and while i'm here

here is my second and failed attempt to germinate my seed of wanting to make a project out of drawings of Antarctica. With Max (who is incidentally the destroyer of the first attempt-- a traced map on a piece of a dress pattern) in the background.

all part of the process...

It's been so long...

But I am, once again, attempting to recommit myself to the blog. now that everyone is twittering (tweeting?), i decided to revive this thing. and i won't lie, i have been really impressed by zoe strauss's blog (thanks to nat for introducing me to her) and that also contributed. Anyway, I know that you have heard it before, but here it is again.

I wanted to introduce you to a painter named Joy Garnett because I just found and am in love with a series she has done on the Yangtse Three Gorges Dam
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=73257&id=47320229387
This is one of them:




And I also wanted to share a talk by Mae Jemison on the subject of the falsely dichotomized fields of science and the arts.