Look at This!: bugs

I found these green bugs on a walk around my neighborhood. The cicada was very recently dead and a brilliant shade of iridescent new-leaf green, at the time. Unfortunately, s/he has since faded. The emerald-colored beetle has retained its original luster and is just waiting to be recreated in beads.

Studio Time!

Since finding out about my acceptance to the VAE, I have been logging a lot of time in the studio. And I have made A LOT of progress – lots of new pieces in ongoing series, a few tangents, reviving old projects, lots of podcast listening, etc. Which makes me wonder how much I would [...]

Embroideries

I am working on a series of instruments. My plan is to make A LOT, stretch them like I usually stretch embroideries (like canvasses) and install them salon style to be sold as “solo”s, “duo”s, “trio”s, and so on. This one is my favorite so far.

I am also working on a huge moth. It is [...]

Learning to Pattern-make!

…Or, maybe more appropriately, “How My Life Has Been Consumed by Project Runway.”
First, a(nother) word about Project Runway. I am still a little embarrassed to admit it, but I LOVE this show. I’m always interested, if not always impressed, by what people are able to create in such a short amount of time with the [...]

The Story Behind the Circus

I realized that I didnt actually give any explanations for the work I showed in the last post. So I’ll start with the circus window.
After becoming inspired by some antique photos of circus fat ladies and a tattooed man doll, I thought a circus would be the perfect thing to put in the store’s window. [...]

Its been a looong time…

It’s been too long and I’d like to get back into this.
I am able to add images again! I don’t know what was up before. I changed things around a little bit, too.
So, I guess I’ll give a little update. I graduated college and moved to North Carolina where I am working in an art [...]

A Little Promotional Material

It has been too long since I have posted. Finals have been going on and the blog has (unfortunately) fallen towards the bottom of my to-do list. This is some of what I have been up to:

I have not yet taken good photographs of the notebooks that this card is meant to advertise. I’m happy [...]

Torsos (Canon)

Headless, armless, legless and helpless; pieced together from separate parts; Michelangelesque in their unreal muscle definition; made of the most ordinary things.

Hairpieces

Hairpiece one (Dreamcatcher)

Hairpiece two (Arachne)

Hairpiece three (I’m still trying to come up with an appropriate subtitle)

Hairpiece four (Nest)
These began as studies, but turned into something more as I realised that the combination of forms and materials reflect how the (traditional) feminine ideal is, in essesnce, wrapped up in hair. Long flowing feminine locks of hair [...]

Pictures from Open Studio

Adorable work by Kelly Huffstutler and Paige Smith.

Classroom set up as showroom for a number of people’s work

The finished quilt collaboration: it turned out really well and a lucky woman from Chicago won it in the raffle.