a little piece of something bigger

alright. so.
here are some of the little paintings/drawings that i have been working on (and was/am selling)
all the painting was done about a year and a half ago, when i did about 110 gesture paintings of philly.
as they were supposed to be gestures i tried to keep myself from spending too much time on any of them. instead i spent a lot of time deciding on colors and then tried to keep some time constraints on the actualy painting.
i started drawing (and doing a little collage at times) on top of them.
it has been an interesting feeling of present over past... but that may just be me laying on the meaning and symbolism....
but all that aside, it has been really relaxing and fun and... meditative? to make these.








in other news.
this past weekend in d.c. at the smithsonian folklife festival. very cool.
this year was:
- texas with music (sooo good!) food (sooo sooo good!) and wine making (... ? in texas?)
- butan (coolest people ever?) with crafts (sooo cool) religion (very very cool) and ... something else that i am sure was equally awesome... ok. i'm not sure how they divided up the whole Butan thing, but it was all really beautiful.
- nasa (yeah.. i was a little iffy about it, but it was really kinda cool)

update time

so, the whole foods art sale thing fell through. it had to do with the rain to come and a lot to do with the winds as well. a little upsetting because the whole thing had a really nice feeling to it.

this weekend i'll be gone to d.c.
i am realizing i really need to put together a art site.
i've been having a good time up at ife's twice a week.
the list of my things i need/want to do is ever growing.
i will probably never get my film developed.
and so on.

i'll post pictures when i get back from d.c.
promise.

peace

collections - or - missing buttons

ok, so i don't know if yall can recall my drawing final... it was all of those paper houses on little platforms. i had left a note with them saying that if someone wanted one, they could take one as long as they left something behind. well, point of the story is i just cam across the list of things i found left of the wall while taking down the little paper homes.
it goes as follows:
1 - 1 euro coin
3 - 21 oz. plastic cup
1 - 21 oz. plastic cup with a little smiling face and hair cut into it
1 - pair of wrapped bandaids with faces (including hair) drawn on them. and the message "we some lovely sistahs!"
1 - red coca cola bottle cap
3 - (used) metro pass
1 - (probably used) metro pass folded into an origami bird
1 - 5 euro cent coin wrapped in plastic with message "it's all i have"
1 - green plastic key chain with message on the paper part of keychain "thank you"
1 - 2 euro coin
3 - note (note 1. outside=a drawing of a heart, inside note 1. "may peace be the journey - cool runnings", note 2. "wow sarah! it looks like your apt. AH! AH! do you there? Mario, Lara, Giulia" note. 3 looks like an uppercase cursive "L")
1 - paper airplane (inside message "careful")
1 - halls breath mint
1 - tyler bookstore caffeine card (3 out of 9 stamps punched)
2 - bobby pin
1 - small shiny earring
1 - hair-clip (black)
1 - barrette (white, in the design of a bow)
1 - cookie (chocolate, with white little stars on it)
1 - headphones (black, in plastic wrapper, unopened)
1 - ribbon (pink)
1 - pack of tissues (says "aloha")
1 - 1 us dollar


and in other news!
still digging into and out of my room (as well as other things...) but this has happened into my life, well, i guess it has been around my life for some time, but it has only now really asserted itself into my presence.

oh the possibilities are endless....

and about those little houses i was talking about above, here they are now, spread out and flattened under some other homes.

how much time am i allotted for "adjusting" ...?

so, i had decided to give myself around a week to get back into time zone, language, people... stuff.
and i think that time went well. but, i am still not there.. or rather, i think that maybe the adjustments of return happened, and now, all the stuff that is left over is... just.. who i arrived at being after an experiance.
maybe this is another one of those, "yeah sarah... that is how it goes..." kind of things..
but i guess i like the wonder that is sometimes so brilliant in the most simple things.

anyway, here are a couple pictures left over from rome.
these are for xiomara.
this is Dawn.... from the boogy down bronx.

and this is me and xiomara at a really beautiful photo exhibit in Rome.
it's us "through the eyes of a child" ... as it were...


these are from an old project i didn't really finish at tyler. or at least, i didn't finish them how i wanted. they look cooler in real life.

and just some new little thingies i'm playing with.



and this! THIS!!!!

IS MY NEW BABY! it is love, and humanity,.... we'll talk about it later...

much love

wanting to make something good

i got a new baby camera. it is old, and might be more trouble than it's worth. but i tend to like those kind of things. i have some new little guys i'm making. i find myself wanting to make art (what? wince when??!!) but make art.. make something that.. (i'm scared to say "good art" cause what does that mean?) but i want to make something... with good energy. i don't know. pictures soon soon. f'real f'real.

back here again

i'm home i'm home.
i am still digging out, organizing and trying to figure out the time and date.
but i'm getting there.
i will make art soon, and let you know how it goes.
promise.

oh, there are so many worlds in this world

i have been trying to wrap my head around this whole "going/coming home" thing. i am going to be in rome, italy - where i have been living, studing, being for the past 8 months... and then, that every same evening, around 7:30, i will be in philly. my home, where i was born, and grown and such... it blows my mind. how short the time between two worlds that i have come to know... i keep discribing it to people and they just look at me like "... yeah... pretty much that's how it works...."
just take a second to let it sink in...


long story short, i'll be home soon. see yall soon.