I saw Matt, which was excellent. I went to the Steampunk World's Fair with George and Mike and a couple of their friends (also highly excellent and an excuse for a corset and the top hat- win!) Excellent photos on Facebook... mike spent much of the day stalking me like I was a wild animal in an attempt at gaining photos which were 1) not full of me giving the finger and 2) good. He was successful. Also, we discovered Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, and let me tell you. There is so much happy to be had in a 2 am impromptu hotel parking lot dance party with 150 people in steampunk outfits raving like maniacs to a big band jazz cover of "sexyback". Best. Party. Ever.
Last week, I saw Ovo which was really good, even the clowns were funny (a minor circus miracle) and Stuffed and Unstrung, which turned out to be enjoyable despite the attendant drama. Met up with Kate Tracy and Christopher and Sophie on Saturday, expedition to bra shopping and lunch, then Kate came home with me, and Sunday we drove to Vassar to collect her stuff. Unfortunately, everything that could go wrong in car rental did go wrong, so we didn't get there until 4:30ish and didn't really get to see people. We did get furniture, and then we had a couple days of hanging out/ art party. Yesterday we collected Christopher and all went to MoMA for Marina Abromovic's "The Artist is Present". It was... interesting. Not the art I want to make, but it does make you think. If anything can be art, then maybe everything is art, and I don't know where I'm going with this. More thinking is required. But I don't want strangers to be allowed to use knives, whips, sugar cubes, etc on me with impunity. That sounded awful. I've never been nervous about a grape before. Great Wall of China walks as break up tools yes, carving the communist star into my tummy no.
I've also been making lots of art! Lots and Lots and LOTS. But I only have pictures of things from before this week, as my camera battery needs to charge, so anything I hadn't already photographed will have to wait. Still a huge art dump.
Book Of Dreams
April EnVision Collage
Have I mentioned that sometimes I hate my body?
Spontaneity! (I know it's misspelled, I figured going to look it up would be contrary to the point)
I used an Ovo ad, so it folds open. which is awesome.
Sponteneity is Humility in face of the awe of the Univere's power. (David object that this is not accurate, and it should be "the capriciousness of the universe" or some such. He's a pain.)
And then it folds down, to fit more awesome. (The thing in the curve of the moon is a tiny tarot card- The Fool, for beginnings, possibilities and the unknown.)
May EnVision Collage
Page on Shadow and Light aspects of Self.
In the subway passage at the Bryant Park F/V/7 there's a mosaic of roots and such that inspired this sketch ages ago... finally went over it with pen so it was visible.
Yes, the leaves are eyes. All of them. It took ages.
Yeah... I may dislike my period. Just a little.
How to Fight Lonliness
This was for the May art journal challenge. I'm not even showing the rest of the things becasue this is already a huge art dump and I don't like them that much. The prompt for this one was cut an interesting edge into a page (which I'd never done before and really liked).
This is why I should remember to update regularly. I'm leaving things out, and still no one cares because it's way too long. I'm skipping over a painting and several more art journal pages that don't please me all that much. The painting I started today is looking really good so far, and my art journal pages came out nicely. So with any luck I'll post those soonish.
