all I want are four walls

Things I'm influenced by:

honesty.

You Mouth the Words by Heather Willems

the mundane.

from Target

the quiet.

Central Park by Scott Schultheis

the invisible.

me by me

and those things that happen when nothing is happening.

from Wormbook Ch 13

maybe it's because my life is radically changing in the next few months
maybe I'm just buying into "the knot, the nest, the bump" consumer culture
maybe I'm growing up
or maybe they're just a part of me.

I'm just not sure yet... but I'm fixated and obsessed and I'm working on it and through it.

that'll be the day you get back home

Although it'll be at least a decade before we'll have enough spending money to afford a six hundred dollar art book, Janfamily: Plans for Other Days looks amazing!

A how-to book on creating art in everyday situations, especially focusing on connections between people. Although I don't necessarily agree with it as a how to book, I love the photos. Honestly, I think this is funny.

a mind that knows itself is a mind that knows much more

I've been looking at these glitter (yes, glitter) paintings by Jamie Vasta for a few weeks and I still don't know how I feel about them.

Judith

Stepsister

Made of glitter on wood boards she recreates Caravaggio and Caravaggio-like paintings with herself as the female figure. If she were not in these paintings, they wouldn't be anything more to me than a modernization of Caravaggio's work: interesting in its novelty and execution but without depth. Similarly, if she had only recreated these works with herself as the subject, the implications would be interesting but the paintings would be too narrative for my taste. However, the combination of glitter and self-portraiture forces me to think past each element and view the works as something more. I still don't know if I like them or if they mean anything to me, but they're interesting. Very interesting.