my unmade bed...

Please remember to visit me at my project waking with you...

looking for a little...

inspiration.

unexpected beauty...

I have no idea how I found this architect, since I never research architecture, but nonetheless...
architect CJ Lim creates unbelievable architectural drawings... to me they look like art that deserves a gallery wall....

Plus who would not want to spend time in one of these spaces and...
He uses as much recycled materials to make his drawings as possible.

He calls himself a "narrative" architect, I don't know what that means and don't know if any of these places gets built...

but I hope so because we all need a little more fantasy in our lives...

over the hill

and through the traffic, to my studio I go...
I work late today so I am off to my studio to hopefully get some work done and some boxes packed...Yes I am already moving my studio again. I found a space with windows, windows and light are priceless to me as a human and an artist so the hassle of moving begins but will hopefully be over soon...
Have a great day!!!

family room

Artist Mimi Smith has made many interesting bodies of work. But I really love the body of work in which while raising her small children in the 70's she replicated all the furnishings and structures of her home, room by room...
I love the images and the metaphor...




All the drawings are made with yellow measuring tapes and string... so cool.




Makes me want to get back to my door and finish it.

perhaps all is coming...

a lovely weekend, with flags, fun, and relaxation. I actually had some time and space to think about all the transition in my life...

so beautiful the orange warm glow of light with the cool blue of dusk.
I realize I rush it all so much. It takes time to transition, with finding the right job, adjusting if you find it, finding your niche, your rhythm in this new moment, this new place...
I think since I have been here a year I think it should all be so fast...
But I just finished school a mere month ago, so maybe I should sit back take a breath and give myself a break.



and enjoy the life, and the moment I am in.

here is to more weekend getaways for all of us.

work that hits home...

For years I was told to look at Tracey Emin's work... I resisted, the little I knew about her made me not want to be associated, she seemed brash and obvious...and in many ways she is...
But I finally did my homework and researched her last year, as in read like 4-5 books on her including her auto-biography...


and I still do not want to emulate her, there is much to much sadness in the work to want to emulate it...but I am indebt to her as an artist in her honesty and vulnerability and my heart still aches every time I see her work...


If you have not taken the time... let yourself research her, online is not the best but there are a number of excellent books about her work and her very complicated and strange life...
You can start at this fascinating interview.

have a super happy holiday...

I am checking out of blog world to swim, hike, eat veggie dogs, and get the heck out of the city.
So I hope you have a great holiday and remember to love our good ole' usa a bit...
See you Monday

namaste...

I have been a long time practitioner, I did it even before it was cool, and a 9 year teacher of yoga...I took my first yoga class at 15 and started teaching at 21.
and sometimes this ability to breathe and look inside is the glue that keeps me together...

I have been struggling to find my relationship to yoga in the last few years, loving and needing the practice but ever since I left my first community not finding my place and my commitment...
As a teacher loving to teach but always struggling with finding the space to teach the way I teach best...

Maybe I should open my own space, maybe I should just teach privates, maybe. maybe, maybe...

But after a 3 year semi-hiatus, as in I have not been able to be as committed to teaching or practicing because of the pressures of graduate school... I feel a renewed passion, love, and respect for this long time companion an am grateful for the time I had to find this again...

Now, I just really hope I can get to the mat everyday as I know this will guide me to my future as it always has in the past... looking inward, breathing in and then breathing out... really that is the only knowledge we need to create a happy and good life.

So lets breathe.

the water and LB...

So my last homage to LB for a while...The week has been nice to look at and review some of the things I love about her...

These images are from a hand-made book she made, the 2 above are my favorite.


anyone who is inspired by water is a friend of mine...

a favorite part of mine is the button hole binding...

and the imperfect sewing and hems...

The first time I saw this was when I was first considering really beginning to use fabric as a medium... and this book taught me that fabric can be a true medium of art and has more expression, memory, and meaning inherent in it then any other tool.

I hope they have some of this work here.

So enjoy this and look forward to more at some point in the future as I am sure that I will not be able to contain my LB love for too long...