Korean War Memorial, Washington DC, March 2011
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Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Wow the National Mall Sure Looks Nice...
Washington Monument, Washington DC, March 2011April Fools!
As I walked around some of our nations most famous monuments, I was astonished at their poor condition. It was really really really bad. Incidentally, you can donate to help bring it back to its former glory at the Trust for the National Mall.
Jade Bonsai
Washington DC 2011My best friend and I have this tradition of giving each other plants. It stems (get it? stems?) from a mutual fascination with the cultural significance of a man giving a woman a bouquet of flowers. They're completely meaningless and gone after a week, yet can somehow fix arguments and get men laid. It's something I will never understand. We prefer plants. They cost about the same and last for years. So whenever I need to get Maggie a thank you gift or a house warming present, I send a kick ass plant.
This is the jade bonsai I sent her last November as a thank you for letting me stay with her during the Rally to Restore Sanity
This is the jade bonsai I sent her last November as a thank you for letting me stay with her during the Rally to Restore Sanity
News...
I have some work on display at Projekt 30! I stumbled upon their site a few months ago while researching network opportunities. Projekt 30 hosts profiles of all different types of artists, from painters to photographers and anywhere in between. They run monthly juried shows for their online gallery (where my work can currently be seen), aiming to connect artists with galleries across the country.
In other show news, I'm a finalist in the international Donkey Art Prize competition!
The piece shown above will be exhibited at the Hamilton Gallery in Los Angeles in June. So excited!!!! More information can be found here. Click on News for a full schedule and an online preview of the show. My work can be seen in the Digital Art selection.
In other show news, I'm a finalist in the international Donkey Art Prize competition!
The piece shown above will be exhibited at the Hamilton Gallery in Los Angeles in June. So excited!!!! More information can be found here. Click on News for a full schedule and an online preview of the show. My work can be seen in the Digital Art selection.
Gold Things Don't Scan Well
I've had a huge work boom in the last week. My apartment is a mess of pulp and little strips of cut paper... and I love it! I've been experimenting with some metallic papers, which creates a whole mess of problems. This paper is extremely delicate. Even a single finger print will make a dark, oily spot, ruining a possible work of art. They also don't take ink very well, as it tends to clump together as it's drying.
But after working out all those kinks, the hardest thing was getting a decent picture of it! My poor scanner couldn't handle the shine, and spit out a pixelated blue (blue?) image. I decided to try using my camera. Lighting was key, as any light source gets reflected and distorts the picture. I tried and tried, and am still not completely happy with the file, but as Mike Myers would say "I love goooooooooold!"
Eeh ma tante!!!!!
My ceiling is leaking! And since I have the worst luck in the world, it leaked in only one spot: right above where I keep my works in progress (thank god my portfolio was stored elsewhere!!!!). I was gone when it started and came home to find water dripping off the window sill and into my file cabinet. The result was over 100 sheets of paper bleeding on to each other. Some were ok, but others... not so much. After crying for about an hour, I realized that I could turn my misfortune into an artistic revelation. Several pieces looked kind of cool, dare I say, better than they did originally. So now I'm obsessed with recreating it. My hands may be permanently dyed blue, but hey, you have to suffer for your art, no?
Sidenote: My wonderful, fabulous high school art teacher Rachelle Beaudoin just created "The Berlin Dictionary", a collection of words and phrases (many with French Canadian influences) unique to Berlin NH. Ms. Beaudoin (or Rachelle, as she now tells me to call her, and which I still feel weird about) was one of the first people to recognize something artsy in me, and really encouraged me to pursue it. And this dictionary that she's created is just hilarious. For years friends have made fun of my "made up" words (Eeh ma tante! being one of them). Now I have proof that it's not just me! WMUR recently did a piece on it, which can be viewed here, and the Berlin Dictionary and be purchased here.
Image © Rachelle Beaudoin
Sidenote: My wonderful, fabulous high school art teacher Rachelle Beaudoin just created "The Berlin Dictionary", a collection of words and phrases (many with French Canadian influences) unique to Berlin NH. Ms. Beaudoin (or Rachelle, as she now tells me to call her, and which I still feel weird about) was one of the first people to recognize something artsy in me, and really encouraged me to pursue it. And this dictionary that she's created is just hilarious. For years friends have made fun of my "made up" words (Eeh ma tante! being one of them). Now I have proof that it's not just me! WMUR recently did a piece on it, which can be viewed here, and the Berlin Dictionary and be purchased here.
Image © Rachelle Beaudoin
Oscar
Sadly not immune to the poor economy, Oscar's trash can was foreclosed, and he was forced to relocate to the street
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