made this.

before it was finished:

hi, i still make things.

some things:

(go to college, stay in college, stay in a city you hate just so you don't feel like a "failure")

a book that doesn't make sense yet, or, why my embroidery teacher says i don't belong in art school.

california home on the left, baltimore rowhouse on the right

perry's shirt. and sweater.

i think i'm moving home and attending CCA after this semester.

names and where they were found here

third day back to school and i'm already overwhelmed. all i want to do is this for the rest of my life.

peter lyon, henry lyon, and mary dwan came to visit for a few days on their way back from california. these pictures are from loch raven.

they were the best houseguests.

finally got film processed and finally have a scanner. crappy prints+crappy scanner=ok with me.

all of our pets are dying.

found at cultural center light rail stop.

i envy this person's authority. i hope to be more bossy in 2010 (yes i treat every day like it's the first day of the current year. new new year's resolutions all the time.)

thanks to marlo for being thoughtful enough to grab my camera and take these photos. valeska held a potluck and "graduation ceremony" for us at her house on the last day of school. i am going to miss that class so very much.

"boyfriend art"

merit badges for perry

drawing II assignment. (it was a stretch)

i live here.

things to work on:

not feeling stuck
being brave
letting go
never getting too comfortable
and learning to love that


i think the last two will help the first one.

dear sonoma county residents,

i am collecting stories about tom waits. i have never met or seen the man and i don't even know what he looks like. i've heard many stories and would like to collect them all to make one very strange depiction of the guy. if you participate, i promise to send you a copy of the collection in the form of a neat handmade tape or CD. all you have to do is get in touch with me and i'll give you a call and record our "interview", or you can just leave me a voicemail here: 410 929 7842. it's a skype number, so don't worry about waking me or anything. no story is too small! "sightings" are enough.

thank you.

susie

perry and i brought our pet toad back to where we found him last summer. it was sad, sad, sad. but we left him with hundreds of his toad friends mating in this swampy area so he should be stoked. this is him, caractacus:

the toads make this really cool mating call and when they do it, they puff up there throats like this

some toads doin it and laying eggs

vanessa and perry toad watching

really cool toad (fowlers i think?) he was sitting on a log as we were admiring his size and wishin' he'd come closer to us so we could catch him when he did just that! he swam almost directly into perry's hands.

this is a fox skull i found

perry caught a green frog. they are very tricky. he got away.

this is one of maybe 3 pictures of perry and me.