A few months back a friend forwarded me this image:

It is a letter from Nancy Spero to Lucy Lippard, 1971.

I look at this every morning. It is the title of my thesis. Since receiving it, this letter has become incredibly important to me.

Spirited, concise, empowering.

I made this screen shot while editing a recent video, “Smoke and Mirrors” (2012). In the video the images and vertically arranged, with the mouth inhaling smoke and the bottom image of the legs opening and closing slowly.

No less, I really enjoyed this odd moment.

Video still from a new video piece which is, at the moment, untitled.

A couple insights into my studio as I begin the second year of my Maters. These images are printed 30×40″ and are part of an new series of still images titled Some Kind of Entertainer.

This past July I collaborated with the Swedish artist, Trofy, on a couple musical tracks. She and I shot a hip-hop video in the small town of Mariestad, Sweden, and did a live performance along with a press-release style installation of the works.

Trofy (left) and me, SHE Chic

I recently shot a new video piece wherein I dance in my underwear like some sort of wild bird while being dramatically lit. The piece will be a 2-channel video, the second moving image alongside the dancing being a close-up shot of my face with my eyes frantically looking back-and-forth. I am also recording a track that will be played with the video. I don’t want to reveal too much, but it involves a hook that has the word “tampon” on repeat. Should be a fun watch!

Below are some of the super beautiful stills from the shoot. I plan on blowing these up at a very large, wallpaper-esque scale. I figure I mind-as-well just go very obvious with this self-worship and what not. Cheers to art for letting us all be so egotistical!

Ah, video. A fickle medium…incredibly popular, very demanding, and inaccessible to many gallery or museum-goers.

So, of course, I find myself enthralled by the moving image. Not only making videos, but making performances and displaying such as videos. I am still deciding if I want all these works online in their completed forms, but no matter my decision I will have them on my site in the coming weeks.

At the moment I am working with Kris Martin, and have been enjoying showing alongside his work and the work of my peers at The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art. Last month we had an opening, and my contribution was a larger-than-life projection of myself slowly removing my clothes, covering my body in flour, posing like a statue, and dumping buckets of freezing water over my head. I then process to roll around in the subsequent dough whilst screaming “I love my body!”. Here is an installation shot of that piece, as well as the stills.

More to come.

Those on the West Coast, please join me at the CCA Open Studios and see my new work, as well as work by my many talented colleagues.