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Thank You, Henry
Posted on June 27, 2010 Leave a Comment
On a shopping spree in Beirut last week, my mom introduced me to Henry’s Handmade boutique. Inside, I met Henry, an accessory maker who works with leather, thread, coins and other fun trinkets. I regret not having my camera that day because in his tiny shop he had all sorts of relics from his childhood […]
Traffic Lights & Other Observations|Screaming Cats & Japanese Moms
Posted on June 3, 2010 Leave a Comment
take me some place else.
Sketchbook Twenty Ten Two|Five Sketches
Posted on May 31, 2010 Leave a Comment
Oh no I got my homonyms mixed up again! It’s ‘waist’ not ‘waste’. Been collecting too much garbage after the litterbugs.
Woman
Posted on May 2, 2010 3 Comments
I’m forty years old and still fertile. And with this fertility comes a monthly trial, an emotionally and physically trying nuisance. It’s difficult to imagine the goings on in my womb, the breaking of the lining as if by tiny bundles of TNT, the flow of blood from my pipes and the disaster which ensues. […]
In Love With Polyhedrons
Posted on April 27, 2010 8 Comments
I just discovered a new love. It’s more like a tantric obsession with these impossibly irresistible shapes. I get so absorbed by drawing these triangular clusters that I lose track of time and space. And then the triangle gets so ridiculous that my hand forgets how to draw one and I have to think: how […]
Them & Me
Posted on April 23, 2010 9 Comments
I like to play. A LOT. But sometimes when I play I break things. And this time I broke my camera. I did manage to take a few shots before it fell and a couple after, until it zonked out completely on me. If you look at the black and white photo, the bottom right […]
Sketchbook Z|Six Sketches
Posted on April 6, 2010 Leave a Comment
In mid-pregnancy I developed this condition called ptyalism. Wikipedia insensitively (or possibly more accurately) calls it drooling. I was going through an average of five-yes five-boxes of tissues a day. The tissues became a huge part of my daily life for weeks until I discovered that mistika gum worked wonders to subdue my salivary glands.
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