Waking up in the morning has always been

An interesting process for me…

First of all,

I wake up every morning with a song playing in my head.

This all started in middle school,

When I used my radio setting on my alarm clock.

Since then, my brain simply chooses a song for me

To wake up to.

Sometimes it is completely random, or something I have been listening to recently

Or my subconscious generates something relatively significant.

This morning was “Pillow Talk” by Wild Child.

Which is a truly lovely song.

  

this pillow talk

don't wake me up

my dream is done

i'm still in love

i know your fears

just lying here

i think i'll leave

please don't my dear

this pillow talk will wake me up

no matter what i'm dreaming.

  

http://vimeo.com/36013619

Speaking of dreams…

The other day, I was walking barefoot in the woods

Doing some earthing with a friend

(earthing will be a future post in itself I promise)

And I stabbed my foot with a thorn.

It has been troublesome to walk on,

And the thorn is either tiny

Or it simply pushed dirt into a teeny hole into my foot-

Which has been rather painful.

This morning,

I dreamt I was yet again trying to remove this thorn.

In the dream I was sitting underneath a light,

So my foot was very clearly lit.

-on a quick sidenote, I am in a biology class

We do labs very frequently

And yesterday we did one involving planeria,

Which are little tiny worms if you did not already know…

-anyway,

I’m sitting,

looking at the bottom of my foot in dream world,

My sole if you will,

And I see a tiny little dark line in the cut

-I go after it with tweezers.

And it moves.

I try to pinch the end of the moving squiggly line

Ever so gently,

So as not to break or tear it,

And the little line turns into what looks like a tiny tail…

The tail grows a little bigger as more of it comes out of the cut…

It is now the width of my finger,

And is light brown with spots on it…

The tail comes out.

But it’s still attached to something.

Something bigger yet…

Next thing I know,

I pull a baby octopus out of my foot.

Um

What?

Subconscious,

WHY?!

What are you telling me?!

   

The baby octopus flopped out,

onto the ground,

And I guess I was on a beach,

It tried to hide and the sand,

And of course I caught it and put it in a jar

-to go show my friends

what I just pulled out of my foot.

 And then I woke up.

This is some of my current art work,

I've been incredibly inspired by this artist

by the name Ola Liola, 

(http://www.olaliola.com/)

and a book called Animal Teachings by Dawn Brunke

(http://www.animalvoices.net/animalvoices/Welcome.html)
now that credit is given, where credit is due...
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 This was the first piece I did in my sketchbook,
This was painted with watercolors in January of this year
I've named her Wolf Mother.
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This was the second piece I made in this style
I am rather attracted to the idea of animals being constructed
of abstract, organic elements and shapes
I rather closely followed Ola Liola's style and used a variety of her pieces for references
for Mr. Fox
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Above is the Rabbit of Flowers/
One of my goals for this year is to write and illustrate
my own children's book.
I find myself drawn to Native American folklore and mythology
I like tales with a moral, or lesson learned,
I could see the Rabbit being one of my main characters in future literary endeavors.
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This is my most recent piece, completed a few weeks ago in April
His name is Lightfoot,
he was inspired by a children's book called simply:
Lightfoot the Deer
by Thornton Burgess
While constructing this piece, I tried not to rely on any outside references or sources
and let it be a piece solely of my own manifestation,
 inspired by the character in the story
and a character in my life.
I plan on replicating this piece on a larger scale, so I can go into greater detail with the design.
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This little doodle is just me being random and spontaneous while listening
to a couple of couple of friends play music.
While sketching, this song was playing on repeat in my head:
http://allfox.bandcamp.com/track/peaceful-heart-manic-oppressive
So I named him The Peaceful Heart.
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