December 10, 2008

Temporary Print assemblage
Today as an idea generating exercise I made temporary assemblages with with some paper bits I had left over from print and collage projects.

Large Assemblage
All of my previous assemblages could be described as nano sculptures, none of them being more then an inch or two in any direction. But this lovely bit of infrastructure was found on an walk in Manhattan on West Ave and seemed to fit my theme, even at a gargantuan size of 9 inches long and 6 inches wide at the base.

Found infrastuture object, fabric, thread, map bits, and found words.

My New Button Battalion

Chess pieces
planning strategic actions
paths to fulfill ideals

Buttons hold close/d our outerwear
covering our soft, warm , mushy, vulnerable parts

Holiday Show

December 6 - 24, 2008
Holiday Show

A sale and exhibition of student work. All work is for sale.

The Art Students League of New York | 215 West 57th Street, New York

December is assemblage month

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Monday Pieces

This is another in the thread collage series. The base is an etching I did of threads last year. Today I used water color to highlight some shapes, added bits from a dictionary and a final layer of thin paper on which I had sewn red thread.

Then two more flat collages.

Common Threads:Art in spite of Retail

Installation views of my assemblage photos at the common threads show.

Untitled Assemblage 5

Untitled Assemblage 2

Untitled Assemblage 4

Untitled Assemblage 3

The opening was a blast, poets, bands, performance, and lots of friends.

The photos will be posted soon on my ETSY store with a link listed here.

YEAH!!!OBAMA, OBAMA!!!

OKAY, not nearly as liberal as I would like
but I am happy that a big enough portion of the country
voted a little more to the left then in previous years.

These are some collages I finished up today, found objects, thread, bits of found words
that felt as if they should be in a flat format.

What shall tomorrow bring? more threads to unravel and more thoughts to be freed.

Today I am content, relaxed and still hopeful...except for that dark Prop 8 cloud.

Moon-Rings

Bird on a wire

The assemblage photos are growing
these objects seem to really like going out into the world
playing around the village
stopping here and there to pose

Meditations:void

Works in progress
Meditations on the void

Earlier I had made 40 round prints, trying to capture the concept of what the void would be. As in I feel as though I am falling into the void.

Pongo

Pongo Rhodes, 03/28/93-10/21/08

the most amazing tree climbing dog ever

Thread Collage

If the threads of life start to unravel
take a chance and let them flow free
unraveling in a sexy, sensuous, colorful flow
and see what life they make

Fiber Project

Four weeks of knitting
a huge roll of hemp
a shawl/rug
is birthed

Architectual comparison to discourse

Architectural
Comparison
to discourse
of mutual concern
to confer with an enemy
an exchange of prisoners

October 20th

Found objects
soft blur
easier to accept then the hardline
ultraconservative
neo-cons making my country weaker
will need so much more then rose colored glasses
to survive another 4,8, any more years of this

Opening November 7th

COMMON THREADS:
Artists in Spite of Retail
November 7th - 31st
Brecht Forum
451 West Street New York, NY
brechtforum.org

Opening November 7th 6-9pm
Performance, Live Music, DJ

Colorful Rings
Colorful Morals
Colorful Manners
eaten landscape
discarded words