Bottle Building

These are etchings done on plexiglass, 2 with watercolor, 2 with chine colle

Some Monotypes

Little House

one little house 3 ways, dry-point on plexiglass with some chine-colle

Inspiration, photo not by me

A few things

3 monotypes and one pencil sketch

Cat Prints

These are some silkscreen projects I did last quarter at school. The one above was done with screen filler and the ones below were done with photo emulsion.



These little cat ones were sent out as postcards. If you want one, leave your mailing address in the comments or send me a piece of mail with your return address on it! My mailing address is PO Box 23376 Seattle, Wa 98102. I love getting mail! Yay!


This summer I am taking a monotype class and that's it. I will be spending the rest of my time reading, drawing and relaxing. I hope you have some nice summer plans!

3 months ago

We went to New York in March and I only took 2 pictures! We went out there to see Robert Wilson's Works & Process festival. Here is a video to highlight the performances!

I'm Sorry!

I'm so so sorry I've been neglecting this blog!!! I just haven't been taking very many pictures, and we got cut off from the free internet at our apartment! I spend my lunch breaks at school looking at style.com and posting on my Tumblr now. What do you want to see on this blog? Art? Fashion? Cats? Tell me!!!

xoxoxooxoxoxoxoox sp

No Mercy

New Works by Colin Mikel Northcraft

In 2010 Colin Mikel Northcraft spent 231 days in Vietnam. “No Mercy”, his new show of stencils and paintings presented by the New Mystics Academy of Dark Arts, is an expression of his time spent there.

By creating a series of portraits of Ho Chi Minh, who’s image was an ever present symbol in his daily life during that time, he explores the identity of a country that for many Americans exists only as a tourist destination or the site of American’s most famous failed war.

Ho Chi Minh was the president and founder of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and led the Veit Cong against American troops during the Vietnam war. His image is displayed in every classroom, office, and home, and on each denomination of currency. The communist government views Uncle Ho, as he is affectionately called, with almost god-like reverence. His image in the American media is distinctly different - as a scourge and figurehead of the spread of communist, and hence anti-American, sentiment.

To some Ho Chi Minh is a martyr, to others a monster. In this series of 231 portraits Northcraft explorers this duality, and tries to reconcile the jungle hell remembered by his father’s generation with the booming vacation destination that the country has become. Finally, Northcraft struggles to assign meaning to his experience as an outsider living within this culture, and contend with the history and reality of overlapping American and Vietnamese ideals which shaped his experience abroad.

Poster by Nko & text via New Mystics

First Thursday! New Mystics!

Don't miss out!

Places To Be

New York! Go check out Ryan Mitchell//Implied Violence at the Guggenheim's Works and Process Festival this weekend! Buy tickets here.



“The Dorothy K.: Shorter Are The Prayers in Bed, but More Heartfelt” is the conclusion to a series of Dorothy K. pieces director/writer/and producer Ryan Mitchell and Implied Violence have been working on since their residency at The Watermill Center in the fall of 2008. With presentations at The New isLand Festival (NY), The Donau Festival (Krems Austria) and The Frye Art Museum (Seattle WA) each of the different iterations of The Dorothy K. have been a specific and significant exploration of imagery, performance, and theatrical device; achieving heightened and ecstatic states through ritual, procession, use of organic materials, exhaustion, ether, leeching, binding, restrictive costumes, and the firing of arrows into waxed objects held a loft by human hands. Shorter are the Prayers…carries the weight of The Dorothy K.’s own history, and defines the heuristic process that has changed these Idols into Icons, and unravels the imperfect past logic of forever, after the sublime has been touched, grasped, and forced to give way to the ever looming future.

(image by Steven Miller & text via Implied Violence)

Austin! CMRTYZ presents SiiickXSW in conjunction with SXSW. More info here.


Unfortunately I will not be able to make it to SXSW this year, but hopefully I will make it next year.... I'm very excited to be spending some time in New York though, starting today!

Sketchbook

As you can probably tell from the lack of posting the past few months, winter is a time of hibernation for me. I have barely been doing anything at all besides going to school, sleeping, and painting my nails. I'm very sad to say that I haven't been drawing at all really. Here are a few pages from my sketchbook.....




The good news is that I can feel my winter depression starting to fade away. For now, you should check out my Tumblr, because it's being updated more frequently with nice things to look at!

March First Thursday

I went to Seattle's Art Walk this month after not going for quite a while... It was great because there was lots of cool stuff! Cassie Ramone of Vivian Girls & The Babies had an art installation at the 619 Arts Building. I love her drawing style so much! Here are some pictures....



Claire Cowie's work at the James Harris Gallery was also a magical treat....



The other wonderful art I saw was by Kim Van Somen at the Catherine Pearson Gallery. I forgot to take pictures, but after looking at her Forts & Houses series online, it was great to see them in person. Kim's etchings & drypoint are so rich and beautiful!

If you live in Seattle, do yourself a favor and go check out these shows!!

First Thursday

Bands will play too, more info here

Experimentation

This is something I'm learning to do right now. The first print is an etching, and the rest of the prints combine dry-point with the original etching.