No to Salt Mountains and Man Butter

This is a participatory piece by Kerrdieekrdaad. We were joking around about how easy it was to be a good artist as a little kid (look mom! I colored in the lines!) and how lovely it would be to make a coloring book piece. This is it. We made the piece in black and white, then showed it with markers, crayons, colored pencils. I'll get some more pictures of it colored in soon.

First Kerdieekrdaad Series

Kerdieekrdaad, sounds just how it looks. What is it? It's a collaborative curiosity  comprised of the charmingly cantankerous Jacqueline K Maloney and myself. Kerdieekrdaad is becoming a lot of things, but one thing it will never be is jaded. This is my first studio relationship (LOTS more to come on that, I promise) and the brain children are doing just fine. 

Here is the first work Jackie and I did together as Kerdieekrdaad. The series happened out of immense respect for each other's work (maybe a touch of envy in there), a blase opinion about our own work, and general exhaustion. I never thought that working together would be such a powerful experience. 

And look at us now--making a big ol' art baby together. We are able to make things together that neither of us could ever do on our own.

It's like finding a long term partner in a fuck buddy.

If you're reading this, Jackie (you better be reading this, Jackie. If you're not, no one is), know that I had no idea. I could not have imagined being so invigorated, excited and comforted by a studio practice. That's all you, my friend.

More to come soon. Keep that in mind.

Love,

Bribird

Catch Up

Here is some older work of mine. This is my last year at Moore College of Art & Design--this work is from my junior year.

Because All I've Ever Wanted Was Space

2010

6' x 11'

pen, ink, gouache, relief prints

transparency study 1

2010

transparency study 2

2010

Something Tantric

2010

Please excuse the lack of art photographing etiquette. It will improve.

Much more to come.

Stay tuned,
Bribird

Here goes everything

And so I suppose we're all going to give it a shot. Things can't seem to get any worse in the world, that, what the hell, let's see what one person's effort and energy can accomplish. Like, what else are we gonna do?
The exciting thing is though, is that a lot of people are just going for it. We're all giving a swing at the universe that is within our reach.

So here it goes, big world. I'm making my art. I can't say how much it's gonna do, but I'm gonna do it anyways. I've been doing it for as long as i can remember, and I'm not the only one. There are a lot of us--making our art, our music, our ideas. We're everywhere, and we're not just artists. There are technicians and farmers and blacksmiths and mathematician and writers, etc... There are more of us clearly dissatisfied with the "freedom" we have been "given," and more of us horrified with how much we are a part of the problem. We're going to try to be better.

So here it goes. I'm making my art. I'll let you know how it goes.

Love,
Bribird