Werkin on it.

First of all, you need to check this out. November 5th and 6th at Summerhill Winery Kelowna, BC, I will have a table selling art as well as some new porcelain-drawings i'm working on, along with felter-friend Eve Haley. I'll post pictures soon.

click it!

In progress. Not done. Almost though.

acrylic, india ink on thrift store blue cloth.

20"x20" I think.

Another Apparition

A Creep, and a Brother

Acrylic, marker, collage on glass

16"x20"

FOR SALE

That Conduit Thing

Ark

Dimensions variable

Pine, wood glue

Solitude

12'x12'

Newspaper, glaze, acrylic on canvas

Forest I

16'x20'

Newspaper, glaze, dirt, acrylic on canvas

So Photos from the Conduit Festival have just recently shown up! I thought I would never see a picture of my ark sculpture completed --- it fell to the ground and smashed a few days after the festival, and this is the only photo of it on display I think. Paintings are mine as well

More Conduit photos, full of Local Kelowna artists... see if this'll werk fer ya: http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=892955400

Apparitions

16'x20' (I think)

pen, acrylic, glue on glass

SOLD!!!!

Part of my latest series, Apparitions. Found the name for it today, inspired by a mom and Dali.

I knoooow it's been forever.

Okay, so the monday post thing worked for awhile. But I've been busy... and distracted... all those excuses. Anyways, here are some photos from yet another collab I did, this time with a poet!

My friend Erin Banks curated the gallery at school for Water Week, and told me that I could make anyyyything to do with water, and she would put it in. So, here is the giant squid out of sewn strips of newspaper, along with her poem in response to the piece.

Tentacle Tango

Small speck
of soot black swims
through open water.

Silly little
creature; sinking
into my sandbox.

Shimmy shaking
towards your skeletal limbs;
synthetic flippers instead of slithery spurs.

You sense
my tentacle slip
around a sliver of your

tiny shape,
holding tightly—
a fish hook baiting

my prey.
I sweep you off
your feet as tentacles tangle limbs.

We one,
two, three step
below the spotlight—sunless depths.

Here, home,
is where you follow
my lead.

We’ll come
to the home
of the tentacle tango.

.

A fur teacup!

Okay, so I missed a few weeks. It was bound to happen sooner or later. But my past few weeks have been wonderfully filled with art and inspiration and shows and learning. And well, just having fun and not sleeping much. (Which doesn't translate well into getting actual school work and projects done.... shoot)

Anyways, here is the completed version friends. The Nest. Photos taken by the wonderful Aidan Whitely, me and Brit got a bit of a photo shoot with our creation.

It was in the Ambient concert/sculpture room at Conduit. It definitely looks good lit up and with a band in front of it.

The Nest, as well as my Ark and two of my forest series paintings will be in the Rotary Centre for the Arts for the month of February... not that much longer I suppose.

Also! If you are in Vernon, check out the Gallery Vertigo. Brit Bachman moved her curated show "Architecture: Digress" there for the month, 4 of my 'Concrete Abstractions' (see below...) pieces going with it.

Other than that, I just spent last week in Vancouver, which was so great. Wilco, Califone, Feist, Olympics, Art Gallery... kind of a cultural experience. I've been working on an essay for the past few days on Meret Oppenheim's Object (le déjeuner en fourrure) which is just so great!

More to come soon...

I guess it's monday.

Yea, it's 5:30 in the morning and I have hardly had enough sleep. So it's a simple post this week. For those of you that don't already know, we had a bunch of people over at our place for chai and samosa's yesterday which was wonderful. Chai making is one valuable skill i managed to bring back from India. Sooo I'm tired, but am very insomniac at the moment as well. Maybe too much caffeine?

Anyways, as for the art... it's a little something I drew up awhile ago. One of my favourites.

I'd like you to tell me what you think of it as well... It's just an illustration that I have considered for silkscreening, but i'd love to hear your thoughts on it. How it makes you feel. What it reminds you of.