My friend, the talented animator Phil Davis, made a music video recently for The Spinto Band. It was featured today on NPR’s All Songs Considered blog. The video (and particularly the hand-drawn animation) is amazing! I highly recommend you watch it (by clicking on the All Songs Considered blog link right up there, above this line of text). I also had a fun time trying to pick one of my favorite stills to share with everyone, thanks Phil!

This year’s Baltimore LISTE opened last weekend and I’m pleased to be part of it. My work is an animated projection and wall painting, a piece titled Fox’s Misunderstanding: 201. Make sure you go upstairs and all the way to the back to see it!

After installing this show and the show at The Temporary last November, I am enjoying more and more the opportunity to come into a space (whether it be a more traditional gallery setting or something completely nontraditional) and react to it.

The show runs May 9 - May 28. It’s in the old bank building on the corner of Charles St. and Baltimore St. The address is 1 E. Baltimore St. There will be 2 more happenings in the space: May 18, 6:30-9:30pm and May 25, 6:30-9:30pm. Gallery hours are Wed-Sun 12pm-7pm.

This weekend I finished a few more prints. They’re in my shop. Please take a look! The one here is not of the series that I’ve been working on recently (unlike the other prints in my shop so far) and is slightly larger. I’m very pleased with this one and it looks really awesome printed. My printer prints very rich velvety blacks, which looks great against the light purplish grey here.

I was also on a cat photo taking kick this weekend (another thing that’s always fun to do on a cold rainy day) so I thought I’d share two favorites. Enjoy!

If you’re my fb friend you’ve probably already seen this one of Mito’s vicious mouth.

Tambourine in crazed flailing action mode.

I added more prints to my etsy shop today. From the same series. Here is one of them. Check it out!

I’ve been busy updating my website and opening my etsy shop the past few weeks. And I FINALLY have them both up and running. Take a look at my new site design and my first ever etsy shop. Who wants to be my first customer?! The images here are a new series that I’m working on and my first items for sale in my shop.

I visited the Seattle Public Library for the first time last summer. And it was the first time I have ever fallen in love with a building. If you have never been, GO! Even if libraries don’t excite you (which they should), GO!

I never took the time to research who the architect was when I got home but I happened upon a TED talk over my spring break about him. Joshua Prince-Ramus. Wow! The world needs more smart people like him. (Or better yet, the world simply needs to encourage more smart thinking.) And not just genius smart. But practical smart. Practical. Intelligent. Creative. All at the same time.

He says it better than I could, so just watch the TED talks here and here. And I love what he says in this interview.

After I got home this afternoon I looked out the window to see and hear sunshine, blowing snow, and construction workers tearing up the road. For a moment I felt like I had come home to an alternate reality. (Not to mention that I’m reading the newest Murakami book, which if you have read you will understand that I’ve already got alternate realities enough on the brain.)

I had a lot of fun at the opening last night. Thanks to everyone who came! Thanks Sarada, for inviting me to be in the show and than you Andrew, who showed work with me. And thank you Lisa, I stole your image since I pulled my usual forgetting to take photos. I hope you don’t mind!

The most interesting conversation of the evening I had with a 6 year old. I found out that she asked to meet me after seeing all the work in the show. I was flattered! We talked about art, abstraction vs. realism, imaginary friends, animals, and she recommended a book she thought I might like. Wow! She was amazing!

Holy moly. I love the Inkling. I read a lot of mixed reviews so I wasn’t sure if I should get it or not. Is it perfected? No. But it IS my new best friend. I know this isn’t pretty, but… I decided to hold the tip of the pen (the sensor) down with my finger and draw in the air. The range is quite small but it’s a lot of fun!

Here is a tiny sneak peak of what I’ve been up to in the studio recently. I’ve been combining drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography. To see where these things end up, come see my work in a group exhibition at CCBC in early March (more details to come).