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jodi — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:45:25 +0000

Wyandotte Street window reflections and writing. Somebody apparently felt the need to tell the whole neighbourhood about their bad gas.

Taken with the Harinezumi digital.

inspiration

jodi — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:21:33 +0000

There’s road construction going on outside my office window, and while printing and sewing aren’t activities that require silence, I’m unable to draw while listening to the vehicles moving to and fro all day. I’ve also decided to move my studio back into our home in a few months, and to get to work renovating the attic into a workable studio. Since we’ve recently become half-empty-nesters again, I’ve set up a temporary work space in the newly vacated spare bedroom. To cover up the very ugly walls (which we never painted or fixed when we bought the house) I had a National Geographic cutting party, and put up a pile of reference images to supplement my wall of photocopied source material. Medieval monsters, animals, hands, beautiful faces, elaborate headdresses, masks, ruffly things, cephalopods, bodhisattvas, mushrooms, Elizabeth II in a ridiculous hat and a bunny. I think that’s all I need.

photo

jodi — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:09:05 +0000

Detroit, Michigan: April 28, 2012. Taken with the Harinezumi digital.

helicopter crash in china

jodi — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:04:08 +0000

things i love: volume one

jodi — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:22:14 +0000

Peter bought me this bonefolder in the early days of our relationship, during a time when I was living in a tiny, cramped bachelor apartment and working for a petty tyrant and cranking out little leather bound books like a sweaty, desperate machine in my messy little bedroom/living room with woefully inadequate tools. It may seem like a small thing but at the time, having this long slim piece of bone show up in my mailbox was the best present ever. It’s still the best present ever.

I have several bone folders of different shapes and sizes in my studio now, but this one is still my favourite; its pores are filled with leather dye, printing ink, glue and the sweat of almost twenty years of hard work.

Soon I am going to get a portrait tattoo of my bonefolder along the bottom of my right forearm, actual size.

in the studio

jodi — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:26:42 +0000

Lizard body bird leg lady with antlers. In progress, drawing for my upcoming show in Kingsville.

photos

jodi — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:15:14 +0000

Wyandotte Street storefront diamonds, Windsor, Ontario.

we got the herbs

jodi — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:11:19 +0000

Masking tape typography.

Wyandotte Street, April 21 2012.

it took two tries to get this because i refused to take out my nose ring

jodi — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:08:48 +0000

Getting those other three wisdom teeth out soon. I am not very excited for this.

broken city lab, two tales of a city

jodi — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:16:58 +0000

Here’s an installation shot of the Broken City Lab project Two Tales of a City at Hamilton Artists Inc., for which I sewed all of those many, many giant letters and metres upon metres of bunting a few months ago.

Photo courtesy of Broken City Lab

Click this link to read about the installation process and the accompanying public workshops Broken City Lab members conducted in Hamilton as part of the project.