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Hey! I'm part of a group show in Sebastopol! Very excited about this. Come find three of my pieces among many other talented folks. Kitty Hawk is a new gallery run by a fabulous brother-sister duo. My pieces are all printed work using letterpress, linocut and screenprinting. Come check it OUT!
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Last night Lukas and I hosted people for a crafty Open Envelope love letter writing party in our very fresh craft space we are setting up. It was a beautiful sight to behold: 2 people on typewriters, lots of cut paper collaging and poems made of found words. Lukas even worked on his incredible sweatshirt that once was a plain tattered grey college hoodie and now it is becoming a gallery for his screenprint designs and sewing experiments. I'll share a picture in the next phase of completion. Here are two collages I glued and then sewed on the sewing machine last night. I didn't want to stop!!! More to come. You are invited to express your love on paper through words and whatever else wants to happen. Haley and I have been offering this OPEN ENVELOPE Project for over two years now.
Here's a Dr.Suess-esque story poem about it that I just wrote! Once upon the Hwy 5, We stopped along our sunny drive. We sat and talked and suddenly, a thought occurred from underneath. We'll do it! We chorused, We'll start right now! Love will flow from town to town! With writing tools and language play Joy will spread the old-fashioned way! A thought was that, Which came to be, Something beyond just you or me. Letters sent from him to her From way up here to over there. And so a movement has begun To write some words and have some fun. We make a space and then we see What magic can be set free. Just bring your addresses, We got the stamps, So you can write to dear old Gramps. And he'll receive your words so dear And Love will surely end all fear. I have just passed my one year mark for art modeling!! Art modeling is simply modeling for artists. I've mostly modeled for figure drawing groups, getting to use my body as inspiration for art creation. This feels good because, as an artist, I know how invaluable it is to have a figure to draw from. I just did my first series of sessions with an artist who is now creating a painting with me as the figure. I'm really looking forward to seeing how it turns out and will share it here! His name is Sergio Lopez, check him out! Here are a few images from modeling I did last week: This is a private painting class where I literally sit still in a comfy chair for 20 minutes at a time for three hours! I've modeled for this teacher numerous times and sometimes it is so very challenging, and other times it goes by quite quickly. It can be really meditative, and I can get in a zone where the minutes slip by and there's a peace of mind. Or sometimes I just let my mind wander and end up thinking through all kinds of little life problems, or thinking fondly of friends I miss, or what I'm going to cook for dinner. In the end, the artists are so appreciative, it makes me feel great to do this work. On the days I model nude (which is most of the time), I feel so grateful to have work where I get to be so free and comfortable with my body! Don't be misled though, it's actually quite physically challenging. I hold quick gesture poses for 1 minute (think action poses, lots of twists and active muscles), working my way up to 20 minute poses that are much more passive. Think about not moving an inch for 20 minutes! I keep my eyes fixed in one small vantage point. Moving my eyes changes my face, and you never know what the people behind the easels are drawing. Here's an example of a 30 minute drawing that was done of my hands on Monday. I had no idea anyone was focused on my hands, but if I'm doing my job well, it won't matter and I'm keeping all of myself still. By George Dawnay: I'm excited to do more art modeling, especially opportunities to work directly with artists on realizing a vision they have, or even the possibility of collaborating on what the final piece becomes. I feel fortunate to get to do this work; I'm so grateful for the chance to do something out of the box, that challenges my mind and body, and pays well to boot! Send those figural artists my way!!
I've now said goodbye to Damanhur a few long days ago. I felt so much love leaving Dendera, the nucleo I lived in for two weeks, and that gave me a lot of closure. Lukas and I got big hugs and kisses from everyone there. For the week before I left, I worked on a project I have yet to tell you about. Zigola, an enthusiastic artist of Dendera, invited me to work on a project that Qualia and her were spearheading to paint a caravan (or trailer) with plants and animals that people of Dendera are named after! They lobbied for me to be able to use this as part of my work-trade with them and I painted pretty much every day for a week, a few hours or more a day when it was raining (which it often was). I am so grateful they put their trust in me to work on such a project. For them, it was a significant trailer because Falco, their leader who passed away last year, used to travel around with this trailer on the journeys that are part of Damanhur culture to go out into the world and discover new things to bring back to the community. For me, it was an opportunity to paint something bigger than I had ever painted, and to continuously work on a painting for longer than I ever had before. As I am developing my ability to have longer-sustained energy toward my endeavors and to leap into my creative power, this was perfect! Here are some photos of what it turned out looking like. |
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