Just call me Ms. M.A.L.S. May 24, 2009

Done. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! Thank you Robin Price, Marie Clark and Stephanie Weiner.
Could not have done it without their diligent help.
Final project/essay = A,
I was nominated for an essay prize, but lost
to two professional writers, so not too bummed.
My art exhibition is up.
Opening reception is this coming Bloomsday,
June 16, 2009 from 2:30 'til 4:30 at the
Baker Library Gallery 1st and 2nd floors
Norwalk Community College
188 Richards Ave. Norwalk, CT 06854
Artist's talk @ 3:30 and Tea @ 4:00 p.m.
Come one, come all! It should be fun.
More info @ 203/857-7264

Another Delay - Yay!

I spent one day maybe it was Thursday April 16, focused on laying out a one of a kind book called "Big Number." It's my distillation of the character Leopold Bloom. I decided that his knowledge of a big number, "9 to the power of 9 to the power of 9," was the essence of his rationalism. So the book has pockets, each pocket holds a card with an image on one side and the number 9 on the other. This book is finished now. I am posting photos of my planning process here. I'll post the finished work later.

Dealines shifted--"A" on Thesis paper

I have some more time to finish the books.
And I am really in a fix with them. Maybe juggling too much all at once.
Altered book is working out best so far.
Mental block about lettering Stephen book.
Don't want to ruin it. Maybe found a way to do it, this afternoon.
Hate having to wait for about three hour block of time.
I am not a very disciplined artist, STILL ...
well- a frustrating full time job is partially responsible.
I guess accepting that I have to inch along is the best attitude to take.
Not much choice to do anything else.
Oh I sound pessimistic, and I am hopeful.

New Deadline April 2

Just working on my fourth book this evening.
Finally committed to gluing on covers.
I think it came out pretty well. Photo tomorrow.
I just decided to make it be the trial version,
so psychologically I feel okay about messing it up and
can get some momentum on making the thing.
Finally sewed in apocket after thinking about it for two years.
God.
Also had good luck with final drawing last night.
A really good chance mark occurred.
Maybe a tiny bit of skill involved, but the color is
what really worked for me.
More tomorrow.

Deadline looms: Thesis is written and delivered

Here a photos of the drawings I've done so far.

Seven Days Till First Major Deadline

Well, I've been writing like a fiend. Not doing much drawing or sculpting, but I did find my angle for the Bloom book. In Ithaca Bloom mentions, well, it is mentioned that he knows of a number, 9 to the power of 9 to the power of 9 that would fill 50 volumes of multiple-page notebooks, A HUGE number. I decided to use this idea to create a background for the whole eight-page accordion fold book. I used a rubber stamp of numbers.

I also started a drawing of Bloom's cat which is posted here somewhere------>>>>

So--I am inching my way along.
My altered book is really coming along too.
Maybe I'll take a few photos and post again later tonight.

Counting down to March 15 - 26 daysto deadline

I am trying to make the (4) objects for my project, at right is a moly.
So far I have the plums, from Parable of the Plums completed, and this moly, which I completed on Sunday.
I have two more moly-ies, molies? not sure how the plural should be spelled.
Hermes/Mercury gave Odysseus moly to protect him from the spell of Circe.
Circe turned Odysseus's men into swine, but when she saw he was not effected, she mellowed and seduced him. He held out until she tuned his men back into humans. When she did they were younger and stronger.
ANYWAY, Leopold Bloom carries a shrivelled potato given to him by his mother. I decide to make the Hermes version of the moly, here I've combined the idea with the Bloom version in that it's like a sort of potato.
The original moly had black roots and white flowers. Supposedly the roots were so tenacious that no human could pull them from the ground. I used the roots of a plant I've been keeping for some reason, and artificial white flowers. I've never used artificial flowers before. I think it works pretty well.