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11/10/18

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Kate, Varun and I have decided to get together when we can over a series of dinners to continue the spirit of this class. It will be different -- we have all since graduated, and Tony has retired from teaching. But it felt important to continue to make drawings and to have them be a visual record of our thoughts. Also, as Robin says, it is important to continue to hold within ourselves and practice what makes us human, even when our values are tested and our (democratic) institutions unwind. Our first dinner will be this Wednesday, which I am hosting at my place. (Varun is in India, but he will join us when he returns to Berkeley.) I have never been a cook; there has never been enough time to learn, and besides I never wanted to come anywhere close to becoming the trope of a 'domesticated woman.' But lately I have been trying to make more of an effort, because dinner is sometimes the best time to see friends when we're all working full time. I will probably make spaghe...
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Mend - 4/10/18

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Newt in Briones Regional Park. My friends in Briones this weekend. The newt.
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Rediscover - 4/3/18

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I spent my spring break in Los Angeles at my parents' house. I normally do -- I like to see my family and grandparents down there -- but I also had to go down to LA over this particular spring break to do some survey work in Boyle Heights and MacArthur Park. While I was down there working I pictured what it would be like to work in LA after I graduate. Doing community-oriented work in Los Angeles felt a lot more personal to me than it does in the Bay Area, because Los Angeles is where I'm from and I feel like I have a higher stake in what happens down there. But I also felt a general malaise and I missed my friends and the community that I have built in the Bay Area. As I enter this final month of graduate school, there's so much work I need to do to wrap up my work here in a solid way, and after that, then the real work begins of starting the task of building an adult life for myself.
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Enchant (Attend) 3/20/18

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Tiny house village version two. I used pastel and colored pencil over a monotype print that I made a couple of weeks ago. Additionally, here are some references that I used for the drawing:
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Round - 3/13/18

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Still life of some ceramic cups made by the mother of one of my housemates. I tried to draw it to look like the small cups might contain a small world. "The rounded body of all things in one..."   (Ovid: The Metamorphoses, Horace Gregory translation) CHAOS AND CREATION   Before land was and sea — before air and sky    Arched over all, all Nature was all Chaos,   The rounded body of all things in one,   The living elements at war with lifelessness;    No God, no Titan shone from sky or sea,    No Moon, no Phoebe outgrew slanted horns    And walked the night, nor was Earth poised in air.   No wife of Ocean reached her glittering arms   Into the farthest shores of reef and sand.    Earth, Air, Water heaved and turned in darkness,   No living creatures knew that land, that sea    Where heat fell against cold, cold against heat — ...
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Hold - 3/6/18

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Tiny house village monotype made with oil paint on canvas paper.
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Answer (Respond) - 2/27/18

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Pastel of house plant called a "Peace Lily." Among the Shadows at Home Life after life at nightfall in houses I have loved I see them now here at home where I walk in shadow through open doorways from room to room leaving the lights off as I always loved to do knowing beyond belief echoes of no sound from other times other ages how did I ever find my way to these rooms now these shadows one after the other through all the loud flashing days how could I have known the ancient love of these shadows with the lights on — W.S. Merwin. from The Moon before Morning
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