New project: handmade handmaid

In an attempt to find some self care practice in stressful times, I’ve turned to a new craft I’ve learned recently which requires a sharp object and repeated stabbings. Needlefelting. And binge watching The Handmaid’s Tale. I’ve upped my game from Totoro. I’m now beginning to make handmade handmaids and…

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New skill: felting

Today I agreed to gallery sit. It was also the same day as the workshop for making a felted Totoro. It was taught by 11 year old Kiyomi. Here are the ones she made for examples. I made one and a friend made one too.

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Excavation #11

This is my grandfather. He was a misunderstood person. My mother didn’t have a lot of good things to say about him. She said everyone knew that he didn’t earn much money. He wrote pamphlets on “theosophy”. My grandmother was the primary supporter for the family of 7, becoming a…

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Arduino class #4 5/15/2018

I  made it to the 4th class. Today we built a freaking robot! It goes forward until it senses something close, then it goes backwards and turns around! I made mine quite messy and unrefined, but it works. The wheels are just glued onto a piece of foamboard, but it…

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Installation completed 5/5/18

I always underestimate how long it takes to install art. I think 4 hrs is enough, but actually more like 8. Part of it is because I am particular. Part of it is because each place I exhibit, the situation is different; the layout is different, the parameters are different,…

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Organizing an art show

I volunteered for the second time to help out with the organizing of an art show with over 20 people. It has been a challenge to try to get people who’ve agreed to show their work to turn in their biography, statements, and headshots and images for the show in…

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Arduino class #2

I am taking an arduino class at the Crucible in Oakland. I often feel really stupid in these classes because I am such a slow learner.  Everyone in that class are just really young and they get the concepts much faster than me. I feel like I slow down the class, and sometimes I worry that I am an imposition. Still… whatever! I paid for the high class fees, I get to be in the class, and there was no prerequisite to the class. Anyway, here are two short videos of my experiments.

Speaking of experiments, I’m going to be in art show! Exciting, no?

And I re-worked my biography and my artist statement for the diorama collection, Experiment D09-D15 from 2009-2015 (oh how clever am I?). It only took me 3 years from the last time I looked at this statement, but whatever! Better late than never! Now in rawer, honest form. I’m happy about it. Check it out!

Shadow box project update

If there is anything I’m ever good at, it’s persistence:  the commitment of making the same mistakes over and over. Maybe if I do it enough I’ll learn someday. Sometimes I do it even knowing there is a better way of doing it. Stop using recycled wood, for one. This…

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