Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Elizabeth Stephens- Sculptor and performance artist
The Porn Star Academic Panty Collection
This series of bronzes juxtapose academic and porn star panties. Porn stars and academics are cultural heroes. They are both in the forefront of thought and practice around issues such as sexuality, sexism and identity politics. In the academic world the brightest intellectuals are fetishized in a manner that bears certain similarities to the ways in which porn fans adore their stars. Both are sexy, powerful and compelling. This work is homage and a wink to the bravery and chutzpah of porn stars and adventurous academics who are physically and intellectually stimulating, be it in the classroom or on the silver screen.
I'm not sure what I think about the rest of her work, but if you want to see some it, go here.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Mini-books
These are Quarter Bound leather hollow-backed books. It's a Coptic structure (sewn on cords) and I've been sewing the headbands by hand. I think they are beautiful and sophisticated and a good challenge to make. The ones I just finished are mini-books (they're only 3" tall!!). I did four, but I've only got pictures of three... The fourth is going to be in the Summer Study Abroad Exhibition, which goes up tomorrow.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
loomy loom-- the saga continues
So I said I was going to make a rug to work out the kinks in my loom. WHY THE FUCK DOES IT NOT HAVE A LOCKING MECHANISM AND NOW I HAVE THIS WARP STRETCHED AND AM USING A HAIR TIE TO FREAKIN' HOLD IT IN TENSION!?!?! This totally sucks. Ahhh!!! Enough with that I will figure it out in the morning (ugh so tired).
Other thing (not so disastrous thing) I did today was to begin refinishing the beauteous solid wood oak desk I found at a yard sale for $20. Yay. It's a 1940's writing desk, needs to be completely sanded down and re-oiled, and the drawers need new bottoms cut and fitted and glued, but other than that... And, lucky for me, none of that is a problem at all. I want to get this done before returning to MICA (my intent is for it to be my sewing desk when I'm home from school, and eventually it will travel with me to a more permanent residence somewhere).
Last day of internship tomorrow = Bed now.
Other thing (not so disastrous thing) I did today was to begin refinishing the beauteous solid wood oak desk I found at a yard sale for $20. Yay. It's a 1940's writing desk, needs to be completely sanded down and re-oiled, and the drawers need new bottoms cut and fitted and glued, but other than that... And, lucky for me, none of that is a problem at all. I want to get this done before returning to MICA (my intent is for it to be my sewing desk when I'm home from school, and eventually it will travel with me to a more permanent residence somewhere).
Last day of internship tomorrow = Bed now.
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