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Clap Your Hands For Mail

September 16, 2011 – 4:55 pm

Here is what I sent out for September’s Project Dispatch:

"my blanket is my island"

“my blanket is my island”; ink & brushpen on watercolor paper; 9 x 12″

Aaaand speaking of Project Dispatch, Chandi  & Frank did such a lovely job at Hampdenfest. This is me inside the PD tent at Hampdenfest, staring at the green line that my phone camera always adds to every photo:

me @ hampdenfest

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This month so far has turned out to be a rather busy one, full of cats (well, one cat) & school & work & drawing & breaking in new shoes & scratching at insect bites.  Tomorrow, for instance, on Sept. 17th, I’ll be at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore furiously drawing from 7:30 to 8:30pm.

I like drawing a lot & I like art events, but I’m not a person who likes to be a busy bee (I’m one of those people who likes to drink tea and likes to drink that tea slowly). So, it’s nice in this tender month of feeling busy-ish to get something GLORIOUS in the mail and get to spend some time out drinking tea and reading zines.  YES TO ZINES! (zines by Anna + a Stanley Lieber comic I lent to Anna a couple of years ago).  YES TO SCRUNCHIES (made by Anna and Mika)!  YES TO ANNA!  College friends turned Japan-dwelling turned mail friends are the best.

 

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Project Dispatch @ Hampdenfest

September 5, 2011 – 9:00 am

The art subscription service I’m a member of, Project Dispatch,  will be making a grand splish-splash in my neck of the woods this weekend at Hampdenfest in Baltimore.

On Saturday, September 10 from 10am – 7pm, you can roam the streets of Hampden (well, one street, to be exact; it’s “The Avenue” on 36th Street), nosh on food, slurp on drinks,  and admire Baltimore’s DIY-ish kookiness.  At the Project Dispatch booth, you can get art to start yourself on a mail subscriptions and nab some zines & books.

I will be there, too!  Probably scurrying around like the mouse or chinchilla that I am, scavenging for tasty morsels to chew down.  After all, I can’t survive on packaged food pellets alone.

Baltimore Hampdenfest 2011

Oh, and I really hope Dan Deacon makes an appearance.  Last time I saw him (and please note, I don’t actually know him, and he was probably weirded out that Bigzom & I were standing in a corner, gaping at his outfit in awe) he was wearing red shorts with bright blue shorts and looked like the inverse of Bart Simpson. That is,  if Bart Simpson is A/B, he was B/A.  Dan Deacon is the inverse of fraction Bart Simpson.

My artwork will also be featured in the Project Dispatch booth. Here is one of the pieces that will be there:

rainbow geometric

“rainbow geometric”; 5.5 x 8.5″; ink & pen on watercolor paper

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