new year, new semester, new art!

oh GOD i can't wait to get started again. i came back to sarasota with a million ideas and they just keep growing and growing. i'm going to be making a bunch of new plaques with little cindy sayings on them. i've already made one about elitist whores. the next one will probably be about my hypochondria and anxiety. i love them. the first one turned out so amazing and i think the whole idea is just crazy funny.

most of the work i'm doing/thinking about makes me laugh while i'm thinking about it, while i'm working on it and while i'm talking about it. i've never felt so in touch with my work. i've always felt that my work only exposed one small aspect of my being, but these things i'm making right now are like the essence of me. not that that makes any sense but whatever. i get it.

this girl has a mission

today is a day of travel! this next week and a half are going to be spent smoking with the fam, learning to knit with garbage and playing in the snow. oh SNOW! how i've missed you! you don't happen in florida and it makes me sad.

my christmas gift this year is an ultrasound of my abdomen to find out what's wrong with me! yay! i'm sure it could be much worse though. i could get a baseball for christmas... or a gift card to some sort of math based something. not that i don't like math... i just don't want to do it when i don't have to. unless i'm bored and my grandaddy is showing me how to find the square route of i. that's right. we do those kinds of things for FUN.

christmas brings out the crazy in families. mine is already crazy.

there's something about animated propoganda that i just love!

20s gangster voice (that i learned from bugs bunny)

so i'm gonna take this tape, see? and i'm gonna cut out some words on a piece of paper, see? then i'm gonna put the piece of paper with the cut out letters on the tape and i'm gonna rub 'em together real good, see? and i'm gonna spread it on the floor, see? and then i'm gonna peel it up, see? and THEN i'm gonna RIP that tape off and entomb it forever in a block or RESIN, SEE!? SEE!?

/20s gangster voice (that i learned from bugs bunny)

today is a day

studio visit with shawn petterson today! gonna be fun AND educational. super!

evolution of ideas

so right now i'm working on some drawers. i have three, but i only have solid ideas for two. the first is going to have a folded outfit encased in resin. the second drawer is going to have an outfit that has been totally shredded. the third one might have a pair of shoes in it.. but i think the shoes are going to be a different piece. i'm just not sure what to do with the third drawer. i might fill it with cloth strips covered in wax. the point is to render these clothes/outfits completely unwearable, no matter what size i am, these clothes will never be wearable. once i get this rolling i think it's going to be a crazy strong piece. the only problem is that i don't have enough resin! i really hate having to ask my mother for money, but i don't have a job or a car so going out and making money before next thursday just isn't going to work.

today i'm going to start painting the drawers so that they can dry today and i can start filling them with things tomorrow! this weekend is going to be about getting things done, finishing things up and getting ready for thursday's thesis crit. i just hope that i can work around this whole money issue. telling your thesis teacher, senior year, that you can't make work because you don't have the money might be TRUE, but it's not going to save my ass.