In Pieces.

A 7x11" silk screen print made for a portfolio exchange between IUB printmaking BFA students plus ten guest artists.  

Tout, tout le temps.

Sorry, September.

I just wanted you to get a tiny taste of who I get to meet in real life this weekend.


My apologies for such negligence toward this blog. If, at this moment, I wrote a paragraph about what has happened since my last post, it would sound what is opposite of clear and concise. I tried.  So, I will give you a quick update in visual favorites of the best last few months ever.

Stay tuned for new things, dudes.

Honeymoon Magic, Male Strippers, etc.

Wedding Season    | wed-ing see-zuhn |

noun

• the time when a bunch of our friends start getting married and make us wonder where time went. 

In honor of wedding season, I give you the bingo game I made for my sister's bachelorette party.


Unfortunately, there were no *actual* male strippers involved. :[ Sorry, guys.

End phase 1.

My spring break consisted of pre-wedding planning and wrapping up the documentation process of all the large images from my time at MIAD. That was a huge project, and I am so so so grateful to my dad for helping me with that! Between spring break and the arrival of this amazing weather, I am struggling still to get back into the swing of class work. Hello, crunch time.. Everything is fine.

Self-Portrait Monotype.

Circa 2010, from a self-portrait series I did with Rina Yoon at MIAD.

'Absurdities in Life' Monoprints.

This is the second series I did in my screen printing class with Chris Dacre at IU. I cannot tell you how much I struggled with myself and my brain while drawing and printing these.  I have a relationship with drawing that varies from pure love, to embarrassment, to sarcasm.  That is probably a lot better than always being static, but take this as my disclaimer for the days I hate looking at these.

 

I will say that I have never had a critique quite like the one I had for these - where I was smiling and laughing the whole time.  I got so much positivity from that critique, contrasting my inward struggle with what I was physically doing.

Art is not just about the artist, but hugely about the viewer.  Sometimes I have a hard time understanding that until I share it.  Nevertheless, this project ended with a bunch of good conversations and even some references to South Park.

I'll take it!