Secret Garden

Today I worked on this piece for a show my friends Tuesday and Pete are curating at Light Grey Art Lab in Minneapolis on the theme Garden of Earthly Delights. I decided that since it's for a gallery show I really wanted to try and do something that was all made by hand, and wasn't just a print of something I finished by scanning and editing in Photoshop. It was actually kind of hard, since all of my finals now, before they are printed, are just digital files. I think I like it though! The unscanned version is really nice because the figures and plants aren't glued down all the way so they pop out like a diorama.

1 collage by mom featuring Micachu and the Shapes. thanks mom.
2 youth, YES

Hey what's up just hangin out with my new best friend Puss in apartment 15 AKA STUDIO 15.

What did we do today, well we got Puss dressed up to go out in the snow

and then we cut all of Yoon's hair off and scanned it.

Yoon and I were very satisfied with our success at being conceptual artists and Puss was just happy being a kitty cat so we all made dinner and went back to our illustration/communication design/sitting on my shelf (me/Yoon/Puss).

Happy Valentine's Day!

My favorite girls live in San Francisco.

Photos of Delaney, Kendall, and Muriel, collaged by Muriel. Cat painting by I'm not sure who, probably Delaney (educated guess!).

There is something exciting about all of these for me because they are not overly labored or thought-out. They're not created by anyone who's in art school and is drilled on compositions and color harmonies. Maybe it's the appeal of the "naive" they all liked so much with Rousseau and them, but I feel like my girls (yes they're mine, all my little sisters) are effortlessly creating what others, myself included, work hard at. I'm certainly more dexterous with an exacto knife, but doesn't it seems so labored in comparison?

Yes and no. I'm not sure or I don't know. But I do know Taylor and I were sitting here tonight looking at these pictures like shit, we wish we were that cool.