Finally visited my install at Elmont LIRR station. Here’s the glass portion at sunset 🔆 The figures - dancing, running, relaxing - are grounded while absorbed in the environment of wavering shapes & opacities. Ode to the shift in the world we are experiencing as a collective
lost a job purely because the other artist has 200k followers... unfortunately superficial numbers and metrics matters no matter quality or engagement or fill in the blank. keep fighting the good fight everyone.
The abstract patterns radiating from around the Oscar and eye behind it in Shawna X’s statuette design reflect the rush of excitement we feel when we watch a movie. And she couldn’t be more right.
#Oscars
just discovered chinese animation pre cultural revolution: Havoc in Heaven, circa 1964, directed by Wan Brothers, art direction by 張光宇. In 1966, the animation industry in china would end for another 30 or so years...
Oct 23: a grey day. I wandered into my fave bookstore, wasn’t expecting much, randomly picked up a book in Japanese. And For the first time in a loooooooong while, I am inspired again. Tiger Tateishi (1941-1998)
Launching my first collection with
@withfoundation
, Psychic Blossom. Each 💥 is a visualization during stages of contractions in labor. I will be releasing a total of 25 until end of 2021
F*** Your Manners is an exhibition initiated by my embarrassment of my parents’ eating habits. Featuring foam, helium and vinyl. Been working to this for months, can't wait for you to see. June 7th
@ADO
RSVP:
Illustrators, artists, designers: not saying you should make a poster or t shirt, but if you’re still posting work and not talking about what’s going on, I don’t give a fuck how talented you are, we are not the same.
Had a nightmare project killed, I feel great. Every year I have 1-3 projects that absolutely do not work out whatsoever. It's not until this year that I realized it usually has nothing to do with my skillset, and everything to do with miscommunication.
If you are rejected from an offer, maybe ure underqualified, or overqualified. Maybe your personalities don’t vibe. Whatever it is your energies aren’t aligning right now. Don’t hurt yourself over it.
Apparently tropical foliage is overused and out of trend and I still hate this part of humanity that sees anything, especially nature, as a trend. Bitch nature is our god, at least that’s what the plants tell me.
Have not learned a new skill or even made work I enjoyed this pandemic, but I did get a therapist and a deeper dive into my spirituality in my relationships and motherhood. life is good 👯♀️
Society taught me to equated power to money, recognition, clout. Took awhile to unravel (and still undoing) to realize that *true* power is clarity, activation, and the momentum from your truth.
The cycle of a visual artist finding a style and selling it to major platforms or companies to maintain their life & love of creating but then the aesthetic becomes a trend and deemed boring or “cutesy” so they are forced to keep on reinventing. Then they die