for those of you just joining the show, i’m your host ‘trie (sounds like “tree”), and i’m a mixed media, conceptual artist and writer who has recently become a con-kid/exhibitor, doesn’t like capitalization, and lives in the backwoods of wisconsin.
which makes being a con-kid and an artist a little bit difficult.
at least the trees recognize me as one of their own.
Continue reading welcome to a new year at tentacle-made studios!
this blog (which is a lot of word and not a lot of image) comes in four parts–mostly because it’s tidy, and i’m ridiculously tired.
part the first: meet the artist at the ARTgarage in Green Bay is tonight from 5-8pm.
be there; be the geometric shape of your choosing; watch me demo things; talk to all of us artists.
it’s a thing.
Continue reading meet the artist, nerdcon: stories, storenvy, & #fanworkstaughtme
(re: here is a more thorough presentation of information, likes, and reasonings because there is no such thing as overkill, there’s just enough kill.)
before i forget, there’s a meet the artist at the ARTgarage on thursday, august 20th from 5-8pm. so, come a meet some artists?
so, as per usual, the definitely depere art walk ended not with a bang but with a wimper.
okay, there was some bang because storm but yeah.
Continue reading the end of the art walk season and the possibility of nerdcon: stories
so, yeah, it’s time again for art fairs and things, and the first is gallery nite this thursday/tomorrow at the ARTgarage from 5-8(-ish) pm.
(i think i’m demo-ing pastel painting? i’m still not sure. i should make that decision, yeah?)
Continue reading drive-by: it’s art fair season again. (so there’s a schedules of sorts.)
So, I asked y’all for your suggestions about what I should print for the upcoming Definitely DePere–which, by-the-by, I’m going to be at Polito’s Pizza on May 9th if y’all wanna come see me–and here were the final decisions.
If your faves didn’t make the cut this time, DO NOT DESPAIR! They’ll be in the next batch. I swear.
And, because–omg–busy week was busy, here’s my new display at the ARTgarage:
And, projecTransparency videos because I have been doing them! I just got behind last week (in a fit of the anxieties about ordering prints, actually), so didn’t do a dedicated blog post.
Also, Eurovision reviewing for The Rainbow Hub.
Yes, this is a thing I do now.
VIDEOS!
Last week’s:
This week’s:
Okay, y’all. I HAVE ALL THE THINGS TO DO.
Stay safe out there.
Courage.
I’ve been working on a commission all week and getting ready to teach at SAW for the next couple of weeks (It’s not too late! You can still sign up for classes! There are adult ones too!) and with the writing for The Rainbow Hub (I’m Trie over there. And did I mention that my BAMF Women Superheroes series has been extended and now has it’s own drop-down menu? Tell me that isn’t seriously awesome. And–if that isn’t all amazing enough–Kelly Sue DeConnick liked my Captain Marvel article. Take that, snarky voices!), so yeah, I’ve been busy.
This guy’s almost 2′ tall (he’s 22″). He took like 30-40 hours to make, and he has a huge washer in his bottom (*snicker* bottom) with magnets so that he sits all proper-like.
…he also came out more Tom Servo that my drawing but whatever.
He was a pain to sew, ngl.
I’ve also gotten hooked on Welcome to Night Vale and have committed fanart–after a fashion:
Basically, he’s the Glow Cloud from Welcome to Night Vale but in the style of my unnamed friends series.
So, “fanart” in the same way that At-At is a Star Wars fanart or God-Emperor is a Dune fanart? Like, only if you squint?
New Quarter’s also going up, and I’m not certain what I’m showing. *hands* It just hasn’t been important this week.
2013
acrylic and ink on masonite
Katrina (‘Trie) Blasingame
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, because I’ve had spinning in my life recently:
Both are Hello Purl art batts; both are just amazing and the best.
*loves on them*
I’ve also set up a Society6 shop, and I am working on setting up a RedBubble shop for all of your tentacle-made studios shopping needs.
So, yeah, just wanted to touch base with y’all while I’m running crazy.
Courage and cake (mmmmmm, cake).
I’m spent.
I’m done.
Really, honestly, it’s been going on since I got up ridiculously late today.
And, yeah, y’all did read art!hangover. I get hangovers from strange things (e.g., arting, people, people), but interestingly, I don’t get normal hangovers from drinking. Mostly, because I have a ludicrously high tolerance so that it takes so long to get me even going on a good buzz that I get bored with drinking and I find something else to do. Or the party ends. Whichever comes first.
So, yeah, the art!hangover has to do with the change of quarter at the ARTgararge combined with a massive funk that took up most of the last two months, so the last week has been a Case of the Amazing Arting Squid (coming soon to a theatre near you).
The L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poetry/Word Art part of it reads:
a little sea-woman (not really, just a stupid girl)all operatic beauty and siren-song strength.Before.(there’s always a Before—Before always seemslike a place to have remained if we were sane.amber-frozen.rather than rapid, rabid liminality).then–oh, then–a glance, a rescueand it’s all idiotic love-at-first-sight.and forego present-identityfor the encompassing ambiguity(submission, subsumission)of the Loved-Self.but–she’s soullessdestined for 300 yearsthat ends in sea-foam dissolution andthen Nothing(ness).(how Sarte).enter the Sea Witch(cecaelia)driving a hard (maybe cruel)bargain.eternity and salvation available onlythrough idiotic romantic lovethrough true loves kiss.(because, of course,she is Abomination and Fallennot because she’s Merbut because she’s a She).fins to sword-sharp, rending(mutilating) pain.voice for legs.like Morse Code.self-sacrifice and transmutation.sword-sharp pain to legs to dancing.(because there’s always alateral trade in these things).Mer to something not-quite human (simian).fish to ape.…and there’s betrayal–.there’s always betrayal–.and betrayal breeds betrayal.dancing to heartbreak.(not everyone knows that its possibleto die from heartbreak.the walking wounded.missing more parts than in thatmythical Before).and all that’s left is more betrayal.the only salvation is blood and deathbetrayal and another’s heartache.(there’s a lot of betrayal).knife to blood to pain to legs to fins again.Yet–.of course, yet–.because she’s heroic and stupidly in-love.and some oddly skewed feminist idealof courage and curiosity and so muchself-sacrificing fearlessness.so, there’s no betrayal;instead there’s suicide and sea foam.water sprite to air elemental.sacrifice and suicide and 300 years ofplaying some sort of St. Nicholas scavenger hunt(for the naughty and nice).gains some sort of salvation(eternity) (soul)that a heartless god denies those ofthe Water(the Moon)(women)
The L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poetry/Word Art part of it reads:
tell me about the bodies
drug from the water
track-lines and bruises visible on
pale, mutilated flesh.
.
tell me a story
because we are all
.
just stories
left in the wreckage
.
tell me a story
spanning a 1001 days, a 1001 nights
.
a-million-and-one
in-betweens
.
tell me about the bodies
drug from your memory
graceful lines and shadows
full lives lead in echoes of you
The L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poetry/Word Art part of it reads:
*waves hand*
That one’s really more Tuttle-esque in that it’s more about the shadows being cast than the shapes themselves.
Okay, I’m going to go. I’ll try not to be such a slacker.
Courage.
I don’t have anything done from it yet (actually, I’m kinda still incubating it a bit), but I think I might be ready to talk a little bit more about it.
So, for those of you playing the Home Game, once upon a time, I was a dyed-in-the-wool academic.
Still am, actually; I just do art-y things now that write papers or present at conference mostly.
And, if you’ve heard this all before, please feel free to skip to the end. Just like in Princess Bride. I promise there will be no damaging of perfect breasts in this. No breasts were remotely harmed in the making of this post. Swear.
But, yeah, academic, and I don’t fanart well because, while I’m an artist, I’m not really a draw-people type artist. I’m conceptual and mixed media with sculptural tendencies and a hankering (sic) for fiber. So–drawing, not really part of my wheel-house except when we’re talking about things like my unnamed friends or the beast series.
It’s just how I roll: fast and outta control.
I’m also post-postmodern (or quixotic postmodern or conscientious postmodern–something of that nature), which means that I deconstruct, analyze (and is it just me that “analyze” is kinda a pervy word?), meta, reconstruct, and meta some more.
Again, this is why popular culture/Visual Culture, fairytales, and mythology are like my THING. They’re inherently meta, and I can just fiddle meta about.
What I’m planning is kinda a two (maybe three?) pronged series where bits and pieces of fanfic are going to be translated into embroidered pieces and/or giant Word Art (because Word Art was always one of those things I enjoyed playing with and working on, but I really haven’t had anything Word Art-y in the process since I left Art School because it always seems to take up so much space and there’s already a space issue in my studio because old art hasn’t sold or hasn’t been boxed properly to be sent to storage), and there’ll be sculptural not-installations that are meta character studies like I’m totally cos-playing evil-werewolf!Stiles from Dogs of War by Saucery and this image by creature13 and have plans to install the costume as an art piece with these sources cited. And I have ideas for semi-Cubist metal sculptures/wall pieces that are, like, gestural experiences of certain characters or moments from fandom and stuff with exquisite-corpse-esque interpretations of media.
So, yeah, it’s gonna be fanart, but it’s gonna be fanart in that was that isn’t in a traditionally-fanart way.
…I’m likely to end up being really unpopular everywhere? Maybe?
I’m very good at citation. I swear.
And, because I know most people don’t read my blog for me being all wordy and blathery and stuff, here’s some yarn (imaged as a process) that I just finished up.
And, believe it or not, I sold these three skeins:
Also, since we’re here and talking about yarn and fiber and things, I’m going to be at ArtStreet off and on all weekend with the Traveling Treadlers. Also, I have my class information, if people are interested in classing with me:
“Give Spinning a Whirl.”: An Introduction to Spinning Yarn <–Sorry bad!title is bad. We tried “Spinning, yo.”, but I didn’t want a Knitta-Please-level of awfulness; the only other thing we were coming up with was “You spin me right ’round, baby, right ’round.”, but we figured it was wrong for the demographics.
When: Thursday, September 13th 4 – 6p.m.
Saturday, September 29th 10a.m. – 12p.m.
Tuesday, November 13th 4-6
Where: the ARTgarage
Cost: $50–includes drop spindle and roving
6-in-6: Six Books Types in Six Hours
When: Saturday, November 10th 1-4
Sunday, November 11th 1-4
Where: the ARTgarage
Cost: $60–includes materials
Additionally, Gallery Nite is coming up on Sept 20th. I’ll be there demo-ing and trying to be charming.
Questions, comments, concerns? What to ask me what I’m thinking with this fandom stuff? Go for it! I do enjoy chatting about this stuff.
Courage.
