to blog again

 

April in pictures

April in pictures, or when I started to feel like myself again and picked up my camera after a 3 month hiatus.

last night sucked but late afternoon didn't

my friday drive

the weekend began like this:

remains

ginger and lemon tea remains

potential brown paper packages tied up with string

six things i love today

1. a warm red coat on an 18 degree march morning

2. hot, hot beverages

3. butter

4. quiet, monday offices

5. a morning re-nap

6. internet access

i like home

where we love

I have been working a lot. I worked from home on Friday morning and this is a picture of my workspace. I thrive on good clutter.

(my desk on 12. 18.09)

Today when I woke up I couldn't tell if it had snowed. Then I looked at my deck. I love that orange chair I got at a yard sale. I love the color it brings to the monochrome outside.

(the deck on 12.22.09)

Grapefruits are a good breakfast item. They fill you up, taste good, and look great.

I like the tinge of orange in my black and white world.

(part of my breakfast on 12.22/09)

smelling lilacs and snowy white christmas candles

it's me and spyder3. in the dark. ctrl+ L. etc.

i've been thinking again. i was sort of shut down for a while. i'm trying to know why, but i couldn't tell you. 

i am thinking about how garlic is the essence of taste. also how radishes contain the most magnificent color of red, that i wish i could duplicate. i am thinking about time and how it changes. (this is nothing new)  and in thinking of how nothing is new, i thought about my continual battle with not biting my nails. it will never be overcome--always something to work on. that's ok; it will keep me busy.

i love dogs.

"people" are demanding me to make art. but i'm not making. i am in my head and exhausted to create. beyond excel files. being around art all day does not mean inspiration.

prodding.

mail joy

i received a worthy piece of mail recently from abh. my job at the akag sheds new light in my mind of not only a reconsideration for the definition of what art is or isn't but mostly what art is to me

The two things I have been staring at and still am:

1. A McDonald's coupon for a free chicken sandwich of my choice available at the not just new remodeled, but newly torn down and rebuilt, McKinley Parkway McDonald's
2. A 68 cent stamp from Ireland

I am reconsidering the "gossip column"--it will take the form of an beginning point for observation and will most likely focus on something specific

6 Colors Dot 5/16" Diameter 432 pcs

These are some colorful dots given to me by Aaron. I have a lot of things that I like, and these are one of the many things I have:

i found this flash site today which i will use to introduce my student to the theory of color--light vs. pigment.

yuen-feng

yuen-feng is a pre-arranged coincidence. ten years could pass by for one certain incident, such as brushing shoulders with another person in a crowded city.

today has been inspiring. the leaves are brilliant shades. as i sat on the pavement and played in the dumpster dirt with a broken vine a neighbor handed me a broken-down cardboard box to sit on. i was facing the sun.

a box of books arrived--a gift from heaven [it was speculated]--with treasures. The Body by Jenny Boully, Species of Spaces and Other Places by Georges Perec, Soliloquy by Kenneth Goldsmith, The Last Picture Show by Douglas Fogle, among others: Making Art of Databases, Mapping Sitting, LaPorte Indiana, Found.

sometimes i love it here