Grows, stays, and decays.

Just last weekend in class we watched a documentary about Andy Goldsworthy. He's very inspirational and inspiring. His pieces are conceptual and make me think; I love the meaning behind every one and wish I could connect more with nature.

Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland.

The materials used in Andy Goldsworthy's art often include brightly-coloured flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. He has been quoted as saying, "I think it's incredibly brave to be working with flowers and leaves and petals. But I have to: I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole."

Photography plays a crucial role in his art due to its often ephemeral and transient state. According to Goldsworthy, "Each work grows, stays, decays – integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its heights, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expressed in the image. Process and decay are implicit."

Please be sure to watch his documentary, sorry about the quality, I couldn’t find anything else.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8480463057406057702#

It became clear.

Wixson was born in Wichita, Kansas, she’s only sixteen years old and already John Galliano, Versace Vanitas, Miu Miu, Jill Stuart and Alexander McQueen have all booked her for campaigns. She walked in a combined 44 shows in New York, Paris and Milan in the fall.

Wixson was 5-feet 7-inches at the age of twelve. Wixsons trademarks are her bee-stung lips, pout, and gapped front teeth (which she got from her dad).

“It just became clear to me,” Wixson says.  She was reading an article in the Reader’s Digest in the bathroom once. “It was about how Bill Gates — the millionaires — got big,” she says. “It was talking about how they took the chance and they took their opportunities and they took it to a whole other level.” So at the age of twelve Lindsey Wixson decide to become a model.

Stefano Tonchi ran a full-page close-up of her lips and the gap in her teeth, her two most arresting features, in his first issue of W(Another amazing magazine, highly recommended).

Wixson has her limits in what she models, during a W editorial shoot "Run of Show" with Craig McDean she requested a bra because her top was see-through, W notes that a lot of models wouldn't have done that. Cheri Bowen, her agent at Marilyn Agency, says that Wixson is more interested in quality than quantity. “She’s incredibly intelligent about the business. She’s not about selling out,” she says.

Personally I’m glad Lindsey has her feet on the ground, a normal fifteen/sixteen year old would probably do anything for fame and fortune. Lindsey seems like an intelligent, wise and mature person, someone to look up to for teenagers who want to follow their dreams.

Lindsey Wixson by far is probably my favorite model, the first time I saw her in a magazine she immediately caught my attention. I’m pretty sure it was in a Vogue magazine where I saw this Miu Miu ad. The thing I loved about it was her soft, pink, curvy lips. I even copied them onto a scratch piece of paper so that I could later use it in my artwork.

Down the Rabbit Hole.



"Soft grey tea in my delicate cup, floating ashes on the surface always

The harsh murky tide crashes on the gritty shore of personal sanity

The needy roots of dry skeletal trees now keep me standing

Cotton candy clouds still suspended in the setting evening

Animal corpses decaying in the shadows of my mind

The sexual reproductive organs tied tightly into bouquets

The fragile music drifts through shallow souls

Not all who wonder are lost

Sometimes dreams blur into reality

step on no pets

keep it clean

eat me

now."

Spring Fever

March 2010

March 2011

These trees transform overnight. One day they’re sleeping and skeletal and the next they’re blooming beauties. They’re so pretty and uplifting, I wish they’d stay this way throughout the summer. They make me think of lemonade and cotten candy.

Dreams

A few weeks ago, in my art class, I watched Dreams by Akira Kurosawa. We were learning about color and how it's sometimes used symbolically in film.

The movie is a collection of tales based on Akira’s actual dreams. The colors and imagery used are very vibrant and stunning.

The first one we watched was Sunshine Through The Rain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGhqHZypds4

A young boy is told not to go out on the day when both weather conditions occur, because that's when the foxes hold their wedding procession, which could have fatal consequences for those who witness it.

The second one we watched was The Peach Orchard, my personal favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qMqTZ-Jnbw

The same young boy encounters the spirits of the peach trees that have been cut down by heartless humans.

Then we watched The Blizzard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teK1v5sRsyI

A team of mountaineers are saved from a blizzard by spiritual intervention.

Then The Tunnel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvoRdjY-Rxc

A man encounters the ghosts of an army platoon, whose deaths he was responsible for.

And finally Mount Fuji in Red.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_ZxTB8mqbk

Nuclear meltdown threatens the devastation of Japan.

We didn’t watch all of them because of the amount of time we had. But I highly recommend watching them all.

I thought I'd share this with you because of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, though I'm a little late. It's very unfortunate what has happened to the people, animals and land there. Please keep them in your hearts and do anything you can to help.

God bless Japan.

Beauty

“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”

–Edgar Allen Poe

When angels fall.

From the skies above, you fell.

Normally dismissed, blending in with our hate filled world.

When broken on the concrete ground is when all negative associations are released from your soul.

I cut the strings and saw a beautiful creature.

October 2009.

Where do you go when you’re left between Heaven and Hell?



Jars

Hold onto chance

Lest we bleed ourselves

Save for the pets

They’re the loneliest

Put into jars

We’ll save this earth

Put into jars

We’ll save the earth

We can’t both become the same pawn

That's made to fall

Oil that tastes like

Blood stole the summer scent

From me to you

You're stabbing me through you

You're stabbing you through him

And betting most of

This world

We’ll add enough of the world

Steal from yourselves

It never felt so good

And feed from their hand’s

Confuse by opposites

Put into jars

We’ll save this earth

Put into jars

Keep safe this earth

Feeling manic for a day

Depends on the trends

Depends on the surface

If the sun never sets

This world

We’ll add enough of the world

Is the main thing you’ll shout

Till the bitter end

Into Jars

-Chevelle

Medusa

Medusa at the Albuquerque Museum of Art & History


Medusa is installed at the Albuquerque Museum of Art & History for the year of 2010.
2000 Mountain Road Northwest

Absolutely breathtaking. I came upon this today, it’s still there. Be sure to check it out if you’re in the area. I saw it during the daytime, unlit, and it was unbelievably magnetic, though I do wish I saw it lit up. This thing is 9 feet across; it practically demands your attention. The only thing is that I think it should’ve been better displayed.

Wolf

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.”
Robert Frost

Spread the disease.

Outside my old house.

(Do you see the bee?)

Old. 2009