bonne voyage, m'amie!

current tune: Suzanne Vega "Tom's Diner"

The last two days have been almost a blur between having the hardest trouble getting my carcass out of bed in the morning, work, starting a new babysitting job, spending time and seeing a good friend off, making cards and getting packages and envelopes set to be mailed, and working on my art. Sadly, the art aspect has been getting the short end of the stick due to sunlight [painting and spraying my door in the driveway] and being guiltily lethargic at times.

I get veered off the road I'm going down sooo easily when other "important" life-things come up...employment, groceries; etc.
...more art, more art, more art!
I write to-do lists, post-its on my laptop...but I still tend to wander and get a day behind.
What are some effective [and successful!] methods for a busy day on a full-mind with little time?

Yesterday after work I stopped to see a very good friend for her last night in town after a 5+ year stay in the same apartment [something I have yet to feel in my life...]. Her abode is an artwork in itself and it is a lovely, comfortable, and charming place where good conversation, art, shenanigans with her Bunzilla [her grey rabbit], and adventures are had. Though our relationship is still new, I am so thankful Miss Tesla Nicola is in my life and I wouldn't change any bit of her for the world!

Tesla, is also a very talented artist who works with installations [big-small], paints, illustrates, and has collaborated with a close friend for numerous preformance pieces. I admire her for her outlook, artistic style, and her beauty to find unique truths.

Her poetry and art adorns the walls. No space is left without meaning.
The charming abode and Miss Tesla with a bit of the beautiful pink strapless Besty Johnson dress I acquired that night from my friend and my mulberries.Dress up in the children's section of the Everson Museum during some time to spare between exhibitions and seminar [March-ish time]pretty desserts
...and the beginings of me going blonde about two months ago. oh my!A little group dinner thrown together by our friend Kari at a quaint Scottish restuarant down a bit from our school.


I love finding people that you just click with, simply and beautifully.
Like many people I have few friends who I would call true; they make it worth keeping in contact with...and even worth the steep gas prices for trips to visit!
eeeeek!

a little catsup in your converse

current tune: Green Jello/Green Jelly "Little Pig, Little Pig"

Despite the fact that I'm currently out of the conventional sit-in-the-classroom-and-learn aspect of school, until my one summer course, I still have no clue where my time runs to. I'm sure it goes to a nice place with cocktails and good conversation. At some point in my life, I will join it and finally find peace with the occupation I've fallen into over the years of always running late...like the white rabbit.

I have worked on some illustrations, stripped, sanded, and painted both sides of the found door for my outdoor installation piece, cooked, cleaned, and adventured.

One of my possessions got the boot after 6+ years of high school hallways, grassy fields, camping trips, shows, all over Europe and back, and a whole lot in between that I'm sure I'm forgetting. They were my first pair of Converse out of the two pairs I personally own [the other lovelies are Mulberry]. It's a bittersweet ending to a pair of shoes that made me feel and look cool whether I was in the United States or backpacking in Germany with some of the best friends I have come across.

You were a great pair of shoes, Converse, with your classic simple form of canvas and rubber. My feet got wet and were very cold during many a time, but you always complimented any outfit I adorned-even my first fashion show when I modeled my own garments [freshman year fashion design major before switching to studio art]. You were good to me and I love you.

R.I.P Converse Chucks

Old, stained, and worn with love.
I could see my socks through the bottom! [for longer than I should have...I'm sure...]
I'm sure you can relate to any pair of trust favored footwear...no matter what they are. It's interesting how long I could not bear with parting with my silly shoes that could barely constitute as shoes...becoming so attached to the familiar and comfortable...despite puddles.

Yummy omelets and dishes were cooked and devoured.

I also just picked up a new Raw Foods cookbook at Barnes & Nobles for Nicholas that I'm eager to try out! I'm really excited to test out some of delicious recipes [some again- zucchini spaghetti!] with the coming of hotter days and nights and less stovetop/oven cooking.

Some simple tasty breakfast of cheesy omelett with onions, tomatoes, and assorted spices with mustard.

Nicholas has found that when you mix up your eggs with milk for an omelet, add a little dab of EEVO [Rachel Ray lingo for extra virgin olive oil] to the mix before cooking. We've been using a bit ever since for a fluffier, and more moist omelets!

Now that I finally have my little beauty [digital camera] I need to remember to actually take more photos...cooking, recipes, sketchbook illustrations, and my sculpture project!

happy tuesday!

eeeks! new camera!

Daily tune: Gorillaz "19-2000"

New camera.
[finally!]

excitement.
joy and rapture.
missing piece.

adventure!

graduation for those graduating

daily tune: Caribou 'Odessa"

Today is graduation. For Cazenovia College class of 2010, Syracuse University, and I'm sure many, many more colleges and universities all over the United States with similar academic years and dates scheduled to have their multidues of eager graduates to get their diplomas and get the fuck out.

I'm not one of them.

A little resentment and bitterness still comes up, but the other better feelings have been increasing that just make me think....oh well...what's done is done....and I am not like the others.

I'll be finishing up my BFA with one small summer course starting soon and that will be it! Yay!

Once that time finally comes, I will have the closure I've been searching so long for. But don't think I'm satisfied with the education that I received from the undergraduate college I chose in Central New York...hell no. I fully intend to pursue graduate work in sculpture....[the thought as of now...] in any state I choose to fit my liking, my art style, and my growth. I will not limit myself to the physical boundaries of New York State and will pursuit the arts wherever I am called to.

That's all.


happy saturday and happy graduation!

...and though I have resentment about my own graduation I do not hinder the love, gratitude, adoration, and respect to my lovely friends, and fellow colleagues who have taken classes with me, drank with me in the dive small town bar, and shared the many experiences!


I love you all, and I wish nothing but the best and most unique and creative adventures for you!

If only I found this hat sooner....

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i like lawn ornaments

daily tune: Beirut "Postcards From Italy"

Oh hello! I've just completed another spontaneous-blogging-hiatus, or when my reality becomes too busy and imperative to allow my blog to receive proper attention. A lot of that, might I add, has to do with being lethargic and not having a camera.....yet!

Good news! I FINALLY ordered one! I am patiently waiting for the little aqua green nikon I ordered so i can begin snapping away photos! Plus, my laptop had been sent away to be repaired [before my warranty is up!] so there was no utilizing the scanner either...sigh.

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I have dozens of news drawings and my new project [to finish up my sculpture course].

I just ordered 22 more flamingos to total 32 - to paint and create an outdoor sculptural piece.
Between the fashion and studio art key buildings of my college.

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Aren't they great?

style from a spider

daily melody: Air "Sexy Boy"

Last week of school...the last week of structured-classroom with the specific confines of time and location will be ending. I will be re-taking a class I dropped during the summer with a very close and caring professor. It's all going to work out in the end.

In the mean time I finally sent my poor laptop off to wherever to get fixed. I've been holding off for the longest time and my dvd/cd drive hasn't been working and my hinges are wearing pretty badly. The poor bette is almost 4 years old, so I had it last minute shipped before my warranty gave out! I'm going to have to do what I can outside the invisible safety net college has strung me in concerning things such as laptop warranties, health insurance, and discounts.

On an off note my style icon and inspiration for the moment is Miss Spider from the movie James and the Giant Peach. She was my inspiration for a final project for my graphic forms class dealing with either fortunes or hand-to-mouth. Open-ended and delightfully harder than expected to go with.

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I've got various sketches and what not of my illustration that I'll be inking up tonight! Final projects.....and Magic Hat #9 tonight...

I have taken quite the liking of depicting her eating handfulls of drippy vibrant peach.

...and the rest of the show!

daily melody: La Roux "Bulletproof"

I have to send a huuuuuge apology for falling into my little infamous lapse of posting...especially to leave readers in suspense from the opening of my show! Which went......SPLENDID!!!!

I luckily had assistance moving each television by a two-tiered cart with a fellow friend and visual communications major, Blake, who assisted in moving them across the street from the bowels of Coleman studio [in the basement] to the gallery. This was of course after 3 hours of pre-running around doing errands, picking up things, and whatever else was needed for the opening. Some of this included: my vinyl lettering of my show title and name, a table for my postcards, business cards, resume, and guestbook, a new dress [which was thrifted with the table at the Syracuse Salvation Army], cheese, crackers, pepperoni, humous [hors d'oeurves], screws for my deer mount, and any other minor things needed.

...oh and my postcards [which I sold for $1 each at the show] and business cards came in on time a day before my show! phew! that had been such a burden on my shoulders....

Here are some photographs care of Shanna of the rest of the show and artists:

My good friend Kari and her photographs of body and texture.Benjamin with his emotionally charged abstract paintings.

Megan and her pigment charged Bacon-inspired horse paintings.
photo cred: Shanna the fabulous!!

The show was up for 4 days and I de-installed Tuesday night to get the gallery back in order for the remaining 2 shows that will be in the gallery....I was the 2nd show.

I had my oral defense explaining my work, artist statement, and the process I went through to 3 professors [1 senior project, 1 chosen from Syracuse University, and one I chose]. I'm crossing my fingers I did alright on it....

I'm content that I had this experience and learned a lot as I went through it all.
I hope to show at many many more galleries to come.


Above all I am an artist.
This is what I am doing.