Date: June 26th, 2010
Cate: Recent Activity, Recycling & Repurposing
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Speaking of Pecha Kucha

Here is an Art and Seek link about the event, and a link to a blog by another presenter – Brad Ford Smith who has pulled together even more information, for those of you who are curious.  Look here.

While Brian was introducing the speakers at the event he made a point to tell us the correct pronunciation. (I of course had been saying it all wrong!) But after listening to him say it the correct way a few times, I realized it sounded just like slang I became familiar with while living in Albuquerque, a word -I was told  -used to described a low life person.  My mind rebels!

Date: June 25th, 2010
Cate: Recent Activity, Recycling & Repurposing
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Pecha Kucha was fun!

After some fumbling around like anew kid in town, I finally made it to the Dallas Center for Architecture yesterday. It’s a little gem of place nestled in the corner of a towering building that  fronts  the access road to Woodall Rodgers.  The event was well orchestrated and well attended!  I am so glad I was one of the early presenters because I think after seeing some of the other presentations I might have been totally tongue tied. As it was I managed to ramble on a bit without embarrassing myself too badly. Keeping the presentation time down to the 20 x 20 format is smart and makes for a more entertaining event.

I chose to show only images from my Plasticity exhibit as it’s still near and dear to my heart and I didn’t feel like I could adequately cover the spectrum of my art in my few minutes of fame. ( Wasn’t it Andy Warhol who said that everyone deserved 5 minutes of fame?) The other presenters managed it quite well, but, no regrets! I managed to get in a plug for repurposing plastics and recycling and protecting our waterways, and that is one of my passions, so why not!

I so wish I had remembered to take my camera with me yesterday on my trip to Dallas! I left early so I could go by  RO2 Art , to see the new paintings by Fannie Brito and Marian Lefeld in their show .  What a great show! After viewing the promo information I was mostly drawn to Fannie’s paintings, but what I saw of Marian’s work didn’t engage me.  That is until I saw the work in person! This is a lesson I seem to learn and forget, learn and forget! Photos, even good photos, seldom capture the art, or the art experience.

Date: June 18th, 2010
Cate: DIY, Problem Solving, Recent Activity, plastic
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New Video!

While my installation was still up at the FWCAC I took tons of photos for documentation purposes. I’ve been researching the idea of putting them into book form. Searching the net for good places to begin quickly led me to a review of book publishers for folks like me. Here is a link in case you’re thinking of doing something similar:  http://photo-book-review.toptenreviews.com/ I visited many of the publishers listed and liked what I saw.

It didn’t take me long to decide that the book I have in mind is not something I can afford at the moment so I turned to video. Fortunately for me, imovie came with my computer. A friend introduced me to the ease of use on this program and I fell in love with the process of pulling photos into the program and adding sounds. I wish all programs were so easy and fun to use. Not to say I don’t spend a good bit of time and effort getting things to pull together the way I want them. I would guess I spent about 40 hours putting this together but I’m quite please with the end result.  Maybe next year I will look back and have a different take on it, then again, maybe not!

This isn’t a true video. I am using still images. So, perhaps photomontage would be a better choice. Someone help me out here, if you know.

One of these days I will manage to get the link to the video posted to my webpage. (Now if only they would make web design as easy as video design, I would really be in heaven!) Well, I still have a lot to learn! My video is too large to post here, so if you are curious, you can see it on You Tube -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM__MixvGSM

Date: June 9th, 2010
Cate: Art Materials, Exhibition information, Recent Activity, Recurring Themes
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Wired

First let me suggest that you  be sure and check the Pecha Kucha page I just posted. It has info about a new presentation format going on around the world and I am lucky to be one of the presenters this time around.

Yes, that’s right, wired. No, I didn’t say weird, but sometimes I think that about myself, so go ahead and join the club! I’ve been playing with wire again, and am going to share some pics here for the first time. I’ve been working with wire for a long time. It’s one of those materials I just keep coming back to. Maybe because it is such a familiar material I don’t give it much attention but I do love playing with it. I don’t pretend to be another Calder, but I have fun with it never the less.


This is a two part piece, and the head swivels. She can look up or down. Fun, huh!  I put her on a piece of fabric that has some dramatic color changes just to make it more fun.

So, that’s the wire weirdness going on around here.  Tomorrow I may be back to plastic, but who wants to be predictable!

Date: June 4th, 2010
Cate: Exhibition information, New Beginnings
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Something Old, Something New

Tomorrow is the last day to see Fresh Faces at the Bath House. I meant to post pictures earlier but my site has been having some problems that I think are finally fixed.  Since it’s been so long, and I am so behind, I will keep it short.

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Now for the new! I’ve been working on some larger thistle pieces.

One of these days I’m going to paint a wall in my house white but for now, this will do.

Date: April 21st, 2010
Cate: Uncategorized
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Fresh Faces Invitational Exhibition

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