steamroller event 2001

my instructor and i are pulling a print on fabric from my block

in the works

in an earlier post, i put a photo of some grackles bathing on town lake, here in austin. i've decided to create a large woodcut based on this image. both this photo and the one above show this block in different stages. the top photo shows the reversed image painted in black on a piece of plywood that has been stained grey. this bottom one shows a portion of the cutting, where the cut areas show up as lighter. in this way, i can tell what i've done and what i have left to do. next weekend, this block will be printed at the University of Texas using a steamroller. that's right, a steamroller! hej, if you're in town and would like to check it out, 11-3 this saturday, march 5th, at the back end of the fine art building (behind sculpture, metals, and ceramics).

the walk out from twin falls - barton creek

although it is only the end of february, spring is officially here. how do i know? it's the parade of blooming plants in this order: irises, daffodils/paperwhites, wild onion, tradescantias, mountain laurels, redbuds, carolina jessamine and lady banks roses. if i looked hard, i would have also found the tulip magnolias and quinces, but i don't live in hyde park anymore, where those old austin plants are planted away in corners. since the frost free date for this part of central texas is still a few weeks off, the most killing freezes are still in the time frame to come. because i am lazy and don't want to cover my plants, i wish for more swarmishly humid conditions.

my succulent garden

the west-facing suits them

this is exhausting

patience is not what it used to be for me. i can't plow through learning about something so steady-like or go slow and learn a bit at a time. more the over-stimulation and closing in of time. surely so much coffee can not help. so many projects happening at the same time, management, planning. ... . . something concrete? i found a puddle of broken car window in a parking lot, gathered up the squarish blue bits on the way home, and put them around some of my plants out the front door. glamourous, really.

portion of steamroller print - 2002

today was a heady and slogged out full of ideas festival of sensory overload. i definitely got in over my head on trying to do more than the most basic things with ye olde blog as it is. maybe i need to spend more time with anyone who has a modicum of a clue on this subject. it was balmy and i made the mistake of wearing long pants on a long bike ride through west campus (where i have not ventured for a long time). riding time - 35 minutes one way on varied sidewalks. maybe i schlep too much crap around or i'm really primed for a workout. arrrgh.

saw a real tear-jerker yesteday called japanese story -http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/j/japanese-story.shtml
the first half of the film was scenic but had no apparent direction and the acting seemed rather stiff and pointless - too many important details missing in a fledgling relationship gestating in the iron and white australian outback. then WHAM, major lachrymose plot shift and the same song in slightly different versions over and over.

memo to self - candy coat html and learn the smallest bit, o.k.?

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fresh off the floor

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these five paintings were done using craft acrylic paints that were given to me. they are painted on coarse burlap and are 11" x 12" each. this first one was painted so recently that the brownish paint is just dry enough to not slide down the surface.

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