snow day in the lbk

“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.” —Sylvia Plath

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“Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.” (Deep Thoughts, Jack Handey) ⛄️☃️⛄️ my change of medicine this weekend, post the fever dreams? Bettie Bee in surprise TEN INCHES of snow in texas, drinking French Truck Coffee’s La Fête De Noël, new art in the works & new collabs also brewing, friends celebrating love & friends sending love, & these & more making me smile lots & just all #thebeesknees (& damn these winter blues but embrace the bluets!) & adventures ahead 💙❄️


#artist #studiodog #snow #texas #neworleans#southerncharm #southerngirls #goldengirls#mugshot #halfselfie #sundayselfie#goldenretriever #oldlady #winterblues #selfcare#moving #applying #art #endofsemester#professorbee #adjunctlife #grateful #love #plaid#lace #hotpink #ihavethisthingwithcolor

[documentation photography] Ghislaine Fremaux

Letting [details], Ghislaine Fremaux

Pastel, gouache, resin on collaged paper 8ft.x12ft. 2018 (documentation photography by VMBEE, December 2018)

Source: https://www.vmbee.com/documentation-photog...

happy 100th birthday, Sister Corita Kent

rule 1 Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.

rule 2 General duties of a student: Pull everything out of your teacher. Pull everything out of your fellow students.

rule 3 General duties of a teacher: Pull everything out of your students.

rule 4 Consider everything an experiment.

rule 5 Be self disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be disciplined is to follow in a better way.

rule 6 Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

rule 7 The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

rule 8 Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different processes.

rule 9 Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.

rule 10 “We’re breaking all of the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for x quantities.” –John Cage

helpful hints: Always be around. Come or go to everything. Always go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully, often. Save everything; it might come in handy later. There should be new rules next week.”

Corita Kent was born 100 years ago today.

lots of gratitude to Dirk Fowler for telling me about her & her work! I looked her up immediately later that day & am obsessed & told my screenprinting students at Charles Adams Studio Project & students at Texas Tech University School of Art about her ✨✨
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#screenprinting #printmaking #ink #sistercoritakent #coritakent #rules#popart #1960s #teaching #art #america #thanksgiving #americansampler#love

“Unsent Message to My Brother in His Pain” a poem by Leon Stokesbury

Please do not die now. Listen.
Yesterday, storm clouds rolled
out of the west like thick muscles.
Lightning bloomed. Such a sideshow
of colors. You should have seen it.
A woman watched with me, then we slept.
Then, when I woke first, I saw
in her face that rest is possible.
The sky, it suddenly seems
important to tell you, the sky
was pink as a shell. Listen
to me. People orbit the moon now.
They must look like flies around
Fatty Arbuckle’s head, that new
and that strange. My fellow American,
I bought a French cookbook. In it
are hundred and hundreds of recipes.
If you come to see me, I shit you not,
we will cook with wine. Listen
to me. Listen to me, my brother,
please don’t go. Take a later flight,
a later train. Another look around.