currently both sewing and knitting a plant I was excited....
For more on Margarita check out her gallery....

finally I am updated...

So my website had finally been updated. I still need to add a few more photographs but I need to get my scanner set up first. In the photo gallery their is the new gallery bed
and the mixed media gallery is all work from thesis:

and finally a new artist statement is up.
So peruse around and let me know what you think....

now maybe I need to update the banner and such here?

don't swallow

My throat is so in pain, I am sick.
C has been sick for about a week and I thought I got through his sickness safe but no.
My body aches, my throat kills, and I definitely don't like to swallow.
But at least I was OK for the weekend....

And what better way to get through illness then with a little humor. These are images of photographer Jason Quinnell. They are amazingly beautiful and precise in their technique, they are pinhole...and amazingly hilarious in every other way. buy here.

Maybe I need a doctor?


Or just a hot bath? to bad in NYC we do not have baths....

Either way say ahhhh....

she doesn't stop at horses...

So after some great feedback and a bit of research of my own the artist from here is Heather Jansch and she doesn't stop at horses...

sometimes life is full of

sometimes life is full of dirty dishes, figuratively and metaphorically.
Today is a big pile of dirty dishes day.
As a child you think how great it will be to be an adult and ... as an adult how I wish I had the carefree joy and dreaming children possess...

So for no real reason today, maybe little real reasons, I wish I had a maid for my house, my body, my brain, and my heart. Someone who could really clean things up and leave me ready to take the next day...
any recommendations?

found ....

artist Arnaud Maggs:

I use systems of identification as an underlying spine in all my work. Imposing this structure frees me to explore territories I would never have imagined.

This work is so lovely, the above project is a found ledger from the Gold rush trail, each water stained page photographed.
Loveliness...another book project...



Ironically in my "trades" that occurred after grads school, I chose an image from friend and artist Ryan Feeney that is a scan of the back of an old photograph. This work reminds me of it...and I love the subtlety of both works.... seems like a quiet reflection on death and loss....

"grid-like portrait studies that betray a stark intimacy" was said about Maggs older work, I feel that it can still be said of this work....

Remembering the memory of memorial day...

Andrew Gary Matus

Chetek, Wisconsin
January 21, 2007

So before we set off to a joyful day of picnics, veggie hotdogs, friends, and beer...
I thought it appropriate to remember the meaning of this day, and Emily Prince's work is the perfect work to both inspire us and remind us...(i know i have mentioned her before but it is such an amazing project it is worthy to mention again)

All of the American service men and women

Nazario Serrano
Irving, Texas
January 30, 2005

Jamie Lynn Campbell

Ephrata, Washington
January 7, 2006

Matthew Lee Alexander
Gretna, Nebraska
May 6, 2007

Zandra T. Walker
Greenville, South Carolina
August 15, 2007

The website is thorough and I encourage you to research through it.
Regardless of your politics, as we hug our loved ones today just take a moment to remember those who fight and lose their lives so that we can live with such freedom.
Enjoy this beautiful day......

all the pretty horses

I do not know anything about who makes these stunning sculptures, my in laws sent me the images.
But wow, talk about making earth friendly and incredibly beautiful art....
All I know is it is 2 women who make the art of found driftwood, they are so beautiful...

slow sunday.

It is so nice to have such a lovely weekend. So nice to stay in bed with C.
Looking forward to some brunch.
And so glad that I do not have to think about going back to Massachusetts this week. It feels so good to be in one place again. I feel like a long deep breathe can be taken...
Enjoy the loveliness of today.

wandering hearts....

Just in case you haven't heard...Pia has the amazing project my heart wanders...and the deadline is coming up, so find those hearts and click....

one of my new faves:

From simplesong

from la porte rouge

and a submission of mine...

get clicking.

trying to get out of bed.....

Thinking in Bed
by Dennis Lee

I'm thinking in bed,
Cause I can't get out
Till I learn how to think
What I'm thinking about;

What I'm thinking about
Is a person to be--
A sort of a person
Who feels like me.

I might still be Alice,
Excepting I'm not.
And Snoopy is super,
But not when it's hot;

I couldn't be Piglet,
I don't think I'm Pooh,
I know I'm not Daddy
And I can't be you.

My breakfast is waiting.
My clothes are all out,
But what was that thing
I was thinking about?

I'll never get up
If I lie here all day;
But I still haven't thought,
So I'll just have to stay.

If I was a Grinch
I expect I would know.
But I don't think so.

There's so many people
I don't seem to be--
I guess I'll just have to
Get up and be me.

Polaroids by M

Since there us so much attention on Polaroid art and such with the announcement of the companies demise... it seems fitting that the Whitney is showing Mapplethorpe's Polaroids.I have to say that I may not have ended up as a photographer without exposure to Mapplethorpe. At the age of 16 he was my favorite photographer, I was so seduced by his use of light and shadow... his tones...
I most loved the images he took of Patty Smith, they held so much intimacy.
And at the inexperienced and unlearned age of 16 I had never seen anything like it...
I have moved well beyond Mapplethorpe as my favorite photographer but I still pore over his images when I see them ... he was a master of seeing light and form...




And I guess my parents were pretty cool for letting me look at and love Mapplethorpe at 16...

To a new home...

I want our lives to be happy

This is the piece I sold this weekend, I always loved it because it was rare in its circularity...I am happy it is in a new place and will be able to speak to new people and live a new life....

the goodbye gift...

my last night in Massachusetts, this place once called home gave me this gift....

this is how i am feeling...

This image of C from the weekend expresses how I feel perfectly...
Exhausted...
I am back in Brooklyn... pretty much for good.
My studio is totally moved, my thesis signed and turned in...
I breathe out a huge sigh of relief...
Tomorrow will feel like a new life....

my tools of making...

These were some of the more conceptual pieces in the show...based on minimalism and the innate beauty of the materials and tools that I use...

My Palette

Schematic Skein

Pins & Needles

My Tools