new film

SO I am working on this film for the song believe by the Trans Siberian orchestra. well it is really pulling me into a place that i did not intend to go. My original thoughts for the video would be to piggy back footage of bad thing, with footage of good things. An example would be guards standing at the Berlin wall and Ronald Reagan giving his speech when he asks Gorbachev to tear down the wall. The whole point was to highlight the song, which really speaks about believing in something. Well I believe that we have the power to change things.

So this belief in change got me to thinking of other really horrible things that have happened, that desperately need to be changed. The Earth is falling apart, the people in Haiti need help, there are children in Africa dying from malaria, and right on our own soil there a thousands of children living in poverty and their parents can't afford to feed them everyday.

This tangent that my mind took is really touching a nerve. I am not drawing these pictures of children completely emaciated and on the verge of death. It is making me want to reach out and hold them, comfort them, give them food. It is sad, the state of the world today. Some people have so much and yet share so little of it. it's really quite sad.

So although my intent with this video is the same, I think it will have more of these types of images in it. I hope when it is finished and placed with this beautiful song, that people will listen and try to make little changes in their lives, for the good of the planet and the people in it.

SO I just got an email, I got into the internship program at Funnelbox! So excited! I finally get some much needed on the job experience

NEW SHOW

So I am really excited. Got a new show starting april second at the Food For Thought Gallery. It's got some recent prints in it. The best part is I only have to share space with one other person! That is a a new thing! I am used to being in large group shows, so this is really nice.

This has also been a great learning experience for me because I have had to learn to create work in a really short period of time. I didn't know I was going to be in the show until two months before it started. In that time I was able to create 4 new prints and revamp some older ones to meet some higher standards (that I created for myself because I love to torture myself!!!).

So I hope everyone gets to come and see!

so started a wonderful thing with my boys today. art lessons! it was awesome. they are only three and five but they loved learning about picasso and drawing cubist pictures!

"Short Notice" CLOSING RECEPTION

A juried exhibit, including 2 of my pieces, "Solitude" and "Safety." The show is in the Food for Thought Gallery in the basement of the Smith Memorial Building on the PSU campus. Come Jan 29th for our closing reception. Eat Drink and look at all the cool stuff we made! Hope to see you there!

NEW PROJECT

so i didn't get much work done on my print project last night, but what i did get done was great! Watched The Fountain, and I think I will use it for some much needed inspiration. It goes like this, IT will be a large piece, I am thinking lik 10' wide by 8' tall or so. Pieced together like a puzzle. Each section will tell a piece of the story. So each piece could stand alone, but you don't get the whole story with out it all being together. The story is simple, the lifetime love that gets lost in the end. I know that kind of story has been told, but I think this could be a very innovative way to tell it, using my wormy people of course. what do you think?

Mother & Child

Now that a background for the worm people have been established, I can share their recent transformations.

I first got brave enough to transfer my deepest emotions from drawing to print, in the spring term two years ago. I created a version of one of my mother and child prints. I am very intrigued by the process of creating shades through line, instead of color, but could not abandon it completely.