just when i needed it...

literally just as I was feeling really down about the complete unknown of what is going on in my life...

I got great news all 3 pieces of mine this, this, and this were accepted into the Stitch Spectacular show in Georgia and combine that with my 2 works in a show at Phoenix Gallery.
I would say January will be a good month for me.

So I keep plugging along, hoping all will be as it should...
and found a really great potential new studio, it is not set in stone so I don't want to jinx it but I am pumped.

more water...

maybe I need to go take a walk on the beach?
Anyway the photographer who calls themselves Feaverish is just what I want to stare at today.
The Oceanside images are so gorgeous and moody...they make me smell the salt,
hear the waves... and feel the mist in my clothes.



In general I really love the moody, misty, mysterious undertone to the work.
I would love to see how the photographs look in person...scale could really play a cool role on ones experience with them.


and I got to say that I super love this image because it reminds me so much of my new project.

For more feaver.

sit down for a great cause

The Essex Art Center is an amazing non-profit art center in Lawrence, Ma.
I know because I taught there for over 2 years when I lived in Boston.

They have fun and varied art classes, 2 galleries, one of which is curated by the amazing artist
Cathy McLaurin, and the best staff you could hope for.
But what make sit really special is what it does for its community.
It is locate in a community with a great divide, one one half you have wealthy upper class community and on the other half you have a large first generation Dominican Republic and Puerto Rican community. The children of these two communities in a normal day would never interact. But this art center brings the community together in a very special way.

As a teacher it was so wonderful to watch 2 little boys from these 2 very different worlds become fast best friends. It was amazing to hear 2 teenage girls talk about how different fashion at there high schools were...but that they both thought the others was "so cool."


So if you are in the market for a one of a kind artist chair check out the "so cool" chairs that are being sold as part of EAC's Take a seat fundraiser. And if you find a chair you love, like the awesome grocery cart one above, know that you are giving money to an especially great place.

a scale I aspire to...

Artist Janet Echelman creates work from fabrics using netting and lacing techniques...on a gigantic scale.
I have really been wanting to explore making some large scale work but it is so daunting in the commitment of time to it.
But Janet inspires... if only I had a team of assistance too:(

her website states that Janet-

reshapes urban airspace with monumental public sculptures made of diaphanous, flexible nets that move and change shape through time.

It is just gorgeous...


I especially love the ones that end up looking like giant amoebas or jelly fish in the sky...strange I keep being drawn to imagery that references water?

studio search...

I am looking at new studios today. I know 3 studios in less than a year!!
But I just need a more affordable one that is better suited for my long term needs...so that I do not have to move again for many years.
So one is a definite goody, one bombed...and one left to check out.
So wish me luck on finding the perfect fit.

Otherwise working away...I got started on my new embroidery...
and am working on applications for teaching jobs- a small form of hell.
But alas what we do for our art.

I am actually feeling very positive about things today...it might be a struggle some days but today I do believe everything is as it should be ... a door will come that will open my life in a new way.

We will see.

a little peace of mind...

Desiring to have a little quiet, a little support, a little piece of mind.
The amazing water images of Narelle Autio are just what I want to get lost in.

I can hear the quiet muted sounds of being under the water...


The caress of the warmth and bubbles against my skin...



The glowing healing blue...


The calm underneath the roar.


Also really loving the images from the Not of this earth series.

late but still with love.

A late Happy Birthday to my super awesome Grandma- who happens to be a faithful reader- love you Grandma.
And a Happy Birthday to my very cool niece- who I doubt even know this little blog exists.

Birthdays...
just less then 6 months ago I turned 3o and had just finished the big MFA.
If I had know then that I would still be unemployed and totally confused...

Oh well, at least I am still making art that I love and believe in.
That was always one of my goals- to still be making work at 30.
Now it's to still be doing it at 50.
Actually I have reached all the goals that I wanted to by this time in my life.
So I guess things aren't that bad... apparently jobs were never one of my goals...

But that does not work out so well for my awesome and patient C... so I need to figure something out to make him a little happier about all my non money making goals... any ideas?

Gratitude and joy.

A big hug and swing to all of you on this day of being filled with thanks.

Picked up the family at the airport...

Looking forward to watching the big Macy's Day Parade in person!!!! Fun and balloons and crowds and lots of coffee...and lots of cold. Look for me on the tv.

Then a big old fashioned homemade thanksgiving dinner, well except there will be no turkey- we go vegetarian style...
and then probably lots of wine filled kisses...

walking down memory lane hugs...


and even without the turkey endorphins many belly filled naps.

So to you and yours have a very merry,very happy, very thankful, joy filled, love filled, hug filled, gratitude filled day of thanks.

Happy Thanksgiving.

all images via square america.

so amazing.

I have always thought it would be interesting to create a spider web- as someone who loves the process of "weaving" it is such an amazing and symbolic structure. Well Nacho Carbonell has done it and it is lovely.

In this case inspired in the technique of wrapping I create a space in nature, where you feel protected as in a fetus, The perception of home is strongly linked to the material. Making your own cocoon we transferred our emotions, needs, into our shelter.

This is intended to be transitory. It will eventually be reclaimed by nature, but in return nature will provide benefits to nature and it will close the natural circle of live.


His other work is fascinating in how the sculptures become hybrids of man-made and seemingly nature-made, existing in perfect harmony. The Evolution chairs providing safe places that one can crawl into and being made from entirely recycled materials.



He describes his Dream of Sand benches, which are made from sand coated in rubber, as

The idea is to create these pieces of furniture on the spot, giving them the characteristics of the environment where they are built, in this way being able to integrate them into their surroundings, even to create extensions for already existing structures.

Truly a very interesting artist making work that asks questions about our environment, our surroundings and our ideas about home. All questions very worthy of asking.

His artist statement is eloquent and inspiring:

I like to see objects as living organisms, imagining them coming alive and being able to surprise you with their behavior. I want to create objects with my hands, then I can give them my personality. I turn them into communicative objects that can arouse one's sensations and imagination. In short, what I want to create are objects with a fictional or fantasy element, that allow you to escape everyday life

embroider away...

I finally got the drawings for my new embroideries done...The portrait is going to be another that simply takes forever...
But I think it will be really nice when it is done...I am excited to get started.
Sorry, I know they are hard to see.



The feet, yes that is what they are if you cannot tell, are an experiment.
I have not done images that are just parts of the body, no face.
So we will see if it translates or not.

Don't forget to get the word out about Bird and Bear.