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Self portrait, What to do with your theory, 2007

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Tom Rubnitz

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If you're in Kansas City go check out the work here.

The Discontented Bear

This is friggen adorable. It's about a bear who wants to become a bird!

check Stephen Daoud's the Discontented Bear

Scott Kennedy & Peggy Noland

This man's work is fuckingasweetashit and I don't want to write out some overwritten commentary. GO LOOK. Either look or understand it when I say, "FUCKING SWEET!"

It's so inspiring. Speaking of more inspiration, I read several Peggy Noland interviews while sitting at work. It put my time spent and my future time in Kansas City in perspective. It helped me make sense of this city.

I have been needing a lot of reassurance that there is sense to make out of how I have been feeling lately.

Check out Gabriela Herman. I love her photos.

New pieces

I posted two new drawings up on my site. One of them scanned badly but I don't care to fix it at the moment.

audreykeiffer.com

Alison Blickle

I haven't posted anything art related in a little while.

I really like Alison Blickle's paintings of a skinny lady running through a'many natural environments. Sometimes it seems that a portrayal of a natural woman has lost its "natural" aspects. If anything, the entirety of being disconnected from what is woman and what isn't is making this explanation hard to convey. There are many different perspectives on what is considered a modern woman or a woman who is independent. These paintings really convey this confusion, in my opinion. The mix of the body type and environment, Rousseau-esque, is a way of showing the detachment of humans from the natural world. And, more importantly, a woman in a natural world.

Although, I can't say that I agree or disagree with how I am viewing these paintings. Getting past those aspects of it, some of the women look like they drank a little bit too much cough medicine. There is a mix of equator jungle plants within' evergreens. The colors are simply awesome.

Bill Dunlap

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I'd stick with his paintings.