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.

to orlando rivera with love

a couple days ago a friend from tyler passed away. his name is orlando rivera. aside from being one of the most talented artists and printmakers i've met at tyler, he was such an incredible force of kind loving sweethearted warmth. everyone knew orlando, and everyone loved him and he will be missed, yet always in our hearts.
tonight, the tyler kids over here in rome got together, to sit, take some moments and reflect, to start to accept and understand, to decide what is most important is the good times, and the celebration of life, and open our doors to heal, together. it was really was very powerful and meant a lot to me.
we are all in our lives. and it pulls us up and down. but i just wanted to say to all of you reading this, and those of you that aren't, that i love and care about you very much. and you are all important to me.
i have my issues with tyler, and with temple, but i think the reason i was attracted to it in the first place was because of the community that is alive there. like capa, there is care and respect and love for those in the community. and when someone falls down, there is a sweeping compassionate wave of responce to help pull us all back up. this was very present tonight, and it is truly one of the most beautiful gifts people can give to eachother.
with love,

sarah

documentation

another little "call to arms" piece

the new belly

106 of 110 little houses. i didn't realize it would look like so little. if i ever do something like this again, i will have to make somewhere around 1000 i think. we'll see what happens.

the sign.

it worked! people played. yeah!