Tear gas.
Just tear gas, and what it means. It’s a weaponized grief, it’s what people use on other people to quell riots — the idea, I think, that sadness trumps anger.
Gassing people wasn’t always benign, I’m thinking of mustard gas and the fumes that were caused skin to slough off after The Bomb, but then it’s not really all that benign. It is a weapon after all.
Love this.
i. IN GENERAL
- Need to get back into a routine. Need to start doing stuff again.
1. FIBERS
- Just made another napkin, need to get more fabric again.
- Made a makeshift curtain which has a nice look to it.
- Will start the new quilt soon. I want it to be not as small and piece-y as the other two, although I still want to do an invaders quilt. I want something NOW, to cover a comforter maybe. Something with larger patches of fabric.
- Need a lunch cloth that holds the new lunchbox.
2. DRAWINGS
- I need to just start some stuff for the portfolio. Ideas lately: reaction to Benazir Bhutto, puzzle piece mind/person, flaky friends and what I do to try and be with them, world vs. gamer, my problems with the church,
- The boring landscape plus all the things that don’t make it better (i.e., my remedy for internet shopping).
- I always lose myself in the world of the cats. (Is this a drawing or a painting?)
- Posters. Posters, posters, posters.
- Think about ink pen again, since that’s the only thing Mark seemed to really dig. Approach the sketch-style in other things?
3. PAINTINGS
- collage paintings, like what I saw in the museum in Eugene. Fabric or paper plus the paint. Some sort of portrait series?
- finish the street dancers, ducks.
- The dancer’s perspective? (part 3 of 3)
4. BOOKS
- Figure out slide book — dk. paper with green gouache? Simple, maybe. But that simple?
- Initially I was thinking the “pack up” book would be all line drawings and no color, but actually I think it’d be a chance to get some good rich color theory in there. Distracting colors, depressing dank colors, happy simply color pallet in the end. [I need more ideas here anyway, story-wise]
- Also been thinking again about “I can’t do [x]“/ “you can do [y(+n)]!”
