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It is finally up and running! Excellent. It has taken some time, but only because I needed to take the time. Feel free to view and enjoy. This blog will become more of a where to eat, where not to go, good shows, sucky art.


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Final Strip...through violation comes insight.

When I first came to CalArts, and was hurting for money, i asked Andrea Bowers if I could help her with her work at her studio anticipating some upcoming exhibitions...there were several CalArts alum...Sade...Noah...Shizu...Shizu told me to be careful, that although CalArts was a good school, that she realized that "through violation comes insight". I carried that through my first year and now, in my final semester, I know what she means. I have isolated myself from the "in" crowd, from the biased and cloudy judgement of those in my class. I am going to do exactly what I want to do, and how I want to do it. I don't want to be asked where I am locating myself in art history..I just am in it, obviously...making art here and now..right?

I am going to make easy obvious, aesthetic work...yummy.

Eat it.

If you don't like whatis about to happen, pretend it isn't happening, and then blog about it.

Now really...art...art school. They don't match. Thesis coming up...I cannot pull an idea out my butt, much less out of my head, thorugh my arm and into my fingers to put graphite on paper in anticipation of genius for exhibtion show. A few weeks and counting. Someone pray for the artist.