Besides, you know, as a writer, I’m constantly drawing from that trove of image and story. That’s why I’m fascinated with collecting, the act, and collections – the amassing and assemblage and the altogether. I took a fantastic class while at SAIC about Artists and Collecting and Artist’s Collections. I forget the title, heh. But it was right up my alley, as my grandmother would say, and it’s shaped my awareness and process, or awareness of my process, perhaps. It’s all good. There is an abundance of color and light and strangeness, and I’m going to start tacking bits up here.

For example: lookit this! it’s a LAMP! i’ve always had a love of the miniature, and part of that has shown itself in my fondness for houses in 3D artwork. little ceramic houses, fantastical bird houses (man, I wish I could link to Gerry Wallace work here!), tiny dollhouses or shadow boxes or the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute … translates into my love of Cornell, etc etc etc. I like to trace the pathways Where These Things Come From. For about $2K, I could add this to my collection. from Anthropologie, where lots of delightfulness originates.

I need to come back to this later, since it’s meal-time I’m still refreshing on basic formatting and html.

looooooove.
-j

• "We are not a lovable species."

  -Nikki Giovanni

• "The beautiful is as useful as the useful. Perhaps more so."

  -Victor Hugo

• "Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom."

  -Frank Bidart

• "I have built such beautiful castles that I would be satisfied with their ruins."

  -Jules Renard

• "I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man."

  -Chris Adrian

• "I used to be addicted to sex. Now I'm addicted to breathing."

  -M.F.K. Fisher

• "It is wonderful, though, knowing someone you trust is so looking forward to seeing what mess you've made today."

  -Jim Shepard

• "The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart."

  -Kurt Vonnegut

• "There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. I am proof of that."

  -Kurt Vonnegut

• "My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die. There is evil for you. We cannot get rid of mankind's fleetingly evil wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. I give you a holy word: DISARM."

  -Deadeye Dick

• "I instantly laughed like hell. I was the only person to do so."

  -Kurt Vonnegut

• "That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues."

  -Kurt Vonnegut

• "In the history of language / the first obscenity was silence."

  -Christina Davis

• "I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself."

  -Montaigne

• "The biggest sin is sitting on your ass."

  -Florynce Kennedy

• "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."

  -Phyllis Diller

• "I am always searching for everything."

  -Ivan from Belize

• "I write you and you feel me."

  -Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

• "I never cease to interest myself in the Gothic architecture of my own fantastic soul."

  -W.N.P. Cummings

• "...there is no truth, only stories."

  -Tom Grimes

• "Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love."

  -Kevin Moffett

• "The weight of love
  Has buoyed me up
  Till my head
  Knocks against the sky."

  -William Carlos Williams, "A Love Song"

• "Exuberance is beauty."

  -William Blake

• "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

  -George Bernard Shaw

• "Art does not reproduce what we see, it makes us see."

  -Paul Klee

… to be updated!

thunderbolts & lightning,
-J