love him!

green things

make me happy. but if you know me, you already knew that. this is probably one of my favorite wall papers ever and it has in fact been my proverbial wall paper on my computer multiple times (i frequently change my background image...adds some spice to my life). a guys blog i used to stalk, who lived in fort wayne, but has now moved on to bigger and better things in seattle, took this image of actual wall paper during his travels and it has become one of my favorite things.

another color i am obsessed with recently is gray. i just can't get enough of it. whenever jacques and i get married, the color scheme will most likely be white, black, gray with a hint of green...classy with a touch of funk. haha. but enough of dream world...back to gray. last year i painted my room a warm "dorian gray" color. love it. lots of white accents and storage bins and some antique things and of course my favorite green color sprinkled throughout. i'll post pictures once it is completely finished. still working on a few things...the perfect room takes time, you know. other gray things...shirts, shoes, socks, scarves, bags, gray skinny jeans...anything that is gray automatically gets a second look. i know, it's not fair to the other colors out there, but i do have my favorites. now, back to work...to pay for those gray things along with school bills...yay!

much love!
michelle

writing...again.

so, here i am, at my desk again...taking a break from writing. soon this thing...this thing i call my thesis...will be over. it should have been done last semester, but due to lack of motivation and all of the other things going on, like my internship and other class work, i just did not put enough time and energy into the darn thing. luckily, i have an amazing adviser who gave me an extension until this coming friday. i just hope, now that i have the drive to finish it, that it gets done on time, and is still up to par! i was struggling with a lack of resources, but decided to just include that dilemma into my paper and offer suggestions as to why there is not much written about nostalgia in works of art. it's slow going, but thus far i have re-vamped my intro, addressed my dilemma and defined characteristics of nostalgia in works of art, and have started on my artistic influence section. this section starts with some of the female photographers back in late 1800s, early 1900s who were creating photographs for artistic purposes, and proving themselves to critics that their work was "High Art" just as painting was. Pictorialism was their sort of genre and a lot of the photographs have a softness to them. nostalgia was not their goal, but their imagery exudes it. i will talk about a few artists in between these early pictorialists and contemporary artists and then discuss my own work and how it is influenced by them and what i am trying to get across to the viewer. i'm about 1/4 done now, but hope to be more like 3/4 done by the end of today.



this image is one of maggie taylor's. i discovered her in my digital imaging class last semester and she will be included in my thesis. i think her work is just lovely. she has done a series on alice and wonderland that is quite beautiful and original to her style as well. you should check her out. seriously.

well, i just needed a moment of procrastination. thanks.