Small Spaces Preparation

Hirona and I put up our work today at the gallery. The show is up and ready to go for Sat. My work is in the frames and the last image is a shot I took of Hirona photographing her own work. The first five images are my miniatures I'll be selling in addition to my framed stuff. I'm pretty excited. It looks really nice in the space. The City Paper also a did a lovely article about us for this week's issue. Check it out.

Small Spaces

Here's the poster I designed for a show I'm having with the talented Hirona Matsuda next month. Check out her work and mine at Greenway Studio, Nov 26!

Juliette is the prettiest girl in the world

A new piece for a show I'm taking part in next month called, Small Spaces with Hirona Matsuda. More info for that show later once I finish the design for the postcard.

A box.

Here are some shots of something new I'm playing with. For my show in Nov I'm creating box miniatures. I recovered a jewelery box with a vintage book cover that I stripped and relined the inside with a vintage handkerchief. I'm still playing around with the objects that will go inside the box. I love it though. I've been carrying around the box in my purse and taking it out once in while to look at it. I plan on creating a whole series of these and hopefully I'll be able to sell them online...another thing I'm thinking about doing. But more on that a different time. Each box will be unique and house various found objects, insects and tiny versions of my photographs. I'm so excited about it.

Inspiration

Some lovely inspiration from around the web. I can't get these images out of my head.

1, 2, 3, 4

finished pieces

Here are my pieces I did for the Unearthed show at Rick Rhodes. Check 'em out!

You can also see them here and here.

a preview

Here is a new piece I've been working on for an exhibition in Oct. Sending out photos and a bio for cards and advertisements today. Pretty exciting and a little scary. Mostly exciting, though.

etsy love: the black spot books

(polaroid transfers by the black spot books via my sister)

Farmtastic

I'm sorry I've been neglecting my blog lately. I've sort of become a little overwhelmed with all the fantastic blogs out there which has made me somewhat insecure about my blog, if that makes sense. And also I've been really busy lately. I just started working on a local organic farm and its been wiping me out all the time. It's a lot of physical work and the heat, oh god the heat! But I really enjoy doing it. Today I helped pick poll beans and eggplant. I got to see the new baby ducks that have just started wandering around the farm and soon we'll be picking cherry tomatoes. I can't wait cause when we do it we can eat them as we work! The best part of the job is all the free food I get to take with me. Summer squash, eggplant, arugula, basil, cucumbers...

Here are some other things that are happening:
-Looking into getting a DSLR, finally
-My own garden is doing so well! Planted leeks, fennel, more arugula, parsley, oregano, Thai basil and others
-Getting a little antsy about some new artwork I want to start, which is a good feeling
-Learning so much from the farm it's awesome, like pattypan?
-Going to try to make my own ginger ale and mozzarella cheese soon, I'll let you know how it goes

Marlene Marino for Urban Outfitters

I'm not really a big Urban Outfitters fan. I mean, I own a few things from Urban but I find most their clothes to be over priced and their stores really obnoxious. There is something about their Early Spring 2010 catalog that I do like though. The photographs taken in Japan by Marlene Marino are just stunning. They have this very gritty and nostalgic feel to them that appeals to me. Plus they're taken in Japan. I want to go back there so bad...

Raymond Meeks: Topsoil

(more here)

Solitude of Ravens: Masahisa Fukase

(images from here)

Amy Stein: Domesticated

"Within my work I examine the primal issues of comfort and fear, dependence and determination, submission and dominance that play out in the physical and psychological encounters between man and the natural world. Increasingly, these encounters take place within the artificial ecotones we have constructed that act as both passage and barrier between domestic space and the wild." -Amy Stein