11.28.2010 prepping for open studios (see below)

Bonnie's back side (front side found here)

11.25.2010

studio 11.23.2010
MoMA 11.18.2010

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Joshua Vrysen and I will be participating in our studio building's winter open studios. The building will be open for visitors Friday noon - 5pm, Saturday 9 am - 5pm, and Sunday noon - 5pm. Cottage Street Studios are located at 1 Cottage Street, Easthampton, MA 01027. The list of participating studios can be found here. We are studio 3-32.

Also we will be participating in Gallery 51's "99 Cents and Up: Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", which opens this Thursday. Gallery 51 is located at 51 Main Street, North Adams, MA 01247

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"Can the world work without any secrets?"

Is Julian a trickster? or is he too clever?

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Passive House
Passive Energy

Here I Am 11.13.2010 (cottage street)

11.14.2010

cross it .... or don't (I didn't) 11.14.2010

ornament making 11.15.2010

11.15.2010


Ask me again later

bathrobe
frozen french fries
toaster oven

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If you are in Minneapolis this weekend MCAD will be holding the annual Art Sale (it starts tomorrow). I have some work that will be up for sale and there are lots and lots of other art pieces by artists that go and have gone to MCAD. The walls of the first and second floor are packed with photos, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and so much. It is a sight to be seen.

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A very nice little snippet about my "All The Trappings" sketches was posted on the blog Brown Paper Bag on November 4th.

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I am going to NYC tomorrow for a reunion/25 year celebration of the UMASS Amherst program NYPOP. The program director/professor is Jerry Kearns. I really liked the class because we got to visit with artists in their studios. They talked about their work, process, and the realities of being a working artist.

I am a little nervous. (bah, your always nervous)

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Joshua and I are getting ready for open studios at our studio building the first weekend in December. He just finished Wheel of Doom/We Love Doom #0. I will post pictures soon.

Library secret stuff 10. 26. 2010

Happy Halloweeneeeee 10.29.2010

All The Trappings (Sketch #4) 10.17.2010

Here I Am 10.20.2010

Quarry 10.16.2010


I had this dream last week where I was sitting at a table with 5 other people, I can't tell or I don't remember who they are. A crow is sitting in the middle of the table and starts to come towards me. It is getting ready to peck my face off. A hawk swoops down from over the shoulder of the person sitting across from me, body checks the crow away from my face and then brushes its beak against my cheek which I interpreted as a kiss. I woke up thinking it had happened because I had felt the hawks beak against my cheek.

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I have been making little shadow boxes from the wooden packaging that my former boss Djerba had given to me this summer. I have decided to call them sketches under the body of work "All the Trappings". The image at the top of this post is sketch #4. If you would like to see more of them I have posted them here. The boxes use to house dolls. I like to think about the boxes as rooms between rooms in a building. A doll house?

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I have been going through the archives of This American Life again while at work. Yesterday I listened show #146 Urban Nature from 1999. I got particularly excited over David Rakoff's piece.

Act One. Interpretation Of
Dreams.

Building everything that comprises modern life—constructing cities and suburbs both—means trampling nature. And that bothers some people. They want to keep nature at hand, even in the city. David Rakoff visited Reykjavik, Iceland, where the government is careful not to disturb certain boulders when it builds roads because some people believe that invisible "hidden people"—like elves—live at those sites. (17 minutes)

The part of the piece I have been thinking about when Rakoff talks about the
urban Reykjaviks' belief or wanting to believe in the stories of the "hidden
people".

the yearning quality of the stories. These tales are the vestiges of a
pre-urban time. Urbanization is intrinsically a violent process. It elicits a terrified nostalgia and possibly guilt. We hold fast to what we feel we are destroying.

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Icelandic Elf School

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House Elf
Turtle Rodeo
Stewardship

crooked top be gone 10.07.2010

too much 10.13.2010

no way 08.24.2010

10.12.2010


webs 10.11.2010


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"He had a blanket and I had some fruit."

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trappings of permanence

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Currently I work in the shipping department of a very large yarn store. Yesterday while I was filling an order for a Rita Peters I found it had a mistake. In order to fix it I had to go out into the store section, I rarely do this. In the store at this time happened to be my aunt's best friend and her husband, Rita and Peter. I haven't seen them in years. They don't live out here but Rita is an amazing knitter and they were traveling through the area so they made a stop.

Happy Birthday Autumn Babies (for Bella) 09.21.2010

10.02.2010

09.27.2010

10.02.2010

I made the large stuffed being in the top picture for my niece's 3rd birthday. She was unsure of it, but my brother said that now she sleeps with it.

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I want to write you something that will be of use for you. (yuck, yuck, yuck)........ but it is true.

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resources - n. 1. a source of supply, support, or aid, esp. one that can be readily drawn upon
when needed. (dictionary.com's first definition)

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The Connecticut River was so low and now it is high... spilling over in some spots. The summer was dry here this year, now we are starting to get rain.

Massachusetts to the Atlantic 08.26.2010

White Mountains 09.11.2010

144 sparklers for $7.50 no tax 09.11.2010

08.26.2010
08.26.2010

I started a new job 3 weeks ago packing yarn for america's yarn store and shipping it to you (maybe, if you knit, I shouldn't assume.) I think I am allergic to the alpacas I have been sneezing a lot.

08/09/2010


08/28/2010

All the Trappings (I am a pretty thing)
08/25/2010

I am in this months install of Be Your Own Placebo curated by Jamie Lee Mohr.

This months Artists:
Doug Anson,
Chiara Giovando
Peter Glantz
Emily Shinada
Kianja Strobert
Sasha Wiseman
Angela Zammarelli

Be Your Own Placebo
28 Holden Street
North Adams MA
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays-Fridays 12-6pm, Saturdays 10am-6pm, Sundays 10am-2pm

Fat Worm of Error Presents Music for 17 Arthur Ganson Machines
(I have a drawing of the Machine with Fabric on the inside j card along with 16 other artists/friends!) Fat Worm is on tour, maybe they are near you right now.

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Herb Mixing 08.11.2010

Teeth Flossing 08.12.2010

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Foo Fest 2010 08.14.2010
As220 Providence, RI

Untitled (We Could Live Here)
2010
mixed herbs, mixed floral textiles, cardboard, wood, bedding, bean bag chair

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For a festive festival I thought I would make a festive chair.

When you sit in the chair the bundle hanging overhead is stuffed with lavender, cloves, mint, raspberry leaves, and rose petals. I was hoping to make a soft soothing tactile and olfactory experience juxtaposed with a more active visual experience.

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A trap? Come and sit and talk to me.
I don't really know how to start a conversation smoothly.

Yes, I try to work hard for us, I am so glad you noticed. You can stay as long as you like but remember you need to share.

When you leave you leave a little bits of yourself on the chair, thank you.

08.06.2010

stacked

wishful thinking

07.30.2010


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A couple of weekends ago I went to see Petah Coyne's Everything That Rises Must Converge currently on view at Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA. This is the first time that I have seen a large body of her work in person, and I couldn't believe at how much I was pulled in by the textures and forms of the sculptures. I have only up until recently seen documentation of her work in books and on the internet and was always interested in the way she blends nature, the domestic, art history/history, and the personal. Seeing Coyne's work in person really brought out the the painstaking amount labor and attention to detail in the sculptures that for me pushed the themes she works with further.

wood, hay, soil, tar, black sand, white powder, silk flowers, wax, pins, velvet, taxidermy, ribbons, hair, wire, feathers

I swooned.

The work will be on view through February 2011.

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Next Saturday, August 14th, I am participating in AS220's FOO Fest 2010 in Providence, RI. I am so happy to get to participate with an installation. AS220 will be presenting for the first time its' Free Culture Award. This years recipients are Shepard Fairey & Brandon Edenswill. ESG is playing and I am very excited!

AS220 is a non-profit community arts space located in downtown Providence. They are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year. Their mission is "to provide an unjuried and uncensored forum for the arts. If you live in the state of Rhode Island, you will get an opportunity to exhibit or perform at AS220."

Wonderful Wedding Vanessa and Ben! Cake by Lisette Lopez
Booger Time
In progress
Obscured Canal


Working on a web page.
Going to spend time with my parents.
Looking for employment.

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I just watched Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo and The Holy Mountain this week. I am going to watch them again.

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immolate

Here I am.

Passage way.

Neighbor's little house.


Very very hot.
Not terribly original.

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Floral
Field
Forage

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Metal
March
Mechanic

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Arthur Ganson
Ganson TED talk
Fat Worm of Error

July

June

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Last Thursday I went out to North Adams, MA for Down Street Arts and the opening reception for Be Your Own Placebo (B.Y.O.P.). This is the first installment of a four part summer show curated by Jaime Lee Mohr. The artists in the show are Jessica Ciocci, Sophia Cara Dixon, Celested Dupuy Spencer, Toto Feldman, Megha Gupta, Natalie Purkey, Rose Marcus, Frankie Martin, Lauren Pakradooni, Erika Somogyi, and Jennifer Sullivan. Images from the show can be found here. I am biased towards these artists especially Lauren Pakradooni so I am just going to say go see it if you can.

Be Your Own Placebo 28 Holden Street, North Adams, MA
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays-Fridays 12-6pm, Saturdays 10am-6pm, Sundays 10am-2pm

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Also up in North Adams at Gallery 51 is Sean Riley's Everything is OK. The show is a mixture of paintings and quilts. I find his paintings and collages to be really exciting. His quilt tops are nice as images (found on his website), but for some reason when I was looking at them at the show I was having trouble with them as objects. I think that within the context of the show and with the show's title they are interesting but as objects outside of that context I was having strange feelings about them............................................
(Maybe it is because I have been looking at tons of different quilts lately? Am I getting
hung up on craft? They are well sewn. Maybe I was feeling a bit or resentment to the
painting/quilting dichotomy and it was conjuring up thoughts about traditional women's
work/men's work and the history of sexism in the creative realm? Last summer two
women had quilts in a show I co-curated at the same gallery, just to call myself out.)
But I have since learned that he is making the quilt tops out of his father's clothes and I will admit that has made me appreciate them so much more.

Everything is OK is up until July 25, 2010 at MCLA Gallery 51, 51 Main St., North Adams, MA
Open Daily 10-6pm

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If you happen to be in the Western Mass area on July 10th I recommend going to Burns Maxey's opening reception for Water, the second installment of her multimedia show Project Elements Easthampton. Her installation is located at 1 Cottage Street in room 1-06. The reception will be held from 5-8pm. Additional work my Maxey can be found at the Easthampton City Arts Gallery.

All the Trappings 6/19/2010



No, you feather your nest.


Can I put your ice in my mouth and roll it around.

I could eat french fries and paint my toenails and talk trash until the cows come home.

I did not hear about that, I have been right here all day.

This would look so good on you right now.


Here are images of the process and finished piece (maybe not the best photos but they will do for today).