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oney Bags is a project I found out about at FluxFest this last weekend. The purpose of the project, from their website:
“MoneyBags re-evauates wealth, worth and currency. It creates reencounters with a familiar image that has been popular in cartoons, illustrations, and the surreal. Ideas of ownership, abandonment, economy, luxury, generosity, legality, and the ridiculous are also apart of the project.—-Left in the public, for the public, MoneyBags is a project for you to participate in. Construct your own MoneyBags and add them to the public. Donations to our collection is also encouraged.”
This is the bag that I grabbed, which had actual money in it (most contain small pieces of art). There were a bunch of quarters, and a few nickles, dimes, and pennies. When I got home I counted exactly $9.11, a number which I’m sure was not a coincidence. I don’t plan on spending the money myself. Instead I plan on taking it somewhere and either handing it to someone in need or placing it on the street/bus stop somewhere. As long as someone doesn’t think it’s a suspicious package :)
ow that I’ve been reading an amazing book about pigeons (called Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World’s Most Revered and Reviled Bird by Andrew D. Blechman) I’ve got birds on the brain. This book is a really amazing insight into these birds that have been both beloved companions and called “rats of the sky”. I have a pair tattooed on my chest, so you know what side of the debate I stand on.
cat kaleidoscope that I made a few months ago.
Why are these kitties multi-colored? I’m not really sure, but I would like a blue one please.
nd of Life is an installation I did in my dear friend Mary’s gallery—Parlour Room Projects—in Ypsilanti, MI in November and December. The gallery is in Mary’s apartment and consists of two doors that open to a blank wall. It ended up being the perfect place for a little mini gallery. I had so much fun creating and installing this piece and I’m really looking forward to doing more work in this vein. I have a lot of ideas, just not a lot of time lately. I’m trying to clear out my Friday schedule to be my studio time in order to produce more work and apply to more shows.
This is my artist statement from the show: “End of Life” is a term used to describe a product that has been fully consumed or used up. Plastic mesh discarded from the flower industry has been transformed into organic shapes—heavy with symbolism but ethereal in their lightness—as a way to question our relationship with the natural and spiritual worlds, as well as the manufactured quality of these worlds. Blurring the lines between natural and synthetic, this piece is a meditation on dichotomy and the space between two opposing absolutes.
You can see more about The Parlour Room, including the new exhibition that is opening tomorrow, here: www.parlourroomprojects.com.
