i think i'm off the hook, baby

daily melody: First Aid Kit "Hard Believer"

and the progress goes on....

I also decided on another photo as well.

creating cranium

daily melody: Le Tigre "Deceptacon" [as played by Jem]

I cannot papier mache worth it. It's pathetic. I need someone to properly teach me again. Almost as odd as having to watch a youtube tutorial on how to make a newspaper hat. I'm now a newspaper party hat pro.

Currently working on a project that is due this week after a wonderful, and very grateful spurt of inspiration and ideas!

here is a sneak peek:

a found photograph

color!venetian bird masks

I have to say my thanks for the inspirational found photograph that my good friend Angie let me have from her collection. I thought they were neat then, and I still do now.

I'm literally just letting my creativity and sense of artistic accomplishment keep me awak and going. It just turned 2am again and I'm tired, just itching to construct and concept amongst a roll of toilet paper for my drippy nose.

If the finished product comes out as imagined, it will be great!

[sidenote: I realize how awful I've become of not showing finished images of work and what not...lame. I really need a new camera of my own again.]

do it - do it - do it now

daily melody: Hot Chip "Ready For The Floor"

motivation...motivation...oh where could you be?
my brain is becoming dull
becoming misguided
beguiled
dry
without passion.

I am not a sand dollar.

I have big plans for tomorrow! I am going to make myself become motivated and work, work, produce!

things I have planned:

going to the local hardware store
purchase plywood and varnish
begin car** piece
take a walk in the woods with a good friend
collect twigs and branches for project
sketch for graphic forms to cement idea
set up my new small bit of studio space on campus

I intend to accomplish this all....whether that becomes an actuality or not will be another story. I'm going to see if I can burrow one of my roommate's cameras for documentation for a fun productive day.

Maybe I'll go buy some wine in the afternoon and treat myself.
It will be Friday...

**car piece:

I recently became inspired by an older white car in passing in Syracuse at the recently mentioned apartment's driveway. I became very taken aback by the color of the car, and how people deal with the color white.

My plan for this is creating a collage/decoupage with a white car and placing it in an angelic, blessed atmosphere...using found materials, mixing 2D and 3D objects...putting a creation of man on a very high pedestal.

Of course...it isn't anything we do not do already...

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On a side note, I have itching, itching, itching to get my tattoo! It will be a tentative first, but I have been patiently waiting, debating, and rationalizing this decision; and how it will affect my professional future. I would also like to add...how my family will take it as well (...conservatives...). I think this spring will mark a very good time and I think it will be within the next couple of months.

I'm scared, but very ready to be permanently painted as a living work of art.