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Some things I am thinking about:





Here are some stills from a new video series I am working on.

UPDATE!

New!

New residence:


New art community:

THE DIRT PALACE!

New employment:

assisting:

www.meganandmurraymcmillan.com

educating: Eastern

New(ish) exhibition:
DOUBLE TIME: ECSU Faculty Exhibition 2011

New stuff to like:
Nick Dong


Headmaster



Ugh, I'm all new-ed out. Time for a beer!

I didn't say this..

"In fact, if success requires so much effort, then maybe failure is easier in the long run and offers different rewards. What kinds of rewards can failure offer us? Failure, perhaps most obviously, allows us to escape the punishing norms that discipline behavior and manage human development with the goal of delivering us from unruly childhoods to orderly and predictable adulthoods. Failure preserves some of the wondrous anarchy of childhood and disturbs the supposedly clean boundaries between adults and children, winners and losers, and while failure certainly comes accompanied by a whole host of negative affects such as disappointment, disillusionment and despair it also provides the opportunity to use these negative affects to poke holes in the toxic positivity of contemporary life."

Like (round 2)

Tom:


Cadence:

NEWest!

Sydney VanBESTen pimped my website. Thanks Syd.

ALSO! Remember kids being an art student means you get to make art when the other kids are taking FINALS! Take that sweet unassuming undergrads who tolerate me auditing a class they pay for!



INSIDE OUT: An investigation of gender identities through interpersonal relationships, assumed social structures and constructed spaces.
March 17 – 24, 2011
Opening Reception March 17th, 6-8pm at the VARC
UConn Depot Campus, 95 Ahern Lane, Storrs, CT
Featuring works by: Lani Asuncion - Rita Lombardi - Alyssa Matthews - John O’Donnell - Rebecca Parker - Heather Shebeck - Dave Sinaguglia - J.R. Uretsky


This exhibition will open in conjunction with the UConn MFA open studios and should be a blast. Join us MFAer’s on March 17th for a night of art, food, and fun!

It Grew Back Gray

I have always made abstract sculptures that were about my relationship to specific people. Each sculpture is a window into how I experience an individual. I am never really sure whom the window is for, the person the sculpture is about or me. This sort of self-satisfying engagement with others reminds me of prayer. I used to pray from my friends and family. Prayer was a comforting verbal expression to God, of my gratitude for the people around me. The exchange with God left but the exercise never did. Perhaps that is why these tiny constructions come so naturally to me. I make them because they focus my concentration on someone else for a change and that brings me joy (and relief). I like celebrating the people I love and now I am without a listener. If I have learned anything from my two years in the woods at UConn, it is that sculpture is my language. So these are still prayers, I have just exchanged one language for another.

For John:

For Dan:

Before I believed that Jen would die, she told me about her hair. She showed me pictures of what it was before and I remember thinking it was sort of big. The pictures showed a thirty-something Jen with yellow hair that made me search my mouth for hops.

Jen, in her forties now, told me that the first time cancer took her hair she thought her sex life was ruined. She laughed, sipped her tea, and shifted to tell me a secret. Jen told me that when the cancer took her hair it struck her like a bell and her whole body sang out in protest when her hair grew back gray.

For Lani:

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current obsessions...


Scout.


Cabbage.



Elżbieta Jabłońska.