The Mutter Museum Store agreed to carry my Black Lung necklaces on consignment! It’s an amazing and creepy institution in Philadelphia, and the perfect location for my ickier concoctions.
The opportunity gave me cause to create a one-sheet with my work that was a good exercise in self-promotion.
After a break, I’m back to playing with anatomy in time to coincide with a resurgence of anatomical activity in my life–MRIs, colonoscopies, the works. Using a facsimile of Gray’s Anatomy, I am choosing the most ornamental of illustrations for possible jewelry or screen prints.
Whenever I work from the anatomical interpretations of a skilled illustrator, I’m [...]
Not sacrilegious, but rather encouraged for a change as I was required to rapidly develop an icon set for the “catch-all” section of my Museum’s homepage. Inspired by the iphone, it is intended as a way to give every department the coveted spot on the homepage. The icons came together in an afternoon, and the [...]
A small organizational success of recent years is that I’ve become better at actually filling the appealing moleskine journals that I can’t stop myself from purchasing. Despite this seeming triumph of productivity, they have become a useful procrastination device. If I find myself unable to focus, I generally begin to clean (it’s just about the [...]
I’m planning a Chinese New Year/Purim celebration, and got it in my head that I wanted the invitations to look like the red envelopes that are given out with “gelt” in them. My friend Aron did the Chinese calligraphy and scribe Julie Seltzer did the Hebrew. They both say “gong shi fah tzai”, a wish [...]
After finally obtaining a screenprinting-friendly studio, I was eager to spread the wealth and teach a few artsy friends this complex and at first bewildering process that gets easier with experience and when done in large quantities. After a year and half of hemming and hawing, it finally happened with a great turnout and a [...]
I love instructional diagrams, even of the most simple tasks. The scribe that we have working at the CJM led this challah-making workshop and I captured it on film. She had the dough pre-made so the disgram complicates what was really a sweet and simple process, but it was so fun to make.
