the. best. ever.
SWOON 💙thinking about color & light & warm on this sunlit sunday & beyond words grateful to Alex Brooks (in Lexington, Kentucky) for making me the best sketchbook I’ve ever had & in my favorite colors (&, he sent his fav pencils with it too!)
hands inspiration
Alfred Stieglitz. “Georgia O'Keeffe - Hands; &, Hands and Thimble” palladium prints, 1919, at MOMA ❤️ “Photographer and gallerist Alfred Stieglitz photographed the artist Georgia O’Keeffe extensively over the course of their long relationship. Though he considered his closely framed pictures of her face and isolated parts of her body—in this case, her hands—as stand-ins for her whole person, the totality of images he took of her over time offer a more comprehensive portrait of O’Keeffe.”
beto letterpress love
letterpress collaboration with Adam Mulsow
letterpress printed two editions of posters for Beto O’Rourke’s 2018 campaign for senate, raising over a thousand dollars plus, thru donations made at VMBEE’s Studio 4 during November’s First Friday Art Trail, through election day, & beyond.
[sketchbook] the latitudes of desire
just posted some new work, that's inspired by this poem "The Latitudes of Desire," & lots more. notice how the pages of my copy of Sparks from a Nine Pound Hammer are stained with wine, which show the love I have for this book, which I showed the poet, Steve Scafidi, when I met him at dinner & he signed it at a poetry reading a couple years ago.
& lucky that James Lewis Tucker of The Aesthetic Union & I are in collaboration talks, about the colors & the color blue (& all the other things that stem from that hue), which also inspired the new work & more + is leading up to amazing collaboration action.
more soon, ❤️
Source: http://vmbee.com/art/