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Artist // Professional // Traditional Art
  • United States
  • Deviant for 21 years
  • She / Her
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My Bio
I graduated from Tyler School of Art with a BFA in Painting and Drawing in 2010. My life takes me to unexpected places, and my art is, to borrow from e.e. cummings, somewhere I have traveled gladly beyond. I'm an encaustic painter and textile artist, but I can honestly say that I'm a Jack of all Trades, master of none.

Favourite Visual Artist
N.C/Andrew Wyeth, Giuseppe Gallo, John Singer Sargent
Favourite Movies
Smoke Signals, A Fistful of Dollars, Once Upon a Time in the West
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Buena Vista Social Club, Mark Knopfler, October Project
Favourite Books
Cryptonomicon, Niccolo Rising
Favourite Writers
Umberto Eco, garth nix, neal stephenson, michelle west, tad williams
Tools of the Trade
encaustic, oil paint, oilbar, charcoal, procion dyes
Other Interests
Music, travelling, poetry, weaving
Well, it's been two years. I was writing a really poetic update about my relationship with my art, which is kind of like trying to pull down the stars.... And then chrome crashed and I thought to myself, "Damnation!" Here's what I can remember: Basically, I don't think I've gotten much closer to figuring out who I am as an artist.  There are days when everything feels right, and there are days when my hands feel like they don't belong to me, like little organisms that were attached by mistake.  Kind of like Edward Scissorhands.  He can create things of great beauty with his shears, but only when he doesn't try to use them like hands. Tryi
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a brief update

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I don't think my long absence has really been an issue, since I don't think that anybody is really following my work anymore. In any case, here's a synopsis of what's been going on in my life: I finally graduated (officially) in January. They have yet to mail my diploma, which is amusing, and also really irritating. I'm starting a new job next week after I get my second TB test, (which is overkill, but whatever) get oriented, etc. Nothing particularly mind-blowing or interesting going on in that aspect of my life. In other news, Todd and I did rent an art studio in Phoenixville, which has become my home away from home.  I try to get there o
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skinny nudes

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 knock once for the father, twice for the son, three times for the holy ghost this is utterly random and pointless, but i'm really getting bored with photos of skinny nudes, particularly here on DA.  i'm not suggesting that fat nudes are better than skinny nudes or that skinny girls shouldn't be photographed (god knows they always are) but i DO think that if the human body has the potential to be so beautiful, so evocatively posed, surely it might be more interesting if there was more than thrusting pelvic bones and teeny perky breasts in the photograph.  I'm really sick of pelvic bones, excessive spine, that sort of thing. Or at least give
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great stuff you have here !
We'll be in the same country again eventually! For awhile at least.

:hug:
Maybe in December or June 09?
that is so not soon at all.
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Thanks for stopping by! Your artwork is very beautiful.
thank you very much for checking my work out, for the add and for the favourite - i appreciate all three greatly :)