It’s finally here!!!!!
After long last, I present to you (drumroll please…)
Three variations on the theme of revolution, 2010:
You get:
- Three toys (a phenakistoscope, a mobile, and a fortune-telling top)
- Three digital prints mounted on wood for easy hanging (just put them directly on the wall!)
- Documentation of the project
More pics:
Limited edition, screenprinted boxes, digital prints elsewhere, all painstakingly hand-assembled and fashioned… and you won’t believe the price. Really! Go check it out!!
New etchings
I did these mostly as a learning process. They’re not editioned, and when they eventually (maybe) will be, it will be a super small edition. I’m just practicing etching and getting a feel for the medium.
These are a little bigger than the others, maybe 5 x 7? That doesn’t sound quite right. But thereabouts.
Girls and the internet
If you’re reading this, you probably know what my work looks like. I draw girls – young girls, who generally fill in and play a kind of surrogate for me in my work. I spend a lot of time looking back on my life from ages 16 and under (more specifically, usually around ages 9 to 12, although sometimes it goes further on either side than that) and wondering, What happened? Growing up is so hard and it’s such a blur; it just happens and then it’s over, just one really heavy, profound thing after another, and then you’re supposed to leave it behind and just go and be an adult. Right.
So I’ve been watching the whole Jessi Slaughter thing with interest. Jessi, a screwed up, confused, upset, trying-to-be-cool 11 year old released a bunch of profanity-laced videos threatening to kill people (because 11 year olds are angrier than we like to think they are) and then a bunch of people reacted and gave her a hard time for it. And then her dad appears in a later video, acting like a jerk and making everything worse.
I did a lot of research about her, and the whole thing is just sad. I’m not sure I can say anything new or interesting about the case, but here is obviously a girl that’s in desperate need of help. That she would gleefully represent herself as this kind of thuggish, tough girl is just depressing; it’s obviously not who she is and not who she (or anyone) should aspire to be. And the most depressing part is that it’s clear she’s not going to get any help, and the misery will just continue indefinitely.
Anyway. Just when I was feeling at my lowest about young women and their choices of representing themselves online or elsewhere, I found this video. I don’t know anything about the person who made it; I’d guess she’s about 15* or so. But she’s articulate, sensitive, and smart. She’s doing the sort of eyeliner-and-low-parted-hair thing that makes anyone over the age of 30 cringe, but who cares. That’s fashion – it comes and goes, and if I don’t quite get what teenagers are into, well then hey – mission accomplished, kids. I was just so happy to find a video with a young woman who yeah, is doing all the cool fashion stuff, but it doesn’t define her – she has thoughts in her head and opinions and seems like a nice person, too. This gives me hope for the future. I’m thinking of her as the anti-Jessi-Slaughter.
*Note: According to her Tumblr page, she’s 19**. Which makes the eyeliner and hair totally fine.
**Yes, I backtraced it! 🙂
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