Objects in Place - Snacks!!

Thank you all for coming out in support of me and my work.  It means the world to me!  Also, thanks for munching on my edible art:

'Objects in Place' Snacks, Firehouse Arts Center, Longmont CO, marshmallows, hard boiled eggs, salt, wonder bread, goat cheese and cucumber sandwiches, yogurt-covered almonds, mints, paper plates and napkins, patterned paper, 30" x 72" x 9", 2013

Click here to see the series, 'Objects in Place'. 

'Objects in Place' Snacks, Firehouse Art Center, Longmont CO, 30" x 72" x 9", 2013

Ottomans Created as Part of New "Vogel Vau" Furniture Line

I recently began collaborating with my husband Mathias Leppitsch on a furniture line for a newly founded company called Vogel Vau, a design collective that is composed of us and our two good friends Sabin Aell and Randy Rushton.  Our first project is a set of three nestling ottomans.  I created the textile design which was inspired by my recent Powers of Ten series and Mathias and I worked together on the overall furniture design.  These ottomans stack one on top of the other and also nestle close together.   They are currently being exhibited as part of Design By Colorado's exhibition that is being held at the McNichols Civic Center Building in downtown Denver through April of 2013.

See more here.

Woodcut Collaboration

Back in April of this year, Stephen Prochyra of Vostok Press invited me to collaborate on a woodcut project.  It was an honor for me to work with him.  His work is purposeful and poignant, beautifully drawn and painted with honesty and integrity.  Stephen is a great artist and part of an ever expanding group of individuals that know how to keep time for themselves while generously sharing their passions and time with others.  We created a four color reduction print, 30" x 30", titled Balance, Music and Humanity.  Prints are available for purchase here.

One of my favorite UFO drawings

When I was living in New York City and commuting up to Columbia University from Greenpoint, Brooklyn for graduate school, there were lots of times the subway ride nearly did me in.  There were only so many National Geos and only one Moby Dick.  There's a point when transferring from the L train to the 1,2,3,9 trains requires a long walk through a bleak tunnel.  If I was having a hard time, this portion of my journey struck me as particularly trying.  However, one day in the future I enjoyed the commute when I discovered an older street artist selling crayon drawings of UFOs that had landed in the city.  I bought one for 20 bucks, and for a long time, this was my favorite drawing of a UFO.  It's the image of a yellow UFO sucking up a white dog-aardvark with it's orange beam in front of an abstract brown landscape.

But I discovered an image not so long ago that offers me something more.  In this black and white picture there is a UFO sitting atop a perfect circle which is labeled with an arrow as a "decoy white ball, clear edges, not fuzzy."  It's about geometry, balance, and what I love most about the illustration is the way it blurs the boundary between two dimensional and three dimensional space.  To me there is the potential to have a real spaceship atop a flat circle, and this somehow blows my mind.

Saucer: One of my favorite examples of where two points meet

The juncture where the ball meets the base of the UFO perfectly depicts a space I have recently become obsessed with -- the single point where two lines touch.  I'll keep bringing this up as more posts arise.  There is something about this meeting point that I love, the balance, the potential energy, the tenderness.