Serendipity...

My camera is lost in the wilds of my life somewhere... it's amazing how not having the ability to take photos to illustrate my thoughts derails my timely blog-updating. Everything I've been doing requires pictorial accompaniment. In words only form: APE was AWESOME. I met a lot of amazing artists, sold some stuff, had the coolest table-mate ever (lots of maniacal giggling and drawing was involved)...I LOVE seeing my work on actual, living, walking people... it's extremely gratifying. I also got the COOLEST $10 piece of art... which of course I'm DYING to put a damn picture of up, but NOOOOO... in any case it's a doodle of Death with a party hat and a cupcake and a speech bubble with a heart! Clearly this artist and I are on a cosmic cute-death trip. My new mission is to collect all cute deaths I find... they will be mine.

The My Trick Pony show went well; again, great to see my creatures going out into the world. Nearly everyone I know in the city showed up, too, so it was pretty much a cheap-wine fun-fest of bawdy, mouthy peet's types... I love you kids.

Ironside is eating all my time. It's much more gratifying work, but is a real 40+ hour/week job, which changes my art-making time. The good news is that I work 9-5 like a "normal" person... now I just have to learn to motivate myself to paint and make between 6 and 10 pm instead of lying in a heap refusing to do anything. Really though, I ain't complaining. Job feeds me, provides me a phone, lets me set my schedule, and the owners and chef are beyond cool...what a relief.

Pekoe is buried in a heap of blankets on the bed, grumbling and growling at some hapless canine walking by outside. As I type this, I have a steady soundtrack of "rrrghhhRRRrrRRRRrrhhhhRHrhrghhhh....."

And the newest excitement! I'm joining ranks with the amazing folk of Swankety Swank on Divis. (in NOOOPA... oooOooh...) I'll be selling various, um, stuff! And if you've been paying attention, you know that's a lot of ... stuff. I discovered Swankety Swank and Yabette, the fabulous proprietress, in one of those completely serendipitous moments, which, in my experience, is usually San Francisco's way of telling me something. I had a very poignant moment with a construction sign once...

Whee!

Sans my camera, I leave you with a few photos from my crappy camera phone...

I make to-go food fun!

DEMON POPSICLE

best. street art. ever.

Hello APE'rs!

Hello to anyone and everyone who may be wandering in from the APE aftermath... I swear and promise I'll have images of available custom designs up soon, and I'll get some up on etsy for easier ordering, etc. Until then, if you happen to know what you want (ie: the grey fish hoodie), simply shoot me and email and it shall be done!

xoxo

dramatic time has set in...

It's a wonderfully grey and coasty day... they kind of day where i am constantly reminded that i am in an ocean-bounded city, constantly nostalgia-pulted into memories of Maine and my time on the Right Coast; the mono-tonal moistness that Portland so often wears. There's something dramatically satisfying about clomping around a rainy coast-town in a long coat and boots; something cozy and comforting that all the beauty of sunny days just can't touch. I'm suddenly in fall and holidays and making soup and bread with friends, missing my seasons but happy in my fog. Sometimes i forget to remember to be happy, what with all the stress of money and career and "the big questions" of one's 20's. My own artistic and personal demons; the pressure and demands i put on myself, the criticisms and dissatisfactions i experience that are even more enraging for the fact that i KNOW that i create them...if i could only let go they'd just... disappear. in any case, it's a pretty cool thing i'm getting to do, really; living in San Francisco, making it work as i go... even if it isn't what i thought i could/should/would be doing at this age. The air feels good. I have people that love me. I have a good coat and boots to stomp in. It's gonna be ok.

MORE moping! jeezus!

dratted hormones. dratted moods.

i've done not much today except sit on the floor and make sparkly sculpey earrings... basically a glorified way to say that i'm being 5 and rolling snakes and covering in glitter. which i'd take a picture of for you but my camera is elsewhere.

when the constant is you, sometimes you don't notice how much everything has changed.

whine mope boo.

i miss my little red closet. i spent so much time and energy on and in it and we were together such a short while. sigh. i'm always moving forward and always missing what i've left behind.

whiney whine...

sometimes i think my vivid memory is more curse than blessing.

see? SEE?

THIS is what happens when you forget to post for a while... the amount of stuff to show and tell is too daunting and you damn-near give up. it's like when an old high school pal shows up on facebook and says "OMG what's up how ARE you?" and you think "i adore this person (or not) and would love to reconnect but how the FUCK can i condense 10 years into a convenient sound bite that won't a: take me all day or b: drive me mad in the retelling"...and then pretty soon you're in a corner singing to yourself and hiding from the demon beast that is facebook. but i digress.

what the hell have i been up to?

Lots of emotional ups and downs... love and stress and all those pesky big-life-questions. Corporate coffee (did i mention i work for corporate coffee?) gets increasingly corporate... to the point that i am transferring stores, which is a little like trading in a Pontiac for a Buick, but it's worth a shot.

...aaaaand this is how i feel about it.

I am apparently (because I applied, really, but i never expected to get accepted) to be exhibiting at APE this year. EEK! terrror! guess it's time to MAKE something for that soon. Details to follow as soon as i stop hyperventilating.

I have a show at My Trick Pony in SF this October... I'm October's featured designer... ooooooooohhhhh! So 10 or so of my designs will be available for purchase printed on your choice of luxurious t-shirt... I think it's local only to SF though, so if anyone is actually reading this and wants one, let me know and i'll make it happen. I'll post the designs in full soon. For now, here's my favorites:

I'm still painting, but that's on the proverbial back burner for now. My roomate-nigh-unto-brother Evan recently purchased a mannequin for our humble abode. At first I thought the idea was creepy... but then he brought home DOLORES (although her name keeps changing depending on Evan's mood... she's Dolores to me.) She's elderly, her paint is cracked, and she's only got one arm (well, technically she has two, but they're both left arms so only one fits on her body... so she's got oned arm and we have a disembodied arm holding some fruit in our kitchen)...but we love her. She stands in the corner of our hallway and scares visitors with her 6-foot presence of aloof, 1-armed hotness. Nothing phases Dolores.

Dolores contemplating life on our roof.

Working.

Working hard.

True Love.

Most. Hipster. Photo. Ever.

The start of Dolores' epic tattoo.


And i'll be designing some logos for the most-fabulous GlitterGirl of Temple of Poi fame soon. If i like them i'll show them to you.

Oh, and lovely Cynthia linked to me on her blog! I have never met her, but I love her forever.
http://www.cmykaboom.com/2009/08/link-kaboom-37.html
Check it, and her, out!

How is it possible that i am so busy and yet so broke?
There's them pesky life-questions again.
Okay i think i covered most of it. i can come out of my corner and get back on facebook again.

...i really can't. my eyes fee like they're peeled grapes.