2.13.2014: snowing up

When we were kids, Dad used to say that snow came from the ground and not the sky. The view outside my window at the hotel in Chicago... Dad was right!

11.11.2013: Swallow(ed)

 

Swallow(ed), 2013

Miller Gallery, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA

Nov 11 - Dec 18, 2013

I had a great weekend installing my work and talking with students and everyone. Thanks for the help, all!

10.15.2013: jean prints

A sneak peak at what I've been working on lately- jean collagraphs. (print detail)

7.29.2013: slide

Slide, 2x4s, 2013

7.26.2013: giddy up

Giddy up, 2x4s, rope, 2013, detail.

Another afternoon in the studioioio brought me a friendly ol' horse...Sawhorse, horse horse... or maybe a hoarse horse...he just whispered at me.. get on and let's go. (And now I have "a horse is a horse, of course, of course..." in my head. Maybe that's what this guy should be named.

7.25.2013: lean

Untitled (lean), 2x4s, 2013.

I started working on this a couple days ago. I am enjoying the textures and playing with the 45 degree angles. Beach houses, bath houses, coast, waves, shifting structures...

7.24.2013: aaaahhlaaahhlaaahhlaaahh

Aaaahhlaaahhlaaahhlaaahh or maybe nopenopenopenopeyipyipyipyip, jeans, yarn, 2013.

I found something to do with a few of the jean cutoffs I have....now only 485 pairs left...
By the way, did you get the pop culture references in the titles?? Hee.

7.18.2013: wallpapered

Wallpapered, 2x4s, wallpaper, 2013, in process detail, photograph.

Wallpapering after a fruitful wallpaper hunt. Tomorrow's agenda: put everything back together. We'll see how it goes.

7.17.2013: not in kansas anymore

Not in Kansas Anymore, 2x4s, glitter, 2013, detail.

7.12.2013: not so far

Not So Far, plywood, paint, 2x4s, 2" x 14" x 10", 2013.

More 2x4 pieces. They have been reminding me of waves and housetops and mountains and tents and subdivisions and flooding...

7.9.2013: 2x4 sea

 The Visit, 2x4s, paint, 5 1/2" x 18" x 3 1/2", 2013

7.1.2013: sunset to rain

Flying from west to east today, we transitioned from sunset to rain. Here is the in between.

6.29.2013: Columbia Gorge Sternwheeler

  We had a good family reunion this week and all went for a ride on the Columbia Gorge Sternwheeler.

This is the wheel in action:

6.22.2013: wooly brick stack

Stack, bricks, wool, 2013

More tinkering with found objects. Today it was 2x4s, bricks, and wool roving. I enjoy rearranging things. So far, this is one of a pair.

6.5.2013: and still the 2x4s have something to say

I'm arranging and rearranging and thinking about how space and place shift and appear and disappear, and how boundaries are seen or felt. All that in some 2x4s leaned up against the wall.

5.24.2013: It's the little things

It's the little things, reclaimed wood, finger-weight yarn, 2013

More tinkering. When I pulled out the middle board to use for the second tinsel piece, the loose knot remained. Such a simple and utilitarian gesture suddenly became poetic. I love those moments.

5.24.2013: more reclaimed wood

Untitled (Glitterstick II), reclaimed wood, tinsel, 2013

I didn't go far enough with the one from yesterday, so I tried again. Sometimes more is better...which reminds me of this New Yorker cartoon by Harry Bliss:

5.23.2013: reclaimed wood

Glitterstick, reclaimed wood, tinsel, 2013

5.22.2013: clouds

 Cloud II,  wood roving, skewers, wire, 2013

Cloud II, detail

Cloud, wood roving, skewers, yarn, 2013

Summertime... and I get to have a studio for a bit. Wahoo! I'm still thinking about last summer and the things I tinkered with. This is today's. Things I'm thinking about: how to make something that looks like a cloud, how to make something that looks like a cloud stand up, combining hard and soft, fluffy roving is lovely, delicate stuff...

4.12.2013: pollen clouds

I took a walk in the rain today and found puddles swirling with pollen. It reminds me of atmospheric things.