I Am My Mother's Only One/It's Enough...

Ok I know, I know it's been ages. But if you only knew the adventures/busy bee times I have been having! New Semester! Yay. Second-to-last, if I might nervously add.

I hope everyone's holidays were great! Mine were so lazy. I needed it. A little R&R craft-makin and movie watching with the mamabird.

So here's a summary of my work last semester [at least the work I consider finished and viewable]:

the 150 lb plaster sculpture. I loaded that bastard home all by my lonesome. I am a beast!! And just to help you imagine the size of the large sculpture, the smaller plaster piece underneath it is about a basketball and a half.





This is only the work from 2 of my classes last semester. We could compile every single piece I did, but let's face it - these are the best pieces; the ones I like the most and some of them will be in my show next semester. Mostly the last three.

This semester I am taking Sculpture II (Again! Yay!), Painting III (Again! Yay! And I'm actually painting again....bwhhattt!?), 399 Individual Instruction, and Printmaking II. I am totally learning how to screenprint and I'm really excited about it.

My newest challenge will be making new "clothes" pieces out of materials other than fabric. So far, I have the idea of using dried house paint (peeled and sewn together), polyurethane, latex, glaze, ticket stubs, waitress paper pads, etc. If I wanted to be cliche, I would make a dress out of tampons, but I just don't know if I feel cliche right now. Maybe old bike tire rubber? So many options. Basically, the challenge is to start developing an idea of why I'm using the materials I'm using. Before I was using fabric because I liked it, it was around, and it was free. Now I need to make the sculptures/forms go past just what they look like and also make sense to the entire piece by what they are made from. If you're feeling baffled by the explanation, don't worry Me Too. Bottom line: it's time to start experimenting again. Last time I experimented it was with flour and water, pantyhose, newspaper, cardboard, zippers, and anything with lots of fibers I could get my hands on.

I want my work to feel like how this song makes me feel. I've been posting this video on everything (Ashley & Andy, you guys created a Los Campesinos! Monster), but it's just so great. Honest and Dark. That's how I want to kick it this semester.

I just bought a can of paint, color called "country white." It made me think of cotillions and debutantes and all that stupid shit fancy mothers think their fancy daughters should do. All the more reason to make something offensive out of it.

Alright current semester. Let's do this.



XO.