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frum summer

Snake Lake 5

get sexy. get a copy.

Fresh

Heyo, more formal pictures of my farm stand!

Another sign!

It's a sign!

In progress, for my farm stand. Comin' up.

Snake Lake 5

Awhile back, In June, I believe, I made this piece for the first show a Center, a new art space run by my sweet friends that was half built when they had the show but is finally totally almost done. So exciting! So much to think about! So much going on in a small city! Move to Milwaukee.

All I really wanted to do was to make a book. But I decided to come up with a collection of objects that would not only reference and reflect the text and images but could stand alone as something to gather around, somethin' to take a look at and, totally practically, as a place to actually put the book. Voila!

My name online

The first one and the last one are the best ones:

me and lydia at "I've zine the Darkness"

a video blog in which I nervously talk about my thesis project at MIAD

a slightly, though not horrendously, out of context quote in a pretty good article by Pedro Velez

also, I'll be participating in this, in September: The Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the arts' Emerging Artist show

Thesis work

The front and back of the informational postcard for my upcoming thesis show:

shortcut

Did I say I couldn't get excited about making anything? I lied, I can get excited about making SHORTS:

bummerdey

can't get excited about making stuff today, rather be on bike, or taking a shower. I watched this youtube playlist:



and painted this:



and wrote this:

I miss you, dear
so I bought you little trinkets
here

Mama, I saw chalets
and ski girls and ski hills
mountain girls on mountain sides
and visited towns
with very long names
drank very long beers
very late at night

Mama, I can't leave
I miss you, mama but I can't leave
can't leave Switzerland
without a watch
the Swiss make them best

but I spent my money on
ski girls and ski hills
mountain girls on mountain sides
I need just two hundred more
and then I'm coming home

spend my money on
milwaukee girls
spend it on milwaukee beer
I need just two hundred more
and then I'm coming home

i wanted

here's a poem I wrote awhile ago when I was asked to participate in a project two friends had organized, they were making and selling drinks at an opening and asked me and three other artists to design paper cups, they presented the drinks as individual pieces that you were purchasing, drinkers were collectors. I wanted to print the following phrases on each cup but ended up working with a different idea. Still, I think it's kind of a nice poem, all the phrases leaning against one another, iterating through:

1) I wanted to get you exactly what you asked for

2) I wanted to get you exactly what you wanted

3) I wanted you to get exactly what you wanted

4) I wanted you to get exactly what you felt you deserved

5) I wanted to get you exactly what you deserved

6) I wanted you to deserve what you got

7) I wanted you to feel like you deserved exactly what you got

8) I wanted you to feel that what you got was exactly what you deserved

9) I wanted you to tell me what you wanted so I could get you exactly what you asked for

10) I wanted to know what you wanted so I could get it for you

11) I wanted to get you what you wanted

12) I wanted you to be happy with what you got

13) I wanted you to be happy with what I got for you

14) I just wanted you to be happy

15) I wanted you to just be happy

16) I wanted you to be just

17) I just wanted you

18) I wanted to deserve you

19) I wanted you to feel like I wanted you

20) I wanted you to be happy with me

21) I wanted to get you something you would like

22) I wanted you to like what you got

23) I wanted you to like me

24) I wanted you to want me

25) I didn't want you to want

26) I wanted you to get what you deserve

27) I wanted you to have something you would like

28) I wanted you to have something that would remind you of me

29) I wanted you to think of me

30) I want you to think of me

31) I want you to feel like you deserve what you have

32) I want you to have what you want

wuhwoof whohoot

(from Madison on 03/13/11) I a little bit questioned my presence there but on reflection I realized there's no way I would have understood the sort of positivity that was happening there if I hadn't actually gone. I wanted to witness a spectacle but I ended up just feeling warm and present, I may just have been another body but it was inspiring enough to take back. I've seen some of my friends change through all this, it feels good!



cell phone pictures!

Also, I can't remember if I posted this review of a chapbook I made earlier this year which you can see my images of here!

It's sweet and exciting, not very critical but a good way for local art writing to function, to encourage and support, sharper criticism conveyed well would do the same though. Anyhow, I always return to this portion of Albert Camus's Nobel Prize banquet speech which he delivered in 1957

"Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I. But I have not been able to learn of your decision without comparing its repercussions to what I really am. A man almost young, rich only in his doubts and with his work still in progress, accustomed to living in the solitude of work or in the retreats of friendship: how would he not feel a kind of panic at hearing the decree that transports him all of a sudden, alone and reduced to himself, to the centre of a glaring light?"

Speaking of Nobel Prize speeches, Ijust heard this recording of William Faulkner's and it's amazing too:

You Snow at Lynden

While I've been reading the news, meditating on current events and thesis-ing away I stole some time to participate in "You Snow", an event organized by John Riepenhoff at the Lynden Sculpture garden, what a hoot it was! A real wintery delight! Pictures and stuff here

Also! I'm terribly excited about the upcoming show at Small Space, complete info on our website

collaborative pizza painting portrait

was experiential, was collaborative, it's easier to make art when you're with your friends, it's easier to make art when you are not hungry, or when you have the promise of delicious snacks before you. Yum! Thanks to Classic Slice for opening a new east side location.