tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26868057659119837192024-02-02T09:11:12.228-08:00Mensen!I am a muralist, illustrator, teacher, student, writer, novice photographer, mystic, activist and generally all around enthusiastic woman. Contact me at msmensen@gmail.com.Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686805765911983719.post-79363789734194497502013-05-23T13:21:00.002-07:002013-05-23T15:01:38.680-07:00They Still Burn Witches.Still finding stolen moments to work on Okay, Stupid. This is part of a triptych.
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" Better believe there's war on up ahead/ Until we can settle the score and share the bread / Some people got no choices from the day they are born / Some other people got many but their reasons are wrong / Catch a fire, you're gonna get burned / Sow the seed, it will come back in return / Some people think they are above it all / and everything but they will fall"Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686805765911983719.post-60888669754238911732013-05-14T22:23:00.000-07:002013-05-15T01:07:54.477-07:00"And we're at Square One"I've been working on "Okay, Stupid" again. The project is evolving, and I have a lot of new material and concepts I am exploring. With this last sketch, I decided to document it every step of the way. I think it's really important that "artists" demystify our process in order to deconstruct notions of "talent", "genius" or other false capitalist boundaries that alienate the act of making. I know lots of artists that hide their use of photoreference, design programs, etc. out of shame, as though this makes them less of an artist (This seems, in my experience, to be particularly true of graff writers and illustrators). I know lots of artists that don't us any of that stuff, and still render photorealistically, or bypass that entirely and work completely from vision. Whatever you do, however you do it; Fuck it. Make some shit. Do what feels right. In my opinion, it's more inspiring when the process is transparent than when artists just shamelessly self-promote an image as a product out of context. Are we makers, or are we brands?
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(Also, these flix were snagged off of my instagram account; when I get access to a printer again soon, I'll actually scan some of the sketches I've been working on.)<br />
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Also, I can't stop listening to this last James Blake record. The whole thing, in tone and lyrical content, basically sums up my life from the last 3 months or so.<br />
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"<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Wasted times and broken dreams</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> / </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Violent colors so obscene</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> /</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">It's all I see these days</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> / </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">These days / </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Watch what you say</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> / </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The devil is listenin'</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> / </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">He's got ears that you</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> / </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Wouldn't believe</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> / </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And brother once you go to him</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> / </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">It's your soul you can never retrieve."</span>Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686805765911983719.post-71610582497958196092013-04-29T16:09:00.000-07:002013-05-03T07:38:44.155-07:00We Have Nothing To Lose but our ChainsJust finished this design for the Undoing Racism Internship Projects' LOVE Conference to be held on May 10th! The original design was first created in collaboration with a pair of activists in partnership. When I was asked to work on this flyer and fundraising poster, I immediately thought of this image. I really want to see more imagery of love and liberation in the world, and was happy to rework the illustration for this purpose. URIP's members chose Assata Shakur's powerful chant for the fundraising poster, and it is a poignant reminder that personally couldn't have come at a better time for me as an artist, organizer and human.<br />
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Also, right after we put this poster out, Assata Shakur was the first woman to be added to the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list. We stand with Assata, in alignment with love, liberation, and an end to "<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, san-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.59375px;">capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism, and the elimination of political repression". Hands off Assata!</span><br />
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To buy the poster, click here: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/LOVEposter2013" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>LOVEposter2013</a><br />
Learn more about URIP here: http://urip-ny.tumblr.com/<br />
And register for this awesome conference here: http://tunyurl.com/URIPreLOVEution <br />
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Eyes on the Rainbow is a documentary about Assata Shakur.</div>
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"I can't turn my head away- seeing all these things. The world is going up in flames; and nobody wants to take the blame."</div>
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AND THE BANGER!!! "Oh, there's a shakedown in my town. Said I cannot make it. Come a long ways from faking it. It's in my blood, in my blood, yeah. They wanna crucify me for being a believer: sometimes I see what they see - see they don't believe. They gonna see. They gonna see - That I'm ready."Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686805765911983719.post-38675871103676200042013-04-18T12:47:00.000-07:002013-04-18T13:14:30.905-07:00Bus SketchBoomerang. Banishing. Bindrunes.<br />
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"Where you recognize evil, speak out against it, and make no truces with your enemies." --Havamal<br />
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"You make me reevaluate who I give my time to."</div>
Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686805765911983719.post-85035236044284844672013-04-06T21:53:00.002-07:002013-04-06T22:01:48.348-07:00Train SketchI learned a lot the last few weeks.
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"<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">If you welcome every trespass, then every tramp's a guest / </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Give what they w</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">ould take from you then every theft's a gift / Hold too tightly to w</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">hat's in your hands or in your chest / and the future it won't open / palm </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">readers can't work fists / Broken bones are stronger for the breaking / </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">No, the danger's in the bending / those concessions that you never can take back / </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Curl you round a cane you're still in tact, but now quite lame / </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Better to grit your teeth, ready the cast and let it snap. "</span>Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686805765911983719.post-81975489777765032642013-03-03T22:01:00.001-08:002013-03-04T06:08:02.198-08:00you really think this blog is about you, dont you?I'm really shitty at this heartbreak stuff, (who isn't?), and I find a lot of things hearbreaking. I could speak all day on some pseudo-intellectual/art theory ish about the concept behind the "Ok, Stupid" series. And it would be real. But I do it because it is visceral, and I am unapologetic. So here's a process shot. And if you think it's about you, well, be flattered; it probably is. In composite, that is. But it's also not about you at all. This series is about me, and about using ones' personal life as a means to explore larger sociopolitical questions. <br />
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I've been not-so-good at being timely about keeping up with this blog or properly maintaining my website because I have been so wrapped up in amazing projects and collaborations. Mostly, I'm busy with working with the Parsons Scholars, masterminding with my favorite people in the Inheritance Process Collaborative, executing an IP project with Girls for Gender Equity's Urban Leaders Academy middle school program, and doing two projects with Groundswell - one of which is another Navy Yard mural. I'm also doing lots of freelance, and trying to find time to take showers, do laundry, brush my teeth and heat up frozen trader joe's meals on a hotplate at the new house I just moved into. So bear with me :) I'm so lucky to get to do the work I do, and to work with the amazing, inspiring people in my life. Here's a sneak peek at some things I've been up to.</div>
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Also, I got a new tattoo. I had a really challenging situation happen a few weeks back, and it got me reflecting on themes of self-protection and trust. I asked myself, "What is positive transformation? What is safety? What is protection? What is self-defense? How do we defend ourselves? One another? How do women protect our bodies? Our spirits? Our hearts?" For me, tattoos are deeply personal, and are acts of ritual and manifestation. I have been using the circle-circle-dot-dot in my Ok Stupid series for a year or two now, and thought it was time to commit to it's representation in my life. I called on the joyful, loving girl-culture of my youth. When boys would chase us, or bother us, or hurt our feelings, or touch us when we didn't want it, we'd soothe one another, come together, and defend one another against the boys and heal and protect ourselves with cootie shots. I decided it was time to innoculate.
Thanks to Nick Wallin for this quickie! I recommend him, for sure.
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Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686805765911983719.post-6173086465260123712012-10-02T17:34:00.001-07:002012-10-26T20:11:37.229-07:00Tijuana and San Diego and a few other thingsI've been super busy again! I recently returned from a 3 week trip to San Diego, Tijuana and Los Angeles. I was blessed to have the opportunity to paint with people I love and admire! (And, I swear, the new website is coming! Slowly but surely....)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Many, many thanks to Isaias Crow who offered me an opportunity to collaborate on a freeway piece with Christian Flores at Chicano Park. I teach many of the young people I work with about the legacy of Chicano Park in order to illustrate the power of public art and community organizing. This was a profound honor for me, and I was also very blessed to meet Victor Ochoa, who I greatly admire.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glow (Mexicali/San Diego), Monstrinho (San Diego/NY/Get Vicious), Eloaf (New York/Cali/Get Vicious), Norteno (Tijuana) and I came for a quick afternoon wall in Tijuana, right next to a bustling neighborhood street market. The wall owners asked us to paint something for the kids.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And, on a completely different note, I just turned this in for the homie Edwin Vazquez's "Comix Gone Rogue" Project. I was inspired by the recent announcement that Wonder Woman and Super Man were getting it on- and figured I'd play with the idea of sexuality, masculinity, femininity and power in this fun, raunchy cover. (Peep the SWV lyrics in the back!) http://roguecomix.blogspot.com/</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a quick piece I did inspired by the writer's block and the young people I worked with in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico in June. The poem reads: "<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">"Blackbook
Sessions" - "They say there is a drought in Ciudad Juarez- and that
every unpaved road is wet with blood. But I have been lead to a
man-made oasis of art and dignidad, conviction y communidad. It is here
I dip my toes and rinse my brushes and am refreshed. En la manana, a
la interseccion de libertad y calle insurgente, we laugh in broken
Spanglish. "Revolutionarios are never rico." The people are thirsty."</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I've taken a little bit of a break from the "Okay, Stupid" series I was working on about dating, trauma and self-representation. However, I showed this one recently at the Beatboxing Championships here in Brooklyn a few months back. This one is called "Why I Quit Writers" and the poem is as follows: <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">"I
dove into you, hope first, bouncing off your bubble letters.
Bubbleheaded. I made you feel silver and violet. Slivers of violence.
Long walks at 3am to decipher hieroglyphics. Tongue kissing in
wallball courts. It was the curious, frightened, eager, grateful
wide-eyed pre-teen love I'd never had. Something between an art and a
crime. I </span></span><br />
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">dove into us, Raw. You treated
me like a caricature of myself. Told me not to make cartoons about
you. Do I need your permission to make cartoons about me? Why did you
question the way that I spoke? my tongue thick against my teeth, loose
against your skin. You made me question everything I said, which made
me reevaluate everything I thought. Somewhere between a blessing and a
curse. Snorting your cum out of my nose like I was laughing too hard
while sucking down freelunch milk cartons. You lost me with three
simple words. Bitch. Asshole. Cunt. We lost one another in the
wreckage of seemingly excavated tombs. Abandoned sights. I was in awe
of you."</span></span></div>
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<br />Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686805765911983719.post-56845751855848506852012-09-14T18:23:00.002-07:002012-09-14T18:23:14.359-07:00Please Stay Tuned.I have been back-to-back on projects since May, and have had very little time to update my blog. Keep an eye out for my new, updated website- it will be live by October 1st! <br />
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In the meantime, keep up with me on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/msmensen" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. <br />
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Here's a sneak peak of some of the things I've been involved with over the last 5 months! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Half of the recently finished "Here Goes Something" mural at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Over the course of approximately 3 1/2 months, I worked with Esteban de Valle and Joel Bergner, 19 4th and 5th graders and 14 teens and young adults. This mural is inspired by the work of Howard Zinn, and tells the over 300-year story of the Navy Yard and it's symbiotic relationship with the multi-ethnic, multi-cultural working class of the surrounding community. This project was organized through Groundswell.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A small section of the second half of "Here Goes Something".</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I've also been spending lots of time with some of my favorite people in the world- the Parsons Scholars! I work for this program as a youth advocate, and have the honor of working with brilliant colleagues and even more amazing young artists. We did lots of things this year, from Whitney Houston soul train lines, to museum and studio visits, and a Trayvon Martin teach in and art collaboration. You can learn more about the Scholars on our <a href="http://parsonsscholars.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In June, I was invited by 656 Comics and Colectivo Fundamental to facilitate a series of workshops in Ciudad Juarez that resulted in a youth-led mural at Puente Reves. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In September, I came to visit friends, comrades and mentors in San Diego and Los Angeles. I painted with Glow and Beth Emmerich in Tijuana. We painted for the young women who have been disappeared in Tijuana.</td></tr>
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<br />Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686805765911983719.post-28831486802956715792012-06-01T21:36:00.001-07:002012-06-01T22:24:42.038-07:00There are so many things you can control, but you can't control the rain. (or, La Llorona at Fifteen)When the rain comes down like this<br />
In Sheets.<br />
I remember you, torrentially.<br />
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Breasts, budded.<br />
You and I<br />
Asphalt black and blue<br />
Gleaming.<br />
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Mindlessly soaking.<br />
One in another's lip locked<br />
head locked<br />
embrace.<br />
Teenagers<br />
in a suburban housing development parking lot.<br />
(We are children;<br />
but whose children are we?) <br />
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Headlights gleam in puddles.<br />
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My head shaved.<br />
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I thought I was in love<br />
lost in Lust and Youth.<br />
e(strange)ment.<br />
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Years later I heard you'd<br />
loved another girl- underage<br />
Hungry. Alone.<br />
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Remember how you told me you'd raped<br />
a retarded girl?<br />
Laughed.<br />
Confused. <br />
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Luis, was I just further practice?<br />
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I was so young<br />
and not jaded yet.<br />
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So many more rapes to come for me.<br />
After you (rs).<br />
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That's what love looked like.<br />
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Does your daughter- the one I never met-<br />
still have my childhood bear? Pandi?<br />
I am still weighed down<br />
by your rings under my eyes.<br />
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I only hope she is lighter, still.<br />
She must, by now, be as old as I was<br />
when I met you.Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686805765911983719.post-33560647540138459142012-04-10T17:23:00.000-07:002012-04-10T17:23:05.891-07:00La Bracera<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Recently finished this poster for <a href="http://af3irm.org/2012/4/6-transnational-women-artists-3-djs-highlighted-af3irm%E2%80%99s-la-bracera-exhibit">AF3IRM's upcoming art show</a>, La Bracera: Women and Work. Come out to support on April 21st- some incredible transnational women artists will be showing their work, and all proceeds go to support the Summer School of Women's Activisim!</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMc-fr2Om8y487QW1U9CQucm2a3vFJ8KzkLQDtJGKGtw9vXDKLKV1fkIWws_0sfs63c7kxgm8R4yJ3DjLU_xZSRgQThnpRbXc6hHAg2qlaJLmArpGDSK_dl7gmnynBsYutQ7onulesMG-4/s1600/mensen_labracera_final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMc-fr2Om8y487QW1U9CQucm2a3vFJ8KzkLQDtJGKGtw9vXDKLKV1fkIWws_0sfs63c7kxgm8R4yJ3DjLU_xZSRgQThnpRbXc6hHAg2qlaJLmArpGDSK_dl7gmnynBsYutQ7onulesMG-4/s640/mensen_labracera_final.jpg" width="414" /></a></div>There was recently a really great interview with organizer<a href="http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/03/the_plight_of_transnational_women_and_how_you_can_help_them.html"> Leilani Montes in Colorlines </a>about the show and it's theme. In the interview, Leilani says:<br />
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"Let’s understand the significance and range of women’s work: from the home to the office to the factory and field … and even when the woman does not work outside the home but inside the home, she does the work that makes all work possible, whether such work is paid or unpaid. This is of great importance. Let’s honor migrant working women by not only recognizing ourselves as a transnational force contributing to the global economy, but staying vigilant and actively supporting current campaigns to improve working conditions, prevents trafficking and hold contractors accountable for exploiting workers. Aligning ourselves with the transnational working women’s fight for just wages and safer working conditions directly strengthens the fate of all current jobs."Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686805765911983719.post-47039295271267796132012-04-03T22:27:00.003-07:002012-04-04T17:05:47.620-07:00MayDay Collab with Jesse GoldsteinDid a fun, quick collab with <a href="http://www.allegoricspace.com/Artists/JesseGoldstein.html">Jesse Goldstein</a>. Check out lots of other great posters to print out and distribute at <a href="http://occuprint.org/">Occuprint!</a><br />
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Also...here's some music I'm currently bumpin...<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/4I3bIBxjMqM?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686805765911983719.post-79365797428332601232012-03-18T17:06:00.014-07:002012-03-23T12:20:21.693-07:00DC TripSpent the week in DC with lots of old and new friends, reconnecting to many different parts of my past-and-present life. Was hoping to see the cherry blossoms, but a surprise super-sprained ankle kept me off my feet for most of the trip.<br />
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Before the injury, however, I had a relaxing afternoon painting with <a href="http://www.iam181.com/">HKS 181</a>, Weres, <a href="http://tuctheworld.wordpress.com/">Tuc</a>, Delve and Spok at the Albus Cavus Open Walls in Ivy City. I have mad love for these crazysweet DC/Baltimore/VA writers and this low-key afternoon brought me back a decade or so to the feeling of fun, community and no-pressure-painting-for-the-sake-of-painting that so often gets lost in politics, pedagogy, and performance.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quick collab with sister-from-another-mister KT Soko. I've known KT since I was 15; we met at Great Adventure on my first day and her last day on the job as caricature artists. We've been talking about doing a little wall together forever- this is her first time using spraypaint and she got it in! I'm pretty rusty but had a dope time anyway. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">181 (UK) has to put on shades to protect his irises cos this ish buuuuurns.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A fun, sloppy, quick production surrounded with sweet, silly folks (not entirely unlike most of my romantic endeavors.)</td></tr>
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I also had the honor of doing a really quick piece on a Women's History collab run by <a href="http://www.albuscav.us/">Albus Cavus</a> with all women-painters. The young woman who lives in the house right next to the wall, Shawn, was kind enough to allow me to paint her characterportrait. When I come to different cities and communities to do community murals, I make a real effort to meet people in the neighborhood and learn about what's important to them. I'm of the opinion that in my practice, it is not my place to come to communities that I do not live in and tell them what I think they should think about. Rather, in quick, spontaneous situations such as these, I'd prefer to use the opportunity to incorporate the likenesses and visions of community members into public space. <br />
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I stayed with my generous and brilliant longtime friend, KT Soko, who supported me in every way.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kate Soko introduced me to a very quiet but super sweet someone who's always up for a cuddle.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>And a big shout out to TUC (MSP;ECK) who knew how to keep a girl off her feet by spending the afternoon with me rockin out in blackbooks and flippin through late 90's graff mags as I kept my ankle iced.<br />
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I recently finished this flier for an International Women's Day event for the amazing organization <a href="http://af3irm.org/">AF3IRM</a>.<br />
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The Association of Filipinas, Feminists Fighting Imperialism, Re-feudalization, and Marginalization (AF3IRM), is a national organization of women engaged in transnational feminist, anti-imperialist activism. AF3IRM is committed to militant movement-building from the United States and effects change through grassroots organizing, trans-ethnic alliance building education, advocacy and direct action.Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686805765911983719.post-395314772257879902012-02-20T21:27:00.000-08:002012-02-20T22:11:43.157-08:00"Education is Our Right": mural at Park Slope CollegiateI recently completed an interior mural in acrylic at <a href="http://www.parkslopecollegiate.org/">Park Slope Collegiate High School</a> through <a href="http://www.groundswellmural.org/">Groundswell Community Mural Projec</a>t, who paired me in collaboration with the incredible artist Jules Joseph. We worked with a design and fabrication team of 18 brilliant middle-school and high-school aged youth from PSC, Secondary School for Journalism and Secondary School for Law to research and design a mural for their school based on the theme "College for All". <br />
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The research and design phase was largely based on a peer-to-peer interview approach, augmented by questionnaires answered by over 50 students. The youth in the design team learned interviewing techniques, and engaged in dialogue with family members, friends and fellow students to uncover complex perspectives on access to higher education and what young people need in order to confidently engage in their journey to college. The design phase also included conversations and interviews with experts. Bill Gaskins, a professor and lecturer at The New School and Essence Rodriguez, a Parsons alum, offered unique dialogue around structural inequality and the central role of finding mentors and learning to navigate systems. Jill Bloomberg, the principal of PSC, and Adam, the college counselor, held an in-depth conversation about Park Slope Collegiate's mission of college-readiness for all students, and discussed both the current climate around access as well as strategies for success.<br />
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After discussing and sharing our research, the group worked on collaborative drawing exercises to reveal common themes and visual language that would form the foundation of our mural design. All of the text in the final mural is based off of quotes from the youth.<br />
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To see photos of the youth and school community celebrating the dedication, you can go to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.352187011482834.90473.105166399518231&type=1">Groundswell's FB Page.</a><br />
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I am deeply grateful for all of the incredible young people I worked alongside on this project, who openly and honestly researched and developed the conceptual material and eagerly worked on painting. The PSC community was extraordinarily warm, welcoming and collaborative. Jules Joseph was an engaging, tireless and inspiring collaborator. And, of course, many thanks to Groundswell for making it all happen.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jules Joseph working on the mural in the ever-fashionable yellow smocks the art teacher, Ms. Jaffe, so kindly offered.</td></tr>
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</div>Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686805765911983719.post-59567050202158986262012-01-29T02:13:00.000-08:002012-02-20T21:42:14.142-08:00A Few Little Things....It's been a crazy few months again! Here are a few little things I've been up to in between projects and masterminding a few future endeavors...<br />
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I had a long conversation with Latebloomer, a friend of mine from Jersey from when I was a teenager. He'd recently found a bunch of old beat tapes he'd made back in the day, and sampled them for a project. It was so good to have a nice, long conversation with him about that spirit; the days of hanging out in someone's bedroom or outside, drawing in blackbooks, listening to records, chilling with good folks. I was excited to do a little fun collab project with my friend Kate Soko. To get into the spirit, we hung out and drew, listening to his mix, and the backgrounds are digital collage from textiles in my bedroom. It was a really relaxing, grounding project that made me feel connected to all the things that mean the most to me in life and still influence everything I make; community, collaboration, presence. <a href="http://thelatbloomer.bandcamp.com/album/mark-the-minutes">Download Latebloomer's Mark the Minutes beat tape!</a><br />
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I went to Miami in December for Art Basil, met up with lots of old friends, made some new ones.<br />
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This was a really quick anti-gentrification mural done in collaboration with the amazing Jason Castro.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span>Harvest</span></b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I walk around Bed Stuy taking pictures of autumn leaves on black limbs, rustling piles beneath battered Tims, smile across my face and ink all over my hands, like I’m in some bad early 90’s indie flick you never saw or heard of.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The nametag I wore last night for work designated me as an “artist” so I guess I am one now.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I think everything is weird and beautiful and funny and absurd.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Blame the court-mandated caseworker who brought me Camus’ “The Stranger” when I was 15. Fucked my head up right good.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">There is a perfect pattern, indescernable, indescribable- a magnitude incomprehensible.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It curves.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I curl.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The earth is not a sphere so much as a point. So to speak. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Paco, stoned, approaches me at the outpost.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“Ah,” he says, lumbering smoothly, gesturing.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“A personal information unit, instead of a laptop.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Huh?</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“A notebook.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Alphabet soup in my brain and I am chunky Tanya Tomato.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It's about perspective; anti-teleologic.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Listen to the wind in the trees. A leaf, alone, does not rustle. The clanging of construction on Atlantic.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I crouch in shady corners, sharpie, marble notebook, taking notes. I prefer my solitude to solipsism.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We seem dysfunctional, unstable, but you look too close. Build monolithic mythologies and lose your focus. You will romanticize our supposed tragedies, our apparent eccentricities, our implied “It’s not easy being me”’s, into something much more difficult to safely ingest. You are looking too fucking close. We are seers, speaking in visions, and you, my friend, are one too. We. Can’t. Hear. You.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Mic Check.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUDsX7PJvPxteIenBWSfXuHfi27PqLXYM3x17xK8yLSv5n2aPmj1-iS8SjgIVIWWar-KY7VnCwlCZNcmztrlcKxzAU8Zd5nG8TPZy-0x32bRvOdlk26hQdm4JaJypHGOQa_91btA33plB6/s1600/DSC_8630.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUDsX7PJvPxteIenBWSfXuHfi27PqLXYM3x17xK8yLSv5n2aPmj1-iS8SjgIVIWWar-KY7VnCwlCZNcmztrlcKxzAU8Zd5nG8TPZy-0x32bRvOdlk26hQdm4JaJypHGOQa_91btA33plB6/s400/DSC_8630.JPG" width="267" /></a></div><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Moma on Veterans Day</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Preliminary Design For Man at the Crossroads: look at the way Rivera drew hands in his sketches. Spend time with his thumbnails. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Listen to the old wealthy members talk revolution, speak in lilting italics, “Ah, yes, but as an <i>artist, </i>he....”, as though anything is compartmentalized that easy.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">They are swaddled in their scarves.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">His grid is faint under graphite. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Tear it off the wall and ensure it lives forever. Plaster crumbles.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Theme- “The development of civilization is no longer lateral- it is inward and upward.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And it goes on.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“The Worker gives his right hand to the Peasant who questions him and with his left hand takes the hand of the Sick and Wounded Soldier, the Victim of War, Leading him to the New Road.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“The Television gives an image of War as in the case of Unemployment, the result of the evolution of Technical Power unaccompanied by a corresponding Ethical Development.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Rivera’s sketchbooks give me permission to draw; blocked colors of domesticated pageantry.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Combatant Status Review Tribunals - readings from Gitmo on Saturday and Sunday at 1pm.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I am bored. The Moma is a mall.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Again, again, and again I return to Harun Farocki’s dark room of screens. Images of War (at a Distance).</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It is Veteran’s Day, after all.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“The System for remembering is a little cheaper than the one for training.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Every time I sit on this bench, in this room, and watch these films, I cry, and I know that it will be here until January and I will never see these films again, and it is safe in here, and it is dark, and no one here knows me and never will.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I am thinking of you, dead in the sand. I am thinking of you, lost in fatigues. I am thinking of you, rifle in teeth. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The post traumatic soldier, recounting, says to his business casual therapist as he once again tells the story - always, the spinning, cyclical, story - “Do people get worse after doing this?”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;">Outside, in the crisp yellow autumn sun, they’ve blocked off the subway for the parade and the soldiers smile and wave and their heavy medals catch the light, glinting. </div>Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686805765911983719.post-2298536617792124502011-11-04T21:09:00.001-07:002012-03-18T21:04:50.677-07:00Prelim. Concept Sketches for Book I'm working on<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZTWYw_KuaYcjy-B6Kqvn_LHdkZ6NHfVwPuPVNrzSZCTiDwktRKY2u2lkYol3OZCWxsASoE8WTg6p3h33thyphenhyphenmeX0vTSpXwT_FSw71DbBnGgpXJA9EDXcsTDHQRCSs1ZtsiTh668o5rgZyH/s1600/bellyflop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZTWYw_KuaYcjy-B6Kqvn_LHdkZ6NHfVwPuPVNrzSZCTiDwktRKY2u2lkYol3OZCWxsASoE8WTg6p3h33thyphenhyphenmeX0vTSpXwT_FSw71DbBnGgpXJA9EDXcsTDHQRCSs1ZtsiTh668o5rgZyH/s400/bellyflop.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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Here are a few things I've worked on over the last little bit; I've got a lot in the works and will post some sketchbook scans soon. I'm working on getting a website back up, so keep an eye out for that.<br />
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Also, pick up the latest issue of <a href="http://www.leftturn.org/current-issue">Left Turn</a>; I've got some illos in there.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Woodburning for auction at Groundswell benefit; based off of two of the young artists I worked with this summer screenprinting together.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lovely Tauret, who models for the Fat Figure Drawing sessions I facilitate at Re/Dress in Brooklyn. These are two 10-minute sketches I did on the same page.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I drew this the night Troy Davis was murdered as I listened to the Democracy Now livestream.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Painting for the contents page of the upcoming WW3 Liberation Issue.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686805765911983719.post-66677475359687435592011-06-19T16:05:00.000-07:002011-06-19T23:09:13.996-07:00Time is a cypher.I've had a pretty incredible week.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First practice wall of the season, 2 1/12 hrs</td></tr>
</tbody></table>I've been working a lot, and recently finished collaborating on 3 different murals through the company I work for. In addition to freelance and other responsibilities, it's been a bit challenging to find the time to work on my own practice. However, summer is here, which means beautiful mornings in my Brooklyn garden full of chirping birds and white butterflies. I've been trying to steal at least half an hour everyday to paint in the backyard, since I've gotten a bit rusty with my can control skills since last summer. Here are some images of my practice walls.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">30 minute character over coffee.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Practice wall I did today, on Father's day, 1.5 hours.</td></tr>
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Last weekend was the <a href="http://bboybbq.org/">BBoy BBQ</a> in Philly, and I was really excited to paint since I haven't done a wall there before. I haven't spent much time in Philly the last few years, but a decade ago it was an instrumental location in my life during a time when I was beginning to acknowledge my creative potential. <a href="http://posetwo.com/">Pose,</a> my old mentor, came out from San Diego with awesome artist <a href="http://www.gloriamuriel.com/">Glow</a> and poet Tanya Raz. Sadly, there were some conflicts with a local politician, and painting got shut down after only an hour. I'd just finished my fills, too! But it gave me a great opportunity to touch base with old and new friends.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The organizers attempting to negotiate with the local politician and police who was trying to shut everything down.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me, Pose and Glow hitting up blackbooks with Plan and some Albus Cavus folks in the back.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is what happens when the writers don't get to piece - everyone hits the Ironlak station and bombs. And none of these cats got taken in....I still think we should have just kept painting.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Col and Rain.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Locals taking flicks in front of Pose's piece.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pose and Ella, an incredible hat maker, fashion designer and artist.</td></tr>
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We crashed at the Hazel House in West Philly, which was a space teeming with purpose and community. I met so many incredible folks there, and even swung by a crazy party they threw at an abandoned bank. I've got to shout out the folks there- especially Jacob and Melissa- for being so welcoming and hospitable. I'll definitely be coming through to bother you all again.<br />
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The rest of the weekend was great- filled with cheesesteak, dancing at Silk City while Rich Medina threw back classics, people-watching and philosophizing on the Hazel House porch, and good solid quality time with people I love dearly.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I rode the market line to check out Espo's Love Letters series...it was so fucking beautiful. The way it changes space is masterful.</td></tr>
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Rich Medina dropped these joints at Silk City- they are two of my alltime dancefloor favorites. I was hella sore the next day.<br />
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When I got back, my boy Yuri took me to see Aloe Blacc, Childish Gambino and Kid Cudi at Terminal 5 for a show sponsored by Bacardi. I've painted at promotional events like this before, and all the red flags of my internal social critic went off. I'm super grateful to Yuri for bringing me through- and I'm not gonna front, I had my fair share of free Bacardi drinks. (Stay away from the grape Bacardi, though, people- that shit tastes like Robitussin). The corporation pulled out all the stops- free old school arcade, half pipe on the stage with trick skaters and BMX-ers, dunking hoops with Allan Houston, and even a make-your-own-tshirt stand. However, after coming from the BBoy BBQ and it's spirit of true school hip hop- and watching the resistance of local politicians to this community event- I found myself disheartened. The spectacle of the Facebook-Like-Button themed Bacardi event felt offensive, aggressive, superficial and almost farcical. I kept thinking of the book "Unmarketable" by Anne Elizabeth Moore. Cooption and appropriation are the norm. Corporate culture abounds.<br />
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All of the doubts and confusion I had about community, about culture, about art and life that were brought to the surface by the Bacardi event were then countered a few days later when a bunch of friends and I went to go check out Nice and Smooth at Von King Park for free at Summer Stage. We came back to my place late that evening, and collectively threw together a backyard barbeque that culminated in games of Mash, Fortune Telling, and painting together on the wall for fun.<br />
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Then, a few days later, I get a call from my little sister who had slit her foot open on a dirty Jer-Z dance club at the shore. She had tickets for a band called Beirut, who I'd never heard of. I got ahold of my girl Glow - turns out they're one of her favorite bands. We checked out the show, and that shit made me cry three times in public. Not an easy feat.<br />
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The week ended well with 3 mural dedications, and then a low-key goodbye party for 681 Sterling Place, where Martin and Kelu have been holding community dance parties and gatherings for the last few years.<br />
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I am profoundly humbled by what a beautiful life I lead, and see it as integrally connected to the work I make. Community, I'd like to thank you for being the bellows to my fire.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivrwtrVxEKE9I38gC7cDJKv4fY2VW9c_-YdTXxoj-82ZIuqzptAXja7ye6QTPlT9WmYMTvvi1kv54UigdENypASdoK8ITBPCxZiB2H_Fhv6IJf-A1xrUfeZvzu4KTKTbNIu7OKjZBF6i-4/s1600/Orc-Stain-by-James-Stokoe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivrwtrVxEKE9I38gC7cDJKv4fY2VW9c_-YdTXxoj-82ZIuqzptAXja7ye6QTPlT9WmYMTvvi1kv54UigdENypASdoK8ITBPCxZiB2H_Fhv6IJf-A1xrUfeZvzu4KTKTbNIu7OKjZBF6i-4/s640/Orc-Stain-by-James-Stokoe.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Side Note: I am FINALLY reading Orc Stain and it is absolutely beautiful.Mensen!http://www.blogger.com/profile/01299873517040256971noreply@blogger.com2