watching their faith in prayers // won't make you see your bones

too many things to say, i've been a terrible blogger. all i can do is pick up where i left off and try to remember things along the way. recently i've been working on a lot of new jewelry that i make out of recycled optical lenses (from my job). it's been a lot of fun to experiment with, i hope to incorporate some of what i've learned from it into my work in the coming year. i'm imagining some type of mobile. i think in 2011 i will suspend things. its hard to be certain. anyway, here are some photos that my girl  laura took of the jewelry.

i've also been weaving a lot of paper. again, i intend to suspend these forms in the coming months. its funny how i go through phases of drawing a ton and phases where i just want to cut things and mold them and shape them and weave them and carve them. i'm sort of there right now. someday i'd love to be able to bring the two together more comfortably. for now, here's what i'm working on.

 i went to new york again in october. it was a life-changing experience. i don't know how or when but i know i want to be there for a more extended period of time. i could say all the cliche things about new york *here*, but i won't. it was amazing and i got to work for Isidro Blasco again, who is an amazing artist and has taught me so very many things in our short intervals of working together. i came home excited and comfortable with working 3 dimensionally in a way i definitely wasn't before. i had some third eye cataract surgery or something. awesome. i also got to participate in several Oliver Herring performances, but i really think that is another post. so much happened to me -- i want to spend more time on it. the point is that i came back a changed person. those changes are always hard to maintain when you come back to 'real life', which is sort of where i find myself right now, teetering between the two. i suppose the tension is good. keeps us from going slack.  here's a photo from the Oliver Herring performance, you can see the whole thing on his facebook page here. oh. and here.

in music there's James Blake, and so much of it. Andreya Triana. Baths. (that one is a video Andres and I did). Bonobo. Tokimonsta. The Books. The National. those are tops for me right now...

over and out.