the zoo

My best friend Miranda and I have a new obsession with video making. So of course we had to document our trip to the zoo. 6 bucks for an afternoon of entertainment, totally worth it!

who spiked the bug spray?

Print done for the University of Wisconsin-Madison print exchange with the theme "Sweet Tooth." I drew inspiration from an incident in my childhood where I licked bug spray off my arm because it smelled like Fruit Loops and my uncle preceded to tell me, not that it was poison, but that I would turn into a fly. And I most definitely believed him.

The print is litho and silkscreen and was done on smoked paper.

roof over your head

this sentence will ruin your life

in case of emergency, smile

Self-portrait print done for a print exchange at Art House Co-op with the theme of "Danger."

the earth is flat

This image is a varied edition. The detail on the globe was pain-stakingly cut from flimsy old Life magazines. As terrible as the cutting process was, and trust me it was terrible, every tiny change in movement with the xacto knife made the paper want to shred, the worst part was adhering the collage pieces down. Spray adhesive + sticky fingers + impossibly tiny and intricate collage pieces = a big fat mess. But somehow, through many curses, prayers and pleads, I got it to work.

crazy in the coconut

I recently found some Life magazines from the 50s and 60s saved by my great grandmother and stashed in our garage after her passing. I swiped them of course and have been re-purposing them into collages. The images in these things can be extremely disturbing. The girl in this collage was from an article about mentally handicapped kids that were being given negative reinforcement in the form of yelling, slapping, etc. whenever they were "bad" and given positive reinforcement when they had "acceptable" behavior. This particular girl was on a floor that administered an electrical jolt whenever she misbehaved. Crazy stuff.

senior show

Got an exhibition at Hub-bub in Spartanburg, SC. It's a great space and I'm excited to be showing there with two other extremely talented ladies, Miranda Mims Sawyer and Jamie Tanner.

suburban sprawl

this country

"Our power doesn't run on nothing
It runs on blood,
and blood is easy to obtain when you have no shame"

Power Doesn't Run On Nothing, The Thermals

if you work very hard

as the sparrow

"To give life you must take life,
and as our grief falls flat and hollow
upon the billion-blooded sea
I pass upon serious inward-breaking shoals rimmed
with white-legged, white-bellied rotting creatures
lengthily dead and rioting against surrounding scenes.
Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow
did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be
young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh.
I hated you when it would have taken less courage
to love."

As The Sparrow, Charles Bukowski

i don't know who you are

The print that started it all. The girl was borrowed from a vintage book about childcare. The diagram is illustrating the position of the lymph nodes, that or some really gruesome STD. Let's go with the former. This print was a lot of trial and error, I made a lot of stupid mistakes that resulted in making the print take longer than it should've/could've, but overall I'm happy with the outcome.