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A chord I know travels across the room and I am full of hope

2012-01-27T13:29:00.003-05:00

A chord I know travels across the room and I am full of hope
Watercolor and gouache on gessoed wood panel
8" x 10"
Available for purchase here:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/91575654/a-chord-i-know-travels-across-the-room?ref=v1_other_2

A dissonance in my memory I carry around

2012-01-27T13:26:00.001-05:00

A dissonance in my memory I carry around

Watercolor and gouache on gessoed wood panel
12" x 16"
Available for purchase here:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/91576875/a-dissonance-in-my-memory-i-carry-around

Working in the studio

2012-01-23T13:26:00.001-05:00

Just came across these studio shots and thought I would share.

Painted white then turned to light

2012-01-22T17:56:00.002-05:00

Painted white then turned to light

Watercolor and gouache on gessoed wood panel

5" x 7"

Available for purchase here:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/91190403/painted-white-then-turned-to-light

The higher notes a shrill splitting in my chest

2012-01-22T17:54:00.005-05:00

The higher notes a shrill splitting in my chest

Archival ink on gessoed wood panel

8" x 10"

I feel the air around me

2012-01-22T17:51:00.002-05:00

I feel the air around me

Archival ink on drawing paper

8 1/2" x 11"

Available for purchase here:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/91192266/i-feel-the-air-around-me-original

The year slows and I walk between the days

2012-01-04T14:14:00.002-05:00

Available for purchase here

The light passes through the room

2012-01-04T14:06:00.001-05:00

Available for purchase here

I sleep while the sun curves through the sky

2012-01-04T13:57:00.001-05:00

Available for purchase here

Comfort in the many pockets of my body

2012-01-04T13:55:00.000-05:00

Available for purchase here

Waves and waves then the moon

2011-12-30T20:55:00.000-05:00

Available for purchase here

I hear them in the afternoon

2011-12-30T20:35:00.002-05:00

Available for purchase here

The light was tangled around the tree

2011-12-30T19:57:00.003-05:00

Available for purchase here

The blinking of old slow eyes

2011-12-30T17:17:00.001-05:00

Available for purchase here

The moon pushes the water around in great sweeps

2011-12-30T17:15:00.002-05:00

Available for purchase here

Warmth is a red bruise

2011-12-30T17:12:00.003-05:00

Available for purchase here

Each note round and on the verge of falling

2011-12-30T17:10:00.003-05:00

Available for purchase here

The welcoming of the hard things

2011-12-22T20:18:00.000-05:00

Archival ink on paper

Each page is 9" x 5"

new sketch-paintings up in the shop

2011-12-22T02:21:00.003-05:00

Like the bottoms of my feet, like the floor of the sea

Smudge of summer night

These are up and ready for you to buy them in my shop!

It has been so nice to to do these smaller sketch-paintings. I've enjoyed working on paper as opposed to spending days gessoing and sanding and gessoing and sanding before beginning a painting. Plus it's satisfying to make art that is affordable, I can't afford most artwork so it feels hypocritical to make artwork only for a certain income bracket.

More new paintings up in the shop

2011-12-15T23:28:00.004-05:00

All those things I accumulate

Things inside of me this morning

These and more are available in my shop.

New paintings added to my shop

2011-12-14T20:03:00.002-05:00

Things are floating above my shoulders, are fleeting and growing

Inside was a road to a mountain

The movement of cells bound to light

These new paintings were just added to my shop.

New drawings available in my shop

2011-12-13T20:55:00.001-05:00

The leaves and the shadows that turn left and right

The rain and the river all mixed together

Both new drawings are now available for purchase in my shop.

New drawings for sale in my shop

2011-12-13T15:31:00.003-05:00

A voice that sinks into me

Bower Sketch I

Bower Sketch II

I felt the blue night twisting

She talked in words that curled

The night was unfolding

The shadows roll over the hills like water

These new drawings are each $45 and are available for purchase in my shop

Tucked away along the center of me

2011-11-08T12:00:00.001-05:00

Mixed media on gessoed panel

14" x 11"

for this guy

Rain grows heavy and thick and so close together there's hardly room to breathe between the drops

2011-10-14T11:07:00.001-04:00

Archival ink on gessoed wood panel

10" x 8"

Illuminate Aria inside a thousand leaves

2011-09-20T23:10:00.000-04:00

Archival ink on gessoed wood

8" x 10"

Illuminate Aria inside a thousand leaves

I drift back to cold winters.

Mountains of free sprit

she guided rain rolling over self revelation

she hurried shoulders following us to sea.

I feel the lights go off in the space outside my body

2011-09-20T23:05:00.002-04:00

Archival ink on gessoed wood

8" x 10"

I feel the lights go off in the space outside my body

slowness folding the corners into place.

Shadows stretch across the room of my chest

it grows larger.

I worry that I will grow tired because I want to hold things and name them

2011-08-05T14:44:00.000-04:00

I worry that I will grow tired because I want to hold things and name them

Mixed media on gessoed wood panel

18" x 18"

detail

The land is a clock and time is a sea and light flows from everything in long angles

2011-08-05T12:01:00.004-04:00

The land is a clock and time is a sea and light flows from everything in long angles

Mixed media on gessoed wood panel

18" x 18"

The title is taken from another writing excerpt about moving from Minneapolis to Miami:

"Here there are two seasons and one of them is fire.Here the morning starts in pieces far out on the water and it falls from the trees and grows up from the sand.

The line I followed south teetered on the edge of day and night, north and south, winter and summer. One always pushing the other one back.

The land is a clock and time is a sea and light flows from everything in long angles."

I lay beside a lake full of cool, thick sweet water.

2011-08-03T11:08:00.004-04:00

Mixed media on gessoed wood panel

18" x 18"

" I lay beside a lake full of cool, thick sweet water. I dive in and my body turns dark and shadowy. I can't rinse the water off. It covers every inch of me. Inside and out."

I write a lot. I always have. I'm trying to figure out the intersection between my writing and my art by using titles for my paintings that are excerpts from writing that I have done at the same time I worked on the specific painting.

New Paintings

2011-07-13T11:56:00.004-04:00

What I felt before I grew into myself

2011-07-13T11:14:00.005-04:00

Each page is 7" x 5"

Archival ink on paper

N I G H T T I M E P H O T O S

2011-07-05T14:59:00.005-04:00

Artwork at the Miami International Airport

2011-06-15T10:54:00.007-04:00

Michelle Oka Donar did the floors.

Elisabeth Condon has a show there right now.

I'm lucky to say I've got a show coming up there too!

Almacantar III

2011-04-27T13:18:00.004-04:00

Almacantar III

Mixed Media on Gessoed Wood

40" x 30"

Almacantar III details

2011-03-24T13:43:00.000-04:00

Bower IV
Archival ink on gessoed wood
10" x 8"

2011-03-24T13:40:00.000-04:00

Bower III

Archival ink on gessoed wood

10" x 8"

2011-03-10T00:12:00.003-05:00

A little written piece to use for new buisness cards.

Broken cameras take the best blurry photos

2011-02-23T19:25:00.006-05:00

Another Canon Powershot bit the dust. (I'm now on camera 4 or 5 and am starting to loose track of all of the Powershots I've owned...) But the good news is that now it takes these amazing blurry photos.

Billow I

2011-02-18T00:42:00.002-05:00

Billow I

Watercolor and gouache on gessoed wood

30" x 24"

Almacantar II

2011-02-18T00:39:00.002-05:00

Almacantar II

Watercolor and gouache on gessoed wood

40" x 30"

Almacantar I

2011-02-18T00:32:00.006-05:00

Almacantar I

Watercolor and gouache on gessoed wood

40" x 30"

2011-02-16T15:37:00.001-05:00

Finally got my website up and running. Check it out here

2011-02-07T23:14:00.006-05:00

Almacantar II detail

Almacantar I detail

Just finished up five pieces for a show on Friday the 11th at the Bakehouse Art Complex. I've included some detail shots above. I'll post photos of all the work after the show opening.

Also...

"Almacantar - a circle of altitude, parallel to the horizon. An astronomical term, used to describe imaginary lines in the sky by which an astronomer determines the height of a star relative to the horizon."

Coil

2011-01-13T11:20:00.003-05:00

Watercolor and gouache on gessoed panel

12" x 12" x 2"

2010-12-30T10:35:00.002-05:00

Watercolor on Gessoed Board

8" x 10"

More 5" X 7"s

2010-12-10T00:08:00.003-05:00

Archival Ink on Gessoed Board - 5" x 7"

5" X 7" show at the BAC

2010-12-01T12:46:00.005-05:00

Archival Ink on Gessoed Wood

each piece is 5" x 7"

A couple of these are still available for purchase at the Bakehouse Art Complex.

2010-11-23T22:04:00.002-05:00

Archival ink on gessoed panel

12" x 12" x 2"

Experimenting with watercolor and pen

2010-10-27T23:40:00.008-04:00

A story about a river, sisters and love

2010-09-21T13:39:00.007-04:00

Gaspe

2010-09-15T23:13:00.015-04:00

Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec
August 2010

My digital camera didn't make it to Quebec with me. It left me in the backseat of a cab in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. That's 4 digital cameras I've "donated" to the world now. Anyway, I bought this cheap disposable camera at a gift shop while waiting for a ferry to cross the Saint Lawrence Seaway.

2010-09-14T16:41:00.001-04:00

2010-09-05T13:51:00.005-04:00

pen on masonite 48" x 24"

The first page

2010-09-02T16:17:00.002-04:00

This is the first page of a little illustrated story I'm working on. I'll post the rest of the pages as soon as I finish them up.

Drawings with my sister while in Quebec

2010-09-02T16:07:00.008-04:00

pen on paper 9" x 12"

pen on paper 7" x 9.5"

beScene Magazine

2010-06-01T23:26:00.002-04:00

Little article on me by the good folks at beScene magazine...

2010-05-14T15:02:00.001-04:00

Colored Pencil on Masonite

30" x 16.5"

2010-05-05T08:45:00.001-04:00

Colored Pencil on Masonite

30" x 16.5"

2010-04-22T01:43:00.001-04:00

Acrylic, colored pencil and pen on mat board

40" x 32"

Hands

2010-04-09T02:08:00.007-04:00

Colored pencil and marker on paper

color again

2010-03-23T00:33:00.005-04:00

Colored Pencil and Charoal on Paper

Working in color again kind of feels like speaking in another language. It's a good change of pace from my black and white drawings of this past year.

Think I'll do a painting next...

Older artwork

2010-03-23T00:25:00.006-04:00

Mixed Media on Board

Since this piece is now hanging on the wall of my studio, and I look at it everyday (and since I am working in color again) I figured I'd post this older piece.

Studio #42

2010-03-09T00:52:00.002-05:00

Still need to hang everything... but it feels damn good to work in such a nice space.

2010-02-24T08:47:00.002-05:00

Graphite on paper

30" x 22.5"

Because my sister is awesome...

2010-02-23T08:37:00.002-05:00

... and because good things happen in Portland

go to www.cityrepair.org

Dark Waters

2010-01-03T23:27:00.004-05:00

Pen and Ink on Board - 22.5" x 26.25"

Collaborative Christmas Drawings

2009-12-29T00:26:00.003-05:00

My sister and I like to draw together. I wish I could convince her to move to Miami and draw with me every day...

New Drawing

2009-12-02T09:58:00.001-05:00

Nancy Friedemann

2009-10-14T21:31:00.002-04:00

beautiful dark art by Nancy Friedmann

Noel Rodo Vankeulen

2009-10-06T19:21:00.006-04:00

very awesome Canadian photographer. Look at his site here.

2009-09-30T08:43:00.002-04:00

found here

Orion Dust and Stars

2009-09-29T12:22:00.001-04:00

found here

2009-09-24T14:19:00.006-04:00

images found here

Lake Superior, Sept 11-13

2009-09-22T12:34:00.008-04:00

there are cups in my future

2009-09-09T21:35:00.001-04:00

Portland, OR

2009-09-09T12:03:00.007-04:00

The Folded Dream

2009-08-11T15:05:00.008-04:00

The folded sections line up... depending on how you fold the sections the "dream" tells a different story.

South on NE 2nd Ave at 11:05 PM

2009-08-11T14:36:00.003-04:00

Taken out of storage

2009-08-04T14:22:00.017-04:00

None of the above work is my own... they are files that were taken from an inspiration folder that they were dumped into in 2007. I only remember that images 5 and 9 are by an artist named Elly Yap...

Samburu

2009-07-31T11:51:00.005-04:00

Beautiful women of the Samburu tribe, found here.

Sandra Backlund is still amazing...

2009-07-31T11:16:00.005-04:00

It is no secret that Sandra Backlund is amazing. I met her once when I worked at this store, and she was so nice. Maybe I should start knitting...

2009-07-15T14:33:00.007-04:00

Photos by Namiko Kitaura.

Givenchy Fall/Winter 2009 Couture

2009-07-14T00:09:00.012-04:00

The best photos I've seen of the Givenchy Fall/Winter 2009 Haute Couture Collection from Jak and Jil.

Details from the Gaultier Fall 2009 Couture Show

2009-07-09T10:41:00.010-04:00

Dream-like and amazing.

Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2009 Couture collection.

Gaia

2009-06-26T11:51:00.009-04:00

More images can be seen through the Arrested Motion Blog,

as well as Gaia's own site.

2009-06-23T19:59:00.002-04:00

I can't remember where I found this image. But I like everything about it.

New Drawing

2009-06-22T23:42:00.004-04:00

11:14 PM ...

...just finished the above drawing

Juul Kraijer

2009-06-11T15:27:00.007-04:00

These drawings by artist, Juul Kraijer, are everything I want my art to be.

First seen on the very cool blog Blood Milk . Thank you for sharing!

The images above come from the artist professional site.

woah, Irana Douer

2009-06-11T14:38:00.014-04:00

I first came across the name Irana Douer this afternoon via a very good etsy "stork review" (look at it yourself here)

I started doing some research, hoping especially to find more images of her work...

...I found that she has a monthly online magazine called Ruby Mag It's pretty awesome.

AND SHE HAS A FLICKER SITE which has her entire portfolio (the images above are just a few examples) as well as some other very cool things.

Who wants to help me start the Irana Douer fan club???

Yokai

2009-06-03T11:31:00.010-04:00

Images first seen on Audrey Kawasaki's "Other Journal":

Images can also be found here.

Colors the sky turned

2009-06-02T12:06:00.005-04:00

What is all that stuff in between you and me?

2009-06-02T11:24:00.010-04:00

Finally finished this drawing last night. Working on my art has been too slow lately...

Bodies in water

2009-05-26T23:22:00.006-04:00

all images via http://www.ffffound.com/

Urban Living...

2009-05-26T20:06:00.001-04:00

Art by Kate Andrews via www.ffffound.com

drawings...

2009-05-21T10:09:00.004-04:00

These two drawings have kept me busy for the past month. I am especially happy with the first one. More drawing posts soon... Also, click on the images to view them in a larger size.

My girl's got talent

2009-05-20T10:21:00.000-04:00

My dear friend, Carina Kohler, is an amazing fashion illustrator. She is amazing in general, and every once in a while I talk her into sending me some of her latest illustrations. They are just too good not to share.

Something to aspire towards

2009-05-15T11:27:00.000-04:00

I just recently came across an amazing artist from London, Kate MccGwire. She spends months, and sometimes years, collecting material for her organic sculptures. Her work is an investigation of beauty itself. All of the above photos are from her professional website http://www.katemccgwire.com/

The darkness is blooming

2009-05-15T10:23:00.001-04:00

Photo Credit & Copyright: Richard Payne (Arizona Astrophotography)

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040223.html

I would move away from the ocean and settle in the desert if it meant that I could look up and see THAT sky.

Welcome to my little collection of photos, thoughts, and meanderings.