…only the stuff worth talking about.
The Freecycling Network: a way for freecyclers to organize from city to city. Rad.
Men who take their wives’ last name: “I never suspected that as a man I had been given an extra portion of power in the global allotment.”
Literary tattoos. But if I see one more Kurt Vonnegut quote, I’m removing this from my bookmarks.
This fucking amazing house, which has no carbon footprint and looks like a modern monastery:
I mentioned a while ago that I was laying a sidewalk, but I never returned to the subject to celebrate my victorious task. Growing up in ol’ Thomas Jefferson’s hometown has trained me to see bricks pretty well. So, now I am seeing a future as a female bricklayer. Badass.
I am getting very close with the Lowe’s employees this summer. There is an old woman who works in the garden section with bandages on her hands. A young mother stands behind the counter in the return section and always seems about to fall asleep at the register. All the other sections in that massive store are filled with men, all ages, who I watched stand around and talk when they were supposed to be helping me lift gravel into the car. It’s a hard-knock life.
I’m on such an art roll– I’m finally photographing all this work I’ve had lying around.
Which made me wonder– what’s a girl to do with all her art when she’s not an artist? I don’t go to art school, and I don’t plan to make this my primary source of income. I don’t produce enough quantity to open an Etsy shop, nor would I have the time to maintain one. I don’t have enough cohesion in my pieces to approach a gallery about having a show, so basically… basically what?
I’m no Marxist, but I believe firmly in productivity. And while art is absolutely a therepeutic thing for me, I don’t feel comfortable devoting so much time and money towards something so self-indulgent.
Basically, I don’t want to be an “Artist.” My reason is that I don’t believe that only “artists” make art– so do bakers, and writers, and bricklayers.
Speaking of indulgent (!) here’s a self portrait from last semester:
Detail
I know it looks like false eyelashes, but actually I overlapped two different self-portraits of myself, one looking down and one looking directly at the camera.
Anyways, about that art question, I figure here are my options:
I have a lot of art that I need to scan/photograph and post here. Here’s a beginning:
(I’ve posted the 2nd one before, sorry)
For the sake of my portfolio page, I figured I should post some older watercolors as well. So, here you go!
[WARNING: some nudity! I don't know how to make that optional, so if you're offended, then, uh, don't scroll down]
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