Oddments

While cleaning my apartment I found some things I never posted, so here they are:

my first cameo

 Olympic Pajamas

 Nude silhouette 

Fun fact: this one was an early version of Chubby Grim Reaper
which none of you have seen because she was a going away
present for Michelle, just imagine this figure in black
with a scythe in her raised hand and a skull at her feet

Return of the Construction Paper Lady

It's the ladies of summer:

Short Strides - Long Strides

Hot Sand!

Marriage of Equals

Big Words

Last month I wrote and read a monologue as part of Big Words (I forgot to post it until today):
http://big-words-etc.tumblr.com/
Follow the link and see a god awful picture of me and read an excerpt of my monologue, Plus less bad pictures of and monologues by other people.

Gift Wrapping (never buy it)

Late Father's Day/slightly less late birthday present for my dad.

I decorated this 9" x 12" envelope (the quarter is for scale) in reference to A Letter to Amy by Ezra Jack Keats which my dad read to me about a thousand times when I was little.

** I DID NOT MAKE THIS IT IS A REFERENCE PICTURE **

You can see the letter and the dog who I put on the stamp in the hopes that my dad will get the reference (he won't but he'll love it when I explain it to him)

Shape Collages

Dana subscribes to Shape Magazine and sometimes I hack it up and make terrifying chimeras. 

These are they. (The previous sentence is a Venture Brothers Reference)

Altar update... again.

1. Wine box from France

2. blank CD

3. white taper candle, from the drawer in the kitchen

4. tiny trunk from the Tibetan store on Bedford. Containing:

a. white glove from Dana's grandparents (right)

b. balls of black and white yarn from old projects

c. tiny skeleton dog from Mexico

5. Night Circus inspired art. Made of:

a. olive jar

b. rocks from fish tank

c. black and white papers

d. scrap of black fabric

6. white glove from Dana's grandparents (left)

7. Crow chocolate box from Boston

8. matchbox from the previous tenants

9. lava rocks from Iceland

10. tiny mortar and pestle

11. dried rose petals

12. international coins.

Return of the bead loom

This is the last of the Met store posts because I left that job three weeks ago. 

For a while the Empire State Building, masquerade masks and this Coke bottle shaped woman kept popping up in my work

One day I was working on it and a customer informed me that "her hips don't lie".

Sir Metropolitan

More of my art at the Met store. It's a dragon.

Fashion Design Kit

I made these at the Met store. It's a kit, and it's pretty good, despite the resemblance to Bratz Dolls.

Altar update... again

So I just had two play readings, and now they're over, and I don't exactly know what's next, and that's called 'the end of a cycle'. So, here's the new version of my altar. It's very green. I should probably look up what that means.

Elements (top to bottom, left to right):

1. Wine box, gift from my mom, brought back from France.

2. Upside down drying pink rose, gift from Jannifer for my play reading Tuesday 2/21.

3. Tiny trunk, gift from Dana from Tibetan shop on Bedford. Full of spare change and fabric scraps.

4. Edward Gorey's Fantod deck (a nonsense oracle deck published in Esquire Magazine in the sixties and reissued in 1995 and again in 2007), gift from Amanda.

5. Handmade crow box from chocolate shop in Boston, gift from Barbara M.

6. Multi strand button necklace, gift from my mom, bought in Spain.

7. Lava rocks, gift from Danam brought back from Iceland.

8. Matchbook, left by previous tenants.

9. Ruffle foot for sewing machine, bought in garment district New York, NY.

10. Earthenware tile with abstract flower, made in college at pottery studio in Port Chester NY.

11. Candle stub, bought in Lennox MA

12. Fantod cards: The Tunnel, The Child, The Bottle

13. Square of green silk brocade, bought off ebay in high school, mailed from Antioch, CA.

14. Black and white striped cotton shirting, left over from unfinished dress, bought in garment district New York, NY.

Funny Valentine

The day before Valentines day Katherine was lamenting (whining about) the fact that she had not yet received anything from her boyfriend (he's in the UK, which is an ocean away and has frequent mail strikes). Anyway I made her this:

The Art of Self Promotion

After a long absence from the blog I'm posting. I'm putting up images you've already seen: the images from my TWO February theater projects (when it rains I over commit).

This is the flyer for my full-length play.

It went so well I was so proud.

The flyer for my writer's group [subject to change]'s group reading.