(paint) Bucket List

I've been thinking the last few days, upon fruition of some long anticipated projects, about what I have achieved so far, artistically speaking, and what I would like to see happen in the future.  I decided it to write down my artistic bucket list, here in the open air, to both keep my eyes ahead and also for fun.  Here we go, and if you have ideas- by all means- share!

• Participate in a six month artist-in-residency in a foreign land. 
• Create a collaborative, large scale, mixed media project with Sarah Bee and Cyr.
• Complete a collage that is, oh, eight feet high and fourteen feet long. 
• Spend six months being a renegade secret surprise artist, like the two guys in that one Norwegian film where they put artwork in cereal boxes.  
• work on artwork for a film, think Coraline or the Fantastic Mr. Fox, only with paper.
• Illustrate a book.
• Have a large dinner symposium with all my artist friends, and a few of my artistic heros (I haven't decided which ones, maybe all of them).
• Intern for Andy Goldsworthy on an environmental installation.
• create A Perfectly Beautiful studio space
• ________________________________________

More to wish for, more to dream up, always and always. 

after the dust settles, then the fire burns

Sometimes, I think I am the orange horse.  Sometimes, I think I am the grey.

A dynamic relationship, that's for sure.


Anthropomorphism is a tricky thing.  Animals make great stand-ins when you want to talk about tricky, sticky, messy, heart-wrenching, but ultimately beautiful things (relationships, for example).  The tricky part comes in, however, when you realize that sometimes the grey horse and the orange horse are really stand-ins for the same person, or they switched colors and stories without asking anyone's permission (especially not the person creating the story).  Tricky, but also entertaining because the story you thought you were telling starts to tell you.


An aside- I like to hide secret messages in collages, cause I find it entertaining.  This one has a nod to my dad's family brand- which is an A enclosed in a heart.  Given, they used the brand on cows and not horses, but still.  Also, I guess it's not a secret message if I tell you it is there...  but then- Where's Waldo wouldn't be fun if you didn't know who you were looking for...