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More shrink plastic cause it’s so much fun and small and manageable. I made the cookie a long time ago, but I thought it would be more interesting to connect it with these other objects. I ate in a Chinese restaurant last week. I walked up to the counter to place the order where sat the lucky cat. I received my meal in a red and white box. I cracked the cookie at the end as is procedure and pondered the manufactured wisdom. Wouldn’t quite be the American Chinese take-out experience without the cookie tradition.

This is an 18″x 24″ linocut self portrait that I created for a project. The bottom two prints were colored by hand after printing with watercolor paint. The source material for the rabbit was an old postcard with a cowboy saddling up a giant rabbit on a ranch.

The piece was a learning experience. The size felt fairly daunting to take on for my first relief print. The way the cuts work made a lot more sense after I printed the picture. In the future, I hope to better assess what size lines to utilize and take that into account the next time I print. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the class. I didn’t think I’d do well with printmaking, but I’ve really enjoyed it. That seems to be par for the course with school. Things I thought I’d love, I’ve been lukewarm towards. Things I thought wouldn’t suit me, I’ve really dug. Go figure.

A small quick drawing in Prismacolor pencil of my glassfish.  I had him for I think six years.  He finally passed away this past weekend.  He had the whole tank to himself and had outlived his brethren by five years.   I never named him, but the household dubbed him both Michael and Gilbert.

This is the beginning of a collaborative environmental installation on which I am working with another artist for my installation art class. The site is in the woods outside of the UNCC area. We decided to cut newspapers into the approximate shape of real leaves at the site. The newspaper leaves were dipped in hot wax which added to the durability and stability of the paper. The use of the wax makes them look a little like trash as well.

These are shrinky dink earrings I drew and baked. I am interested in the cycle of the blooming weed that transforms to a wispy, puffy seed, scatters through the wind, and begins anew.