I got a bunch of emails about my high waisted jeans post. Some people wanted to see my little drawing more clearly. So here it is all by its lonesome. I told stylehive about the post and they liked it enough to add me to their directory! Yippee! On another note, my dancer friend who posed for my recent drawing and painting is on the cover of Fit Yoga!
The marvelous blog at stylehive did a great feature on high waisted heros a while back. I loved the images they chose so I sampled a few and added my favorite of the h.w jeans available on the market today. They’re Rich & Skinny (I’m not), available on Shopbop. They’re a pretty penny so I’ll just have to think about them lovingly. For their cost I could live in Bali for 5-7 years.
For some great 70’s reference, I found a site that has posters, fashion and 70’s galore. If you are looking for a photo of a boy in gold lame on roller skates doing hola hoop this is the place to look.
About a month ago I did a photo shoot with a modern dancer friend of mine. She was kind enough to let me wrap string around all of her joints and take her portrait as reference for the drawing and painting above.
I’m lucky to have friends like her. Thankfully she won’t ask me to return the favor like back in art school when the subject of your work all of a sudden comes a calling wanting you to run half naked through the snow in the dead of winter for their film final.
I prefer the view from behind the camera, canvas, and paper. It can be fun to be the subject once in a while, though I prefer something a little less explicit than my aforementioned (if slightly exaggerated) anecdote.
Our weekend in the Berkshires was splendid! We rented a little house with some friends, went hiking, cooked great meals, drank wine and whiskey, and visited MASS Moca, a modern art museum in a converted factory in the Northern Berkshires. The space itself is worth a visit with its exposed brick walls, high ceilings, and industrial feel.
My favorite work was by Brooklyn artist Spencer Finch who explores how people perceive lights effect on an object’s color, the boundaries of the human field of vision, and the influence of language, memory, and the subconscious.
His works re-create specific light conditions experienced at a different place and time. Above are photos I took of two Spencer Finch installations, “Sunlight In An Empty Room (Passing Cloud For Emily Dickinson, 2004)� and “Candlelight (2007)� at Mass Moca (here’s more info).
Below are some other pictures from the trip.
I love food! I love cooking it, eating it, seeing it, photographing it, and painting it. For most of us food is a very emotional topic. Many people can describe their sordid and often painful relationship with eating. I try to grapple with that in my work. There are more from this series on my site.
Here are some more of my food photographs on flickr.
*I think I’m going to leave this post up for the weekend. Monday I’ll post photos from my trip to Mass Moca contemporary art museum in North Adams Massachussettes. I love the Berkshires!
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