mountain tops

bradbury mountain

crispy fall colors

above the tops of trees

box reverie

The first. The original. Box castle 1.0. Circa 2006.

translucent roommate

first love

happy birthday baby

prismacolor pencils/acrylic/embroidery/beads/love

Inspired by an adventure at the Reclaimed Plains.

multiples

Something about multiples and excessive repetition of objects&images just plain delights me.

The kind folks at the United States Postal Office offer free flat rate boxes, shipped to you free in increments of twenty five. Presumably, this service is for small businesses who have to ship lots of small items.

Getting two hundred and fifty shipped to your house to play with in the spare room is a lot more fun.

your friends can help you build them

you can swim in them

they come marching down the hall

you can play big jenga

they can keep you from being found

this is where i make the stuff

Dooryard:

common area on the second floor

sheet fort studio corner

workin’

A little peek into what I’m currently drawing and spending much of my time on:

up close

Being surrounded by so many other artists lately has made me realize I’m really not confident talking about or even thinking about the reasons for my image-making. It takes up a substantial amount of my time and it would follow that I should have a substantial amount of things to say about it.

So I’ve been trying to practice at least some kind of casual note taking about my thoughts and habits, and my inspirations and motivations. And maybe eventually I’ll have enough little pieces to stitch into some larger thought.

Some things I have been thinking about a lot:

• birds
• nests
• homes
• the importance of building a home and creating comfort
• nostalgia/ephemera

home base: fort lost and found

we can start fires! inside!

a place where science explodes nightly

our wonderful white board

the dooryard!

lovely flyer made by irina

The Dooryard: a collective of working artists and musicians who are way cool.
Here you can check out Irina’s dooryard blog.

The Dooryard is pretty much becoming my home away from home and I spend most evenings working, so shortly, I should have a little more to show for myself!

Life’s been full and fabulous lately and I have some beautiful things to show off!

i can’t eat red meat

Imagine the sadness I felt the morning after eating a hamburger, barfing my brains out at work. It wasn’t pretty. In any case, a lot of things have happened since last time I got around to posting. One thing being my computer’s monitor now dangles in a jaunty, not-really-attached sort of way off of my laptop. It’s a wonder the thing still works and I’ve devised a nice little system to keep it going. Namely, a wall bracket and some duct tape.

And so! Picture time! Last weekend I was in New Jersey!

We visited a cute town called Lambertsville. Absolutely cutesy place.

We went to a couple of cool antique places. I can comfortably say I’d like to own some dead things, only as long as they’ve been dead for quite some time. There’s no bringing them back. For now, I’ll have to be content with my light up deer head that’s mounted above my bed.

I have the cutest mommy in the world. The highlight of my Jersey trip really was getting to see my mom again!

We went into New York City for a day to go to the Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market. It was really fantastic but sadly I didn’t fall in love with anything and I went home empty handed.

high sticking

I love hockey. That’s all man. I just love hockey.

As expected, there were quite a few disputes resovled by dropped gloves.

FIGHT!