Alien Royalty

After I drew these, I realized that the top one reminds me a lot of a black and white reoccurring dream I used to have growing up. It was a nativity scene with all types of farm animals, and there was an alien, too. There was no dialogue and the dream looked flat, like a drawing.

some recent grams

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Grocery Store: now available to order

Grocery Store is now available to order online! If you didn't pick it up at Stumptown Comics Fest or TCAF, get it now! Order here.

gems of fashion: Diamond Vision

Crystal shaped purses? Yes, please.

Larissa Hadjio knows how to make wearable art. Her Fall 2012 collection Diamond Vision is a medley of leather clutches, daybags, bum bags, and more, inspired by one of my favorite things - minerals! These pieces are soft and feminine while still maintaining the angular lines of diamonds.

Stumptown Adventures with Neil Sudoku

We knew we reached Portlandia when we saw the unicyclist.

The man himself, Mr. Neil Sudoku.

My long awaited trip to Portland, OR (aka Rose City, Rip City, Bridge City, P-town, Stumptown, PDX) turned out to be the most fun I've had this year, and quite possibly the most fun I will have for the rest of 2012. It all started with a six hour plane ride, followed by a layover in the very beautiful Seattle airport where Ben and I sat watching planes take off into the clouds against a backdrop of distant mountains and tall pines, followed by a short flight in a prop plane which was prefaced by a turbulence warning, followed by a lime green cab, followed by clear beautiful skies that at first made me angry since I had packed for the rain. 

Grocery Store

Introducing Grocery Store, an indulgent collection of self-portraits as eccentric supermarket shoppers. The zine will first be available this weekend at Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, OR. I'll be at table 207, come get a copy and pick up Scepter Gem Pt 1, too! Grocery Store will be available to order online here in May.

This project started back in the fall of last year as a reaction to my experiences shopping for groceries, as well as my love of performance, dressing up, and apparent (aka bad) photoshopping. I posted all of the pictures on my tumblr as I made them, but felt like it was time to create something tangible to complete the project. The zine contains a bunch of the original portraits as well as a few new ones.

The grocery store is an amazing place for visual stimulation: aisles and aisles of pattern, color, and shape.  Where I live in northern New Jersey, the food stores are all giant, expensive supermarkets. There is something really interesting about the juxtaposition between the intense visuals of the store and the shoppers in it. It's a wonderful place to people watch, and most of them are in their own world while they are shopping, checking off the items on the grocery list in their minds, so it's easy to stare without them noticing. And even if you run into the same shoppers in the store you frequent, there are always those people who catch your eye and prompt you to imagine their weird lives outside of the grocery store.

Girls Girls Girls

Finally completed a few ceramic sculptures I started a pretty long time ago. Here they are, in all their shiny, sexy beauty. More here.

And here are a few of the unfinished ones. These sculptures were started as far back as December of 2010, so its very unlikely that I will finish them. Plus they are damaged with pieces missing.