New Goal: to not set goals

So, its been - what - three years since I last posted? So much for keeping current and so much for keeping goals. I may be joining Jimmy's side in regards to goal-setting in that there is a certain amount of satisfaction just in setting the goal, which then leaves little motivation to actually accomplish it, and so it becomes a self-defeating process.

Anyways, a brief recap: I graduated college in Dec. 2008. I was lucky and got a job teaching ceramics at American Fork High School on a 1/2 contract and a job as a permanent substitute for the other 1/2. I also work at Discovery Ranch in Mapleton as the art teacher. I love teaching art. Last year, me and Jimmy sold half of our belongings and moved into Jim's parent's house for a couple months to help fund a two month trip to Brazil and Europe which we went on last summer after Jimmy finished his interns

hip at the Daily Herald. It was amazing.

When we got back, we moved into a small back apartment of an old house behind the Berg Mortuary- 350 sq. feet. I never got used to the smell of formaldehyde when we paid rent. After doing a bunch of freelance work, Jimmy got a job as a reporter for the Daily Herald - he has the crime/courts beat. Meanwhile, I began my 2nd year at AFHS and DR, and participated in a couple of art competitions and a group art show in Salt Lake called Big-Eyed Women. And two weeks ago, we moved out of our teeny apartment and into our first home - a 1929 Tudor style revival brick house in historic provo. We don't know what to do with all the space, though last night we played soccer in it with a leftove

r balloon from my surprise birthday party :)

We've been pretty busy (and broke) this past year, and haven't had much of a chance for traveling since our big trip. But we did have a couple of free plane tickets and couldn't give up the chance to visit our favorite city aga

in. See picture below: not too much different besides different hair, being three years older, and wearing a beret - haha.

Keeping Current

A goal for myself: next time I will talk about recent events that influence my thoughts, my collections, and creations (e.g. my trip to Seattle!)

A self-identifying mark: A highlight of process, destruction, and re-enchantment

I created an enclosed, bulbous, organic, penetrated growth (in clay), which exploded in its bisque firing.

This short-term devastation kaleidoscoped into a separate realization from its original inception.

(In this process I realized that each existed as simultaneously unfinished and complete).

Like a Kaleidoscope

The hardest part is to begin a blog

Or rather, to know where to begin the documentation of my education.

Or rather, to know when to begin a nonlinear chornology of ideas and artifcats.


works on paper; mixed media; 2005-2007