Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Things I Would Like To Do More Of / Learn To Do:

Published by Sarah Sovereign at 1:03 AM

- Needlepoint / Cross-Stitch. The last time I made a cross-stitch it was in the shape of an apple and I was giving it to my seventh grade teacher. I do a lot of sewing with fabrics in my art practice, but those are generally x-stitches that don't call for orderliness or neatness. So, as I sit around my apartment covered in moved furniture and crazy books + thrift finds + Star Wars figurines, I could use a little order.

- For that matter, I'd like to work a little more with fabrics. I have been planning to do a quilt since like, 1875 so it's about time I get on that. I'd also like to incorporate a more free-flowing use of fabric into my art. Which is crazy because as you just read above, I just called for more organization. This is how I roll.

- Painting. Last autumn I did this crazy mixed media with paint thing that is currently propped up against something in our storage unit. It literally weighs about three houses and I lugged that beast all over campus. I wanted to hang it on our apartment wall, but I was pretty sure it would take down the dividing wall between us and the apartment next door, and then we'd have an awkward moment with the lady that constantly berates the state of our hanging baskets. Much more awkward even then the time our cat ran out on the balcony, scaled the divider, and scurried through her open balcony door and hung out in her apartment doing God knows what.

- This is completely unrelated but I just realized that I recently downloaded some music that seems to consist of one guy drunkenly, incoherently yelling for about thirty seconds. Huh.

ALSO unrelated, but Jamie and I are reorganizing our apartment! With a new filing cabinet / hutch, the Ikea Expedit bookshelf (now times two!) and some more organizational elements the ... apartment is a huge mess. But! Once it's completely revamped life will be grand, especially because it's t-minus just under two months until my good friend Amy Nieto comes to sleep on our chaise lounge and have my cat sleep on top of her.

Today I went for coffee and a walk with my friend Carolyn and once again fell in love with some of the rundown soon-to-be restored houses of Garrison Crossing:


The rest of this week I will be shooting a short film with some stop motion animation entitled Dandelion. Previews to come after Wednesday!

2 comments:

Josh Mitchell said...

Maybe you should learn how to weave wormholes to other dimensions out of Heart songs.

Sarah Sovereign said...

That's what I did last Sunday! It involves a guitar riff, some fine motor skills and seventeen fine china plates precariously spinning on poles. And lots of fire.

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