Introducing the Untitled Girl Project

October 24, 2013

I am full steam ahead on a new body of paintings exploring the various roles, archetypes, ideals, and social experiments that teenage girls use to figure out who they are. My thoughts and ideas for this work are still coming out a mile a minute and have not yet gelled. I am making a lot of notes, doodles, sketches, and folders full of images to help me along. Mark your calendars: my new project will debut on 2014-04-04 at aka gallery in Oklahoma City.

I have started a Tumblr blog* to help organize some of the visual material informing this new work:

The Untitled Girl Project

I'll be posting images on a new theme each week. Right now, it's Teen Witch "Week" for the rest of October (archived here). Here are a few selections to whet your appetite for seances, cute occult accessories, go-away lipstick, black lace, white lace, ectoplasm, crystals, and all manner of witchy vibes.

Click on any image to view it on Tumblr. All copyrights remain with the images' respective creators.

* This Tumblr blog is potentially NSFW. Use your best judgement.

Get Cool, Boy

June 21, 2013

In homage to that time of year in Oklahoma when hot and cool are in constant conflict. Click on any image to view its source.

Boy, boy, crazy boy, Get cool, boy!*

That's When I Knew. Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 18 inches, 2013 by Sarah Atlee.

Got a rocket in your pocket, Keep coolly cool, boy!

complements by Flickr user Susan Sermoneta.

Don't get hot, 'Cause man, you got Some high times ahead.

Untitled by Flickr user Bill Rogers.

Take it slow and Daddy-O, You can live it up and die in bed!

A Dream of the Sea. Oil on canvas, 120cm diameter by Andrew Salgado.

Boy, boy, crazy boy! Stay loose, boy!

Glass Study. Oil on canvas, 6 x 6 inches, 2013 by Jelaine Faunce.

Breeze it, buzz it, easy does it.

ice on a rope by Flickr user Leo Reynolds.

Turn off the juice, boy!

volunteer park conservatory: succulents! by Flickr user Letha Colleen Myers.

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A Huge and Fabulous Ralli from this post on theSri Threads blog.

Go man, go, But not like a yo-yo

Impression, Sunrise. 1873 by Claude Monet.

schoolboy. Just play it cool, boy,

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Starlight. Agnes Martin.

Real cool.

* Cool from West Side Story. Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

My Lavender Standby

February 27, 2013

Purple (Dinosaur, Peter, Duck and), acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches, 2011 by Sarah Atlee.

"She's not as concerned with immediate issues of physical self-defense, so I gather that she's in a safe living situation. However, her new guardian must be an emotionally distant sort, because she frequently seeks solace under the wings of Duck."

Carl looked funny. "Duck?"

"One of the four personages who accompanies and advises Princess Nell. Duck embodies domestic, maternal virtues. Actually, Peter and Dinosaur are now gone - both male figures who embodied survival skills."

"Who's the fourth one?

"Purple. I think she'll become a lot more relevant to Nell's life around puberty."

- Stephenson, Neal. The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. Bantam Dell, 1995.

Click on any image to view its source.

Winter storm over the Northeast (night time thermal image) from NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr.

Untitled by Flickr user Peregrine Blue.

Untitled by Flickr user Billy Plummer.

Norfolk Lavender 10-07-2010 by Flickr user Karen Roe.

Read about the various uses of lavender on Wikipedia and the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Found on Flickr: Visual Diaries

October 22, 2010

The Visual Diaries are tools I create to capture my aesthetic for a particular moment. They're collections of my favorite Flickr images each month or so. See all of them here.

Hemphill-Co-safe-passage, by Flickr user Stateart1. Click image to view on Flickr.

This is from my October Visual Diary, The Finding Place. Hemphill County, Texas, is where my mother's family has lived for the past several generations.

See what else I've found on Flickr.