Recently in Process Category

I guess the dam broke.I hit a bottleneck around the beginning of October. Paul’s death had really made me think a lot about my life, about how short it is, and about what I really want. It made me think about what I want and then think again about what I had actually given myself permission to have. When I looked at it that way, it wasn’t as much as I thought.I’ve been writing a lot about relationships lately because this is one of the things I thought the most about. As much as I have said in the past year or so that I was ready for another serious relationship, it turns out that I was carrying around some ... more

Motivation. I finally got me some. I have no idea where it came from, but fall tends to do this to me. Good things happen to me in the fall. The new fall shows start, I crave cookie dough, I buy myself “birthday presents” that I have to pay off for another year, and I get really creative. I have a ton of ideas bouncing around in my head right now and they will get done. Yes they will. YES THEY WILL.NaNoWriMoNovember is National Novel Writing Month. The idea is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. You can’t start until midnight on November 1, and you have until midnight on November 30 to finish. Then you upload your “novel” ... more

I know California is not the only state that has ramp meters, but I never saw this in Texas. In case you don’t know, a ramp meter is a stop light at the end of an on-ramp before you get onto the highway. It’s supposed to regulate the number of cars trying to get on at the same time. It’s a nice idea in theory. Does it work? Not so much. I’ve been here almost two years. I have yet to see it improve the quality of my commute or anyone else’s... unless you count the extra wait time I can use to listen to Duran Duran in my car.In Texas, people would just enter the crowded highway at 30mph, ... more

“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.” ~ Frida KahloI just got NetFlix and one of the first movies I watched was Frida. I didn’t expect it to be as good as it was. I also didn’t expect it to speak to me the way it did. I went through a phase at the beginning of this year where I did a lot of self portraits. I realized later when the triggering crisis had passed that this is something I do to deal with pain. Pain hasn’t been the source of every self portrait I’ve ever done, not by a long shot. But pain causes me to retreat into ... 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