Christmas

I used my mardi gras beads to create these little Christmas trees. Now I need to figure out what to do with the remaining strands. They are a lot cuter in real life.

Grad Stuff

One week until I am done with college undergrad, yikes. I got my cap and gown and handmade all my announcements. I liked making them, it is so much more personal.

From a few years ago

I miss my long hair so much. I found this old Polaroid pull apart positive in a box of photos I was cleaning out. So ridiculous.

BFA Graduation Exhibition

The show finally came and went. Above is an image of my show cards, which came in the mail ONE DAY before the show.
My roommates Hailey and Liz also exhibited in the show.
Two if my close friends Allison and Hiller were able to come up for the opening reception.
I had my 8 photos A Kind of Sickness on one wall. They were about love becoming a delusion and personal obsession.
My cross stitches took up another wall in the main gallery. The photos were on the wall to the right of this one, which was a small hallway.

It is amazing how different art will look once it is finally on display. I worked so long on this show that seeing the end result was fantastic and well worth the effort. It was amazing to have such support from all of my friends and family. Great end to my college experience.

9

This will probably be my last post before the show. Here's a sneaky peeky of the 9th piece, FULL COLOR.

Forget the title that was here

The second half of my grad show is always reminding me of the impossible quest. Life isn't really about feeling anything, it's just about going through the motions. I want to feel it.

I need to finish the text on my prints. I have been putting it off because I hate how it makes me feel. The next series I do needs to be about something other than things in my life I have failed at. Damn self-portraits in EVERYTHING I DO!

Not that anyone reads this or anything

Bah, 6 down 4 to go. The top photo is an example of a test I did to see how I liked the square format for my photo series, which is the second part of my grad show. I like it, printing should take place tomorrow because I have my images ready. Only a few weeks left.

MASS LOLs

I was sketching out the next cross stitch and then I flipped it over and saw that I had made a new friend, how convenient.

My "fort"

This was my submission to a photo project done on booooooom.com, the focus is on forts. People were asked to contribute photos of their personal spaces; which was an idea inspired by Where the Wild Things Are. There are a lot of really awesome things people came up with see more (including the post I am in) here:
http://www.booooooom.com/2009/10/13/wild-things-forts-vi-where-the-wild-things-are/

Home Set

This is a series of photos I took to add to my work exploring homes. These specific ones deal with life in a rental home and the idea that things are allowed to be in less than perfect condition. I tried to shoot things in a way to abstract the literal view of the places and make the images more about color and in some instances texture.

3 of 10

Done and done. My third cross stitch from the Rorschach series is complete. Only 7 more to go, but only a little over 5 weeks till the show! Time to get down to business!

Home

These are some photos I did as a study of the place in which I live and in which I will live.
I am probably going to explore this more in the future, these are the ones I like best at this point.

2 of 10

Finished my second piece of 10.
YES.yes.YES.yes.YES.yes.YES.

Researching for a paper

"[Photography is] a tool of scientific origin for psychological exploration."
-Thomas Struth

Love it.

2 of 9

Just thought of how cool this might look. The left side is my completed half of the cross stitch, the right is the image of the inkblot I am working from. The reds are not nearly the same, but I think I managed to capture the overall look pretty well.

2 of 10

My second inkblot is coming along. I decided to do one side first and then mirror it later. Maybe this will eliminate the pain that i had when making the last one. Maybe not.

Millions of years later

I finally finished my first x-stitched Rorschach. Siick.

Perfect man

I wanted to post a photo of this installation I did in my old studio of my ideal man. I had to paint over it because I got a new studio, but here is the full piece:

x-stitch fever

Little more completed. Almost there.

Cross Stitch Update

So basically the cross stitch project I have begun is going to take the rest of my life to complete. I have about half of the first piece done and have probably put in about 5 hours. Only 9.5 more to finish. Doing the math that will put me at 10 hours per piece, 100 hours to finish the set. Jesus, I may as well use this for my grad show.

Inking continued

These are some smaller inkblots I did on some paper I found in the living room. I think something was shipped in it, kinda newsprinty.
I like these small ones, but the one above is my least favorite.
The images, in a way, decide their own orientation. When I make them I just set them aside and figure out later how they should be turned.
The larger ones are kind of unusual because the consistency of the paint I was using was not spreading throughout the paper. Less blotty more spotty.
This one was interesting to me because it made me think of this specific area of the body. I tried to position it below with what I was thinking.
I've been really interested with doing these blots because the projective personality tests I have been studying. It is this idea that an image can be anything to anyone, I like the idea that there is no wrong interpretation of the work. I've always hated art history classes making me think of a piece of art in one specific way. I like the freedom to read into things and find meaning within myself.

InkBloting

Some new thing I'm working with, inkblots. Kinda cool.
These are some older drawings I hated and wanted to make new.

TV Stills

I've always wanted to try photographing some television images. These are a few stills I took while I was watching some news footage.





I really like the way the camera captures the images in such a seemingly low quality.