Wednesday, September 9, 2009
This past weekend, we made a quick jaunt to San Antonio to see Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey at the McNay Museum. It was truly everything I could have wished for and more- completely worth the trip. I was practically weeping over his grocery lists (TV Guide, cat food, cat litter) and hand-stitched [...]
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
So, remember when I went to Chicago? I’m just now finding a minute to write about all that, so forgive the vast rewind- as per usual, I create my own time-space continuum and all that. I find myself in a hulking city packed with bodies and marvel as I let myself be buffeted like a [...]
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Is it really Thursday again, already? Whew! Crazy-times. (Oops, it’s Friday now! Hah.) So hard not to be a totally nocturnal marsupial these days! ♡ The other night I had insomnia and stayed up way too late reading Lil Wayne interviews and developing a big crush. Oh Weezy. Here’s a treat, if by chance you’re [...]
I remember a few years ago, in New Orleans, I bought a carton of strawberries at the Farmer’s Market. I had become somewhat ambivalent about them over the years, having eaten far too many over-inflated, pale and watery mutants with no flavor to speak of. They left me disappointed and thinking that strawberries weren’t really [...]
Happy Midsummer’s Eve, Summer Solstice, and Father’s Day my dearies- I hope this weekend has found you blissfully enjoying the land and the water, and hopefully a big bonfire to jump over! I know that I am very blessed to have such an amazing father and grandfather. We have such a strong bond, built on [...]
Today is the birthday of two of my dear friend, and favorite fancy ladies: Christy Kane and Dame Darcy! Not only do they share a birthday, but also a predilection for making beautiful and bizarre dolls, dark victoriana, and all manner of tattered frippery! Both are amazing artists and musicians, and if you are not [...]
A belated May day wish is better than none- I wished so much today to be dancing around a Maypole, garlanded in roses and festooned with flowers! Perhaps tomorrow? I wouldn’t mind swinging in the forest in frills and very high heels, neither. Or to be crowned the Queen of May, just for a month [...]
Ahem! I will now turn back the calendar pages to February and continue revisiting my marvelous Mardi Gras visit.. Bear with me, faithful readers- it make take several installments, but I promise it will be worth the wait in juiciness and flavor.. These tales take time to ripen, and also- well, the present always has [...]
I had a late night earlier this week, stayed up painting, pushing it all to the wall in order to have it done by morning. You reach the state of mind, alone in the studio, where time stops. It reverses and starts up again but with phosphor in all the cogs, it turns to jelly. [...]
The Texas Biennial opened this weekend here in Austin, to great fanfare and folderol- very exciting indeed, but most thrilling of all was seeing my sweetheart’s work literally emerge over the last six months from raw elements into an intimidatingly beautiful creature. This is Emergence, Jr. – the maquette Colin created to model the large [...]
