Feather Installation and excerpt

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Feather installation/sculpture 7ft 5in long. My instructor yesterday called this beautiful. I love it, I just wish I never had to take it down. I want to do something with it, I just have no idea what to do. Maybe in my apartment sometime later in life?

Excerpt from my paper:
Florescent stale light illuminating. No shadows. Enlarged hills and crevices of pale brown with yellow and red tints, becoming more and more red. Holes and inflammation. Skewed perspectives on appearance. White and black specs in masses, overwhelming. Un-controlling. Creating routines. Time consumption. A lot of time consumption. drip. drip. drip. drip... Cramp. Fuck. Oh well,

Red tinted routine. Repetitive. Repetitive. Reflections creating vast differences from reality, perceived as actual. Inflammation on top of yesterday’s inflammation. Old scars, reminders of my habits. Still overwhelming and always uncontrolled. Explorations of already chartered territory, nothing changes.

Waiting for paint to dry, literally

One of my first attempts at 3D art. Currently I'm working on a 'magic box'. I'll have pictures up over Thanksgiving Break. I can't wait to sleep through all of Thanksgiving break.

Life flows on within and without you

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I am currently studying Art History, in front of a fireplace at the Jannes Library while it is snowing outside. This is wonderful.

This is my latest piece, a self portrait in acrylic, 22"x28". I like it a lot.

the end.

KCAI in a nutshell

class. ssion afterparty rave. ari fish crazy. gross dudes. not so gross dudes. phone books. bored in class. studio. boxes. food. boxes. little sleep. art history quiz. personal essay. beautiful weather. the nelson. the green. food. winsteads. the park. captain. freshman friday. first friday. westport. jerusalem cafe sucking. tea drops. driving. cvs. walking. food. sleep. boxes. nicki. sasha. chloe. =love.

alex and scotty surprised me last night and came to kc! not a lot was going on and I kind of felt bad about that, but it was still awesome. they kick ass. the nelson was sweet though with the trapeze artists, but they came after that. so sweet. next time sleepover?

i seriously love it here. i'm doing what i love to do and it's easier to do homework because i love what i'm doing. art history and writing are so interesting, sometimes i'd rather do that than be in studio. love. my friends are awesome, both in lawrence and in kc. my dorm is awesome. my roommate is seriously the shit and i couldn't have asked for better. i really don't know what to say, i just love it. i mean yeah, there are a few things that aren't so great. cafeteria food gets old. i don't get enough sleep. sometimes weekends are too much work. i'm sick of drawing boxes. but really other than that, it is amazing.

Reminiscing?

Excerpt from my paper that I thought was due tomorrow, but is actually due next wednesday, I am awesome.

I couldn’t wait to visit my relatives in central Kansas, driving through the boundless, raw Flint Hills. I would stay awake through the whole drive, silent, just staring out the window at the infinite, flat horizon. I completely absorbed it. Gazing at the hazy meadow of whispering wheat, swaying in the wind. I find a need to write,
These are the days we will
reminisce,
thinking about now and what is to come.

this will be the conscious time
to be remembered.

Before I left my hometown I was comfortable, familiar. Comfortable with myself, my art, and my surroundings. I felt confident being one of the more talented students in my art class, winning awards and being recognized for it. I was surrounded by maturity, but in reality was immature and couldn’t take in my environment and the personalities around me.

Haha, you can tell my main focus was wanting to put my poetry in it.
I'll write more on KCAI later, but in short- LOVE it.

new beginnings, dreams in my way

My first new edition to my etsy account! I'm going to start posting when I have a bunch of products together in middle August so my income while I'm at school can be from the work I've done this summer before my work-study starts up. This onesie is a cotton-polyester blend with a handstitched sunflower of corduroy and cotton and is for the 6-9 month age range. I have to wait for my partner, Catherine Morel, to get back from Michigan to go much further on details, because she has some Modge-Podge of mine.

Nonetheless, I'm happy to be able to work again, use my non-swollen hands, and do what I want to do instead of working my part time job.

one traffic light town

Two lovers lay
beneath a sheath of blue
in that one traffic light town.
Nostalgic recreations
once removed now
brought to light-
Will time continue to stand still
while we
reminisce?