First Friday, Halloween movies, &sleeping creatures

Set up in The Autonomous Workshop for First Friday

Sleeping Children - coffee dyed handmade paper, ink, hand stitching

by keeping - coffee dyed handmade paper, ink, hand stitching

Here is a picture from First Friday! And two (finally) finished pieces! I am working on my Etsy shop today so there will be updates soon! And I am a little sleep deprived and sick so I will be wrapped up in blankets on the couch, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and probably watching Hocus Pocus, Teen Witch, Monster Squad...etc etc. ...while working.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend! And thank you to all my friends and to all the wonderful new people I met who came out last night!

august fourth

While a friend was visiting me in Brooklyn they put up this picture of me, dad, and mom...I liked it so much it followed me to Los Angeles.

jars

Recycled mason jars containing family photographs with fabric wrapped around the lids. This pretty much sums up my aesthetic and focus of my art for now.

washbin

This is from a performance piece I did at 621 Gallery in April for the BA/BS graduation show. It is based on one of my favorite subjects (I am still learning a

great deal about): Existentialism. After reading Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, I was greatly influenced by the character Teresa and her need to feel a weightlessness that was both physical and metaphysical. This was also me dealing with the fact that I was about to move from my home state of Florida (of 22/23 years) and move to New York. I needed a way to take everything and represent it in something tangible and literally remove it all from my being. I sat in a washbin and sewed an "intestine" which was all encompassing.