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I'm officially 30 yrs old Blogged
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465 Candles
After carols filled the air
and before the fireworks upstaged the stars,
I had my first cry.
The first candle I had was baby blue.
Photographs told me so. ‘Twas Ma’s and Pa’s air
that blew the candle off.
Same table but with different mantle,
family and friends chanted
as I blew the 105th candle. I was 14 then.
Oh how I missed that table during Decembers.
Gone are the claps, the cheers, the balloons. Alone, I blew
the 216th candle with a cold glass of cola.
Another set of candles will come my way, for a grand
total of 465. Still missing that old table,
just a toast to wind with unfamiliar lyrics.
But its still my birthday, wherever I am, whoever I am with.
/totomai
FreeStyleFabricKnitting
elaborate use of crocheted ornaments
& floral sculptures
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On this day my dear friend Erica asked me to take a mould of her left breast before the mastectomy. After a first failed attempt we managed to take a cast of it. Another step in her journey that is breast cancer...... If you have been touched by cancer, or by the strength that Ericas story shows please donate to www.mcgrathfoundation.com or www.nbcf.org.au/
You will never know whose sister, mother, friend you will be helping....one day it may be yours!
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The time has come to an end on who you were. It’s time to shed your old skin and step into the new. Time stops for all living beings but it is eternal to all that exists. You are but a blink in the eternal and so capable of creating ripples if you so chose. Chose to let go of all that holds you back so the ripples you create aren’t tainted with all that no longer serves you.
Where do I begin. No beginning... Just a lot of work and busy stuff and taking care of life on life's terms. Not feeling particularly inspired but needing to create in the face of a lot of obstacles. I am still on unemployment. Feeling a bit neurotic at times about the future. Wondering and wallowing on how I should proceed with my craft and capitolize on my talents. How much of myself do I give away? I rather not give anything away... People are asking for too much and don't want to pay for anything.
I just don't know about the future and find myself "needing" to face it. Something inborn I guess, from our culture. Dont' live for today, live for tomorrow.... Despite the lack of materials to help me along in my life and career as an artist and photographer. I have been learning to feel good with I have and can do today. Hard process. But I won't give up enjoying my life and myself in the process.
I've been spending sometime looking at other people lives in different countries around the world. From what I've been witnessing a lot live in a repressive culture that curbs self expression and individuality. I am so happy and grateful to have ownership over those things in my life. Freedom of choice to be anything I want, so as long I am not hurting anyone else in the process.
Though here in our country its not all perfect. At least we have such a thing called 'freedom'. I can't imagine living anywhere else where I have to conform my heritage, sexual orientation, and ideals to a government and culture and does not respect all people as brethren. I feel bad for those who do. Feel bad for those who live in this country and feel repressed. Not knowing they have such an amazing opportunity in exploring themselves and expanding their life. Here in this country.
Life is too short, time is slipping by faster and faster, and I don't want to miss out on today.
asymmetric
pseudo poncho
tunica dress top
hard to top
radical kamikaze knitting
sensitive Dada knitting
intuitive guerilla knitting
whimsical nonsense knitting
a supermodel´s nightmare
due to
infinite wearing options
a tribute to divas
who are not afraid
to self- express
For fans of classic SNL... "would you like to touch my monkey?"
24th Annual How Wɘird Street Faire, 14 October, 2023.
Howard Street, San Francisco, CA.
PARTIALLY TRASHED
2025-->2025--->with this série, I achieved a mix of my graffiti background with some more typical ''abstract expressionnist' technique, a free hand, automatism.
being linked, guided by words. problems I stumbled up·on
"serie" started by losing my studio in New Jersey, made me stay home and take a4 papers with a pen. this serie has spanned mostly from march 2009 to february 2010, culminating in '(n)ever ...you"
Coral & Confidence: (B&W): A bright, high-key studio portrait with an easy summer feel. Soft light keeps the skin tones natural and flattering, while the coral swimwear adds a warm pop of color against the clean white background. Relaxed, confident, and effortless.
Shot on a Pentax K-1 with diffused Godox lighting.
It was such a beautiful day! It felt as if Spring had arrived. The sun was shinning and the day was grand.
FreeStyleFabricKnitting
elaborate use of crocheted ornaments
& floral sculptures
A two hour PAINTING FOR LIFE workshop is offered in the afternoon for those interested in painting for the sake of painting--not in imitating something out there in the world, but in painting for the very act of painting.
In PAINTING FOR LIFE you start facing a large blank page, not knowing where you are going, not knowing what's going to come up. You free yourselves from all learned techniques and ideas about realism, proportions, colour combinations, etc. knowing that you can't make a mistake if you are open to how you feel here and now.
You ask yourself, "how do I feel right now? Heavy, light, sad, happy, angry, confused, sleepy...?" You physically get in contact with that feeling. You feel it in your body. You let your body move the way it wants to. You let the images come up. You move with that image. It could be your mother, your dog, your lover, the victims of Iraq. Whatever wants to come up, you let it come up.
As you release unnecessary control, you can more fully engage in the creative act. You paint for process not for product.