the best thing i’ve made all week
July 11, 2011
And it’s only Monday! Coming up next: Hand Sanitizer Fountain, y’all. Also possibly some kind of ketchup sculpture.
Posted by jodi on July 11, 2011 at 11.52am
cleo, winding down
May 30, 2011
Our beloved Cleo has had a rough time of it, medically, the last little while. When we came home from our Georgia vacation in February, we found her in a crisis situation, listless and not eating, lying around with a glazed, miserable expression. The diagnosis was kidney failure, and with a new diet, renal care medicine and subcutaneous fluid injections (which we administer at home) she bounced back to her normal self in less than two weeks (after some very scary days where I had to hold her constantly to try and get her body temperature up and at times it seemed she was barely breathing). She gained a pound on the new regimen and began once again exhibiting her remarkable prowess at the “bite me” game.
Over the May Two Four weekend, I noticed her back legs, which have been stiffening for well over a year now, were giving out on her occasionally, causing her to slide to the floor while walking and then wobble like a drunkard after picking herself up. This time it’s arthritis in her spine, which is only going to get worse over time (her kidneys, on the other hand, are behaving like total rock stars). So she got a cortisone shot to manage any pain, and off we went home again to give her all the love and anything else she asks for and wait for her to give us The Sign.
She’s still getting around okay, just with a slightly smaller range (the photo above was taken through the dining room window screen while she slept on the concrete pad below; normally she’d be halfway across the yard sleeping atop the graves of her predecessors, or at the way back lying on the sun-warmed giant sheet of metal we’re too lazy to take to the dump). For a 20 year old cat she’s remarkably feisty, and while she’s still mostly happy (if somewhat frustrated with the mobility trouble) and taking pleasure in life we’re just going to enjoy her last days and help her up and down the stairs when we need to.
When I watch her drag herself away from her food dish where she’s been half-crouching, half-lying down to eat, Cleo reminds me a bit of this:
(Andrew Wyeth: Christina’s World, tempera on panel, 1948)
Posted by jodi on May 30, 2011 at 5.08pm
kitty + unicorn 4VR
January 25, 2011
In the window at Omeed’s Used Furniture, Wyandotte Street, Windsor, Ontario.
This picture, combined with a joke Peter made about an event we attended on the weekend, has given me an idea for a project. We’ve already secured a venue to exhibit the project, we just need to choose a date, rope in a few partners and, of course, make the work. Stay tuned!
Posted by jodi on January 25, 2011 at 4.07pm
great lakes tourist
October 20, 2010
First time wading in Lake Michigan. Hell no I didn’t swim. It was cold, y’all.
Posted by jodi on October 20, 2010 at 5.26pm
August 3, 2010
I have been waiting all year to bring y’all a photo of this beautiful velvet painting that hangs on the wall of El Rey Azteca restaurant in Lyndora, PA.
I’m pretty sure there’s an interesting story in this painting, as it’s obviously a real mountain range with some sort of legend attached to it. Something to be investigated later, though. Right now, we’re on vacation!
Posted by jodi on August 3, 2010 at 6.24am
self portrait with map
July 22, 2010
Little lakes, big lakes.
Posted by jodi on July 22, 2010 at 9.09am
more sweater factory
July 4, 2010
Sweater cut-out letter sign: craftily cute or painfully hipsterish? I still can’t decide.
The full length of knitting, just before I started chopping it up.
First cutouts.
Posted by jodi on July 4, 2010 at 8.01pm
the sweater factory, day 8
June 21, 2010
Posted by jodi on June 21, 2010 at 1.47pm
the sweater factory, day 4
June 18, 2010
Posted by jodi on June 18, 2010 at 12.00pm
the sweater factory
June 17, 2010
11am to 5pm daily, June 14 to 25, 2010
406 Pelissier Street, Windsor, Ontario
as part of Storefront Residencies for Social Innovation, an initiative of Windsor-based arts research collective Broken City Lab.
The Sweater Factory is a trial run for a project I’ve been talking about doing for a while. Old sweaters are unraveled and knit on a machine into a long panel from which pattern pieces will be cut; these pieces will be sewn together on the serger to create new sweaters, which will be given away to visitors at the end of the project.
The first two days were taken up with setting up and getting to know the new knitting machine, which I hadn’t managed to get out of the case and try out before beginning the project (whoops). Now that we’re friends, new fabric is pouring off the thing at a pretty good clip, although the varying weights of the sweaters being recycled makes necessary constant little adjustments to tension. I hope to stop knitting and start sewing by the end of the weekend. Due to the short time frame and the summer heat, I’ll be making sweater vests instead of full sweaters (so far most of the visitors to the project who’ve been really excited about the prospect of a free sweater vest have been artists and various other types of nerd anyway, so striped sweater vests could become our NERD UNIFORM). The last few days will be devoted to hand finishing (ribbing!) and giving vests away.
Posted by jodi on June 17, 2010 at 9.29pm
