i was looking at my flickr statistics and found someone from this blog had been looking at my photostream, i went to the blog and found this http://blog.creativekismet.com/2011/06/16/tilt-june16/

i like the fact that my work is appreciated and don´t mind it being referenced in someone´s blog but this person never asked me permission to post my work. i would have done that, not just post it. or at least tell me you posted it. not sure if i´m overreacting but this uncomfortable feeling comes from an honest place in me.

this is the photo she used, i don´t know why i didn´t post it here, it´s from a moment of play in my little studio...

a small (but significant) twist on yesterday´s piece/fun experiment...

i haven´t felt well today so i could not really make any art as i had planned; i sat at my table and played around, then just shot the photo. i like how this looks, the central figure is actually a magazine page, i deleted the man´s face using metal polish and placed it on top a stencil of lace and added the used up doily and a photocopy of lace.  i feel like sewing all of this together. sometimes i make pieces that just exist in photographs, after i shoot them i take them apart, maybe this is what will happen with this.

it´s always so calming to play in my little studio... i don´t always have the energy after work, but i napped this afternoon and don´t work tomorrow so i played in three different journals and also reconnected with my old oil pastels.

art making is so soothing and good for me...

i´m going back to the jellyfish, last year i did a sketch of some jellyfish as background for a thom yorke portrait, but now i'm using it for different reasons.

i was initially attracted to their weird beauty, then looked up their symbolism and they made even more sense: "[jellyfish symbolize] sensitivity to water energy (emotions), understanding of the value of floating rather than swimming through trying emotional times, proper use of softness (not being rigid), ability to become untangled from the webs of peril in life, acceptance and faith."

after i finish this drawing i will make a stencil for a jellyfish and then play with it. i am adding some clouds to this drawing; the jellyfish swims in the skies... i will post a photo when i finish drawing them.

g sent me my new moleskine sketchbook, you can´t get them in lima... he also sent me delillo´s cosmopolis which came with a tracey emin postcard (from the tate gallery) inside. a sweet package! i have not started using my moleskine yet, i´m finishing my previous book, i started reading the delillo book and i´m really liking it. i´m also reading auster´s sunset park  (also sent by g, he´s my culture/art stuff pusher :) )and steve martin´s an object of beauty (in kindle! i swore never to treason books with kindle so i feel really bad about this). good reading stuff, good drawing stuff, life is good!