very long overdue..

It's been a while eh.. I have been very very busy with life and art. I just hung my show at the Lanesplitter Temescal 48th and Telegraph in Oakland. If anyone is in the area.. please stop by.

The show is called "Road Traveled Heart"

The above picture is a 30 piece that symbolizes my life thus far. The center of the boxes are paper mache hearts and each box is different.

Here are some details

Above is one of my larger pieces in the show. And...

I love the piece above, the birds nest is real!

Well I think that is enough for an entrance back to Blogville.

I wonder

if I'll ever post again?

Recent book:

Look:
The subject of the book is "Gratitude"..
(it's magic.... in here, come on)

oooh

aahhhhh..

wow.

all sewn up and purdy.

Look!! just 0.69

The tree is made out of paper.

wood.

Standing up and looking good.

I didn't include every single page detail.. but you get the idea.

420....duuude.

I don't even smoke pot.. but if I did, this would be the day. I was never into that, I'm just not a very good stoned person. Do the kids even say that these days?

I finally finished my book and it turned out great. The woman that commissioned me to make it was more than pleased and very excited. I documented the whole process and will post pictures soon. I have some crazy conflicts in posting pics. I write many of blogs on my work computer (looking around hoping no one cares), just recently they took away most things that are fun on my computer. Such as.. itunes, any download rights, etc.. I guess they want us to work or something, weird. So I can't just plug my camera into the computer and post pictures. I must use my home computer..... so.....
But I promise I will post them and many, many more pictures.

I'm starting to get prepared to work on my two upcoming shows. I don't know if I wrote about the other one or not.. but one is in August @ Lanesplitter in O-town and the other is @ Premium in O-town during October. In preparation of mass art, I am trying best to find ways to organize my workspace since I literally live in a closet. This weekend I found a very neat cubby hole shelf thingy-mah-bob. I spent part of yesterday re-arranging my work area and it looks great!! I'm very excited to start work.

I guess I should get to work since they took away all the fun.

until then...

oh and if you live in the bay area... drink lots o' water cuz it's supposed to be 85+ degrees today.. and smoke lot's of pot for me.. braaahhh..

blog title here.

All I can say is "hectic".. yes that is how life has been lately.

In the meantime I have been listening to lots of music, playing with scissor and paper, and finding an awesome score at the East Bay ReUse Depot.

I recently bought a new ipod.. have I written about this?? Oh well.. My old abused ipod mini finally broke. I bought the thing used and replaced the battery twice. One warm spring evening I dropped it for it's final time. As upset as I was I knew it was time... :( Luckily for me, a girl at work was selling her ipod touch. Holy hell my world has just changed and I'll never go back.. ever. It's sleak, awesome, and my new best friend. I especially like that I can listen to Pandora all day while working. aaahhh.... sweet drug... music.

anyway..

I went to the "reuse" yesterday and made a huge score. They had a box of activity sets for kids, they were little wood building kits that only required a hammer. There was one that was a house and another that was a sleigh, that's cute and all but what caught my eye was the picture frame kits. They aren't the regular picture frame but they are deep, what I mean by that is that the picture would go deep into the frame. This may be hard to visualize so let me explain. Once built they look like 4x6 shadow box frames... see where I'm going with this now? I bought all 30 of them at .40 each.

Speaking of art.. yesterday I spent the day working diligently on the book I am commissioned to make. The due date is this upcoming Sunday, Easter. I'm feeling pretty confident about it and feel that I will get it done. I don't have any pictures yet, but will post some pictures soon of many things. I think this is the beginning of me diving right back into the swing of things.

Also wanted to mention that my upcoming show has been pushed to October instead of September. I'm okay with this, October and Halloween are pretty much my favorite time. Oh and my art is sorta creepy so it fits.

See this guy below.. yeah the dog. That's my dog and his name is Dean and it's his birthday today!

Dean is 4 today! Happy Birthday little guy.

The only other thing I have right now is this.... Casey Fay. Anyone know him?? I do and he had a very successful art show this last month. His work is fun and cute! I want to share his website because I think it's done vert well and is super interactive. Have fun playing and learning about the wonderful world of cephalopods and other cute creatures here.

Yay for Oakland Artists!

deadlines.

I have been so busy doing nothing.. it's been great. That's not entirely true you know. I have a deadline coming up and need to press on and finish the book I was commissioned to make. April 10th is my due date, it must be done.

I absolutely need deadlines or I just spend time starring at the wall and not doing things. It's hard to get motivated and keep inspired. My next show will be a good deadline and push for my art.. but until then I should try and be a little regimented and methodical about working.

The other Lanesplitter might be graced by a show by me as well.. Probably at the end of the year as well. Very exciting.

I have been working on trying to get my portfolio put together and get my website up. It's been difficult hooking up w/ my bud LD (little Daniel), we are just too busy. I want my website to look like his website called "Terra Nullius Photography". Yes!! L.D. is a great photographer and documented my show. I hope that we can find some time to sit down and weed out good pics and bad pics etc. I will keep you posted on the progress.... but while you are waiting you can also check out L.D.'s flickr and get a feel for life in the bay area!!!

More to come..

quick update on my sleeply busy life.

It's true.. I have been a bit MIA lately. Life has really been getting in the way these days. Work and school are taking its toll on me and I'm playing a game of catch up.

Last weekend I took down my show, sadness. In a way I was a bit relieved to hide myself away again for a bit. I am eager to finish up my commissions and get started on my new series.. but again am finding it hard to juggle everything. How did I do it before?? was it speed or hysteria? I don't know?

Next week I plan on not making many social plans and really locking myself away in my place to drown in my creativity.

I suppose I should get back to work since the man is always watching... bummer.