Ring Tiles

Soda fired, sgraffito, black slip on porcelain, 4" x 5" each, 2011.

I made these right after the oil spill in the Gulf.

Sketchbook Project 2011: ...you'd be home by now...

"...you'd be home by now..." 

I made this series of embroidered drawings for The Art House Co-op's Sketchbook Project 2011.

If you happen to be near one of the exhibitions on the tour, stop on by!

A bit o' embroidery

A little embroidery I've been working on lately.

Place Space Exhibition 8.15.10 - 12.15.10

Preliminary installation photos of

Wherever you go, there you are. (2010)

The beginnings of a collaborative Holding My Breath. (2010)

A sign on the table will soon read:

Step 1: Unfold paper bag

Step 2: Inflate with your breath

Step 3: Twist top

Step 4: Add to the pile

Close ups of the paper bag layers.

Aura (standing) (2010)

Place Space
Naomi Falk, Solomon Isekeije, Jayson Lowery, Ed Pollard

8.15.10 - 12.15.10

Neil Britton Art Gallery
Virginia Wesleyan College
1584 Wesleyan Dr, Norfolk, VA 23502

Reception: Thur, Sept 9, 2010, 4 - 6pm

Paper landscape

Closeup of my current Holding My Breath piece in progress. This is a stack of 500 paper lunch bags. They are sitting on a small table with a sign that reads:

Step 1: Unfold paper bag

Step 2: Inflate with your breath

Step 3: Twist top
Step 4: Add to the pile

I like the layered, sedimentary, landscape-ish sort of feel to them at this stage.

And the hankies say...

I embroidered hankies with individual words that you can change around as you see fit.

Above currently reads:
I Love You Don't Miss Me

Other possibilities:
I Miss You
You Miss Me
Don't You Love Me
You Love Me
I Don't Miss You
I Love You

Drawing from the tradition of monogramming or personalizing our belongings, against loss, as a memento of a special occasion, or a caring acknowledgment, I embroidered a series of words on handkerchiefs. Literally playing on words, depending on their arrangement, this piece also serves as a tender reflection on relationships and the differences shifting one's viewpoint might make.

Just found on Twitter

A (well-spoken) tweet from the Anton Art Center from Mar 28, 2009:

Artist Naomi Falk just led us in making circumferences of ourselves out of string/yarn/ribbon - now I can hold myself in the palm of my hand

From:
http://twitter.com/AntonArtCenter/status/1408759046

from Michigan Left: Naomi J. Falk & Jayson Lowery

Holding My Breath, 1,000 paper lunch bags, breath, 2009

Inspirational Newsprint

18" x 60" x 12" approx. overall
(work in progress)

Wall piece(s) in progress...

Untitled, Porcelain, 2009

Detail

Recto Verso Exhibition, June 5 - 30, 2009

Sweetwater Center for the Arts
200 Broad St.
Sewickley, PA 15412
www.SweetwaterArtCenter.org

My piece in the show:

Cover

"ripe spring turned thoughts to nutritious crumbs feeding an uncooperative craving good faith"

"a blizzard of solemn gestures fell shimmering to the floor"


"and covered the room with virtuous dust, transparent and concentrated, it's danger lay fresh"

"cloudless hours fell in protest confusing sense and rational emotion. night captured waking thought."

"lies obviously not serious still not free"

from Alterations: Catch-22, July 2007

Macomb Monthly '09 Interview

Aura

Aura, detail, 2009

Aura

Aura, porcelain chemistry cups, other, 2009

Aura, detail, 2009

Double Bascule

Double Bascule, 2008

Double Bascule, stop motion animation sketch, 2008

Ladder

Ladder III, 2008

Ladder II, 2008

Ladder, 2008

Bridge

Bridge, 2008

Paper Cutouts

Too Much, 2008

Talking To Myself III, 2008

Talking to Myself II, 2008

Talking to Myself I, 2008