Volta NY/Text/My first time

Last night one of my artsy friends compared some of my work to THIS Small But Dangers (SBD) mixed media work...  That probably reminded him of my December 2010 post "I Still."  I, of course, was flattered.  Usually, artists want to be unique and quirky and other obscene things, but I don't mind being a complete tool about it, and so I say, "Thanks, man!"

So, I haven't done much work involving text in awhile (which was the original intention of Love [ & Other Mythical Beasts ] )...  Honestly, because it was too damn depressing since a lot of the time it involved leafing through pages of journal entries and reading what being a self-conscious teenage girl was like and how teenage boys could rip me to shreds.  But let's be honest, it wasn't ALL traumatic...  My first semester in college a boy confessed that he wanted to date me by writing on my Facebook wall in binary numbers and having me decode them...  Ahaha!  (Any time he looks back at that, he probably shudders!)  SO, some of the time it was just plain ol' silly.  And so, I've decided that I will  start making art about all the silly parts.  

But I really had a good time painting nice picture of mean times...  It did a good job of keeping me sane.

My first time hurt like hell.  6"X12".  Acrylic on canvas.  2009.  Uban.

I used to have really awful nightmares as a child.

:oP /Pogo.  11"X14".  Graphite pencil on paper.  2011.  Uban.

I went back and finished this drawing last night/this morning.
And I guess, Sufjan Stevens digs him too...?

Interlocking rings: plug and socket

I cast these in bronze for my jewelry class.  The assignment was to create two interlocking rings, so I chose to make a plug and socket.  It does actually fit together.

I ended up running out of time to make the display so I turned around a panel I made for my painting materials and techniques class, painted it black, attached those silver windy things from a frame hanging kit, and looped together black embroidery thread... I heard art school teaches a person a thing or two about being creative...

Plug and socket rings.
Cast Bronze.
2011.
Uban.

Perhaps, we shall take lessons from Cee Lo Green

Here's a WIP pop-up book inspired by one of my illustrations by the same name, "Maybe you will try to remember, but I will always want to forget."

"Maybe you will try to remember, but I will always want to forget."

Paper, poster board, collage.

12"X12"

2010.

Uban.

Listening to: Cee Lo Green's "F--k You".

I am a sucker for vintage romance.

Meet me in the spring time.  Scanner collage.  8.5"X11". 2011.  Uban.

I like to collect old things, and new things that look like they're old.  I'm printing this image on cotton fabric for my Mixed Media Printing class.  The old photo is from my favorite used bookstore/antiques shop in Old City... I've used the imagery before in a sepia pen drawing in this post.

"flesh-pleasing is a sin."

Mhmmmm, so yummy...  Oil on canvas.  6"X12".  2010.  Uban.

I've lately been a complete bum in my art life...  Ugh.  Really need to get my shit together and stop being so damn lazy.  

For a guide to purity check out this Puritan Sermon by Richard Baxter thing... it may save your soul, and remember all, "flesh-pleasing is a sin."

Wanna make out?

Mouth.  Oil on canvas panel.  6"X6".  2010.  Uban

Was this the worst call ever?  I hate catching feelings.