so, i unexpectedly had to cut the last entry short, just as i was getting to the peak of my previous brain explosion. so now, it's a matter of picking up where i left off, or just skipping all the bullshit and getting to the good stuff......
well, hmmmmm, the good stuff it is!
every year or so, i've tried to make it a habit to have a new project of some sort going on. for a very long time, it was making clothing. i was never into the bourgeois (spelling??) fashionista thing. i was always about just making stuff i love, making what feels great on the body available and accessible to the public, and sharing what i was doing with whomever seemed fit. see squirrelygee vintage for reference @ myspace.com/squirrelygeevintage. and on and off for as long as however long it has been, i've exhibited work as a painter and illustrator with some extremely sick and amazingly talented artists (for which i am soooooo grateful). fuck, i mean, for real, visual art has alwaysssssss been my thang (definitely not just my thing). here's a little bit of this and that.
ca.2008/2009
ca.2006/2007
here's some older pieces:
and then there was the hilarious, yet surprisingly awesome run with my best friend kara, and a little something we called yellow cakes. which was around the time i met my homegirl, kesh. (side note, kara has the voice of a fucking angel. find her!!) anyway, this was us then,
and then again..
and we had a blast!! 2007 was quite a year.
though we've all been on our own shit, we've remained friends ever since. sadly (for me), kara moved back to the bay, and then on to atlanta, kesh went back to england, and then bounced right back to america (woohoo!), and i joined an art collective, the upset, started helping out at this sick local arts organiztaion (check out rumble arts and/or UPSET magazine) and separately started curating a couple of art shows here and there in chicago.
flash forward to 2009. with some stuff put on the back burner, i spent a litle bit of time doing some much needed traveling across the country, trying to figure out what the hell needed to change. and kesh, to my surprise moved to chicago. yayyyyy! and after confiding with each other about what paths we were both taking, we decided it was time to do something. and despite or solo agendas, it would be prime to do something together. and this time around, have it benefit others. so booyah!
enter kitty & congo!
...where 20% of everything we receive from our new music-yyy project will be donated to funds in africa as well as domestic areas where essential learning and living and creative supplies are needed, and completely laking. we intend to travel and see everything we can posibly take in and put our energy toward the fortune of others. and hope that somehow people will feel the impact, no matter how realistically great or how slight it is, and that perhaps others can be inspired to do the same. who knows how it will turn out, but we're pretty fucking stoked to know that this is our joint focus and the main goal.
**breath**
**exhale**
love.
:)
ca.2008/2009
ca.2006/2007
here's some older pieces:
and then there was the hilarious, yet surprisingly awesome run with my best friend kara, and a little something we called yellow cakes. which was around the time i met my homegirl, kesh. (side note, kara has the voice of a fucking angel. find her!!) anyway, this was us then,
and then again..
and we had a blast!! 2007 was quite a year.
though we've all been on our own shit, we've remained friends ever since. sadly (for me), kara moved back to the bay, and then on to atlanta, kesh went back to england, and then bounced right back to america (woohoo!), and i joined an art collective, the upset, started helping out at this sick local arts organiztaion (check out rumble arts and/or UPSET magazine) and separately started curating a couple of art shows here and there in chicago.
flash forward to 2009. with some stuff put on the back burner, i spent a litle bit of time doing some much needed traveling across the country, trying to figure out what the hell needed to change. and kesh, to my surprise moved to chicago. yayyyyy! and after confiding with each other about what paths we were both taking, we decided it was time to do something. and despite or solo agendas, it would be prime to do something together. and this time around, have it benefit others. so booyah!
enter kitty & congo!
...where 20% of everything we receive from our new music-yyy project will be donated to funds in africa as well as domestic areas where essential learning and living and creative supplies are needed, and completely laking. we intend to travel and see everything we can posibly take in and put our energy toward the fortune of others. and hope that somehow people will feel the impact, no matter how realistically great or how slight it is, and that perhaps others can be inspired to do the same. who knows how it will turn out, but we're pretty fucking stoked to know that this is our joint focus and the main goal.
**breath**
**exhale**
love.
:)
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