New concept sketch...

haven't posted for the past 3 days due to being on a 200km cycle trip to Austria and back with Oliver. Needed to get the hell out of Oktoberfestland... Here is a concept sketch I've been working on. I keep thinking about golden windows in dark woods. These are kind of like the keyholes... things you can peep though, secret things... voyeur things... Perhaps it will turn into a necklace one day...

2 more backdated posts to come!

Eep!

Okay, so it's after midnight. But I haven't slept yet. So...still Saturday, right? Or not. Those of you who I have penalty arrangements with, you can make the call.

Proprioception

Feeling somewhat large,
I open the door wider.
But not wide enough.

Ben 10-6

A game for my friend AH.

1) When you ask someone out on a date, you get a point.
2) If they agree, you get ten points.
3) If someone else asks you out and you say yes, you get five points.
4) If it goes well, you get twenty points.

Player with the most points wins.

On Farting

Pregnancy is a gassy time,

which is not necessarily commonly discussed

Sometimes (stay with me)

it’s kind of

nice.

The varying pitches,

tones & rhythms

high mosquito whine

or deep screen door scratch

The spreading moment of relief

The complex

& daily-changing

odor

citrus broccoli, maybe,

or earthy clay.

Ben 10-5

In the land of the immortals
tall, proud, red-skinned
healthy and vigorous
young without flowering

There are those who have come from far away
they have always been here
they know nothing else
but in september they remember how to die

Cleaning out the closet

Some things are like—no,

I still can’t part with them.

The plaster cast of my face

from making masks in 2002.

The white & blue striped cloth shower curtain

(one of the first pieces of grownup décor

I ever bought, from Restoration Hardware,

pleased with my taste and its quality)

that doesn’t go anywhere in this house.

We might move again someday!

(It might match

the new décor?)

The piece of lovely

(expensive!)

tapestried fabric

left over from re-covering

the vanity chair.

There’s enough for a whole new

seat.

What if I need to re-re-cover?

The skateboard sized for three-year-olds

that was a prop for a play in my first

festival—

Petra might grow into it,

or my son might like it, once he, you know,

gets born, and then

turns

three.

The (full) day-planner from when

I was so organized in college.

The medal I won at Burning Man.

The sexy shoes I never wear.

I pile them all together, thinking

if I just find the right storage solution

I will know to go and fetch these things

The year, the day, the minute

I need them.

I am certain

I will need them.

How much of this do I get to carry, in a lifetime?

How

do I make

enough

space?

And the voices of my sensible friends

the very pragmatic voices I do not need to consult to hear

The pity-filled but firm voices

implying sympathetic

shaking of heads

they say,

(though I don’t want to listen,

but if I cover my ears

I can read it on their lips)

Let it go,

let it

go,

let

it

go.

Haiku Day

Missed three posts.
Alissa will be angry.
Better try haiku.

Ben 10-4

A clear, chilling sky
A south wind
I don't miss you
but I love you

I imagine that you saw this selfsame wind.
That you told it a story for me
that it has forgotten

I tell the wind a story for you. It will forget on my behalf

It is better to tell our stories to the wind than to each other
the wind forgets the pain that we will not

wish for a world
where we could have been brothers.

Ribs - painted.

Frame Pendants work in progress...

So I'm currently working on these two pendants for the shop. Basic frame pendants which will hopefully house a black star sapphire and a yellow fancy colored sapphire or Citrine... working on two at a time so I can't post the finish product of either yet. So I hope this image will count!

photos: shot at midnight with iphone in bad lighting on my workbench...