This is the last of the drawings I will be submitting to the show at Moonbeam. It goes up tomorrow (Friday the 15th of January)....
Also: I have a couple of pieces up in the current show at Canteen Gallery in Ottawa. Go look at them! And buy a zine, or a book, or even a piece of art! Because that place is rad and you should support it.
So here are some of the things I forgot to talk about on the last post...
Right now I am reading Big Questions by Anders Nilsen. Dogs and Water is really good too. I love how he doesn't always use panels/borders like traditional comics, that some of his drawings are so light feeling and they just trail away into nothing. Its very eerie. Dogs and Water has this feeling to it like there's a constant high pitched hum... like white noise, something you don't really notice until you do notice and then it starts driving you crazy
Do you ever have days when you are really hungover and sound starts distorting like some sort of audio hallucination when you take LSD (this is assuming that you've ever taken LSD)?
Me and my boyfriend-at-the-time Greg and my friends Sarah and Matt traveled out west last summer. The trip where I got beat up by the teenagers. A couple of days before I got beat up by the teenagers, we drove the car down to the very bottom of Saskachewan and Alberta, pretty much along the border of Montana. The only animals out there were cows and antelope and it was really really flat and there was just nothing, like, it was a desert. We stopped the car to hang out and eat pie and we could see these mountains that were like 200 km away in Montana which was kind of crazy and when one of us would walk into the distance it felt like they were still right in front of you because there was just nothing to break up the space (like foreground, midground, background or something) and I have to say that I got kind of weirded out.
I was really embarased to bring it up in front of Sarah and Matt because I knew they would just want me to suck it up, and Greg and I were breaking up ever so slowly and I was being really emotional and childish and unreasonable the whole trip, but I really wanted to drive back to civilization. I am just not used to nothing, and maybe if I had been in a better headspace I would have embraced the strangeness of it, but I just wanted to get in the car and go camp out eat some food...actually, that's not true. I wanted to go home.
Its funny how lonely and awful I felt on that trip. I was with a handful of people who at the time I was very very close to and I felt so so so lost. I reacted poorly... I swear, guys I can be a really good traveling partner! Just ask Ashley, we had a great time in Switzerland! Oh well, nothing to be done now. I am glad Sarah and Matt are still great friends of mine. Sarah and I got into an awful fight the next day, which I admitedly started. She called me a cunt. I love her very much.
(this is Sarah. Probably about 5- 7 hours before calling me a cunt and I said equally bad things to her as well. She's on a Dino sculpture in Drumheller, Alberta. Its a very strange place, you should visit someday).
Anyways...Vanessa Reiger and Xenia Benivolsky were interviewed by Sara Titanic about the White House. Read it, there's also a photo of my studio in the pictures.
Also, I am now officially on the Board of Directors at the studio!! Yay! Its a little intimidating! But that's ok, I am pretty stoked to be so involved with something so rad...
I saw a really great show at the Whippersnapper last week. Go look at it. Artists Amanda Nedham and Jannick Deslauriers. I was introduced to Amanda's work a few months ago because a friend was going to check out her show at Le Gallery and I really like her drawings. The pieces are all sculpture/installation type things but they are all stunning and you should go look at it before its over.
I'm sorry I'm not better at talking about WHY they are stunning, but I am really too self concious to write about art. That's not a good thing, but, for now, that's the way it is. When I start getting straight A s in liberal studies class and have a written a few half decent artist statements, well, then I'll be a little more vocal about what I think about the things I like...
Umm... I also really really like Luke Painter's work right now. Maybe that's old news to you, but he was this guy whose name I kept hearing forever and was all like who is this guy and then I finally saw his work, which I had totally seen all over the place before and I was like 'oh, he's THAT guy' and anyways he draws a nice picture and he sure is great at making some genuinely creepy drawings and avoiding the cheesy Tim Burton aesthetic. God, people are just so amazing at the things they do...
Also: Gord Auld from Fat City Wildcat has a show at the Great Hall on Queen Street. Go look at his things if you are kicking around that area!
Ok that's it that's all.
Anybody else interested in contributing to the NERDY DAD zine please let me know!
xo
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