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Improv team art is my jam. This piece was commissioned by my dear, funny friend Joe (far right).We were on an improv team together called Scoundrels. Scoundrels was a damn fine team. Damn fine. I’m hoping for a reunion show.
(Emily, Sarah, Jenn, Alex, Nick, Joe)
Scoundrels
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one-line drawing + watercolor
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Home sweet Home <3
Hogwarts - 9x12
one-line drawing +watercolor
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For all you lion moms out there, taking care of your wild cubs.
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Hey Nebraska and West Virginia! Let’s stand up and speak out. We live in a broken system full of corporate greed, corruption, and injustice. It doesn’t have to be this way. If you believe in democracy: Get out and vote.
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Mother’s Day is hard when you don’t have your mom any more. Luckily, friends are there to commission touching art pieces in her honor, and make the day sting a little less. For the woman I made this for: I don’t know you, and I have never met your mother, but I wish I could have. I hear she was loved by many, and the life of the party. My kinda gal.
All my love.
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Buddha
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Whenever I hold a girl’s hand, our fingers together feel like soft, cold, delicate jellyfish tentacles.
“Jelllyyyfiiisshhh” I whisper to myself. Every time.
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“I grew up in a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood, was raised by Catholic parents and married a Muslim girl. Oh and I'm also Latino. Salaam, Shalom, Hola.”
Ismael
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“I belong to a gym called "Mark Fisher Fitness," where members are called "ninjas" and the workout spaces are called, "The Clubhouse," "The Dragon Lair," and "The Snatchery." I was sad in class one day and upon noticing, my instructor Staci came over to me and said, "Amelia, do you need a tutu?" I put it on, and felt a whole lot better doing my burpees, deadlifts, and planks. What I love about Mark Fisher Fitness is the healthy, positive, and loving community. I love that there's a place I can go and everyone knows my name. It's a place where I can be my weird, quirky self, and do the big kid moves that they're doing in Crossfit, but do it while listening to 80s rock or Hamilton, while wearing a tutu and yelling, "YAAASSS!!!" It's important to find community in a city as large and daunting as New York. My search for community has fueled many of my interests, such RENT when I was in high school, or improv comedy today. And through that motivation I've found my second, third, fourth, and fifth homes in New York, and know that if I've got time on my hands, I can always go somewhere and not be alone. “
Amelia
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”The first concert I ever attended was Hall & Oates, at some tented outdoor situation in Connecticut, with my dad. I love StuJay, as he's called by his friends and colleagues, absolutely to death. "You sound just like your dad," he'd always say to me when I was having this meltdown or that, "except I couldn't comprehend or verbalize any of it until I was 30." The depression/anxiety apple did not fall far from the tree, but it was OK, because Dad was an example that I'd survive it. When I was in elementary school, I would ride in the backseat of his white Volvo P1800 (seatbelt-less, dangerous, and totally delicious) next to my little brother Matty, and we'd listen to the Very Best of Daryl Hall & John Oates tape as we flew down the Connecticut highways in the summer. I had lists of crushes in my Ramona Quimby diary, and I would silently assign each track on the tape to a different boy as it played, meditating on the daydreams of one day being liked back, by any of them, by anyone. What I miss most about childhood and subsequently adolescence are the poignant, bursting moments of anticipation of wonderful things to come, even if those wonderful things never happened. I savored the vibrating engine of my longing heart as it fantasized about the future. Little did I know that I'd come undone the older I became, as there is no way real life could meet the soaring expectations of my youth. No matter. I've arrived at adulthood, and I keep arriving, and "Private Eyes" still gives me an extra heartbeat. In fact, whenever I hear a song from that album, "Kiss On My List" or "Say It Isn't So" or "You Make My Dreams," I take it as a wink from the greater intelligence of the universe. I feel lost, but somehow, someone knows I'm on my path.”
Lyssa
On the first official date I had with Kent, the man who I would end up marrying, we discussed that we were both interested in having children. I told him that I liked the name Dot for a girl. He talked about the pointillism genre painting as being mistakenly founded, as according to Seurat, he was not painting points (dots), but lines. On the other hand, Kent was an admirer of Dorothy Parker (in whose honor one could name a child Dot). He began to talk about Dorothy Parker's style of humor and writing, and it occurred to me that one could describe Ring Larder, who I loved, in a similar way. Kent reached for a compilation of Dorothy Parker stories on his bookshelf, and upon reading the back cover, I saw that the editor made the same comparison to Ring Lardner. I was stunned. Our relationship quickly escalated and Kent and I were certain that we had been placed together by God. When my son's due date ended up being Dorothy Parker's birthday, I knew that God was winking at us, and I was tickled to be reminded that God knows all across time, and that that delightful early conversation between Kent and me would serve as a humorous reminder of God's presence in our lives so many years later. Katie and Dot
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Golden Girls.
Painted for my cousin’s new Florida home.
Bernie Sanders and the People
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I made this for my therapist. She helped me through a pretty rough patch of postpartum depression and come to find out... her dog just died. This woman doesn’t have kids, or a lover, or a roommate. She’s got her dogs and her 2 cats. She’s sweet as pie. I owe her a lot.
She broke down during our session and spilled the beans about her two favorite dogs that had passed in 2015. A cocker spaniel and a golden retriever. Now, all she has left is this little terrier that is kind of a little shit. “He’s alright.” She says, “But he doesn’t cuddle like the other ones did. They followed me everywhere.”
This is for you Angie.
“The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.” Frida Kahlo
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Love Flamingos? Chances are you are an outgoing, vibrant, and flirtatious individual with a strong sense of community and family. You love to strut your stuff, and shake what your mama gave you. Flamingo people are also well-balanced, super resourceful, and really like shrimp.
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“It's been a constant struggle, the way I feel within my own body, and the way in which I perceive my own body. I worry this is a culturally inevitable struggle for women, one that begins at such an early age. I hate it, the standard to which conform to/have conformed /have felt pressured to conform/have fought against conforming to, for the duration of my life so far. I hate it, and I enact it, and all of it makes me want to eat a whole goddamn pizza in spite.
Yeah. I also struggle in my relationship with food. I obsess over it--eating too much of it, too little, worrying about "bad" vs "good" food. It's not an exaggeration to say most women I know are on a sort of spectrum of eating disorders; or, perhaps they don't suffer a definitive eating disorder, but instead, they suffer disordered eating.
After my brother was killed in Iraq in 2008, I gained about forty pounds in six months. I've long since lost that weight, then gained some back, and lost some more. What I remember most about the months after his death was the only time I felt truly alive was when I was eating. Jesse asked me one night, "What do you want for dinner?" I had been in a rage all day, feeling as though the world after Ronnie's death was never going to be enough, but at the thought of the drive-in at McDonald's or a Coke Slurpee from 7-11, I was suddenly singing along with the radio.
It's been seven years since Ronnie died. I'm in my thirties! I so badly want to be in a place where I don't worry about every missed workout or every single thing I put in my mouth. I feel as though I am closer and closer to that place, if such a place exists. I am trying to concentrate on what my body can do, is capable of, rather than how it looks in the mirror.
Red. Red is my favorite color. I think I chose it way back when (it has ALWAYS been my color) because it felt strong, loud, open. Red demands confidence, so much so eventually said confidence is a given. When I wear red lipstick--and I do most days--it's because I feel confident, or because I want to feel confident. Red is a circular, cyclical color. It feels like home.”
Samantha
9x12 (watercolor and marker)
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