Burnout Paradise

See my thoughts on the CAA conference.

In February.

I'm going. Nerdvous.

Outsourcing is the new future of art making

Or maybe the future is now.

Anyway, I'm really excited about this idea I've been playing with for a while, and I've come up with a personal term for it, consumer art. Generally I like to take objects, mostly consumer goods, that have inherent meaning and combine them in a way that creates tension. Or even doing a series of actions, like purchases and documenting them in a way that defines them to me as performance. I also like reveling in the mundane, exposing the cheesy and embarrassing nature of mass marketed items and the idea that these things make your life bettter. Whatever. I am extremely inarticulate when it comes to putting these things in writing so.. I'll just clue you in on the new project.

So my senior year book page is one of those things I haven't looked at in years, for the sheer thought of it makes me cringe. It's like this horrible snapshot of my life that I really rather forget and somehow I can't get rid of it. Almost 1000 people I know for sure have copies of it and have flipped to my page and felt sorry for me for being such a retard lame ass. This historical record of how pathetic I was at that time will probably survive me.

Ok, so I'm being harsh but I'm accepting it now. I'm spending time with it and a whole slew of memories related to it. Even better, I sent a scanned image of it to get painted in China, at a monumental 72" x 48"!!! Here's the proof they sent me early this morning. I could not be more pleased.

My husband is really cool

I'm serious. The coolest. Ever.

I'm all about my family right now, and I don't care that I'm talking about them on my blog. It is ok to be proud. I think they are a huge part of what I do, or what I haven't done lately.

Gene's awesome accomplishments also remind me that I need to get to work. I've been busy being a new mom, even though I call it lazy and feel guilty about not making stuff lately. But now, I've got an awesome studio in my attic and I plan on tackling it asap. I just need to drink coffee every morning for sure.

So far - best work I've ever made

Royal Emery Morgan.

ok, I had some help.

sorry for the horribly cheesy title too.

TESTTHEMIC

So I've started working on some sounds pieces. This is one of them. I think it is funny.

drawings posted on flickr

So people ask me a lot, what are you working on? And a lot of times I don't know and most of the time it's ideas for videos or performances or installations that I randomly write down, and then think more about and then come back to. BUT I am always working on a few of these beauties. They're on flickr.