Joyful snakes and sunshine
A dear friend friend of mine, @annycrane, has an awesome plan to open a textiles studio and residency in Gainesville, FL. Learn more at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/toska-studio#/ Please help out if you can. Florida needs things like this for real!
at Checkers W. University Avenue
Excerpt from collab book project on symbolz
jessihamiltonart-blog reblogged
On silence and mystery
[Mystery is] probably 100% of the reason for music appealing to me. If there’s no mystery then there’s no reason to listen to it because you’ve already got figured it out. That’s the whole thing right there….
[M]usic starts, when you’re starting a song the only thing you have is silence and silence is pretty damn sweet. Once you start making some sound, it better be good because you’re ruining the silence that makes you feel good and relaxed. I feel like you can only make a sound if it’s better than silence… [I’m] very conscious of the power of nothing, the power of nothing being there. You’ll notice it’s still about the best thing anyone playing with me on a record can do is just stop playing. Because you got this instrument in your hand and it’s really fun to make the noise with it, but it means so much more when you’re not playing it.
Piece of a new thing
Birthday pizza babies. Will be eating pizza for a while.
enjoying my new home studio decorations
I took a comics workshop with the amazing Aidan Koch! Comics have been popping up allover the place in my studio since then. Here’s a panel from one.
Celebrating first beach trip of the summer with floating hats, razor rayz and creepy smiles.
Collaborative Miami hotel room drawing
Woo hoo! Thanks Fresh Paint Magazine for featuring me in their publication!