some recent photo projects

The most recent of recent photo projects - this is my "altar for boyfriends" - I'm still trying to figure out what I really mean by that, anyhow it was made with a lovely 4x5 camera and a lot of patience, it was then printed quite large, 26x40. I'll try to post an image of the work once I hang it. I feel like it looks a lot better in person.

This was my "self portrait with cat" project, somewhat inspired by Kiki Smith's Pieta and my urge to make some self portraits, and also by my adoration for my cat, Eliza Thornberry. I used my good friend Nadinne's lovely Hasselblad and a lot of kitty treats.

photographs from a recent road trip

from the top: Joshua Tree, Death Valley, Big Sur

taken with Ryan's Mamiya RB67

I'm thinking about making prints of the last two.

Summer

This is a series of four paintings I did for my 2d design final. The paintings are gouache on tea-stained paper. I was thinking about mystery and girls and summer camp and lakes and docks and swimming caps and being lonely or just feeling alone sometimes.

Eva

A little background: Eva is my grandmother on my mother's side who died when my mother was seventeen. Obviously I never knew her, so for this project I decided to write her a little letter in a book.

I hand-set the type in one of those little stamps (the kind they have at the library) It required tweezers and a lot of patience. The patterns on the pages in between were made by enlarging a drawing like 200% on the copy machine and then layering them on top of each other and transferring them on to tracing paper with citra-solv.

lists (2008-2009)

here is a wood veneer box of lists I made in various small moleskines from 2008-2009.

I am so pleased with the way this project turned out! I love the little sections.

home

for this project we had to deconstruct a book somehow - I chose an old book from powell's that was about california. I suppose I was feeling pretty homesick at the time. I cut out all of the California's and San Francisco's and put them in a lil jar.

detail on the california jar

white flowers

white flowers project - two different books using the same text: white flowers by mary oliver. I used beeswax and dried flowers, fancy papers, book board, citra-solv transfers.

The first book is a magic wallet book.

The second book is a very very long accordion book. I like the second book more I think. It has the right delicate and fragile quality I was after.

Maps!

A book I made at OCAC last semester. Going with those Maya Lin vibes. I soaked construction paper in olive oil to make it translucent - however, it also made the whole book smell like shit later, so - lesson learned. Still, pretty content with the way it turned out.