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I am a withering crop with my sun 

being the mental asylum lighting of either the printmaking lab or the fabrics room, my soil being campus grounds/the sofa in the art department and my water being a cough I have had for 3 weeks. 

WELCOME TO HELL WEEK 2010!!!

Okay maybe I am exaggerating with that first metaphor, but let's put it this way: the last 72 hours of my life have been spent in the art building. Coughing. Printmaking. Hand Sewing. Gluing. Coughing. Getting Sore. Dying a little on the inside. Wearing the same outfit to school. 

"Carmen, please get some rest this weekend," my mom told me over the phone today. 

I wish! Too bad I still have my entire printmaking portfolio, a fabrics final, two art history exams (grade-dependent!) and the Beyond Borders juried art competition to submit to! All of which must be done by this weekend. I even have to postpone taking Kyle's (Hunting Hat) band photos. Boooooooo!

Well, here are the current fruits of my labor/indentured servitude:

Lil' Kim T-Bone Steak Photo Lithograph print

I contacted MEATPAPER magazine with these pictures. They were interested. Woo! 

 Katazome Pieces for Fibers/Fabrics class 

The second piece's mosaic in the middle was done with broken mirror pieces I found in my alleyway. Everything is hand-stitched...I've never sewn until now.

Lauryn Hill as Queen of The Mic Hand-Drawn Lithograph print 

By the time I finished tracing the layers and maneuvering around minor problems, it was 4:30 a.m. so the quality of the prints themselves are not what I wanted. They will have to do for critique but will be redone for the final portfolio. 

And for dramatic effect, a sublime film starring Lauryn Hill:

Labryinth

Three of my photos got accepted and will be published in my school's art and literary publication Labryinth Magazine! Yeah!

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Before the internet our world was smaller, our interactions were meaningful and our hearts were too big. I just want to see you. In person. 

Glad Glass//Dirty Bird Cabaret

Here's the poster I made for this Friday, February 5th's show at the Underground at 8:00 p.m. with Glad Glass (Laine and Cora) and The Dirty Bird Cabaret. It's a part of the the Underground Coffeehouse's Concert series and will be for free! Should be exciting to see this printed out around campus:)

L8LY

new trinkets from my brain

for the Drug Call 4 Art at school

for a personal series I've started:

Fffffffffound

It's been a long time, long time, shouldnt have left you, left you without an epiphany?

 After so many years of hodgepodge bullshit artistic statements, I think I finally understands my artistic intent with photography. It was the greatest, most quiet and natural coming to terms experience of my life and now everything makes sense...! As artificial as it sounds, someone commented on one of my photos on my Flickr, and it just brought out this huge run-on sentence response. Within that reaction I literally summarized to myself what it is that I want to investigate and further develop with my photography and it brought a much, MUCH needed cohesiveness and concentration to my photography. Its a great feeling I have been needing for a while. 

*M E N T A L   D E P A R T U R E // T H I S   I S   W H Y   I   A M   S I N G L E*

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I'm sorry. But I can't sympathize with someone who lets this stupid, pathetic mainstream teenage incentive rule the way they think and therefore lead them to make decisions only to impress their less than genuine peers. No way. Think a little and respect yourself and for once don't try to be what these empty jars of superficiality that you call acquaintances tell you to be. 

Listening to Chromatics and working on more triangle pieces.