Big mask progress photo dump. I’ve been working on this mask a little bit every day. It’s at the point where it is both starting to look like and inform it’s own vision in a more tangible way...
2021-04-07 03:54:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Another week of juggling progress. A friend left her fancy water lights in my care, so I turned one on for *ambiance.* I am working on my overhand throws, trying to get to a point where I can do th...
2021-03-29 19:33:00 +0000 UTC View Post
New juggling balls came in the mail today.
2021-03-24 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Practicing me pillar throws. It's harder than one might imagine to throw straight up and down in three places at once. Sometimes also in one place at once. When I practice bilateral pillar throws o...
2021-03-23 06:45:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Motion on the mask. 70% of sculpting with plaster strips is dry time. The light weight and versatility are absolutely worth it.
Ps Those are no horns.
Pss This one...
2021-03-19 06:15:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve been working on a couple of projects this month. One of them is this mask process. A coworker/collaborator stayed late at work a couple of Wednesday’s ago to help me cast my face (again). ...
2021-03-13 03:25:12 +0000 UTC View PostMost people are into birthdays, even if they’re into not being into birthdays. It’s our earliest and most reliable rite of passage in this shambling rot of a dominant culture whose other rites ...
2021-03-04 09:03:43 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the projects I worked on this month was a crocheted cloak. I roughly followed Jayda InStitches' hooded clo...
2021-02-22 23:18:16 +0000 UTC View PostI have such a lovely little work community. As I process through my experiences, my own trauma and grief, I have to remind myself to look at the joy and compassion that I am so ruthlessly surrounde...
2021-02-21 02:47:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The road to hell is paved with works in progress.
- Philip Roth
2021-02-20 06:59:45 +0000 UTC View Postsitting with grief, i am
an exhaust
drawn of daze,
daisies,
hold your cheeks in the steam
rising from the well
cracked, shallow,
bursting with heat
y...
2021-02-12 18:25:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I made this playlist in early March last year, when the euphemism "social distancing" was first entering the vernacular. A friend shared the idiom "A camel is a horse by committee" with me around t...
2021-01-29 02:38:40 +0000 UTC View Post
After garishly carving words backwards, filling the cracks with layers of mod podge, sanding, and carving through uneven textures, my holiday print is finally done, and I think it turned out pretty...
2020-12-26 20:24:21 +0000 UTC View PostMy mother wanted desperately to be needed by me, to be the biggest part of my life, and in some ways I think to start over and be me instead, and she inserted herself in all kinds of force...
2020-12-17 02:25:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hoo hoo, here's a picture of my little workspace and my latest mistake. I am working on my holiday card here at the studio, on track to arrive in homes definitely by 2021. I've never carved words t...
2020-12-16 03:56:24 +0000 UTC View PostI made this little song with the time lapse in mind, but it ended up having something more to say.
2020-11-25 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I made a time lapse! This is the process of making a mold and getting the first layer of paper mache set, in 410 photos.
2020-11-25 06:52:49 +0000 UTC View PostI've tied hands a bit with more middle-term projects than I'm used to. I'm still figuring out how to practice discipline to keep things moving even when the creative inertia feels insurmountable. I...
2020-11-14 02:39:31 +0000 UTC View PostExposition
Two people in a cabin, it is a full moon in winter
[C1] has been preparing a ritual for this night for some time
[C2] is a caretaker of [C1] and suppor...
2020-11-01 04:21:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Quick and dirty video of me practicing juggling. Music is Impostor Syndrome by Sidney Gish.
2020-10-30 00:53:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Cast a couple of faces in plaster this week. The goal is to use them to make fitted masks without having to go through the messy process of making a new mold on a live face for each one. I learned ...
2020-10-23 02:01:55 +0000 UTC View Postdeath smokes cigarettes
sucking sticky yellow
into hollow bellows
and blows hot cream
two anubis sputter
rapt with stale assiduity
whetted with nicoti...
2020-10-19 21:58:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I got myself stuck painting a chrome ball in the mouth of this bird. Painting chrome is hard, and trying new things requires patience--something I’ve been struggling with lately. I’m going to d...
2020-10-18 02:32:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I found this picture on my mother’s kitchen counter after she died. I was named after the woman on the left, my great great grandmother (mother’s mother’s mother’s mother?). My mom always t...
2020-09-16 23:35:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I have been wanting to reacquaint myself with oils, and my therapist suggested I should paint standing up. Here is this week’s daily quest to describe light and shadow.
2020-09-13 23:20:19 +0000 UTC View Post