Her name is Beth. And she means the world to me. We went to school together in the cornfields of Indiana and had lots of adventures. My mind wandered a lot today, and it kind of kept wandering to her and how much I miss her and how today just seemed like it would have been the perfect day to spend with her, so here's to Beth! My muse, my artistic inspiration, my encourager in all things art and in all things not, my fellow lover of the human body and the color red, my voicemail filler-upper about new fabric on sale, my Turkish Delight, my best friend!
Beth in her old studio at the Harrison Center,
wearing a paper machete balloon and a handmade red satin tentacle.
Beth made a wing out of arranged feathers dipped in wax.
Beth made this shirt for her senior show called Inside Out. It was a performance piece about how it's such a beautiful thing to be able to turn yourselves inside out and be brutally raw with someone and have them still love you and accept you for who you are. The other pieces consisted of handmade body parts, three handmade life size figures, and three wax casts of torsos (one of which was mine) inside of vintage suitcases, and was absolutely one of the most fun and crazy art things I've ever done. I think we had to do it three times because we kept on messing it up. It was very.... messy. But fun!
Beth's name on the list of featured artists at the Harrison Center.
Hugs and kisses! (and Naterpants gets an honorable mention here
for being one of the coolest photographers on the planet!)
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