He cleared my mind, like light moving through water.

Camelia design

Craggy Molecules design

 "I the broken plastic Snoopy swing sit

  in the garbage, I was once a source 

  of pleasure for about five minutes

  but I didn't last long. I got broken.

  Why? that's why.

  I, the thing that the donuts go on,

  am a yellow cone called I don't know

  I got unscrewed from my base & found I was used

  as a drinking cup by children

  because I was hollow.

  I am loud, I am the radio

  that plays "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head."

  The rain and the rainbow & the one sleeping

  with the frog are on me and the one sleeping with

  the other girls sharing yellow are on me.

  I was stolen from a playgroup in Massachusetts

  and have lasted a long time. I have notes on me."

  excerpt from Toy Epigrams, by Bernadette Mayer

Certain things are evocative, almond paste is one.

Over and over, she tried to grind her pelvis into the earth.

Morning Drawing # 14

At thirty-eight she changed the stones in each piece from black to red.

"Dress rehearsal was a disaster. One of the chorus girls sprained an ankle, a costume in the 'Electricity' number short-circuited, Chiquita (Baker's pet leopard), unnerved by the general tension, chewed a hole in a dancer's trousers and the wind machine broke down."

-Josephine Baker, description of the days leading up to the premiere of Paris qui Remue, which opened at Le Casino de Paris on September 26, 1930.

We have turned the Modernist eye on the poor creatures and whittled their bodies down to nothing.

Morning Drawing #13

Morning Drawing #12

Two Monkey Valentine

He died without anyone knowing the recipe.

She very gradually stole service for twelve.

And then Leo started to cry and it ruined the whole brunch.

Cowboy wrapping paper, purchased in Nogales, designer unkown.

He has eyes like a Fayoum Portrait.

Diana Vreeland knows how to pack a museum,

People Magazine, December 9th 1974

Diana Vreeland knows how to pack a museum

People Magazine, December 9th 1974

It tastes like stamps.

2 sketches made while looking at the Yves Saint Laurent show  

DeYoung Museum, San Francisco 2009.

Blur the edges and set the image adrift.