yourmomsart

i do that too

2008-12-26T00:11:00.020-05:00

Sometimes I take pictures. The first ones are of my grandmother. Most of them are from a recent trip to the Cayman Islands.

gap incidents

2008-10-10T21:14:00.028-04:00

Deer Isle, Maine
Photo credit Beth Cohen

looking up

2008-09-26T15:53:00.004-04:00

The ceiling of my summer studio in gym b.

spitting and sputtering

2008-09-13T17:04:00.003-04:00

If I had the chance to forget something I would choose to forget the way my body once settled against ex lovers or the grimace that follows bruised egos. Do not get me wrong I would never want to forget the experience of any past relationship or encounter, no matter how horrible or insignificant. I just want to be free of those lonely shivers that come in the night. Free of burnt cheeks of shame. Free of the pesky twitches my body goes through in its remembering. I want to challenge those corporal emotions and create tools and processes to survive them. If my body is attentive in its recollection of ache and brutal in its memory of bliss then it surely can be used to repair the two.

Visually I am attracted to images of the body in distorted or abstract circumstances. My work describes situations in which uncomfortable, surreal, and acutely pleasurable pictures are unraveling, not unlike watching someone pull a splinter from the palm of their hand. The moments of contrast are important. They emphasize the existence of two opposite feelings melding together.

I am intrigued by boundaries both physical and cerebral, personal and general. There are moments in my work that are uneasy and awkward to watch, especially for me. I would like to think in the space between my uneasiness and the viewers uneasiness there lies possibility.

meat leg

2008-03-24T02:31:00.003-04:00

remember

2008-02-21T21:11:00.002-05:00

abc's

2008-01-26T13:34:00.000-05:00

If words and letters made any sense to me.

http://www.thijsverbeek.nl/index5.html

And yes there is a feeling of "why didn't I think of this?"

left behind

2008-01-04T02:53:00.000-05:00

looking up

2007-12-15T02:16:00.001-05:00

Process

2007-11-20T03:02:00.000-05:00

Here is a link to the draft of a video that my friend, Noah Stout, and I are working on. We plan on developing it more. Warning, I'm not wearing any clothes in this, so ya. Don't show the kids.

Peel

Also check out Noah's other work at shortnstout.net

a photograph of myself taken from far far away

2007-11-14T11:25:00.000-05:00

I had some revelations the other day about this work I am doing with skin. For a while I have been frustrated because of the multiple directions the subject of skin has to offer. I was feeling that I should find the most interesting one and go with it. But it's not about what's interesting it's about not knowing who I am.

The skins are self portraits. They are me but not me. I have always been interested in the idea of constant change and skin is constantly changing. I am always transforming. Always letting going of my past self.

And it's a painful process, but a pleasurable pain. Almost like pulling a splinter out of your finger. Actually peeling the glue off my body is strangely reminiscent of adolescence. It's an uncomfortable transformation. Something that happens to you. Sometimes you want it sometimes you don't and sometimes you need help but others you don't. There is a sense of un-harnessable control.

just bubbles

2007-11-11T18:29:00.000-05:00

experiments in skin

2007-10-26T00:40:00.000-04:00

there ain't no photoshop here

work from the "Hello My Name Is" show

2007-10-18T13:10:00.000-04:00

Pogo and Scooter

2007-09-17T20:53:00.000-04:00

Gender Roles and Gestures. A Pogo Stick and a Scooter. Switch.

This is a collaborative piece I did with a friend some months ago.

from some reading i've been doing

2007-09-16T19:03:00.001-04:00

"While we agree that artwork, like other nonverbal forms of expression, may under some circumstances constitute speech for First Amendment purposes, we believe that the First Amendment has only limited application in a case like the present one where the artistic expression belongs to the government rather than a private individual . . . In this case, the speaker is the United States Government. Serra relinquished his own speech rights in the sculpture when he voluntarily sold it to GSA." -judge Jon O. Newman

This was concerning Richard Serra's Tilted Arc, which was installed at the Federal Plaza, New York 1981 and destroyed March 15, 1989. P.s. the GSA is the United States General Services Administration.

first things first

2007-09-14T15:56:00.000-04:00

Here are some images from my portfolio.