aNOTHEr site

new site up now for drawings, now. All the pieces from the show, plus one that was not quite as passably family oriented, are up for perusal and purchase. The show is up for another week.
The store's open 7am-9pm daily, 8-8 sundays. I'll be taking it down on the 7th. Come see.

Thanks to all my peeps who did make it out. You make me feel happy inside.

All the Doings

Come to Jamaica Plain Open Studios this weekend (the 29th & 30th: 11-6pm). Come see all my stuff in the flesh. I'll be hanging around chatting people up about the pieces and showing them the secrets. This here is the one that's sold, so far.




We did our first shoot for the horror movie last weekend. It went splendidly. I didn't get a phonto of it but it was kind of like this.

Sincerist Adulation

I just got told by Marc Jacobs.
Every couple years I wake up just the right side of the bed and see a collection and fucking freak out. (past years it's been Alexander McQueen and John Galliano) This year, Marc Jacobs, unbelievable. It was as though he had read my post at the beginning of fashion week and said "ah ha ha. sit back little lady and prepare for your dome to be blown". And so it was.
So I got all these on style.com. Check out all the stuff I left out too.

Marc Jacobs, you do amazing, important work and I'm thankful for it.

music video

I had a couple things to do with this {the miniature sets and peoples, mostly}. Nose bleed turn around on this one. As time goes on, the videos seem to have increasingly wee budgets and increasingly short time to make'm. Show biz.

Guest posting...

...over at Barnaby's Blog.
totally rip-shit fashion analysis.
{no more barnaby blog. see original posting below...}

Thursday, September 06, 2007
New York Fashion Week Analysis: the 5th
BY ZEA BARKER

Happy to see that a new spring has come and not so much with the multi-colored print trapeze floofy barely-dresses and not-quite-shirts. They had their place but I feel like I need to dilute heavily with some austere jil sander or something.
So good.
So a little more tailoring.

But let's just say right off, we are in dangerous territory with folks snapping back to preppy fascism.
We have no time for that as a people.

I require tailored sophistication with a little bit of fuck-you. I need a spot of rebellion in the fashion world if nowhere else. Keep those navy blazers, nautica, just print a barcode on the lapel and line the inside with shredded water bottles (see fig. 1). Keep with that fairy-goes-to-secretary-school thing, bcbgmaxazria, just accessorize with aluminum spaghetti strainers to keep out the evil surveillance (see fig. 2).
.............fig. 1....................fig.2.....................fig.3...............

I'm relieved we seem to be tending toward a bit more refinement, but where is the unexpected and poignant? That's my general taste in art, though, long beautiful swathes of near perfection and then a bloody tattooed dude standing around with poop on his head. (The Taste of Tea is an incredible film by Katsuhito Ishii, highly fucking recommended)

Can we find a happy medium between barbie-decided-to-pursue-a-career-in-strumpetry and muffy-mind-you-don't-tread-on-the-little-people taxidermy?

Sophistication is the New Punk Rock.

I would applaud vena cava for their honeycomb and beer can prints. nice palette too. A couple missteps here and there but they get the blue ribbon for the 5th.

The Drawings' on the Wall

I just got back from hanging my solo show and gave an actual gasp when I walked in my room and saw all those drawings and frames were gone. empty nest.

The framing process was interesting, as they got under glass I would vacillate between thinking they looked very vulnerable and thinking they looked fancier.

The general themes of my thoughts these days surround the issues of being a solo artist. Probably because I'm encroaching on the difficult, unknown territories of self-promotion, of sending some token of myself off to strangers to be judged and getting little response. When there's others involved, the responsibility can be a bit more dissipated, maybe. Or maybe I'm just wishing I knew how to do it. Best I can tell, sending shit out is not so successful. Sharing the same airspace is. Primarily, I must be patient and persistent. Way too early to get downtrodden.

So come see the show. It'll be up all month. City Feed and Supply is an awesome place to visit regardless; coffees, groceries, yummy sandwiches. It's run by marvy friends of mine and you may even find some hand-made signs by yours truly from my time being on the other side of the register. I will be hanging out in the afternoon during Jamaica Plain Open Studios on the 29th and 30th. Leave feedback in the guest book if I'm not around. And buy one if you want to. I'm open to trade and barter, too.