In the midst of reading Diane Arbus's biography and finding inspiration.
I love how she has this inner darkness that she's not afraid to tap into.

I can't seem to stop making fairy cut-outs to string across my bedroom windows.
Sometimes I think I was most content somewhere in my childhood, and that is why I continuously surround myself with old childrens books and fanticiful figures.

For Meghan:

Meredith lady.

Today is Meredith's birthday. Here are all things Meredith:
(If I could place them all in a woodland box with a bow, I would.)

Oh, and here is a a peak at Jessica George.

Originally this entire idea to create a blog spurred from two grad students, Cole Caswell and Jessica George who saw some of my work and felt it would relay well in a blog form. Giving me a chance to write individually about each of the portraits I've been working on. I don't feel quite ready to do that yet.


For now I enjoy finding minute connections within each persons space.

Self-confident Boy
Originally uploaded by josefnovak33

Past attitude.

Layers.

Originally uploaded by Haleyjohanne

A heroine.

Beatrix Potter with her pet dormouse, Xarifa.

About 5 years ago I used to listen to this song everyday.

"A dream that resembles a disordered heap of disconnected fragments is just as valuable as one that has been beautifully polished and provided with a surface." -Sigmund Freud

So begin.

Feeling the need to have a space that I can just fill with images/words that I continuously come across and want to collect. So, I guess this space/blog will be used as a way to keep them.

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I love how the repetition of one word can form its own pattern.