parasitic valentine

heartworms and hemoglobin.
splicing infinitely.
sutures mimick nonsense caligraphy.
every stitch means i love you more than you can stomach.

and now this is happening

sore wrists and needle stabs.
hanging my nerves out to dry.

what i did on my winter vacation.

so far: this stuff!
during a blizzard, it's good to stay inside and paint on the walls of a house you don't own, look at microscopic images if pollen, cut out lots of little fabric shapes, take everything apart..put it back together, make fresh grapefruit juice, cut your bangs, reacquaint yourself with the caffeine roller coaster...

and on the western wall..

there is a woman who rides her bike completely shrouded in white plastic and packaging tape. everywhere she travels to, she amasses more and more plastic bags. she hangs out in the middle of the road by beacon field for hours just waiting for one to blow by. i wonder how she decorates her room.

co-llage

i've been working on the texture of the base- layering tracing paper snowflakes on fabric using wood glue, shellac, chalk, beet juice, graphite, wood stain and irradescent nail polish.

parasitic alien. i wouldn't go so far as to say this is how i feel about my uterus. but i wouldn't not say it either.

what's in your belly toy horse? stay tuned..

my first widget..

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i spent most of yesterday cutting snowflakes out of tracing paper and gluing them onto the forms in a nod to the frosty situation out yonder. i dragged my tenacled plant back out and gave it a shell to live in.