remembering rockport seaport
February. 12. 2012
"There either is or is not a way things are.
The color of the day. How it felt to be a child. The feeling of saltwater on your sunburned legs. Sometimes the water is yellow. Sometimes it's red. The color in memory depends on the day. I won't tell the story the way it happened. I'll tell it the way I remember it." - Mitch Glazer (Adaptive screenplay for Charles Dickens' Great Expectations)
I love you, my hope
November. 24. 2011
Purple sunset on a crisp evening walk with a friend today- unaltered I swear!
Friends often question my exuberance, asking me what makes me a happy person and I struggle to articulate that happiness is a spontaneous state of being. The list of reasons I rattle off when questioned begins with having breath and consciousness, but inevitably ends with the love I find everywhere.
I remember walking to my student job, tired and beat on an ordinary Louisiana afternoon beaming in the bliss of just being there, then. I remember tearing up in waking meditation simply feeling “So much joy! So much love!” That is the ecstasy of being- what is joy but synchronicity with existence and its magnificent flood? Even when it’s bad, it’s good- it’s all good. Happiness is a state of mind, I choose to exist in joy through and through the shit. And the love I have for and get from my family and friends, helps me shine on- they are my hope.
This Thanksgiving I am evermore grateful for you beautiful people who keep my life whole. Forget the miles between us, I feel the sweetness in you. I love you, my hope- Happy Thanksgiving!
being and becoming
July. 29. 2011
[Sunyata : acrylic, watercolor + waterproof ink on woodboard]
ahh the splendor of physicality! this
spellbound atomic breakdown
simultaneous particulate collision, see I only just came alive-
consciousness no more than chemical reaction?
dimensions wrapped within dimensions
existence smiles, experiencing itself
as you in me in me in you- I
trace my being through the ovals of your eyes
past the outermost of orbits
and seep again, into the void
still
May. 28. 2011
“the password is books…speak easy,” he said.
thought for the day: shine on!
January. 31. 2011
play me!
January. 6. 2011
My idea of growing old involves a helluva lotta piano-ing…
there’s this Anne Sexton poem that goes…”and the music swims back to me…” and I imagine whence I’m old, it will-
Walking around Oak Cliff the other day I found this beauty. Pianos around me don’t need begging to be played…
oh inverted world!
September. 24. 2010
that sink and rise and sink again
June. 5. 2010
Behold! a la technicolor!
I’ve always loved the colors on this one.
Houseboats banked along the princes gaat in Amsterdam-
I floated into a couple and befriended the owners
This writer I met there made me a character in his story…the girl who walked into people’s houseboats, he said: boundaries irrelevant to her
I don’t know about being summed up in a story, by a fellow wanderer.
But it does pay to be shameless, sometimes.
seller of mysteries ($2.00)
April. 13. 2010
2 bucks will buy you a moment of mystery
hidden in an easter egg
it’s not easter anymore, but
when you choose in the dark
the possibilities are endless…
art show in an old warehouse in new orleans. i got a bubble blower for a surprise
with a free demo (above)
all in all, one good night.
orange
November. 11. 2009
like a nice fat veto to the rules of brick laying. who likes rules anyways?
[un]veiling the Statler Hilton
July. 28. 2009
they asked for a local landmark to be veiled.
check that premise, and it begs to be un-veiled…desperately!
stop constructing convoluted contraptions and bring the building to life instead…
[AIA Dallas Statler Hilton Competition entry: Ishita Sharma + Preston Kissman collaborative- we did good I'd say]
wanted to keep the graphics graphic, clear and sync the visuals with the theme of the entry- cinematic, vintage glory…(of sorts)…thus the movie-ish-ness!
here’s my fervid verbiage from the board:
[un] veiling the Statler Hilton
a nostalgic cinematic introspective
The opening of the Main Street Gardens in downtown Dallas elicits the questioning of its very use- who will visit the urban green and what will they see/experience? The block is surrounded by no abandoned relics from Dallas’ glory- now obsolete. Yet, their presence is imposing, and amongst them the Statler Hilton stands dominant in the urban streetscape. Listed as one of America’s most endangered historic buildings in 2008, the Statler is a handsome structure and a monument to the aspirations of an entrepreneurial city- one desperate for a renewed life and un-veiling in a new light.
This proposal seeks to use temporary artwork to bring a sense of revitalization to the space and structure to metaphorically illustrate the best of the hotel’s 56 years shared with the Dallas community, and the possibilities that lie dormant within.
This is accomplished by transforming the façade into a screen onto which films are back-projected. Sheets or (removable) translucent film would be adhered to the interior of the Hilton’s first and second floor windows, and projectors connected inside would then project movies and images onto these surfaces giving the façade a constructed life- animating the façade as seen from the street and the park; thus transforming gardens into a silent outdoor theater for ‘Movies in the Garden.’ Additionally, subtle up-lighting of the Hilton’s façade at night allows it to set the stage for activities in the new park.
The films and images compiled from the collective memory of the city showcase Dallas in the style and splendor of its growing years through the experience of its citizens and the highlights of the Statler Hilton’s glamorous past- a 56 year journey through time. The façade alternates movie panels with static display panels narrating the exhibition, in combination with additional flat color panels whose colors reflect hues used in the interior of the hotel.
Recognizing that pedestrian traffic is important in rebuilding a sense of place and unwilling to impede upon the space of the street, this scheme seeks to attract crowds to experience movies of their city’s past and present, transforming an obsolete sidewalk into a gallery walk.
