Foggy Friday

✂ - - - en-Tan-gled

2009-12-06T12:43:00.002-05:00

I was just trying to pluck a flower. No such luck.

✂ - - - Birthday Witches

2009-11-23T22:01:00.002-05:00

She has started her pre-birthday campaign.

Furiously.

Calling, e-mailing, posting,

reminding everyone

how good and adorable she is.

LOL

Can't help noticing.

Help me to help myself.

✂ - - - Mer-Ma-L-Aid

2009-11-23T21:33:00.009-05:00

& understand nothing.

Now I do. What a trap.

✂ - - - Um-brella, dois-brella, tres-pr'ella

2009-11-17T17:50:00.000-05:00

So I sent a card to you, and you, and you.
But I decided to send out one more.
This one.

✂ - - - Plie

2009-11-10T16:44:00.005-05:00

Send me your address.
I want to mail you and you and you a trading card.
Just you and you and you. (3)
foggy.friday.blogspot@gmail.com

✂ - - - Tipsy Gypsy

2009-11-08T08:24:00.002-05:00

I always felt a little crooked to the side,

longing to fit in
where no one does,
ordering breakfast
at Thanksgiving supper.

✂ - - - lifexchange

2009-11-05T14:19:00.003-05:00

✂ - - - Seriously

2009-10-25T22:21:00.005-04:00

is the classical ballerina the dumb blond of dance
or an ultimate nerd, the brain surgeon of movement?
are they removed from reality or simply alienated?

years of painful pliés pointless posés
promising promenades passé passés
and can't barely walk now
but it was beautiful then and it is beautiful now
because is ephemeral
because is trance-like
mea-culpa inflicted to wash away your sins
and make everything magical virginal unreal
unattainable nobility
so stupid from row Z

this is a version of this

✂ - - - hung-(h)er

2009-10-20T21:26:00.005-04:00

I feel light. Won't eat the seeds, will plant them. Feel lighter now.

✂ - - - off balance

2009-10-16T14:15:00.004-04:00

but having fun.
and it is indeed a foggy friday today

✂ - - - Greater Fall

2009-10-16T13:58:00.004-04:00

Only a couple of days and the so awaited fall weather is gone.
I'm freezing cold.
I haven't made pumpkin anything yet
but I see Christmas stuff for sale everywhere.
Leaping from one holiday to another
and we're done with 2009.

✂ - - - Home-sick

2009-10-07T22:11:00.005-04:00

Faz muito tempo que quero voltar pra casa, mas ja nao tenho mais coordenacao.
I miss this home I've never been to.

✂ - - - Question

2009-09-29T10:47:00.013-04:00

Who is that one person that makes you realize what true goodness is?

✂ - - - AD-apt

2009-09-29T10:34:00.003-04:00

at the end we are all broken somehow.
who wants to live in a bubble anyway?

✂ - - - Martha

2009-09-24T21:51:00.004-04:00

Estava eu folheando na sala de espera, quando me dou conta de que Living is definitely the magazine for the wrinkled. Fechei de cara. Ainda que algumas propagandas tenham me interessado bastante.

✂ - - - Consequential Strangers

2009-09-16T21:28:00.005-04:00

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112602248

... and all I do is collect bad karma.

✂ - - - Life of the Party

2009-09-13T21:46:00.002-04:00

Thanks.
You're welcome.

✂ - - - orragia

2009-09-13T21:07:00.001-04:00

✂ - - - Imperdoaveis Espacos em Branco

2009-09-10T20:51:00.003-04:00

Minha sina é esboçar. Com ou sem acentos.
Minha mão é refém.

✂ - - - sweet

2009-09-07T18:15:00.005-04:00

Cakelove gave me some love, free cupcake for my birthday.
Tenho velas douradas e parabens in four languages tambem.

✂ - - - Refund

2009-09-07T16:47:00.004-04:00

Damaged Me

Quando voce nasceu, eu, ja avariada pela vida, era essa versao de mim que e a unica que existe aos seus olhos.
Entao a cada vez que seus olhos me olham, isso tudo e mais verdade e menos eu.

Onde desconto tudo isso? Em quem descarrego todos esses anos?
Nestes 153 centimetros, oras. Depois nao sei o porque dessa dor lombar.

Feliz Aniversario pra mim. A chuva caiu durante o carrossel, mas foi legal.

✂ - - - OBSESSIVE DRAWING

2009-09-04T09:05:00.002-04:00

OBSESSIVE DRAWING

Brooke Davis Anderson

The readily available materials of stylus and paper have been used by self-taught artists to express themselves for a very long time. Regardless of economics, geography, education, or other conditions (confinement, for example), the beauty of line and the eloquence of the mark dominate the visual experience. Adolf Wölfli, Madge Gill, and Edmond Monsiel, all well-established artists in the canon of art brut, exploit line in their highly mysterious and obsessively detailed compositions. The compulsive, accumulative quality of much of this work, what is known as horror vacui (the need to fill the page), sets the stage for artists working today. Although contemporary versions of obsessive drawing can be more reductive, even quite minimal, the drawings are labor intensive and painstakingly precise, mirroring the methodologies of some of the best art brut.

“Obsessive Drawing” highlights contemporary interpretations of line by five emerging self-taught artists. This is the first museum exhibition in New York to showcase this international group: Eugene Andolsek (USA), Charles Benefiel (USA), Hiroyuki Doi (Japan), Chris Hipkiss (England and France), and Martin Thompson (New Zealand). The immediacy of the art masks painstaking processes, and the act of drawing becomes a surprising necessity. The artists’ motivations for making art are married to their self-taught survival skills to help them cope with illness, loss, loneliness, fear, and regret. Inevitably, though, the process of drawing eventually dominated this motivation, and making marks on a page became captivating, so that it is now an obsession for each man. The lust for line trumps everything. Each artist thus discovers what John Ruskin (1819–1900) said about drawing years ago, that one purpose of drawing was to record things that could not be described in words.

✂ - - - Supertramp

2009-09-03T07:37:00.003-04:00

Pronto. Cheguei a mediocridade tao desejada.

✂ - - - I wanna be numb

2009-09-02T21:19:00.004-04:00

anesthesia rima com hipocrisia
o que nao quer dizer absolutamente nada
as usual

✂ - - - mumbling

2009-09-02T15:14:00.007-04:00

Please. Mumble back to me.

Sorry it's been so long. Deveria ter parado ha tempos com resolucoes de ano novo. Mas sou meio lerda. Alias andam me tratando como retardada. Preciso tomar cuidado para nao acabar acreditando.

✂ - - - story of my life

2009-01-13T20:39:00.006-05:00

Can't you see what's happening already?

Os shadings grotescos, a miscelanea de tecnicas, o sem porque da coisa toda.
There you have it, lost again.

✂ - - - Really.

2009-01-11T21:17:00.005-05:00

Even though I wished.

✂ - - - Droodle

2009-01-10T18:02:00.006-05:00

Doodling my life away
half drooling, half doodling.

✂ - - - Tatu

2009-01-10T01:51:00.008-05:00

Tatoo do bem, meu bem ...

Vejo extra-tatuadas e me indago
why
saculejo dobras e extra skin
que cai
pigmento negro agora indigo
uai
ta tudo bem, meu bem
vai

✂ - - - Fadarling

2009-01-08T21:43:00.018-05:00

Up up up we gooooo, down down down so loooow....

Como queria que essa fofa me levasse pra longe, muito longe,
wherever her colorful balloons are headed to.

✂ - - - Eliana

2009-01-08T00:25:00.010-05:00

Now that I know what it means to wear a flower dress.
But I forgot.