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baby lego hotdog

Photographs from Alan Lomax’s “Southern Journey” a long series of recordings of various music such as blues, gospel, country, and spirituals from prisoners, recently freed slaves, poor southerners and largely black communities where these genres originated, this series became the first official stereo recordings of traditional african american southern folk music, celebrating generational heritage and the struggles of black life in the south at the time and impacted the creation and commercial spread of american music as we know it pioneering the “american” country sound, many of the singers, musicians and dancers present in these recordings and pictures are unnamed to this day.

david hockney with his dachshunds stanley and boodgie

Small text in the corner reads, “Dog Day Afternoons / ‘Dogs are generally not interested in Art,’ writes David Hockney. No, but his dachshunds, Stanley and Boodgie—seen here with their master in his L.A. studio—serve as the inspiration and sole subjects for the work featured in his new book, David Hockney’s Dog Days.” / end ID.]

15 cakes scanned from 'Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book' from 1980.

― Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist

The muse (the puff of air at the optometrist in 2005) and the 1 hour mini quilt rendition of it. Its nowhere near perfect but I'm trying to work on making stuff exist before worrying about how good it is.

Some collages I worked on this week. More arranging and rearranging. I might also play over these in pencil, ink or stitch. Still looking and thinking.

A wild garlic salsa I'd made served as the base for a green sauce with creme fraiche and let down with pasta water. So easy!