I Love Doing Collaborations with Artist Friends!
Ryan Graeff of Restitution Press invited me to do a quick collab with him this weekend for the CITYSCAPE show at LAVA Collective in London!
We only had a bit of time so we started with an old print of his, I washed in a tiny bit of purple, and sewed some bits of painted paper stuff into it, then he printed back on it, and I sewed into it some more, and he painted a bit more and here’s what we came up with (detail underneath):
The show opens Nov. 5th, 2009 and runs for two weeks. Be sure to check it out if you’re in London!
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TaarnaShreds took my tattoo giving virginity. She was a great first time. Thanks for the tiny heart club love. Come back to lala sooner rather than later please.
Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea.
There are seven sister boats of Switchback Sea.
Althea is the steam boat built by Kinetic Steam Works from the Bay Area. A crew of KSW people came out and will be with us throughout the journey. I can’t wait to learn about steam!!
Maria is next to Althea in the photo below. She is operated with a GASIFIER, and is supposed to run on stuff like coffee grinds and eggshells. Right now it still is powered by gasoline but that will be fixed soon! This is the boat that will host the majority of the performance, written by Lisa D’Amour. Alas I do not have a solo part but I will be singing my heart out in the group songs!
This is Alice. She is unbearably beautiful. I will grace you with photo’s of her insides soon! I’m tempted to travel on this boat but am weary because of the lack of shade. I have a feeling though, that I will get to crew all the boats…
Speaking of crew – that’s me. Deck hand. Today is filled with knot learning and water safety training and other important stuff. We even had a lecture on the history of the Hudson River. And amazingly – it is – mostly – safe to swim in these days!! (except after a rain storm or near sewage treatment plants of course)
New York, New York!
One of my housemates rode his motorcycle from LA to NY where we hung out together and ate free pizza with every drink at a bar in Brooklyn. Now he’s on his way motorcycling back to LA! and I’m running off to the Hudson River… with a sprained wrist… I fell last night and smashed my hand.. it is stiff and sore and painful and I’m hoping that it gets better within the next couple days… Arnica all the way baby.
