Two recent paintings.
Two different, different couples.
One based on their ability to experience complexity and hold it really well.
The other based on the couple’s sexual union. Yep that’s right. Sexual union.
I took them, the paintings, on the airplane and disrupted a few FAA regulations, causing a hold-up.
I somehow got them to Chicago, safely.
Wahoo.
Tomorrow I will be giving my maid of honor speech. Sweet mother of God. Anytime I begin to think about it, I get the urge, you know the instantaneous pee sensation from nervousness. Even though I’ve been dehydrated for 10 days now (I joke, I kid), I still get The Urge when I think about [...]
If you have 11 minutes, this is truly worth watching and then (if enjoying such a great blues thinker) follow the continuation of the interview.
Well, my final interview with Zee Otha Jernel is tomorrow–momentously I share my submitted Vision Statement in virtual reality…
In 2003, Kiki Smith responded to the Museum of Modern Art with the following statement about her exhibition, “In making work that’s about the BODY, I’m playing with the indestructibility of life, where life is this FEROCIOUS FORCE [...]
I, like many, adore making lists. Lists with fancy handwriting and bullet markings in floral, swively shapes, so when you mark it off it feels like a masterpiece than a bland denotation. Lists that contain mindless and menial actions, but provides ample and gratifying procrastination time. Lists with thorough timelines (for instance, laundry: 2:35-4:09pm), which [...]
This game is one I occasionally obsess over, where my eyes don’t blink for multiple minutes and my trapezius muscles rise above my ears. I looove it at times that I want aimless, yet satisfying meandering, which results in snug logical fits as well as carpal tunnel syndrome. This game is what Jay deems as my [...]
In Waco, while living next door to David Koresh (wink) and frequenting THEE best vintage/thrift stores, I was employed at a Floral Boutique. I fell head over heels, actually head over skis (considering the length and narrow stature of my feet) as I learned the floral lifestyle. The main qualm about this job [...]
Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist
best known for “The Vagina Monologues” wrote the following about her succeeding playwright “The Good Body,”
This play is my prayer, my attempt to analyze the mechanisms of our imprisonment, to break free so that we may spend more time running the world than running away from it; [...]
My good friend Lisa Spagnolo -taken at our apartment -Cinque Ghibellina, Firenze
Kara Walker -Excavated from the Black Heart of a Negress -2002
Sam Taylor Wood -Bound -2007
