Caity Kennedy

Person Pond Study 2 - nighttime - 12x9 inches

This is Rainbow Angel, our tribute to Matt that now sits in Cowboix Hevven in Houston. I’m a year and a half late. I was looking for photos of these hands and realized I never posted pictures of this guy, finished or unfinished. Cole, Cat, Sofia and I sculpted him, and Matthew Erdmann designed the armature. Many more skilled people contributed to build and wire and figure him out. I sculpted the hair and the hands, and I’m quite proud of both. They’re made of instamorph, and I did a lot of r&d to make the fiber optics and tattoos work right. Cat is responsible for his remarkable wings and hat. Cole made his face. We all chipped in on sculpting and painting his body. Building this was very bizarre, very bittersweet. It was an honor to build him, to sort of make him a new body out of indestructible materials. To study his posture, his style, and to share in the sweet sadness of all knowing these things by heart already. “His elbows should be more out, his back more hunched. His boot toes more pointed up. Yeah more like a crazy spider monkey yes exactly.” During the process I got a tattoo added to my hand in homage of his, which I helped him design anyway. I wanted to get his hair perfect, because it was beautiful and because I thought it would be important to him. It probably isn’t (perfect or terribly important to him) but I’m proud to have tried. I’m not sure why today is the day to finally post about this project, but I miss him. I miss Matt the person, and I miss the insistently present spirit that was around constantly the first year or so after he died. I don’t see him much anymore, which is healing I suppose. It’s funny to miss the rawness of grief, the closeness found in the pain of it. I know he’s right here, and I know he’s out riding rainbows and exploring the other side. Come back and visit more often eh?

Person Pond Study 1 - daylight - 12x9 inches

Lots of drawings, colored pencil on black paper. All of these drawings were made for a benefit sale at Hecho a Mano, all proceeds donated to Contigo Immigrant Justice <3 all sold!

Bat bat Here’s a bat iPad multitasking bat Bat bat bat bat bat 💚🖤💚🖤💚🖤💚

Infinite petal hourglass 🥀 Animation attempt #3 This one working from an existing drawing, using it as as frame 1 (you can see a flash of darker outlines). I wanna make this a couple seconds longer eventually though this took like 3 or 4 hours so…

Shed a sparkling skin and give it to the trees Acrylic on panel 12x12”

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Daisies Longggg time iPad multitasking drawing Many messy digital bits whatever Some color variations

Another Living Thing 5 (6th in series cause the first one was just called A Living Thing) Paint pen (posca and deco color) and acrylic on panel 22 x 30 I think? Revisiting this series after almost a decade because the owner of the fourth painting in the series asked if she could commission a painting, preferably of a snake. She did not request that it be so much like the painting that she owns, but I got excited about working in that same style again. The series is about the fractal interconnectedness of living systems. Ecosystems in ecosystems in ecosystems. Emergent individuals, sandcastles, eddies in the stream. This conglomeration of cells and spirit is called a snake by certain other collections of such 😛 I like that the snake in this one, as a line itself, could be a zoom in on any of the lines that make up the plants. Wiggles all the way down (: Thank you Brooke and Lauren for the reason to play with this series again, it was so so fun to make! I’m including the others in the series at the end of the slides. The dog is from 2016, opossum (Brooke’s) 2014, tiger (sideways) & two bigfoots from 2013

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Some sketchbook recently, all doodles while listening in some meeting or other. Drawing helps me listen, surprise, and I’ve always known this is using both the visual and verbal parts of my brain at once, but I’ve recently realized that the tactile element of pen on page is just as important. I was watching a presentation a week or so ago and I didn’t have drawing tools and I was having trouble not checking my phone or computer, so I started focusing on the textured elements of my phone case and other stuff around me and it totally worked. Drawing is image creation but it’s also definitely just stimming too! I wonder how many of us got good at drawing because we are drawn to the stim.

“Earthling” Acrylic on panel, 3x4 feet The character is … people. It is a monster, a gross scary twisting pile of pink stuff, and it is a beautiful strange swirling piece of the landscape too. It’s a piece of the nature it’s tumbled in, and it’s apart from it. It’s spooky and yucky and sweet and just enjoying laying in the grass. It’s a biological body both luxuriating and lost in a cataract of earthly beauty 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

Spook

Spirit in a tree, daemon comfortably tangled in nature, a life form enraptured by the life around it, a willing captive, just a lil dude enjoying the view, turning to see what you’re up to. This board is one of many leftover “planets” from the mural I did behind the bar at The House (mw Santa Fe) 🪐 Painting on a funny shape makes photographing a painting much harder, especially having used dark and shiny paints on a rough textured board. Uh, acrylic on cnc cut plywood. Maybe 16”x20”?

An inaccurate sketch of a sculpture im thinking about