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pop up gallery in highland park

ink pen doodle

in a dream that night my uncle was reading to a large room with a small audience and he waved a bottle at me, he needed a drink. he said Get me something with nature in it.

super moon dream continued:

i find a small refrigerator in a screened in room. outside there are white and orange rocks, a coyote appears with a kill - a raccoon. the coyote is on his hind legs throwing the dead raccoon around like a cat. then a rat appears, he's with the coyote, he takes a piece of the raccoon and runs off. i kneel down to open the refrigerator when my cousin enters the room and reaches from behind me into the box and pulls out a bottle of water. i said That's all he meant. she nods, leaves, i look outside again and all the animals have gone but mysterious quills remain. i never saw the porcupine. 

birthdays

in a dream i was a passenger in an old loud car and suddenly the road ended and we dropped out of the sky. the dream feelings were calm, i knew it was a dream because of the sepia filter on the landscape. initially i thought we'd died, but nothing was different, we just went on driving down the new road. 

before i drew this i told a friend i felt like a face on a milk carton in another universe. somewhere they are looking for me, the lost one. she laughed and said, but it's beautifully sad, too. 

or butt face - i made this into a shirt. it's not as popular as the camel tee. 

i used to sit in the kitchen and draw with the window open during winter. this is from that sketchpad. 

i like the girl on the right, i wish my face had that kind of extra space. 

panic attack

the splitting dinner party 

charcoal drawing. inspired by an old photograph. 

taos. hiking down to the hot springs i kept my gaze at my feet until i looked across the river. they had big white butts and seemed to be multiplying. nuclear families were emerging from all directions. they were meeting at the watering hole. another hiker stopped to admire them and when he asked what we were looking at i said the wrong animal. i didn't know. i should have said that, but at the time i thought i knew. 

when you show someone something spectacular

charcoal, part of a larger piece i never finished. my best friend used to tie my shoes at school because i didn't know how to yet. 

ink pen doodle

had four children and her books are really funny.

is my grandmother. she has dementia. i'm the smiling thing she's holding. 

i got tired of people at a young age.

ink pen with some collage...

i just like her face. i made her into a magnet and a notepad. 

i can't remember the receiver of this card, but they liked it. 

ink pen and charcoal

christmas day when TBS plays a christmas story over and over my sister can watch it more than once, she can watch it all day. she loves certain movies like that. she never gets tired of them. this is a christmas card i drew for her. 

my mom or dad got this one. 

self portrait

i drew this with charcoal, then added some acrylic. 

shirt

...

nuff said

when he wrote me back he didn't answer my question. 

sometimes this is what it feels like

my version

he wanted me to capture the curves, he wanted something more realistic. 

squid people. this is my interpretation of what happens when two people fall in love. it's a cosmic mess. guts everywhere. brighter lights and softer everything. when it appears to fade it doesn't, it just becomes more complicated. 

which i can still do now, i just haven't. 

black ink and a pen. i knew 2015 was going to be an important year but i didn't know what would make it so - this is in october, just before my birthday. 

unoriginal ink pen drawing. 

posing for pictures, dressing for the occasion, interviews, the unnatural state of being.