January 2011 Archives

I’ve always been a listener. I hear things. Sometimes in words, other times in images, still others as tiny rushes of adrenaline. This has been going on for years at seemingly random intervals, random enough that I never considered it anything more than a fluke when it happened and even more of a fluke when I interpreted it correctly. I never knew exactly what it was I was listening to either. It certainly never occurred to me that I could ask it questions and actually get an answer.Many years ago when I got out of grad school I took a job as a programmer. I enjoyed the challenge for the first couple of years, then became unbelievably bored with the ... more

Finished and entered into SIGGRAPH with 54 minutes to spare. Of course no one will be more surprised than I am if it actually gets in, but that wasn’t really the reason I did this. I use art and writing to process my life. A deadline just motivates me to see it through to the end.I think I have more coming. Especially now that I caught up on all that sleep I lost last week. Below is a pic of the two pieces as they should hang together, and then a closeup of each one. I used myself as a model for the girl but I used about four different photo references for the guy. I think he turned out ... more

In the summer of 1992 I had a decision to make: Either get serious with this new guy, or go back to this old guy that I was still in love with but didn’t know how to have a relationship with. The possibility that I would choose the wrong guy both terrified and paralyzed me. The new guy was well aware of what I was faced with, and in his infinite patience he uttered probably the wisest words anyone has ever said to me: “Amy, there is no wrong decision. You just make a decision, and then you make it work as best you can.”He might as well have been speaking in tongues, because that statement made absolutely no sense ... more