Pages out of Time

while i’m not at all consistent at … this stuff … i am still good at keeping up with my planner …

and i’ve been on summer half time at work so i can go back to my favorite Monday morning ritual …

Some of the intervening weeks …

I have actually been getting a lot done … for a while it was mostly at work, and a lot of it should have already been posted, some of it got in the post on time!

the last two weeks though … it has been a brain melting heatwave (which makes me glad i’m not still a landscaper (and shocked i was one for so long!))

so, i mopped myself up … got my shit together and went to the one cafe in town i’m pretty good at doing laptop-y work at …

i’ve got some timed posts i’m going to set up so that there will continue to be “content” even if i forget to do this for a few weeks again …

and i’m going to wrap up today with a little works in progres/studio post …

but first: Pride!

I spend most of my time listening to You’re Wrong About it and i finally got some stickers!

Lemons into Lemonade

So on a social media site that shall remain nameless i follow a lot of queer artists, everything from full on smut to some very nice fine art painters and everything in between. Over the years i’ve talked to a few of them about things so when i got a message from an artist about using a photo of mine as the base for something i was excited to help.

so excited that i didn’t fully pay attention to what he was saying, and i follow a lot of international artists so i didn’t think too much of the grammar.

so i said of course and we chatted out some details. I have a bunch of other things going on so i let them do their thing. eventually they said everything was approved and they were going to send me a check for an amount that was plausible for a starting artist, and more importantly high enough that it would have helped me out a lot, even sent me a tracking number. but then the day it was supposed to arrive the tracking number stopped working.

i didn’t think that much of it, but they messaged again later that week and said things were back on track and gave me a new tracking number … and this one arrived first thing in the morning. but as i looked at the generic looking check floating alone in an oversized express envelope i realized there was no way this was real. i googled the names of the businesses on the check and envelope and didn’t find anything reasureing. so after i messaged him that i was totally off to the bank i put the check back in it’s envelop and got on with what i was doing …

but … i love making stuff out of dumb shit and when i thought about the idea of shredding the check i settled on an idea. then i let it sit for a week because … well life .. and stuff

but then i got momentum and put a new blade in my knife and got to work. cutting was the easy part … thankfully i wasn’t going for a nice crisp clean edges, because weving the little strips into their little slots caused a lot of fraying. there is also one bit i kind of messed up … it’s subtle but it actually works really well.

So the title of the piece is for sure “$4870.68”
and in theory the price of the piece (which i’m getting a frame for when i’ve got the budget) is also $4870.68 because that would still make a huge difference in my life … but i’m also open to other offers …

In Progress: Scam

So i almost got roped into depositing a scam check and whatever nightmares that would have entailed … but … i also got inspired. So, i took the check and the express shipping envelope and label and started cutting and weaving …

i should be done with it this week. i’m trying to decided if the cost of the piece should be the value of the check … but does anyone want to give me $5,000 for real?

Proof of concept that i could get the check to weave and that my template was roughly in the right place