Images from them-thangs.com

 

 Love these images. 

No clue who's they are.
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I think she's beautiful.

What is all this disconnect?

This is a question I'm working on.
And more so how it just seems that way.

Love and the Heart.

 no, really. 

Moving again, maybe.

Ya know? This is not easy but I'm considering it-- moving back home. Ehhh.
Maybe I'll get my life back in order.
I really want to get to Europe eventually. And being in debt to my parents and sister isn't helping matters.
Living on your own and trying to make art and have a life is not easy AT ALL.
I'd like to regain my sanity. :]

I need a personal assistant.

The Freakin' Weekend.

So much for getting anything done this weekend.

I suppose I can pull some all nighters this week and make everything work. 

I needed a weekend of nothingness. So fuck off constant nagging brain and to-do list. 

The parents are in Vegas for their 30th wedding anniversary. 

I'm house sitting and hanging out with Bear, our dog. 

There's a whole different energy to this house and where I live. 

Here, I am enamored with the internet and TV. 

At home, I don't have these things. So most of my time is spent reading,

listening to talk radio, playing with the kitties, finding a way to get out of the house, 

and organizing my studio area... and making lists of things that need to be done. 

Oh, and sleeping. 

I haven't made an effort at all this weekend to do anything. 

Such is the nature of different energies. Or comforts. 

I like being bored at home. Makes me restless and more likely to make art or make friends. 

These are my awesome nephews! Up top is my buddy Aythen and below is the Archer cracking up! 

They're awesome. Going to my sister's tomorrow to see 'em. :]

And eat rice and beans. Ha. 

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

— Willem de Kooning

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.”

— Bridget Jones’s Diary

Asshole Clientele

The other night I forgot to give someone silver wear to eat their salad with... he was totally cool with it the whole time he was there.. honest mistake... or so i thought.

He wrote on top of his credit card receipt: FYI- attention to details! Best of luck.

That, and a 10% tip...

See, I'm not allowed to mess up without people throwing it in my face constantly.

Love being a bitch to the masses.

Yay, shock!

I'm determined to include my cats into/ around/ under/ as a side note to my art. Ha.
Sort of how in the past dogs were used for fidelity. Cats represent independence and wit. I almost don't understand now how I used to despise cats. I absolutely love my little babies. They are brilliant.
Baz and Bagheera Nala are their names.

Things to do in a very short amount of time:
Build a canvas.
Gather materials for a still life in which the combination should be surprising. (Yay, shock, I don't really believe in you anymore.)
Do some color studies of said objects/ still life.
Develop negatives of me in my bathroom making faces for 48 exposures.
Go to photo store and acquire more materials for said photographs.
Grain my two stones for printmaking.
Work on imagery.
But first and foremost: Read Nothing like the Son: On Robert Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio.
And Prom Night in Flatland: On the Gender of Works of Art.
Gather images for those, write summary/thoughts on/ conclusions....

Also, what do i not think is art? I must find an example of such...
I looked through multiple magazines and B&N and the magazines... I guess I haven't noticed contemporary art thus far.
I'm an art history kinda gal... but also as open minded as I am, I was surprised how much I thought was NOT art. Shame on me I guess... or shame on them? Who knows... no shame... just forgettable art.

Where I'm at.

Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it.

i.e. Art.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy43z9RFmiw

I would really like to start this thing up again...

Where to begin??

Linnis' Art In Galveston & Mosquito Cafe.

I had the best day last Saturday. Really.

So I woke up and ran with Jamie at 11 and then I had my pitching lessons with Jessica and Shanice after which I went home and packed, took a shower, and got ready to head to Galveston for Linnis' art opening. 

So I head down towards Galveston, and as soon as I reach beach road through Crystal Beach, I'm floored. Nothing was there. Absolutely nothing. The water was no more than a couple hundred yards or so from the road itself. There were people walking up and down the beach-- probably catching a nice case of tetnus-- and there were what seemed like hundreds of construction trucks and what not. As I drove into the more populated area of the beach, it seemed like progress was being made and there was some rebuilding happening. It was all very surreal because I know a lot of people who had beach cabins where they spent happy weekends and others who lived there and were devastated. I got down to the ferry line at 6:00, and sat in line, read my book while inching up to the ferry. 

I got into Galveston at 8:12 and finally found the Wagner Soulsa Museum. I missed the crowd, but there were still about 20 people in the space. Linnis said that there was a great show up, and that he was really pleased. 

I was starving by the time I got there so I asked the gallery owner's wife or friend-- ?? not sure-- where I could go for some really yum awesome food. She told me to go to Mosquito Cafe on 14th and Winnie, so I did. I walked in just in time and ordered a Salmon Club sandwich with Fresh Apple Salad. Fantastic! So, if you're ever in Galveston..... 

Linnis Blanton.

Hey everyone.
I just wanted everyone to know that my ceramics professor is having an art show in Galveston next weekend. The opening is Saturday, March 7, 2009 from 6-9.
His work is exquisite; he will be showing about 14 large pieces and there will be wall pieces as well (platters and such).
Check out the flier and get your booties out there. Bring a friend.

(Mythical Petroglyphs, Stonewear, 2008)

Place. Time. Who.

See some more of his work at Blantonspottery.com.


That's all for now.
Pictures of my work in progress, soon.
Best of wishes, Linnis!

Jodi Hebert.

Over the Brain Fart.

It's taken me quite a bit of time this semester to get my head straight and to edit certain parts of my schedule to make things workable. I started out this semester with 4 studio classes (technically 3-- because I'm trying to complete Computers in Art; I took an incomplete after my surgery in the fall), plus Seminar and Art Survey IV. That's absolutely absurd. Just the thought of all of that work was enough to put me into a head spin and I accomplished zilch up until recently.
I've since dropped Drawing IV and Printmaking.
I have my Tuesdays and Thursdays free to work and I coach pitching lessons on the side during the weekend.
I'm feeling a lot better about my course load and have given myself a sense of freedom to finally start working again.

So far in Ceramics I've made 11 hand-warmer tea bowls, 2 regular bowls, a vase, and I've just finished a sculpture. We had critique yesterday, and I'm happy with the direction I'm headed in, which is about the same mixture as I was working with last semester: about equal time handbuilding and building sculptures (mixtures of figurative, conceptual and allegorical work) with the rest of the time devoted to the wheel and often times altering wheel- thrown items.
That's usually how I start a sculpture, I throw a cylinder and alter it and keep adding on until something starts speaking to me. The rest is editing and fine tuning the "image."
Today when I went up to studio:
1. I made a list of what still needs to be glazed from last semester.
2. Made a running "To-Do" list, which I find to be extremely ambitious, including the projected idea to make 7 (including the one I've already made) regular sized sculptures of the same basic size as last semester's work, 7-10 very small sculptures, and 5-7 raku pieces; mainly sculptures.
3. I had a bucket full of hard clay so I spent most of my time re hydrating and kneading that clay back to life. I spread everything out on the table and flooded the table and let it sit, and sandwiched the clay and smacked it to hell and gone and repeated that about 2 times until it was back to workable consistency. It took forever-- and I didn't weigh it so I'm not sure how much there was, but it ended up being about 6 chunks of at least 2 1/2 to 3 lbs of clay. Needless to say, I'm a bit out of shape and I sweated quite a bit.
4. I also made a list of things that need to be made for friends and family and whoever else. There's only three people that I can think of right now; but if you want something specific made, just let me know: (What, how many, general color schemes [you can reference my other work and I can look up the color combinations] and I guess we can talk about price.) I'm a full time student, so these things take a while.

I had everything boxed up from the Fire and Ice Show just sitting in the classroom since the show came down-- but I finally brought everything home tonight which makes me feel much better.
This list making helped me do some "house cleaning" of thoughts and plans, and I also reorganized my locker area in studio. You'd be surprised how that just makes you feel much more excited about getting work done.

Other than Ceramics, Artist Common, a student based group at Lamar University (I'm the Treasurer), recently held a show-- which is still up until this Saturday-- at the Art Studio, Inc. in downtown Beaumont on Franklin. The show was called Recycled Art, the basis of which was the art that was made from the trash we cleaned up there from damage done from previous storms, hurricanes, etc. I need to take pictures and post them here. I think the show was highly successful and there was a huge turn out for one of our shows. My piece was entitled Enuendos and it was a collage on newsprint with newspaper bits, black and white paint, coffee painted, magazine images and india inked words-- SEXUALLY DEPRIVED/ DEPRAVED/ FRUSTRATED
There is a piece off to the left bottom side of the work of (how do I describe it?) some sort of cardboard thing that served as a shelf for the "shoes/ boots" on the shelf, that are basically wadded up newspaper stuffed into a mold and taken out and painted white.
The back story is this sort of recollection I had of middle school where if someone looked down at your shoes and slowly back up at you and said, "Hey, I really like your shoes" it meant they liked you or wanted to get with you. It sort of ties everything back into the text.
Pictures soon.

I also want to start video taping me while working, and posting short little clips on here. We'll see, don't hold your breath.

Other than that, I'm feeling great and starting to work out again and everything's sort of working itself out.

Oh, and I'm going to be an aunt soon! :]

Another oh. Chelsy Broussard, Jessi Hebert, and myself will be having our own art show this summer at the Barking Dog Coffee House in downtown Beaumont on Pearl Ave. The projected date as of right now is June 6th which is a Saturday. We will be graced with the musical stylings, hopefully, of The Amorist, Ashlynn Ivy and Tim Apshire. This is all tentative, and of course I will post the final decisions when we hammer them out. The show will be up for a month and I'm actually going to put prices on things this time. Lesson learned. I can't have all of this stuff in my house. :]
Jessi is my twin, and is a professional photographer. Visit her site @ www.jessihebert.com also, www.jessihebert.blogspot.com. She's cool as hell.
Chelsy is one of my best friends. She works in ceramics as well (see previous post) and is a photography major.
The show will be pretty diverse and plentiful.
Be there.

And keep checking in.
See you soon.
Jodi Hebert.