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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Gracie


is a crazy cat lady. 
I think she's actually a cat, now. 

Jessi&Jodi.

Friday, January 28, 2011

men i dig...

in no particular order...



 ANTHONY BOURDAIN
writer, traveler, chef.
likes to try new things, drink, smoke.
 smug, opinionated, observant.








 DAMIEN RICE
singer, song writer, musician.
drinker, smoker, emotional, intense.
best concert I've ever been to.

cheers, darlin'. 
here's to you and your lover boy.
cheer's darlin'. ...

I'm too shy
I should have kissed you when we were alone...

but what am I?




gorgeous.





THE CAST OF DARJEELING LIMITED.
Adrien Brody.
Owen Wilson.
Jason Schwartzman.





ADRIEN BRODY
quiet, reserved, intelligent.
smoldering.


 in The Pianist.




HEATH LEDGER
died too young.
oozing with raw sexuality.
great hands.
looks fantastic even when he shouldn't.
loved him for years.








HUGH LAURIE
actor, main character in House.
smart ass.
extremely intelligent.
stubborn.
i wish i was that sleeve.





JOHN LENNON.
singer, idea man, peace monger.
great tunes, man.





JOHN TRAVOLTA.
again, oozing with raw sexuality.
sex on a stick.
i don't care how old he gets.
forever crush.
crazy smile and great attitude.
etc. Chrystal agrees with this one, i know that.







 TOM HANKS.
extremely versatile, always kind and loving.
smiles like he means it.
childlike spirit.
cutie patootie. :]






VAL KILMER.
beautiful, sweet smile.
great hair.
At First Sight makes me cry my eyes out. 






BUDDHA.
calming, connected, intense.
the world knows him.
he transcended.
he inspired.




Buddha meditating on the color red.









LANCE ARMSTRONG.
one of my first heroes.








ROCKY BALBOA.




VIGGO MORTENSEN.
best name ever.
beautiful.


the only man worth having


is one who eats pussy. 
:]
holler if you hear me, sistas.

Meanwhile in Egypt...

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Swapping Positions...


A new semester has begun.
Time to sweep the dust off of the ole' elephant skin, as they say...
It has recently come to my attention that I am needed as President of Artist Common at school.
Of course a meeting will be held about this..
I'm nervous, and excited, and my mind is racing.
I love this organization and want to see some good things happen this semester.
Wish me luck.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Currently reading...


Found this on my mom's book shelf. 
I was looking for a book to read while I poo.
It's about "husbands, honeymoons, tennis elbow, marriage, lettuce, the national anthem, and a host of other domestic dilemmas."


I thought it was going to be a self-help book... 
maybe it is. 
We shall see. 
:]

I super like the illustration, though.

Love is the horizon.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Orgasm is an ecstatic response in the body that is elicited by a particular type of stimulation- sexual stimulation that is biologically oriented toward reproduction. The condition in the nervous system that we call enlightenment is also an ecstatic response in that body that is elicited by a particular type of stimulation- stimulation by yoga practices that is biologically oriented toward the birth of our awareness in unending pure bliss consciousness and divine ecstasy. 
Yogani (Tantra: Discovering The Power of Pre-Orgasmic Sex)

I should own these...





 I'd love to do a series.
The Buddhist Diet

Vegetarianism, "a natural and logical ramification of the moral precept against the taking of life" (5) is a diet that includes no animal meat. In modern terms, we might use the word "vegan" to describe the strict Mahayana diet. The term "vegan" refers to one that does not eat any animals, but also any animal products or derivatives, including milk, cheese, honey; or using animal furs, leathers, skins, etc. The Buddha recommended that pure Bodhisattvas follow this ideal:
[they] who do not wear silk, leather boots, furs, or down ...and who do not consume milk, cream, or butter, can truly transcend this world. Both physically and mentally one must avoid the bodies and the by-products of beings, by neither wearing them or eating them. I say that such people have true liberation.















This blog might seemingly be taking on a tone that you find uncomfortable. 
I was uncomfortable, too.
But, shit, it's my blog. 
My reasoning.


Saturday, January 22, 2011

Empathy.

it took me my whole life thus far to wise up to the plight of animals.





 





we are monsters.
but we don't have to be.

Friday, January 21, 2011

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Better images of some works, and explanations.

2010
Graphite, conte crayon, charcoal, acrylic paint, tape, and wine, on paper.

I was mostly interested in edges and shapes branching off of different shapes.
Spontaneity. 





2008/2009?
This piece was made for an art show entitled "Recycled Art" for Artist Common.
Coffee stained newsprint with news paper pieces, white paint and found imagery with india inked words.

Play on words.
This piece originally had two shoes off to the bottom right of the piece-- made of pressing soaked newspaper (soaked in a glue and water mixture) into a boot-shaped mold and left to dry. 
The shoes/boots were a reference to a sexual innuendo from middle school.
If someone said they liked your shoes it was kind of like saying I think you're hot...

My found object was the boot shaped mold which is why the entire piece spawned off of that.
Hence the "SEXUALLY DEPRIVED/DEPRAVED
FRUSTRATED"







2010.
Melted crayon on grey paper.





2009. 
Reductive drawing technique. 




Study of hands and feet.
2009.




2009. 
Study of woman.




2009.
Study of a woman.




Xerox copies of drawings and found imagery.
2009.
This piece refers to our SETX environment and how it creates illnesses that we facilitate by working for such industries. It is a vicious cycle. And we're asking for it.





2009, as well. Part of a series including the one above.
India ink on linen. 
Some T-pins on the shape in the middle. Referring to surgery and closing of wounds.
Before this work I had surgery on a 6.7 LB tumor in my ovary. 
Abdomen was split in half and many works following the surgery had a feeling of tumor like or surgery like, or some sort of commentary on how i think things came about. 

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