waiting for you

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how to make a friend

shades of white

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Photos posted on flickr and on facebook

objects for "being constructed"

views from my window

i love white. this year i painted my room and all the furniture i've found white. i love artwork with amazing contrasting colours - bright colours showing through black - corals, turquoises....
but my own painting has not had this contrast. and in a number of pieces this year i've created these white blocks that look almost like veils or screen over parts of the work that is already quite transparent and light. so, when my instructor installed some white fabric and lights for us to paint she figured that at least i would be satisfied with the assignment.
and the result has been almost impossible to photograph and goes unnoticed when it became the only piece of work i've been able to put up in my space this year. and posted here it does nothing. but, the result feels like it captured something for me.
since this was finished in april i've been trying to work with the same palette. and i keep painting over what i've done - not something i often do.

book 10: threads of belief

still life

stories

i worked on these for a long while - wanting subtlety in the work - the stories veiled. but, thus far i am not yet aware of how to visually reflect on these stories in that way. and so this finished work is much more graphic than i had hoped.

and still i'm learning that it is not communicating as much as i might hope. so - i will continue to work on these and continue to work on learning how to talk about them.

hoping. inspiring. questioning.

new angles of sameness

secret narratives

dealing with changes - tragedy and hope lurking in the transparencies?

jesus, oh jesus i don't want to die alone

something has felt like it is missing - the deeper connection with a piece that leaves you feeling unsettled on some level when engaging with it. this is my attempt to take what i've been learning and connect it with thoughts i struggle with - the thoughts that are easier to push aside. my hope is to create space in my life in the new year to engage with these thoughts - without the space these can defeat me. and so i've held back from the questions i came to montreal to explore.

collage of a model and the painting developed from it.
i am enjoying bringing together the style i have discovered through my previous assignments into a format i have used in my previous work. something is connecting for me.

academic assignments continue...

4 of my series of 5. for the past 4 months i've been playing with ideas of home and will see if these pieces fit into something bigger in the future. perhaps they will be abandoned in the brown bag in the corner of my room they are now occupying.

school work

the biggest canvas i've painted on. i was surprised both by my style and what can result when i'm forced to work through the difficulties that come up