I'M GONNA SCREAM
I don’t have anything to say. Or I have too much to say. My journal sits staring at me but I scroll on my phone instead. A friend died and I wandered the aisles of costco thinking about how sometimes you want just one of something, not three. I saw a full moon and wispy pink cotton candy clouds at sunrise.
It seems strange that time keeps moving forward when someone you loved is gone. I go to work and bake the cookies and whole families are dragged off in unmarked vans, deposited in concentration camps: left to rot. The sickly sweet smell of chocolate chips and maple pecan flavoring filling my nostrils all day while people are dying.
My friends text me “I’M GONNA SCREAM!” and I vacillate between silence and screaming back. We must fight, we have to fight; we are drowning, we are being pulled under.
In the Studio
I’ve been working on a series of sculptures inspired by medieval pilgrim pins. Religious pilgrims would wear these pins on their journeys, often to indicate their piousness or where they had been. Researchers are still unclear on the role of pins shaped like vulvas and penises but I like to think that medieval people, likely so much more intimately connected to their bodies than us, would deign to worship pleasure and bodies. Medieval art and manuscripts often contain imagery that we (modern people) would consider profane or overtly sexual. And in a time where almost no one outside of the church had the ability to read (or access to said manuscripts), one must wonder about these pious kinksters!
I’m excited to keep going with this idea and I’m really loving solid sculpting! Of course you never know how things will turn out in pottery, but I’m hoping this one makes it to the kiln!
Fired Up
I hope you’ll join me on Friday, February 27 from 6-9 pm for an art exhibition! My work is included in a group show celebrating current and past apprentices at Pottery Northwest! I have four pieces in the show, three that have never been exhibited before! Included are my new works that are solid sculpted and pit fired and I’m excited to show them!
Pussy Pipe Sculpting
Join me on Sunday, March 29 from 5-7 pm for a pipe sculpting class! Create your very own smokable pussy/bussy/tdick pipe! We’ll create functional artwork with plenty of options for customization!
Follow Up Links
My friend Beau passed away suddenly last weekend. He was a wonderful friend, an engaged community member, a caring partner, and an incredibly patient parent. He leaves behind his partner and their two very young children (7 months, 4 years). You can read a wonderful tribute to Beau here. A loss like this is unbelievably hard on everyone involved. If you’re able, please support Stevie and the kids as they try to regain some stability.
Last month I posted about organizing for a general strike and you can can involved in organizing efforts with the Freedom Socialist Party! Here’s a write up about a recent meeting: Town Hall Builds Support for a General Strike
Hug your loved ones, kiss your friends on the forehead, buy yourself the pretty flowers. We are not promised tomorrow.