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christmas present for trae. colored pencil, sharpie, on wood

a couple weeks ago i went to the geffen at the MOCA in los angeles with karin and olives, the exhibit was showing selected works from the first thirty years of MOCA, which ranged from somewhere in the nineteen forties to somewhere in the early eighties saw some raaaad stuff -

















a little SABRE love ^^

just came across these snapshots from a few months ago...halloween weekend 09. we are sheshwan!!

and so it is christmas, and what have you done?

B.murphy

wonder what she had for breakfast

projecto vinyl

i used to paint these and sell a couple here and there about a year ago, and when i was unpacking an old box from my last house i came across some scratched records i had bought to paint on. got some inspiring sights from the new GCS in down town santa ana while job hunting, came home, and threw this together ^^
here are some of the old ones i did last year...

all i have to do is dream

bonsai ^^ :)
last night i had an odd dream. Im sure there was more to the foreground of the dream but i did the whole half-wake-up-then-go-back-to-sleep-and-have-the-rest-of-the-dream thing. anyway, I found myself in a huge bathroom. im talking mansion of all mansions, this place beat hearst castle. There were huge columns with shades of blue mosaic tile that supported the what must have been 30 foot high ceiling. and bonsai trees everywhere, my favorite. there was a shower that was at one side of the room that was totally open and had a little river wrapping down from the platform it was on to the lower end of the room. the bathtub was as deep and about as wide as a normal pool. the mirror took up almost the entire back wall, and below it were a bunch of humongous seashell shaped sinks. dreams are really hard to explain sometimes but this place was fucking insane. I was pretty aware in this dream, i walked around, jumped on things, took my clothes off and went swimming in this crazy lagoon of a bathroom. I woke up wishing that i lived in a palace similar to that. Then I quickly looked around, and remembered the 500 dollar room in a house in downtown santa ana that I looked at yesterday to rent, and quickly came back to reality to say the least. im trying to wonder why i would have this dream? or even if there is a reason?
a couple months ago I had my first completely lucid SERIES of dreams, like four sleeping sessions in a row. in all of these dreams I would walk to this sort of warehouse like thing, and inside there were tons of people who appeared also to be aware of this dream world. everyone (like thirty people?) was literally just hanging out. there was a huge stage, people talking, playing music, lights, stuff on the walls. although this could have been shedding light on the warehouse becca, brad, chris, mahea, and devon moved into about a month ago, when I woke up, all i could think about was how i wanted to fall asleep so i could escape into this parallel world where I didnt remember having anything to worry about.

PS my best friend IDA gets home from san francisco today and i love and miss her so much meeeehowgnweognog

bailar

this is Maya. I took these in high school these are a few of my favorites from that shoot.

untitled film stills

I think if I could sit at a round table, sip on wine and talk post modern art with any photographer it would be Cindy Sherman. people ask why she constantly did these odd projects to make this archive of photos, she usually comes back with a simple reply - "Because, I like it". It is an empowering thing for a woman to create something for sheer self-pleasure and get such a positive response from both men and women in society. in other words shes a badass. When you look at each one of these pictures you can completely form a completely plausible story for each one.

^^(1961)scandelous housewife cooking dinner for the used car salesman she is about to embark on an affair with??




"Cindy Sherman (born 1954) used photography to challenge images in popular culture and the mass media. Her work concentrated on examining the way women are viewed by society. She used herself as a model in the 1977-1980 series of 69 black-and-white photographs called "Untitled Film Stills." NEW YORK, NY - In 1979, Cindy Sherman rocked the NYC art world at age 26 with her “Film Stills.” The haunting photographic series appears to chronicle actresses in the midst of dramatic and evocative film scenes, but is in fact the artist herself posing as the different subjects. Hailed for her play on media and identity, the shy and reclusive Sherman almost always uses herself as the model in her photographs and always in disguise. Today, at age 54, she is internationally acknowledged as one of the world’s most gifted and significant visual talents - in May 1999, ARTnews named Sherman, alongside Matisse and Picasso, as one of 'The 20th Century’s Most Influential Artists.'"

now on the other side of the feminist spectrum....I learned about these girls in my contemporary art history class last night - THE GUERILLA GIRLS. so sick