GOOGLE SEARCHES

SUCCESS

I taught a class about culture and identity at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. It was the most amazing experience I have ever been a part of. I think the students got something special and valuable out of it, and I KNOW that I learned something from them as well. Very enriching, and very fun.   I am working on a new body of work about weaving, blanketing ourselves, comfort, history, craft, assemblage, and beauty. I have been inspired by a Vietnamese artist named Dihn Q Le. Beautiful tapestries of photo and tape...intertwining East and West, Black and white, and color. So great.

WEBSITE, FOCUS...MAINTAIN

I am about to compile my website. I realize that I make a lot of semi focused, yet interesting work. I am thinking that I will divide my practice into paintings, drawings, sculpture. Some of my work relates to history and cultural identity. Some of my work is about social and biological constructs of race, and the bulk of the work relates to technology and access to history as a google search. (A metaphor for the glazing over of specific identities, much like the way history is told and passed along. Finding a story with keywords)

LACMA- Phantom Sightings

Amazing. No other words for it. In fact, i discovered a young woman named Shizu Saldamando has work in the show. Amazing and gorgeous. I worked with her for one day for Andrea Bowers. So great to see young women doing their damndest to make it work with such beautiful skills.  Go see the show. It changes lives.

Self borrowing voice.

Keyword: homeless

Google search series is about technology and accessiblity to histories.

Bright words of Suzan Lori Parks

So, I'm working in the office, and am asked to look up former faculty from the California Institute of the Arts. On this long quest i have come across some pretty interesting people, sites, and work. This particular woman, I guess wrote speech for some graduating class, complete with wit and humor, but these interesting suggestions. I will share two with you, because I am going to carry them with me forever:

1. Get out of your own way. You can spend your life trippin' on yourself, you can also spend your life tripping yourself up. Get out of your own way.

2. Be bold. Envision yourself living a life that you love. Believe, even if you can only muster your faith for just this moment, believe that the sort of life you wish to live is, at this very moment, just waiting for you to summon it up. And when you wish for it, you begin moving toward it, and it, in turn, begins moving toward you.

Well put.

monicaelayne@gmail.com

Freelance artistry. Yes.

Chromosome 15. 7'2" tall. Varied in all other directions.

CHROMOSOME 15: responsible for the gene receptor that translates melanin content into human skin proteins, and also into the eyes. One of perhaps four or five sculptures.

Yea, I know

Language can be so abstract.

The "other" fabric

24 x 36 inches. Burlap.

"Children, when they ask you why your mama so funny, say she is a poet, she don't have no sense"

NOTHING (and everything) BUT NET

The frame is a part of the piece. Design and stereotypes, market value and cultural ideology, all wrong, and so right.

Abstract Templates for voice

Thses are templates for voice. Still in progress...

Chromosomes

Material manifestations of each of the chromosomes known the affect melanin pigmentation, hair texture, and their respective recpetors...or just turds.. :)

Traces

Graphite on paper. Negation of figures to collerate with the negation of history.

Abstract Afro-ism

Donated to a wonderful foundation in Los Angeles. The name escapes me because it does not matter. Art is for the world, no matter who it is.

"We Keep Our Dirt Floors Clean and White"

"Nappy Chronicles"

"If I told you what I heard, You wouldn't believe me"

Language, Semantics, Religion, Oppression, Freedom, Despair....