what's inside...

sweet home...

this seemed much more appropriate than a jumbled hook or jewelry box.
hand stained swallows that were hand cut from envelopes and given flight with string.

daydreams...

this beautiful light graced my bedroom wall this morning.

home...

frames or not, i needed to put these up to help make our apartment start feeling more like home.

artists featured here starting top left to right then down:
phillip hendrickson
joetta maue
lyndsey baldwin
lauren feece
megan randlett
bryn gormley

caged birds...

another new piece.
hand stained envelopes, hand cut out swallows, thread, frame.

don't forget to write...

some new installation work.
hand stained envelopes, hand cut swallows, frame, maps, string, typewriter and our beautiful vintage writing desk.

autumn...

tonight i found this photograph that i shot a few years ago.
i think it is so interesting that new england always felt the most alive in the fall.

treasures...

i adore the work of maissa toulet.
you can see more of it here.
i am fascinated by her simple juxtaposing of seemingly disparate objects.
her entire site is in french, and it almost makes the work more beautiful to me that i cannot understand anything she has written there.

pin love...

these gorgeous pins may be found here.

clever boy...

 

j shot this through binoculars.

it makes me dream of cowboys.

and horses.

coming along...

the delightful process of "making our new apartment beautiful" is coming along well. this is the latest phase, since last weekend. hopefully a new coat of "yellow, like morning sun light" paint will accompany another new installment.

the lights from the city through our windows cast ghost-like reflections of our plants every night.

i trace the shadows on the walls when i can't sleep.

artwork on this wall includes pieces by the very talented ryan feeney, rc wonderly and meghan brown.

light

 

this very beautiful light shone on my naked wall last evening. 

soon this wall will be covered in the beautiful work of friends 

and admired artists.

so very soon.

i just need to buy some frames.

i wish there was a woodshop hidden in my building.

drat.

new work...

the kiss.
embroidery on paper.
unknown location.

still looking

final day

more from released but unbound

garage sale

today we had our very first garage sale! and it was wildly successful (for our first garage sale), and we got to unload a lot of stuff before the big move!

etsy me...

this is new on my etsy site. i am really going to miss my studio.

dear seattle,
please have a lovely studio i can afford and move into stat.
also, please can i be wildly successful?

hearts,
lb.

released but unbound series

these are only a few from my new series of photographs documenting the hair that remains on my studio floor from the haircut i received last week.
the braided piece titled "release" from my show contains two and a half years in its length, predating the death of my grandmother. her only daughter, my mother, cut the braid from my head within the space of my studio. this act was executed in an effort to both release the burden of trauma and loss i had been carrying with me for two and a half years, as well as release the link between the location of my studio with these associated memories.

this hair remains unbound, and tells a much shorter story through its vestiges. i will be photographing the hair daily until i move out of my studio, and this will be a short series, as i move out next week.
i am recording the remnants of time and fragility of placement.

this series is called "released but unbound"

dear studio...

i'll miss your beautiful light.

*blink*

what a whirlwind the last week has been. is that it now? the work is finished, the show has closed and been taken down and my manuscript has been submitted. i guess that means i'm finished with graduate school. these are a few of the installation shots from the show.