Jules

Mountains in China

2011-10-12T13:30:00.000-07:00

Jinshanling section of the Great Wall and Mt. Huangshan.

Streets in China

2011-10-12T13:24:00.001-07:00

Tastes of China

2011-10-12T12:50:00.000-07:00

People in China

2011-10-12T12:32:00.001-07:00

Soldiers outside the Forbidden City, T'ai Chi at the Temple of Heaven, jr. high school students on the Great Wall, The Bird Market, Guard guarding the terra cotta guards, Xi'an's Muslim Quarter, hauling trash off of the Yellow Mountain.

Color and Pattern in China

2011-10-12T12:16:00.000-07:00

Red, yellow, green, and blue - I love you.

NOLA

2011-10-12T11:53:00.000-07:00

I visited New Orleans in September and was awed by the gorgeous decorative elements trimming every door, post, (and even tree).

There's nothing quite like a honeycrisp

2011-10-12T11:39:00.000-07:00

A sign I painted for Diehl's produce. But sorry folks, honeycrisp season is over now. You'll have to wait until next September.

Generic cover letter:

2011-10-12T11:03:00.001-07:00

HELLO.

YOU'RE GREAT.

I'M GREAT.

WE COULD BE SO GREAT TOGETHER.

THANKS.

This is how I spend my days lately.

Sakura

2011-02-14T03:19:00.000-08:00

Little spring in a recent Ikebana arrangement. It's still snowy in Toyama, but I have cherry blossoms in my bedroom.

I escaped the winter a couple weeks ago, during a trip to Hiroshima. It was still cold -- but dry. The A-Bomb Dome and Peace Museum were powerful and fascinating and sometimes disturbing. I'm glad I saw it for myself. I understand why they've kept the dome, still charred and scattered with rubble. It was a potent reminder.

Miyajima was the highlight of the trip for me. It's an island off the coast of Hiroshima famous for the a shrine built on stilts, Itsukushima Shrine, and especially for the bright red torii gate in the water beyond the shrine. New photos on flickr. While I was there, I had my feet "cleaned" by hundreds of fish ravenous for my dead skin. I'm so ticklish. What was I thinking...

So while I got away from the snow for a couple days, it was waiting with a vengeance back in Fukui. On the night bus home, we got stuck in a blizzard. I woke up around 5, expecting to be home. Instead were were some 2-3 hours out, stopped along the highway with an endless line of cars and buses stopped ahead and another endless line piling up behind us. When the bus driver came through handing out cans of crackers and sugar cubes at 7, I knew we were going to be there for a long time. Around 30 hours. Viv and I spent at least one of those hours playing charades with some new Japanese friends and at least two hours playing 20 questions. We also compiled this list:

Things we accomplished. 31st January 2011.

Slept
Stood
Charades

Animals
Sports
Occupations
Things in the House
Transportation
Put coat on + off
Mr. Squiggle
Drawing pic. game
20 Questions
Removed nail polish from left hand
Tic tac toe
Ate our rations
Danced
Drew pic. of cat hairdresser
Simon Says
1/2 Card for Chris
Reading
Hamlet

I am a Cat
Japan Travel Guide
Txt Messages
Rang Schedule Control
Talked to Jason Wright
Listened to Classical Music
Changed pants
Went outside
Wrote a list of accomplishments
Japanese Nouns
Walked up and down stairs
Potentially listened to the news
Opened curtains and closed them
Listened to Japanese Rock Music
Decided against truth or dare and spin the bottle
Changed seats
Discussed our magic powers
Rolled over several times
Blew nose 4 times
Made Japanese friends
Inhaled and Exhaled
3 Farts (small)
Read accomplishments list aloud

Maiko Katsuyakko sketch

2011-02-04T18:47:00.001-08:00

When I was in Kyoto last Fall, I saw a nice show that included a performance from this geisha in training, or maiko. I'm trying to be more careful in my drawings lately. And more patient.

Chinese New Year began this week. Year of the rabbit - that's me. I think it'll be a good year. Not counting being stranded on a bus for 30 hours in a blizzard last week, it's been pretty excellent so far.

Japan by Rail

2011-02-04T07:25:00.000-08:00

Some gorgeous stamps await the recipients of this month's batch of postcards. The top image reminds me of a few of the stops along my main route to work.

Happy Halloween

2010-10-31T07:47:00.001-07:00

Ostukare

2010-10-12T08:18:00.000-07:00

Detail from a drawing exhibited at Hope Against Hope in the Phoenix Shot Tower, Baltimore. Based off of some wonderful text messages I've received. Combined roman and romanized hiragana. Soon to be a lettering/typography project: Times New Kana...among other soon to be projects.

Experimenting with lettering for a friend's new website, projectician.

I think about how strange it is that I live in Japan. How I didn't give it much thought before I came. I wasn't even particularly interested in this country. No more than any other country at least. Sometimes I'm surprised at how much I like it here now. How I feel like I really am turning Japanese. A little. I've been making glass beads (Mary McDonough, you were right about me and glass) and origami, but my new favorite hobby is ikenobo, the Japanese art of flower arranging. It reminds of installation or sculpture or even layout--with flowers and leaves and sticks. The design considerations are the same: where's the weight? is it balanced? is there enough push and pull? bold enough? detailed enough second read? how's the negative space?

The teacher's wonderful. She's a friendly old woman who speaks just a little English, but somehow writes in beautiful cursive. Also, I love how messy the tatami room where she holds classes is. It feels right. Or at least familiar.

working with abby

2010-10-09T09:47:00.000-07:00

last autum i was lucky enough to work with my former professor, abby donovan. she asked me, brittany, and emily to assist her with a performance in Brooklyn, "these the heavens of my brain." now she's in stockholm working with footage from several people uploaded via webcam.

see the raw video here. attempting to transform my room into the tanabata star festival, based on a story of star-crossed lovers. children write wishes on pieces of paper, traditionally for things like good handwriting and craft skills, and hang them on bamboo.

video + abby magic. a sneak preview.

turning japanese

2010-10-03T09:34:00.001-07:00

experimental attempts to assimilate.

self-portraits/postcards to america.

happy 6 months baby

2010-10-03T06:27:00.000-07:00

Highlights:

-Looking at cherry blossoms and eating rice on a stick outside Nagoya Castle

-Dancing in the Owara Kaze no Bon festival

-Dancing all night in a Mexican restaurant in Tokyo with a family from Guatemala after spending the previous night climbing up Mt. Fuji to reach the summit at dawn

-Eating sea urchin sashimi in South Korea so fresh it's spines were still moving and then drinking beer with the propitiator who insisted on sitting with us (and had scooped the urchin's insides into our mouths with a tiny spoon when we first hesitated to eat it)

-Snowball fight in shorts while hiking the Tateyama Mountains

-Walking to the sea (a mere two hours!...after that, we opted for the 20-minute tram ride)

-Sunday morning water aerobics with the old ladies at my gym

-Coming into the classroom to find that one of my favorite students had not only written "I love Julianne" on the board but had drawn an awesome anime-style picture of me next to it

-Riding my bike along the river at night

-Going canyoning: a sport that involves jumping off waterfalls

-Experiencing a Buddhist ceremony in Kyoto - gongs and incense and chanting in an ancient wooden temple

-Petting tame deer in Nara, the old capitol of Japan. They've been there for a thousand years and according to Shinto tradition, they're the messengers of the Gods.

Japan

2010-05-05T01:31:00.000-07:00

My friend Kat and I have been living in Japan for about a month now, teaching English. So far things aren't so very different. Yesterday I was sitting by a fountain near my apartment watching a familiar scene - a group of children playing with the water; playing with empty bottles, their mom sitting on a park bench watching. It was when I realized the kids weren't pouring water onto the concrete haphazardly, but were actually writing in Japanese that I remembered, "oh yeah. I live in Japan now..."

I do a lot of gesturing these days. The same motions that work for the kids in my classes get the point across to strangers and train conductors when I'm lost. The other night after we went to karaoke, Kat invited some of our new friends back to her place to play cards. I ended up "talking" with a group of Japanese speakers using a pocket phrase-book. So I'd look up one of the maybe 5 conversation topics - what do you do in your free time? and then they'd try to answer in English or point to something from the list in the book. I'm into the idea of a guided conversation. I'd like to make some kind of communication device or book or machine.

I'm never really aware of being a foreigner until I see another foreigner. One thing that really is different is the acceptability of befriending strangers. It's like being a kid. You're four and you're at the playground and you see someone playing in the sandbox and you want to play in the sandbox. So you just go over and say, "wanna be friends?" It kinda works like that here.

All the Westerners hang out in Seattle's Best Coffee shop because they have free wireless internet and you can get real, unsweetened coffee (you can buy coffee in vending machines and in convenience stores here, but it comes in a little lukewarm aluminum can and it's sickly sweet). A couple days ago we just went up to a couple people there speaking English and asked where they were from, why they were here, etc. Next thing we know, we're going to a Russian BBQ with them.

Seeing 500 Buddha statues on a hillside is also a bit different.

So are beauty smile trainers and matching clothed dogs in strollers.

now 2 days

2010-03-28T19:08:00.001-07:00

'til toyama.

2 weeks left in america

2010-03-16T14:22:00.000-07:00

i'll miss that maryland flag.

recent exposures

2010-01-14T11:44:00.000-08:00

recent holga photographs. olympic national park, wa; a snowy field in millersville, md; local baltimore band, hounds.

Recent Projects

2010-01-09T06:37:00.000-08:00

I've added a few recent projects to my website: http://juliannehamilton.com/, including a poster/flier for an upcoming show. I think it turned out well enough to be part of my portfolio site. I liked these two from last summer, but they didn't quite make the cut.

Bonfire.

House show/Pool party.

postcards

2009-11-25T20:28:00.000-08:00

My illustration professor from UDel, Dave Brinley, gave everyone in his senior class a hand full of blank, pre-stamped and addressed postcards when we graduated. The first one I sent to him after I got back from a road trip. I swear I saw a sea lion swimming in the ocean in Florida.

The second was inspired by a trip I took this month to Washington state. (sketch in the last post).

Fall sketches

2009-11-25T13:10:00.000-08:00

Farmer McCutcheon

Olympic National Park. Exploring patterns, geometric shapes. While I was in Seattle I saw some beautiful aboriginal Australian and American Indian work at the art museum. I was inspired by their consistant visual language translating nature.

Working on my language.

impressions

2009-11-19T15:00:00.000-08:00

the second to last page of my sketchbook has been ripped out. someone must have borrowed a sheet. funny thing is, i can see the impression of what they wrote on the last page:

i am so in love with you ....(too faint to make out)...you....but....too shy..............love, your secret admirer

Butteryfly emerges from the Science Center

2009-10-10T16:10:00.000-07:00

What more can I say?

Hey nice glowing embryo.

They were really asking for it, having the museum-goers to respond to the question: What are you afraid of. And Abby thought Brittany and I were opening a can of worms with the Wish Fulfillment Machine. Yes...I had to steal a few.

It's true. This is how they interpret cell division. I was surprised overall by how many abstract and beautiful ways they expressed science.

These the Heavens of (Abby's) Brain

2009-10-01T11:02:00.000-07:00

Emily and Tom's shadows goofing around without them during the Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival.

Last weekend, Emily and Brittany and I assisted Abby with her piece, These the Heavens of my Brain. Headlamps, glowing letters, suitcases, and a fishing pole. Photos and video to come.

Some landscapes in Manhattan.

Closing

2009-09-08T10:47:00.001-07:00

Just a couple pictures from the abandon ship closing reception. Onto funnel #3 by this time.

Irrigating

2009-07-11T13:27:00.000-07:00

For the last few days I've been making a site-specific installation for the Abandon Ship Exhibition which opened at the Current Gallery in Baltimore last night. I was pretty excited to be part of it.

I got a studio space at current a couple weeks ago so I would get out of my house and feel inspired to make work. I wanted to find out what was going on in Baltimore and be a part of it. But...the space is being torn down in August so it was kind of funny that I was trying to establish myself there. That's more or less what the piece is about.

Year End Show - YES!

2009-06-13T08:06:00.000-07:00

Graduation, Year End Show. I helped Katie Smith out with some lettering/illustrations for the entrance to the show. Apparently there is a big scientific debate going on discussing a potentially new type of cloud. It looks like waves. Or someone holding up a sheet at either end of the sky and shaking it back and forth. I think Katie's guys are solidly cumulous.

Senior Exhibition

2009-05-18T16:03:00.000-07:00

http://www.vcshow.info/

> Two weeks until graduation. Everything is winding down/up...sort of. More just winding today.

Swines

2009-05-13T20:06:00.001-07:00

VC '09! Since swine flu cancelled our first alumni review we decided to protect our future selves. End sheets for our BFA book.

Art directors, balloons, and typography

2009-05-06T12:41:00.000-07:00

On Monday Marc, Mali, Sara and I went up to the Art Director's Club in New York. It was...different than I expected. I loved getting to talk to all the students and some of the reviewers. A lot of the time though I just felt like I was part of a giant flea market. I'm looking forward to the AIGA review tonight in Philly. I think it'll be a lot more personal.

I brought a balloon for the wishfulfillmentmachine.com along with me. After the review I tied it to a bike rack outside.

After ADC I was kind of bummed out so it was really nice when Marc found that someone had posted my City From Below poster on the blog welovetypography.com

hypernationalistic girlchildren

2009-05-02T07:36:00.000-07:00

oh, and they suggested i change tricia's name to trashy...

also, my little sister is 13 and sends me really sweet email forwards like this. the subject was Fw: Re: Fwd: Fwd: FW: PLEEZ SIGN TO PROVE GIRLS R GR8!!!!!!!

AD's?

2009-04-19T17:06:00.001-07:00

Lettering from Objects from the House Ind. class. These AD's are for organic fertilizer. I'm trying to decide if (with some more finessing) they could fit in with the rest of my portfolio. I've been updating my website this evening and looking at everything together I think it might be nice to show something more photographic with my mostly illustrative design work.

Michael Hersrud Workshop

2009-04-16T14:18:00.000-07:00

Michael Hersrud gave a workshop this morning as part of the digital hype lecture series this week at UD. We had a couple hours to experiment with textures. It was refreshing to work quickly and sort of different for me, making shapes in Illustrator.

type and lettering

2009-04-15T18:11:00.000-07:00

So I emailed a logo I made for feedback to my teacher, Ken Barber, and he liked it so much he put it up on his blog. He and Ben from House Industries teach the class. I hope they're equally into my project that's due tomorrow...

In other news, I feel like Brittany and I gave birth in the form of the wishfulfillmentmachine.com We had the baby and now we have to feed it and clothe it and get up in the middle of the night to rock it to sleep pay for it to go college and get married and babysit it's kids. Basically it's taking over our lives and we need to figure out a way to balance fulfilling wishes with all the other things we still need to do before graduation.

Wish Fulfillment Machine

2009-04-09T09:35:00.000-07:00

Britt and I launched our new website last night. Check it out - we're going to become internet sensations.

And this is what's been going on in my sketchbook

2009-03-23T17:08:00.000-07:00

This is what's been going on on the 2nd Floor of Recitation

2009-03-23T12:50:00.000-07:00

I forgot these

2009-03-19T06:54:00.000-07:00

Just a couple logotype experiments for Unesco world heritage sites. Tubbataha's a coral reef in the Philippines. Banidagara's a cliff city in Mali.

I was looking through some old photos and I came across a video my dad took of me after a play in high school. He meant to take a picture so I'm just standing still, holding a smile and saying cheese while everyone around is moving about. It's really funny looking. I might do a series of little movies in that vein.

I was also thinking about a little font satire project using objects to create new versions of cheesy typefaces:

Party: in confetti, streamers, cake, etc etc.

Curls: locks of curly hair

Impact: indented or pressed/punched into clay

Comic Sans: non-serifed happy faces.

Hey Mom, this doesn't make any sense anymore -or- "New Work"

2009-03-13T08:35:00.000-07:00

Lettering and accouterments using french fries, pickle remnant, strawberry, tomato, onion, ketchup, and sandwich spears. House Industries' hand lettering class rubbing off on me much?

We had a pretty good pre-crit on our posters last night. Mali was right, that wall looks nice. Everything's really fitting together this semester - lettering, illustration, screen printing, and portfolio prep. Can I be a designer-illustrator? Rachel Zimmerman from InLiquid, the Philly artists' site gave us a talk yesterday and she was talking about how important it is for us to have a cohesive body of work; a unit.

Baltimore

2009-02-16T12:58:00.000-08:00

We like stuff. So do visionary artists. I can't believe yesterday was my first visit to the Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore. Chris Roberts-Antieau and J.J. Cromer are a couple of my new favorite artists. Self-taught, outsider art. Over the winter I saw the James Castle exhibit at the PMA. Like a lot of the artists in the Visionary, he developed his own visual language and used any/all of the materials he had on hand to make his art.

Justin was reminded of Dan Deacon while we were there. It did seem appropriate that such playful, glittery, silly things were housed in Baltimore where:

There is a mountain of snow, up past the big glen.
We have a castle enclosed, there is a fountain
Out of the fountain flows gold, into a huge hand
That hand is held by a bear who had a sick band

Of ghosts and cats
And pigs and bats
With brooms and bats
And wigs and rats
And play big dogs like queens and kings
And everyone plays drums and sings

I want to make my graphic design more fun. More absurd.

Still, this The City from Below poster is a step in the right direction - more me.

Pause

2009-02-08T17:03:00.000-08:00

It's been a few days since my internship ended and classes don't start until Tuesday. Today then, is a pause between what was honestly a fairly relaxed, low-stress foray into professional life and what I expect will be a very intense final semester.

My internship ended well. We were working on illustrations for an editorial in Boston Magazine the last couple days and Oliver pretty much based the design off of my idea. It was good to feel useful, especially since there were some points where I questioned my competency. In Illustrator particularly. I learned a lot about it in an effort to avoid embarrassing myself and a lot from just watching how he did things.

I'm not so clear on when it would be ok for me to post an image of this poster I did for The City From Below, but I'm impatient so I think I should be safe with this detail. I can put up the real thing sometime in March.

A week off?

2009-01-30T09:22:00.000-08:00

It seems sort of strange to have a week off during a mere 5-week internship, but when you are just working with one person and they go out of town that's what happens. To me.

What also happens is that since it's just you and him when a client is all right with screen printing 2 posters you get yours printed too. So I spent a bit of my week off tightening that up and working on a sticker design for my friend's band, A+ Gold Star.

I couldn't seem to stay away from DC even while I was off. Jake and I visited the Museum of Natural History and saw a piano/violin duo and string quartet from the NSO preform at the Kennedy Center. (They have a free show every single night at 6 on The Millennium Stage). The pianist was a swaying, bobbing balloon. In the most dignified way possible.

The pen tool - it's really not so bad

2009-01-18T11:09:00.000-08:00

Also, I'm learning how to work faster. I did a poster from start to finish on Friday for a conference in Baltimore: The City from Below. Oliver works really quickly. Decisively, might be more accurate.

There are hundreds of port-a-potties lining the national mall. I usually get off work pretty early - 3 or 3:30, so on Wednesday I decided to take advantage of the $10 I had already paid to get into the city to enjoy some of it's free offerings and stopped by the National Botanical Gardens. It was such a respite from the 11 degree day.

That first one is called a pink powder puff. It looks an awful lot like the flowers from my favorite tree - the mimosa.

After seeing all those Bobby's Potties I'm pretty glad I can stay home on Tuesday, but I did get the chance to go to Baltimore yesterday to see Obama. Rad.

Interning with Oliver Munday in DC: Week One

2009-01-10T10:09:00.000-08:00

So I'm interning this winter in DC with Oliver Munday. This is the street his house/studio is on. I stole the picture from google maps new street view feature so I could be an internet creeper rather than a real-life creeper taking pictures of his doorstep. I guess goggle is driving all over the country with a 360 camera. I found my house on it too. Weird:

Since I'm just working with one guy there isn't enough work for me to come up to the studio everyday. Last week I was just in Tuesday and Thursday. On Tuesday we went over some of the specifics of the internship, talked about projects we would be working on, etc. Then there was a little glitch in getting the internet hooked up. Oliver had just moved into a new place in DC the week before. Two hours on the phone with verizon and no success later we had lunch down the street and called it a day.

On Thursday, I brought in some sketches for a t-shirt Oliver is working on for a group called Yeah Class. (Thanks to Katie for an envelope that came in the mail that day reminding me of how funny big mouths are!)

We put them through photoshop and made up a presentation for the client of the shirt choices. Then we talked about logo ideas for a charity and spreads for a book on Stanley Kubric. I'm pretty excited about the Kubric thing. So far it seems like I'm going to be involved in all the fun parts of the process and not just boring intern-y stuff.

Too good

2008-12-13T15:55:00.000-08:00

So we're setting up the manger scene and my little sister says, "Ha! Ha! I got the baby Jesus - in your face!" Nice.

Mostly finished poster for Favorite Color

2008-12-11T19:42:00.000-08:00

Now they just have to plan a winter tour so I can put the dates in...

SENSATIONal!

2008-12-08T07:27:00.000-08:00

Britt and I finished editing the footage we shot of our installation yesterday. This is a highly compressed version.

Feedback

2008-12-02T18:47:00.001-08:00

I'm working with video feedback right now and I'm also thinking about language (as usual). About how thoughts are stuck in the feedback loop of your body until you say or make or do something with them. I'd like to make a connection between the two. The imagery in the videos is sort of dreamy; it reminds me of light seen through eyelids.

Here's an unedited clip of what I'm working with:

'Language is the liquid that we're all dissolved in" - Modest Mouse

Also, I got an internship today! This winter I'll be working with Oliver Munday in DC and in Baltimore at Piece Studio.

Touch-tacular!

2008-11-11T06:27:00.000-08:00

Hooray! Britt and I's touch/sensation installation went up yesterday.

It had been a long time in the making - since this summer when my 12-year old co-worker at the fruit stand decided it would be funny to put a grocery bag full of water on my head and we realized it felt great. I thought, hey - why don't I make a silly spa of good sensations. Once Brittany and I began, it morphed into an installation of plastic fish bags, bubble wrap undulations, inky water, corn starch and water (which makes a substance that is both a solid and liquid! really, try it for yourself), salt crystals, a feather shower, and best of all, the tub.

Britt had heaps of polystyrene beads left over from another project and we decided, if it felt nice to dip your hand into them, it would feel fantastic to dip your whole body in. We were right. Everyone loved it.

More pictures/ video footage to come! (Probably on my web site).

.com

2008-11-05T17:10:00.000-08:00

I put up my website tonight: juliannehamilton.com! It's still in progress, but at least my PDF is up. Hopefully in a couple of weeks I'll have an updated version.

Translations = Media yangga

2008-10-20T16:51:00.000-07:00

I've been thinking about meaning and language - is language powerful or weak. Powerful but limited?

I'm playing around with free online translators. I went from English to each of the languages offered (in alphabetical order) and then back to English in between each translation to trace what happened. Starting with the phrase:

"of course everything I say is clear as day," and ending with "Media yangga"

of course everything that I say is being clear as noonday

everything is natural that I say, as a midday clearly

everything is natural what I say, like one I halve it clearly

All is natural, that I speak, as one I divide into two it clearly

Everything is natural, that I spoke, since I split into two it clearly

Everything is natural, that I spoke, since I tore in two it apparently

Everything is natural that I spoke, since I tore it in two apparently

Everything is natural what I was speaking, since I tore it in two apparently

All is natural, that I spoke, as I have torn it in two apparently

Everything is natural, that I was speaking, when I have torn it in two evidently

Everything is natural that I spoke when I tore it in two obviously

It is natural that everything is speaking when I tore it clear in two

Naturally, that whatever is said when torn into two clear

Of course, that everything that is called when torn into two clear

Of course, all of this, known as the torn, divided into two clear

Of course, all of which, known as the torn, divided into two separate

Of course, all of them, known as ambivalent, divided into two separate

Everyone is known as ambivalent, divided into two separate

Everyone is ambivalent, divided into two

ALL ambivalent, halved

ALL, half are ambivalent

ALL, is half the ambivalent

ALL, the medium is ambivalent

Ambivalent about the attitude of all the media is

The attitude of the media is all about yangga

The media is all about yangga

Media is about yangga

Media is yangga

Media yangga

Handstands in Space!

2008-10-15T09:45:00.000-07:00

Messing around for the first time in After Effects.

In Autumn, trees drop their leaves

2008-10-15T09:23:00.000-07:00

MANIFESTO

2008-10-15T08:55:00.000-07:00

I am for an art of space, time, touch, taste, see, smell, hear. 3-D, 4-D, 9-D art-work/ art play. Because-I-wanted-it-to-exist art. Tall-white socks art. Tattooed-eyebrows art. Pencil art. Chalk art. Bubble art. Wax art. Glitter art. Kid art.

Art that feels like primal drums on the shaking, breathing floor beams of the second story.

I'm for an art that chases tag-your-it and sings with swarming locusts and dances without bones like an orbiting windmill. I'm for an art that is picked up from a bench like a piece of cold, forgotten pizza and immediately devoured. I'm for an art that smells like armpits that smell like humans.

Deep sun-salutation, child-pose, downward-dog breathing art. Alto art. Wood-grain art. Local art. Cheap art. Free art. Huge art. Smart art. Dumb art. Achey breaky heart art.

Wind art.

A little boy told me that crabbing would be more fun if it were war and the crabs had guns - I'm for that art.

I am for an art that crumbles into a flakey, papery wad in the pockets of laundered jeans or blankets like the last spinning-seconds before sleep. I am for an art that tickles until you can't breath, like an over-zealous father. I am for an art that wrestles or flirts or analyzes handwriting in carnival booths. I am for an art that lies in your lap like a warm hand.

Art that grows like an avocado stuck through with toothpicks in a water glass on the kitchen counter. Art that knows itself like the year you decide you're not a child. Sense-making art. Native symbols art. Combinations art. Letter art. Word art. Sentence art. Story art.

Hard-to-eat art. Honeysuckle art. Walnut art. Seeded concord grape art. Hard-shell blue crab art with sticky yellow guts and feathery lungs and sweet white meat...art.

I am for an art that is walked on like a welcome mat or scraped into snow like an ice rink. I am for an art that calls in the middle of the night.

I am for an art that talks or mumbles or yawns or laughs like an unfurled ribbon of magnesium.

Magic.

It's really intense

2008-10-14T18:12:00.000-07:00

when someone turns on the light after you've been sitting in a dark room. what if i could just keep turning on more and more lights until everything goes white.

I'm a Blogger Now

2008-10-14T17:36:00.000-07:00

Blog Blog Bloggin'