I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it. Don’t wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee.

— Agent Dale Cooper, Twin Peaks

in progress, embroidery

recent and new

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love’s not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time…
-Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

wanderlust club

i thought it was time my blogger got a sister, so i now have a tumblr as well!
the tumblr focuses more on my thesis research which is about relational aesthetics, community, art education, etc, etc. it will also probably be updated more often than this one.

check it out!

http://miss-eye.tumblr.com/

work in progress-

2 years! i started posting this blog as a new year's resolution 2 years ago, to start making more art and i'm still getting there.

this year, i'm going to try to live a little healthier.
i vow to cook more and cook healthier.
no soda and no snacks, yikes!
sleep appropriate amounts of time!
drink lots of water.

and of course, i will do my best to make things this year; going to dust off my 35mm film camera.

perfect song.

"As astronauts and space travelers children puzzle over the future; as dinosaurs and princesses they unearth the past. As weather reporters and restaurant workers they make sense of reality; as monsters and gremlins they make sense of the unreal. "-Gretchen Owocki, Contemporary American early childhood educator

5 finished works...2 paintings per frame.

tiny paintings soon to be in tiny frames.

"In fact, different groups of people perceive their relationship with their environment in different ways. While one person stranded in the wilderness might know how to live off the land, someone else might not. The same is true for those of us who know how to easily negotiate our way through a major city, even if we can't speak the language and haven't been there before. We learn how to 'read' our spaces based on our experiences and cultural understandings. Aesthetics play an important role in how we respond." -Kristin Congdon

starting to think about my paintings as souvenirs?

new, tiny paintings.
(i apologize for the quality of the photograph)

47 day countdown until a long weekend in nashville!

cheers to traveling, even short distances.

p.s. i didn't take this photo, jonny did. i just really like it.

365x2

ann arbor, michigan. 4-16-11