Color!

Happy Valentine's Day

The obsession continues....

For those of you who actually follow my blog, I uploaded a little tidbit of the shoot I did last weekend. As most of you know, I have been obsessing over Alice in Wonderland for quite some time--so I had a vision of what I wanted this shoot to look like and I feel like it came out just how I wanted it to. I am happy.

Precious

This was my second to last design project for last semester. I posted some of the progress as I got it done. The assignment was to find a body of text that was precious to us in some way. I chose excerpts from my journal and ended up with a piece that deals with my relationships with the men in my life. I love love love the way it turned out---I painted the portrait in the background with acrylic, the heart is made out the clay, I used a real zipper, needles, razor blades etc. The text is screen printed on sheets of liquid latex. It is in a glass case and the tool is a pair of medical skin pickups.

It is an interactive piece in which the viewer has to use the tool in order to work around the skin-like latex.

New addition to the Accidental Death Series

The Original:

Haunted house

So my friend TJ and I went on a shooting adventure since we were both feeling like we hadn't done much art over the Christmas break. We found an old abandoned house and did some exploring- here are some of my photos from the adventure:

End of the Semester...Whew!

So it is finally the end of the semester, actually went by pretty quick. I am hoping to have a good break to work on some long awaited projects and take a breather from forced creativity.
Here is a painting I did that I gave to a friend for Christmas, it is approx. 3 x 3 ft in acrylic.


Carbon Transfer of Alice and Rabbit.
I have a bit of an obsession with Alice in Wonderland right now. I am currently reading the book and getting pretty hyped about the Tim Burton movie coming out soon!!

Batikaholic

Here are some of the many batiks I have made. For those of you who don't know- batik is a process that deals with wax resist on fabric. You first put the wax where you don't want the dye to go- then you dye it, then wax off that color and so on. It is so fun and awesome- this is a Nampa High huge batik I did- took me forever!



Here are some self portraits:

Personal Work

REACH OUT AND TOUCH FAITH
This is a conceptual piece focusing on faith being tangible. I am poking slight fun on religion as well- and the idea of having "your own personal Jesus." Religion has become something else, while faith is so personal. I believe God has a sense of humor, otherwise he wouldn't allow us to make Jesus action figures.




After finding an bird corpse in the grill of my car, I became inspired by both the humor and mortality of the situation. I decided to make the first of a (hopeful) series titled "the accidental death series." I have many more ideas- it is just a matter of time to get them done.



If you haven't figured it out already, I have a little bit of a sick sense of humor... I love things that are ironic about our culture and I get a real kick on playing that up. This one is titled: "Vitamins and Cigarettes" It is about the justification of American culture and how we make excuses for ourselves.