Senior Honors 2011

Happy Near-End of the year!!!  Here are the final jpgs from the show and some other assorted gallery pictures.

kites, oil on linen, 60″ by 30″, $500

catch the moon, oil on linen, 60″ by 30″, $500

emerging, oil on linen, 60″ by 30″, $500

mushrooms, oil on linen, 60″ by 30″, $500

kaibab sounds, oil on linen, 60″ by 30″, $500

turtle falls, oil on linen, 60″ by 30″, $500

Shout out to Munir and Beth, congrats everyone and thanks to all of those who made it!

artist statement VLOG (woohoo!)

(So,  I had to upload this on youtube first.  The sound is a little off, yet still fun.  I’m learning!)

“The world of bewilder explores an ancient understanding of humankind, earth, and creator spirit as one dynamically evolving being. In a world infused with imaginative possibility and moral play, wild children act as the co-creators of the untamed environment that breathes around them. This is a world of unceasing paradox. Ice is rock is sky. Predators and prey co-habit the same waterfall-surrounded glade. Impossibilities flourish as the whole of creation exists in an ever-shifting interaction. Ultimately, the diverse physicality of the paint itself becomes a metaphor for the divine and the everlasting freshness and magic of life. In the world outside the paintings, this harmonious growth is hard for us to fathom. But in my paintings, the wild children constantly cultivate their hearts with new ideas, experiences, failures, and loves.”

And the Creative Writing Chapbook–>CW CHAPBOOK

See you all on Friday!

bewilder

Hello everyone!

Sorry it has been so long.  Since the last time I updated this, I got my JVC placement for next year and finished my Theology  Thesis.  And I memorized this commercial:

So…things have been very exciting.

I also came up with the title of my show, which is to be bewilder.  Still working on the artist statement.  My deadline when the last stroke of paint can go on these babies is a week.  If you are the praying type, throw a couple up for me, will ya?

Ch-ch-ch-check it out.

Complete:

celery, $440

crescent catchers, $490

Very much getting there:

(right now I call this one “Ross’s favorite” or “less birds, more emerging”

“turtles”

“kiabab” or “the donkey one”

“flying squirrels”

“Not even named yet cause I’m so far behind”

Love to all!  Come to the Opening April 29th from 5-7pm!

Black Lodge Open House & Honors Show, Mates.

Here’s some pictures of the Black Lodge Opening and Meg Wendling’s final paintings (Who continues to paint the inside of my heart.) at the Senior Honors Show.  I was hoping to get some pictures of the more complete show in my studio, but I forgot my camera cord at home. (It’s freeze-your-toes-off-cold in the studio today.)  However, you’ll just have to wait for my post about the final stretch of this semester.  I.e. today.

Photography courtesy of Munir Sayegh.

just a note on the progress of things.

I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,

I am mad for it to be in contact with me.

oWalt Whitman

 

As the weather outside becomes more and more delightfully frightful, I to have been storming around trying to finish the presentation for the English Senior Seminar Symposium: Crones, Chaos, Streams and Dreams.

On Monday it had completely taken over my room:

My bed, which was yearning to once again be a source of cozy comfort and sleep, had even been taken over.

The only positive thing was the new sunflower plates that my best friend had given me for an early Christmas gift (he couldn’t wait).  Here one is seen under my perpetual cup of Jasmine Green Tea:

Best Best Friend in the World:

By Tuesday, night of the presentation of my section of the Symposium, I was not yet finished.  Here is the picture I drew in American Lit. about my thesis trying to get me:

Based on the Laura Marling song Devil’s Spoke.  (Yes, I realize now that it is hold your devil by his SPOKE.  Throat just seemed so much more violent and satisfying at the time.)  The possessed blob on the right is the thesis, which the pencils are unable to touch because it sucks the ideas and ambitions out of them.  I am that tiny thing on the left.

So…after a break-down the night before, a couple of mini-panic attacks during the day I managed to hammer out a very decent presentation.  The actual symposium was fantastic.  I made it through with only minimal stumbling, giggling and wiggling.  Here’s the program, which I illustrated:

And here’s a shot of the rose which I received after the production, gracing my room with its fragrance and symbol that I, at least for a little bit, can have a reprieve from panic.  I have been using that time to poor over Walt Whitman and John Daniel and listen to old folk-ish Christmas Carols (ie. The Roches).

The rest of the week holds open houses and the Senior Honors Show opening.  Should be a grand occasion.  Pictures will be had.

Promises, Peace and Imagination,

Sarah

College Invitational @ The Figge

Tonight was the Opening of the College Invitational at The Figge.  Here’s a gallery of the event.