Possible Project

I've been working with sowing together images, finally, and I'm thinking about my travels. I am considering panoramic-like images. I am not sure where this is going, but I'm interested in exploring it.

Bubble Gut

Bubble Gut Belly and Nervous Ways. Here I am the same freaked out little girl with a glass shell that has survived storms, seasons, stones, and more. Created to believe in just the breeze, I know that I'm attached to the path and track of the trains and planes. Coming back to that person "someday" is now. Maybes are away, maybes were for another day, and today I am now living in the "now". I really do love you. I really do want to be here with you. I really do exist with you.

Found myself attached to a path full of hills, bills, thrills, and skills. With you, with me, alone, one day we'll see, that the journey will always lead to the two of us again and again. Forever Limerent & Lo, with who or which one, only I know. This is our theme, our curse, our gain. Pleased to walk this path with you.

Riding Drunk

There's no reason to EVER drink and ride your motorcycle, EVER. If you have friends that care they won't let you. If you care about your life and other's you won't. Please do not DRINK and RIDE.

Continuing Again

At 30 years of age I'm bridging certain parts of my life in hopes of completing many life goals. This decade will be taken one step at a time. I'm in no rush, but I have large dreams that I can easily achieve if I set my mind to it.

Coming into this ripe 30 I've left behind 5 art shows, and several new bodies of work. I plan on continuing forward with ongoing and single set photo projects. I hope to use my blog as a messenger for the upcoming activities over the next year, I've obviously fallen off from keeping anything updated on the blog as of late.

Today was a large step in setting up my studio for the third time in one year. I have a large, filled, and abstract studio that takes a month to take down and another month to set back up. By this time next month I hope I'm making progress with ideas I have not had the time or space to prepare and execute them in.

2013 will be a beautiful year to end one massive emotional journey. I'm looking forward to simplifying my routine in order to move forward swiftly and comfortably.

Cheers to 30 years on this planet and 30 more of total success.

Ongoing Work

Solid Ashes Photography is going to split off into different brands this year. I plan on rebranding my photography and moving into a whole new area of concepts and images.

I am in dire need of clarity in order to rebrand and rename a new website and at least one more blog. This is a good change and hopefully it will be easier for people to follow me or my art, both separately.

As someone today pointed out "these are good problems", I could not agree more.

I currently have a photo installation at Wundercamera, in Fort Wayne, In. I also have a 28x40 image from my skirt series semi-perminately hanging in the front part of the gallery. I have a painting going up inside The Brass Rail later next week. One other piece from the skirt series is going into the Art Link Members show.

Fort Wayne is challenging, but supporting the growth of my Art. I think that rebranding will only help the projection of the art and ongoing growth in general.

Commence PROGRESS!

Happy Birthday.

December

Not sure where this will go. Not sure if today will be just as slow. I'm shifting from 4th gear into 1st to take a closer look, at the stop I'll "get some" and grab 5th as quick as I can. I don't know when, but I love you. I know that these days seem longer than most, but if I die with the one I love then all this riding around is meant to be. When necessary these tires get replaced and I pick up certain speed, but remember that this course eventually slows down again. This is our labyrinth, just enjoy the view along the way.

On the Rail (put it behind me now)

Sometimes your heart just gets ripped from your chest. You pour whiskey down your throat to ease the burn. The smell of a mildew bathroom creeps by as your bloody finger, from a spilt drink, runs down your hand and makes you laugh. You aught to be thinking about why your head and heart is stuck on repeat every single day, but you slowly poison your flow of consciousness with equal amounts of listening, bad music, and other adventurous beverages.

Beginning by ending, sinking while swimming. Plummeting by choice, surviving for others. Morning aches and pains, your age slowly sets in. Coffee multiplies for coping slowly. Repeat, Rewind, Renew, Repeat. No matter where you sit, no matter the state, the country, you can't escape yourself or your thoughts. Floundering with pink roses laying on the ground. Piles of cards on the bar, coasters stained with beer rings, and a wink from across the bar. Find comfort, here?

Panic never slithers it's way in, it stays at bay with the best. Friends filter through and take their designated seats. Politics are never discussed, but strangely religion is always on the table and always makes it's self known. More about that later.

Change, spare change, or maybe the physical one. Taking place from the ceiling to the floor is an inevitable flux of juxtapose with time at it's best and worst. Slowly, but remember to stay seated, join in with the masses. You are not a pawn in this place, rather, a character of consequence and meaning.
We grew up right down the road, by the river, and we really did grow up down there by the river.

Punctuating volumes and absolutely no poetic reasoning or justice. Just loud, obnoxious people, and filters of emotions. Shhhhh, time to get up, walk out, go home. Repeat, Rewind, Renew, Repeat.

Pink INK

Sometimes we have to be as tough as the Vikings. They knew the true meaning of Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust. Sometimes it's not about a final resting place when the body in question had a free spirit. You don't need a grave to visit just a moment to stop and start talking. The spirit in question will hear you, just speak.

Studio Spring Cleaning...

... Things I've found.

Ticket Stub
8/13/2010, Coheed & Cambria @ Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas

Idea Sheet
7 old/new ideas for photo shoots

Show Flyer
Funny Punk Venue here in Fort Wayne....I saved the flyer because they spelled out the accents and made good jokes.

Sticker
 A band sticker for  "The Most Beautiful Losers"

Stack of Paper
With old poems I wrote, soon to be logged into the correct journal!

Unopened Envelope
Written in pink ink a random thought.

4x6
Photos to be reframed

Envelope
From my Grandpa Ed. Keeping it because it has his handwriting on it. 

Fuck Up
My favorite post card ever.

Dropkick Murphys
VIP Photo All Access pass from Aug. 6th 2010, great photo shoot and great oportunity!

Ticket Stub
Jonny Lang, 6/4/2010 - worst show Ever. Total disapointment. I wore my first all white dress that night.

Random things we find. To keep or not to keep. Tells a story or doesn't need to tell a story. Adventures had and adventures made. Moments to let go but remember. Processing, pitching, holding on, releasing. Full circle nonesense.