Fridays are for:
sleeping in
paying bills
watering plants
walking to the co-op
rock and roll radio programs
writing letters
today i bought red pears because they were just that damn gorgeous. deliciousness an extra bonus.
also bought two new unique little succulents.
At 8 years old my favorite animal was a zebra.
(poem by Shel Silverstein from A Light in the Attic)
discovered this on my windshield yesterday outside of the Brooklyn Center Library where i stopped after work.
For the past 10 months I have been planning and creating my first interactive art installation. It is now on view at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis as a part of the Art(ists) on the Verge 2008-2009 fellowship exhibition. The Opening Reception is this Thursday at 8pm and features performances by 3 of the other AOV fellows. The exhibition itself is on view until August 23rd. If you are in the area I hope you will get a chance to come check it out. (the reception should be a really awesome event, and I highly reccomend it, if you can squeeze it in... sorry for the last minute notice)
This installation, entitled Once, is my first experimentation with non-performative interactivity. I have incorporated my photographic and theatrical sensibilities to create a space in which the viewer becomes a participant or character within the artwork:
This photo is from the March 15th 2008 End the War Protest march.
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2008 .was. quite. a. year.
adventure
what
here
chicago
distance
ouch
rooftop
conversations
cancer
importantToday after rehearsal a friend dropped me off 3 blocks from my house. This is what it sounded like.
So perhaps this isn't the most interesting thing you could be listening to. But perhaps you are at work walled off from the sunlight and bored of streaming options. Take a break. Pretend you are taking a walk rather than staring at your computer screen.
I am related to this amazing woman.
How do I know she is amazing? Well, I don't really. But look at her eyes, that expression, that poise. She HAS to be amazing and well, if not, that's one tricky photographer.
Two weeks ago I was staying at my grandma's house with my mother when I found this photograph. We are not sure exactly who she is, not many of the photos are labeled, but she is likely on my grandfather's side of the family who owned a grocery store and a bank around the turn of the century.
These are the front and back pages. I would be quite amazed to find anything comparably illustrated today. The pamphlets we find today in our doctors offices seem to make such a concerted effort to be as clinical and dry as possible. I think of the "shower card" I have hanging in my bathroom that reminds me to do a monthly self breast exam from the American Cancer Society: Pink lettering with a little illustration of a woman- little dashes behind her signify the shower water- holding one arm above her head while her other hand presses on her chest as far away from her actual breast as possible. Her head also faces as far away from her breast as possible. It's kind of humorous in its cartoonyness. Anyway, its seems indicative of all the health literature illustrations today (that I've ever seen.) So when I came across this handbook in my grandmother's house, I was amazed and kinda of struck by it's "daring" to publish such photographs in a clinical publication.
"When a woman and a man use birth control, they affirm that the goal of their sexual intercourse is mutual pleasure and delight, not reproduction. It is our basic human right to be able to find such delight in each other, and it is our human responsibility not to make an unwanted child the result of our most personal pleasures"
