I predict....

I will keep up with this new blog approximately a week, then immediately forget about it and it will disappear into the abyss of projects started and never finished.


I plan to put lots and lots of art related links, photos, ideas, and hopefully when i gather a larger following, generate some interesting debates and discussions.

Here are some shots of my most recent project and newest hobby: crocheting.

These are installed at Gallery 1010 in Knoxville, TN as part of a group show.

Graduate school is of course a huge part of what is on my mind as of late, as I am about to enter my final year of undergraduate school.

I am scared of not getting into the schools I want, and not being able to ever afford grad school. However, I know i want to get an MFA after a couple years teaching. I am very picky about the possible schools, which will inevitably become a problem. No state schools, only private art schools, will be considered. Also, it is a MUST that it be in either NYC, Chicago, or San Francisco, which is problematic as well, seeing as how EVERY art student wants to only go to those places. Since I would have at least 4 years probably before I could consider going, I should put this in the back of my mind and focus on making a great portfolio until then. It just wont go away.

Also scary is that I will be teaching in a little over one year. I will be responsible for helping shape young minds. Personally, I wouldn't want me teaching my kid. I would be afraid of my child becoming an angry radical like me. Or something. I think I can do this though. In fact, I know I can. Art is important, and everyone should experience it. I hate guidelines and boundaries and want to make the students constantly question what art is, what it means, is there a "good" or "bad," and apply these ideas to their own art making. Art does not have to apply into such separate catagories as " sculpture" and "drawing." there is much need for a more interdisciplinary view on art in the classroom, incorporating both 2-D, 3-D, and 4-D ideas together. I try not to subscribe myself to one label as an artist, but for the purposes of explaining what I am most interested in, I am a printmaker to the core.

Printmaking stole my soul because of the unique ways in which it combines all other areas of art. Of course, drawing it incorporated alot, and the ink is this wonderful paintlike substance used to produce the image. Relief printmaking uses tools in a sculpture like way to produce a plate with texture. One can do and make almost anything with printmaking, and that is why I love it: the possibilities.