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I'm really pleased that these twin sacks 'o rot will be making their debut at @thinkspace_art's huge (!!) opening at @powwowhawaii this week! If you see them, feel free to try to play those open rib holes like a pan pipe. Music of the gods, I swears. // "Ecce Homo II", 12 x 12" gouache with mixed media on panel‐mounted paper, 2020. On view at POW! WOW! Hawai'i 2020: The 7th Annual Exploring The New Contemporary Movement, Curated by Thinkspace. // #gouache #sackorot #mixedmedia #randomsphinx #panpipes #stsebastian https://www.instagram.com/p/B8ZQ5T3IAE3/?igshid=1miybcj3if0rt

Having the busiest drawing hands lately, although I'll cop to not having a clue as to what they're up to. Goose on the loose, etc. // Study: A4 graphite and colored pencil on paper, 2020. #drawing #stsebastian #lungs #torso #graphite #coloredpencil https://www.instagram.com/p/B7WoQWMIsrD/?igshid=b63dhgfrccmd

"Monument". // I had been chewing over this piece for a long time and knew the occasion of @thinkspace_art's Fifteenth(!) Anniversary Show was the moment to bring it to light. I think these days of darkness, literal war and fire, bring into sharp relief the burdens we're carrying over these miles, in and on our bodies. I think we're brave and sad and angry and, hopefully, managing to put one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, maybe, we need a sin-eater before we're dead. (You know that's what dogs are for, right?) // Look: everything's an accretion. There's New York here, and Berlin, and even a very hidden joke with a bit of Hamburg. There's a beautiful paper-flat spider I found whilst cleaning out our last home in America. "I know you mean well": the banner at the top. I do, too. // 15 x 15" mixed media on paper with found objects and fabric, mounted to wood panel, 2019. #graphite #mementomori #rottydog #flawedmankind #sineater #pepper #spider #hair #foundobjects https://www.instagram.com/p/B7HChlTIauw/?igshid=740q3t974s56

"Is it 'hang' or 'hanged'," the Cabbage asked, "if it's less about tragedy and somewhat more about splendor?" // "Cabbage", 2.5 x 3.5" gouache on illustration board, currently on view in a show curated by @x03 at @gristleartgallery. #gouache #cabbage #languorousvegetables #stinkholes #fungusgnats #meatorveg https://www.instagram.com/p/B6JhOV4ooxP/?igshid=1pyv1je9t1ff0

"Hang Dog", one of the pieces I have currently hanging in Hamburg at @feinkunstkrueger for Don't Wake Daddy, curated by @heikomullerart. A great, throbbing thank-you to everyone who made this weekend such a blast-- I think (ok, I know) I'm still recovering. This time next year, shall we? #gouache #rottydog #feinkunstkrüger #liverdeath https://www.instagram.com/p/B5pXZjcIqaR/?igshid=1x69lsus5illk

Just for thy pleasure, I humbly submit to you a merry meaty cornucopia from my collection of miniatures at @antlerpdx, "The Shank of Udo". I'm a little disappointed as to its scale, for it's far too small to plunge an ungloved hand to the elbow into, but it'll have to do. For now. // .75 x 1.5 / 2.25 x 5” gouache on illustration board in vintage matchbox tray with lost mirrors, antique fabric, and empty antique iodine box. #penduloussteak #gouache #miniatures #iodine #discoballmirrorbits https://www.instagram.com/p/B5I_bEDos-g/?igshid=6lqxx1kuv4rp

I think it's something about the cooler weather (and the approximately thirty minutes of sun one enjoys in the winter in Central Europe), but I have the itchiest embroidery fingers right now! I'm thinking back to these millefleurs banners I made a few years ago and longing to roll myself up in a blanket burrito with the dog and get to work on some new fields of flowers-and-whatnot. // "Voluntary Compliance", 24”h x 12”w cotton hand embroidery on cotton with trim; "Moral Panic", 15”h x 8”w cotton hand embroidery on vintage velvet with trim, available through @paradigmgs // #tbt #embroidery #mushrooms #millefleurs #oldshoe #wordsalad https://www.instagram.com/p/B42otUFIVZF/?igshid=1vmszenw5yxal

"The Bounty of Madeline" // I've been thinking a lot about cramming the maximal and minimal together-- something about the miniature just begs for overabundance, the decadent, the slickly brined and sugar-crusted banquet mashed into one tiny edible morsel. Such is the relic, right? One saintly ball-salty shriveled brown pointer finger in a vitrine channels untold volumes of god's judgment, packed away in its shiny casket... one glistening bright orphaned eye waiting for... well, Bataille knows. // On view now at @antlerpdx, magnifying glass provided to ascertain just what that little bit of cotton there might be... // 1.5 x 1” // 7 x 8”. Gouache on paper in antique tin with antique frame. #gouache #miniature #assemblage #antique #missthatframealready #eyeball #feast #decadence #maximalist #miniaturist https://www.instagram.com/p/B4x0HwGocb9/?igshid=1ka47ob1dkbuw

Thrilled to be taking part in the @paintguide show at @thinkspace_art tonight! I never worked out whether I thought this fellow was having an excellent or awful time, but I suppose that rather reminds me of most of the Saints Sebastian that inspired him, really. // "The Cost of Someone Else's Business", 14 x 14" gouache with mixed media on panel-mounted paper, 2019. #bhoy #gouache #stsebastian #nevermyfault #drippy #drooly #clamdangit #bondageofman #pearlnecklace https://www.instagram.com/p/B4nBiNXIQcz/?igshid=xcbee8vui1ir

When I am laid, am laid in earth... // Thinking of lengthening nights and the absolutely delicious internment in drawings, books, beds one gets to abandon oneself to this time of year... let the welcome funk curl, black and a little moist, around your earlobes... // “The Wreath of Pythagoras” 1.5 x 2” // 4.5 x 5.5”. Gouache on paper in vintage glass fitting with found objects in antique frame. #assemblage #gouache #weary #clamdangit #bhoy https://www.instagram.com/p/B4dTGlcoQOM/?igshid=1vayglel790bf

Fond hellos, all, from Halloween night in Berlin! I'm gutted to be over here and not at @antlerpdx tonight for the opening of my miniatures show. For the last piece, I cheated a little bit and did a not-really-miniature work: a multi-layered resin piece with assemblage in a gutted antique clock case. I have a lot of things to say about this piece, but for the moment I'd like to keep them to myself, BUT! Those who are in Portland tonight! I'm asking you to maybe bring me a little piece of something to lay inside on the velvet pillow as a little relic of its own. Nothing special-- could be something that's been riding around in your pocket for no reason; could be a scrap of an old shopping list; could be a piece that falls off your costume tonight. For me, the show is partially about making precious things out of nothing, and I'd love for you to take part in that ritual, since I can't be there tonight. Anyway, I'm really excited about this piece, and wish I could be celebrating this special holiday with all my Portland fam. XOXOXO. // "Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained". Gouache on paper with resin and glass in antique clock case with found objects, 2019. // #resin #show #miniatures #relic #ritual #samhain #halloween #memory #forgetting https://www.instagram.com/p/B4SkaaLoII1/?igshid=2ejiuohp4lg6

I'm so extremely excited about my miniature miniature show opening this most spoopy of weeks at the wonderful @antlerpdx in Oregon! Each of the miniature paintings is ensconced in an assemblage of objects from my collection that spoke to it-- sometimes little street finds, sometimes vintage flotsam, sometimes tiny bits of old installations (such as the hand-made pills here). I thought of each piece as a presentation of a tiny relic of some sort, a remnant of a greater whole that is so whittled down, or divorced from the greater body, that it might have lost its meaning somewhere along the way. Little orphans of (mis-) remembering. Come see them all this Halloween night-- I hear tell there is a costume contest and I might just ask you to leave a piece of yourself for me-- more details later. <3 // “The Implements of Eunice” 2 x 2” // 6.25 x 4.5 x 2”. Gouache on paper in vintage slide frame with handmade pills and found objects in vintage frame. // #miniatures #medicine #relics #gouache #assemblage #forgottenthings #orphans #happyday #sadday #lovedones https://www.instagram.com/p/B4LEv2RIUJe/?igshid=1vvlet371zfj6

SNEAKO PEEKO // I'm really, really, really excited about this piece I did to cap off my little miniatures show-- it's a multi-layered resin piece (painting?? Resin with pieces of painting inside?), an assemblage, and maybe even a little bit of performance. Opening Halloween at @antlerpdx... *tents fingers and cackles ominously* // #sneakpeek #iguessthisonetechnicallyisntminiature #bearwithme #gouache #resin #layers #somanylayers #antique #assemblage #bhoy https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Aap1iIO6f/?igshid=asu8bjtfhzyy

Sending my roots back into the soil has taken some time here, and I've been trying to indulge myself in little projects to get myself back into the groove of making. I recently got really obsessed with these mysterious little coffins found in the nineteenth c in Scotland, and just kind of automatically started making them-- something about it just spoke to my yearning to nestle down into my new life. I don't have my studio and supplies yet, so the simplicity of making him out of what I had on hand, nearly fundaments of a home-- cork from our first celebratory bottle, salt, flour-- felt right. A christening. I wanted him to be rough and honest, made with the haste of obsession. Yet he feels sweet to me, more like a pig in a poke, comfortable and cozy, rather than a totem of despair (although, of course, what's sweetness if not always tinged a little sadness... such was the move, certainly). More to come, maybe. // #sculpture #saltdough #coffin #sleep #miniatures #piginapoke #primitive #delicate https://www.instagram.com/p/B3759GYIVBP/?igshid=fy380san9dts

Here's another one that will be on view for my miniatures show opening Halloween at @antlerpdx! One of my favorite aspects of these pieces is that they were both a sort of studio-cleaning as I moved out of New York and also a secret way of keeping dear friends in my pocket as I left-- so many of these works have elements that my friends have given me-- here, I can count treasures from no fewer than three buddies, plus a piece from the hallway of our old building. It's a little secret sweetness for me to look at them, knowing the kindness and generosity of the people I love is baked right in. Also, you know, dick bouquet. // "The Posy of Adalbert” 2 x 1.5” // 11.5 x 2.5”. Gouache on paper in vintage frame with used sharp, sample teeth, vintage doily, and found objects in vintage drawer. #gouache #miniature #missyou #assemblage #personalpoems https://www.instagram.com/p/B3rxqidIr0u/?igshid=1ae8s1xfytfyp

PARPY DERG #gouache #miniature #thatsit #wentforbestiary #gotborky https://www.instagram.com/p/B3pb-PnIgu3/?igshid=1gidk4un844lp

I've been quietly working in dribs and drabs lately; there's been a great lot to do around here since arriving in Germany, and it's been frightfully hard to get myself on task when I do have time. When I can manage to nail myself to the chair and work in my sketchbook, I find I've been returning to the motif of the Landsknecht, like this b'hoy here, who over time in my work has been my favorite stand-in for the human figure. I've also been itching to get into a nice long velvet rut of graphite rendering, and I just bought some new paper*, so.... we'll see. // "God Love Your Innocence", 18 x 24" graphite on paper, 2016. #graphite #landsknecht #bhoy *looks like I should have stocked up on this paper (Strathmore toned grey) here, though. Whoops. Cue panic tears. LMK if you've heard of a stockist for Strathmore papers in Berlin. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3kWjUconnB/?igshid=ftwtxw6aqdwk