Words + Images

These were some of my favorites from that site you sent I Can Read.
I too have been thinking of making cards like this from things I feel and
have written down.


In progress, I want to watercolor around the letters.
And I love the Very Very Beautiful Blog as well.
Thanks for the inspiring links Juls!

Shadowbox Series

I've been working on these collages based on maps of cities where good friends live. I seem to work intuitively using the visual vernacular of these places left in my mind's memory from either living there or visiting and also from thinking about the friend who habitats that city. This one is for my friend Ryen who lives in San Francisco. I'm really happy with how it turned out and hope he is too!

Richard Brautigan "It's Raining in Love"

I don't know what it is
but I distrust myself
when I start to like a girl
a lot.

It makes me nervous.
I don't say the right things
or perhaps I start
to examine
evaluate
compute
what I am saying.

If I say, "Do you think it's going to rain?"
and she says, "I don't know,"
I start thinking: Does she really like me?

In other words
I get a little creepy.

A friend of mine once said,
"It's twenty times better to be friends
with someone
than it is to be in love with them."

I think he's right and besides,
It's raining somewhere, programming flowers
and keeping snails happy.
That's all taken care of.

BUT
if a girl likes me a lot
and starts getting real nervous
and suddenly begins asking me funny questions
and looks sad if I give the wrong answers
and she says things like,
"Do you think it's going to rain?"
and I say, "It beats me,"
and she says, "Oh,"
and looks a little sad
at the clear blue California sky,
I think: Thank God, it's you, baby, this time
instead of me.

Emily shared this poem with me today and I fell in love with it.
Favorite line in the whole poem: "I get a little creepy."
We all know how that feels. Don't we?

Book of Ephemera

I don't know if you know this, but among collecting receipts, art and supplies, I have been collecting tickets for the last 13 or so years. Here are my first scans of ticket stubs that I have decided I want to compile into a book. I love looking at the typography and variety of color. I think after I have scanned them all in, I will use as material for mosaic/collage work. I look forward to that day=)

Henrique Oliveira

Thanks Julie for sharing this wonderful artist with me!
I absolutely love his work, both 2d and 3d.
http://www.henriqueoliveira.com/