dream sequence

The Art Department presented | 3 DREAMS featuring the art of Nina Bednarski, Craig Grabhorn and Rebecca Peebles. Thanks to everyone who came to see our work. Thank you to Just Coffee for donating the coffee for our screen-printing and show today (Saturday). Amazing coffee may have been the only thing keeping me rolling after Friday night's reception and big turnout.
Too engaged on show night to really photograph the action, but here are photos of slower moments. Notice at the end... the mess on the floor and the 2 exhausted blokes on the couch. More photos to come, here and at www.theartdeptsite.com

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a bird haiku

bird song. listening.
wake hearing song and flight. I
lay still as nothing.

easter basket

offering you wishes for the fresh joy that comes with truth.

limelight

aqui: la pajarita nueva con la inspiriacion.

spring into action

action: cycling
spring: now
into: things, such as:

- finishing another felt bird for 3 DREAMS art show in 8 days
- selling art on the fly at Lazy Jane's (last year's Spring Speak)
- putting purses from Etsy online store into a real life store: moco market
- cycling
- crocuses coming up in my front garden

Anyone for spring cleaning?

for the birds

I'm not exactly sure what I want to say with this post. I think I can explain and frankly, think through what I've been calling these felted birds: Alter(super)ego.
Each one is then numbered for the sake of recognizing the series. Pictured: Alter(super)ego I, III, and IV. I think most of us understand that the alter ego is "a person's secondary or alternative personality." So, I'm inserting (super) as I recognize the alter superego in myself. Superego is defined as the part of one's mind that acts as a self-critical conscience defined by society, teachers, parents, etc. I think my superego debilitates my artistic drive sometimes. I think I've put off, quit, thought better of, and scoffed my own creative ideas at times - simply because they weren't "logical, productive, fiscally responsible, efficient, or useful." In quotation you read the voice of my own self-critical conscience.

I was required to read "Art and Fear" my freshman year of college as an art student. I can't remember who wrote it nor most of its points beside this (in keeping with the Nike swoosh): Just do it. The self-critical conscience might be a hefty phrase for fear. My vocation as an artist asks me to stand up to my fear.

I see that I am standing up, however peaceful in my stance, to my fear. My processes and themes of art making are progressively more aligned with what I intuit as right for me to use creatively. I am producing art at a pace with which I resonate. Further, I don't really feel like I have to "stand up for myself" anymore. More accurately, I think I need to keep working.

These felt birds represent the "alter" of the superego in that they are not about saving time nor money and they are not conventionally useful. The time spent in slowly felting the fiber using a single barbed needle is more in line with meditation. Meditation, daily meditation, daily hours of meditation... allowance for this method and others like it (in my other works) is not a part of our culture's work ethic. Certainly there is a sub-culture of "slow food, slow movement, slow (whatever, just relax and notice this world), but it's only just begun. It looks like I've jumped on that train of reaction against GO GO GO. I still work from the time I get up until the time I go to sleep, but it's certainly with a healthy dose of "I don't have to if I don't want to."

My self-critical conscience is telling me that I sound like a rebellious youth. I think I'll go sleep on it.

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dos mas.