This is a drawing I did back in January, for a dr suess related project that I am no longer involved with. I want to expand my portfolio, so that I will actually get hired to do art, as opposed to very nearly hired, as occasionally happens. More often than you'd think. But I have trouble motivating myself to produce when no one else is relying on me.

PANTS!

I am working on a quilted masterpeice. And it shall be pants. I keep taking over Barbara's room to sew.

mmmm couches

We have a different couch now (as you might already know), one that doesn't splosh the sitters out onto the floor. I'm sitting on it as I write this, enjoying the couchiness of it. I like couches. They are important.

The cat there is Nora. She saw me walk out of my room and was unsure whether to flee or stay perfectly still in hopes that I wouldn't notice her. The poor dear. She's gotten so much better during her time living with us. I can just imagine her saying "Oh! Oh my Goodness! Oh Me! Oh My!"... pretty much most of the time.

The cushion behind the couch there are the remnants of the old couch. They are sitting outside at the moment, waiting more me to figure out how to make them less full of allergins, and then I will fix their old cover and do something clever with them.

street art- knitt-bombing

Emily, and Kevin my friend and her boy friend, have been leaving little clay creatures around for the observant to find. They talk about it here: http://somnule.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/bomb-of-the-day-698/ ... today on their journey they passed some knitted street signs... you can see some examples here: http://streetcolor.wordpress.com/

Well all of this reminded me of an adventure I had a couple months back, that also took me past some unexpected knitted creations...
Can You guess what it is?
I just loved her blue nails with it. But I bet you still don't know what it is.
Well people who've seen it, maybe they know.
Ok, now ask yourself, where is there a giant 'T'
This made me burst out laughing. You have to have heard someone say what that is referencing, in all seriousness. Then, if you are me, you look at this and have a sound track, in yo mind (kids beat up and they don't even rhyme, they just stand there on the street corner, skin tucked in and inside out), sorry, a sound track playing for me what I've just read, "Knitta PLEASE."..."You be hella bootsey!"

Have any idea where this may be now?
This is the T in the sign saying "There." On the edge of Berkeley/Oakland, there are HERE and THERE signs. Oakland is there. I believe this came from the quote "There is no there there" in reference to oakland. Gertrude Stein said that. I know because I'm on the computer right now. I suppose I could look up if that is actually where these structures came from.

Ah, yes, the internet- you serve me well. That is where these structures came from. And the quote is not disparaging of Oakland, but actually references that Gertrude's childhood home was torn down. There is apparently another THERE statue downtown. I like that better. I'm not sure what message it gives, having Berkeley be the HERE and Oakland be the THERE.