andrea solow

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bill viola------ screen capture

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house paint and cardboard forms

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yeah

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kitchen sink realism

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clementine skin on a yoga mat

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(my hand!)

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I remember years ago
Someone told me I should take
Caution when it comes to ____
I did, I did

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wata

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old drawing from sophomore year

now i use landscapes, whites, and transparency
but im talking about the same things

i really need a camera

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oh how i've missed you art

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are you thinking about seasons?
does your rib cage compromise?

***heres a photo-slideshow-with-music by an artist, Cassandra C. Jones, I found on the internet: http://www.bellorchestre.com/

Ib (heart)
Sheut (shadow)
Ren (name)
Ba (soul)
Ka (spirit)
Akh (effective one)

2010-09-29T11:45:00.003-04:00

To quote a good ass brother in the world:

Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong

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shape, color, form

The s ostretch, light, knowledge, dialogue

moon owhisper, water, mysticism, rest, deep, contemplative, alone, ritual 

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She Called Me A Sad Comedian

an attempt to understand loss
using random shit from the internet

week #1
Self Deprecation

a.obsessive

b.unrealistic

f. dislike of criticism.

g. negligent of personal needs

this is a study
of two people
through
faces in pictures
and perceived notions relating to failure

because of course, the heart, demands closer examination

to accept blame and faults
to invite risk-taking in situations where the consequences of failure can be tolerated
it is not uncommon for criticism of ideas to be taken critically, interpreted as an unsettling change
criticism proposes a role of authority
this is dispiriting to the people involved

to learn options
-Gentle
-War
-Compromise

Encourage expression
This can be achieved by using various tactics

generate a deliberate effort to ask people for their ideas on problems that may surface
listen carefully when people come to you with ideas
avoid criticism of impractical ideas.

and to mourn
to have a quiet dialogue after the storm

Work On Some Real Issues
demonstrate compromise
to devise a settlement of differences by arbitration, or consent reached by mutual concessions

idealism and hope are so sad
unhappiness, can act as a cloud
"everything's in the reception"- a friend, a translator for an agency once told me

faith
fear
memory

three interacting interdependent elements
to formulate any kind of complex system
force is disruption to this delicately woven
emotionally sensitive design
in this context, language (crudely) fits our over-exhausted ideas

force
and balance
cannot do laundry
grow tomatoes
buy beds and time
make meals, art,
and dreams together

2010-09-23T16:22:00.007-04:00

im an air
youll take me in,
willingly sometimes
but youll cover your faces with collars of your shirts
im touched but unseen
ill shift shapes for your smile and none of me is mine
im just you and youre wasting your
time

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a map of this city

moon cleaning

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Cellphone Tarot Cards//cc 2010

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CLICK ON IMAGES TO MAKE BIGGER

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a charm for a friend

a necklace

ceramic bead, metal spring, wood, kite string

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Untitled (Carrier) 2010

found material

emanate a

fruit skin

orange fruit fin

carve

cleave

medical

sion

Untitled(Seeds) 2010

burlap, soil, egg carton, twine, paper, various seeds

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CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE IT****
hhahhaha, i love what i do, half the time its to make them look pretty, they taste real good, so can someone please pay me for it?

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The photograph just above feature Moeraki Boulders, they can be found along the Koekohe Beach in New Zealand. I first heart about them through a friend who studied abroad. I feel voyeuristic, not having traveled there but never the less dreaming about them. (photo stolen from wikipedia) <-- give it a read!!!

the first photo, I took it (own the rights, right?) its an old honey comb, my friend bri gave me

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nose mail

collages on letter envelopes
8"x10"

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I love it when people leave phone numbers
for people
and then try to help me precisely identify their
names or how they are spelled by choosing things that
may start with the letters in their names.
Please have her call me. Here's my phone number.
The name is Edewor. Spelled E as in Egg,
D as in David, E as in Egg, W as in White House,
O as in Orange, R as in Red.

Does he remember that combination of random things?

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want lines to physically stretch and take on movement

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Drawing of a Hand 2010

pen on paper

3 in. x 4 in.

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,Last summer was the 2nd annual Kids Day Event, held by Collective Concepts and About Time Boutique.
My boyfriend Zack Helwa and I were asked to do something that incorporated our art and the community, so we created puppets and built a stage. We sang and laughed with the children. parodies of songs like "Where is My Mind?" by the Pixies and many more were heard roaring through the street of Sterling Place. It was a lot of a fun and this July will mark Annual Kids Day Event: it's 3rd year in Crown Heights/Prospect Heights. So come prepared for contagious laughter and much much more!

Photo cred: Tom Curcuruto

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multiplicity
geometry
must make mark on moving forms
want to turn private marks to public skin

so who wants to teach me how to tattoo?

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So as seasons reveals to us a hunger for change, I'm going to let you in on a little secret.
This time last year, my family took a series of classes, an exam, and now we all have our sailing certificates.
That's right! We are all qualified to sail.

Anyway, it's been a year of drab obsessive Craig's List hunting.
Luckily our family joined a boat club and our demands were met.
Well, $200 bucks later.....

*I just want to add that my bicycle was more expensive than this boat.

*******MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THIS BOAT.

I neglected to photograph her mast and boom. (Personifying boats with feminine gender.)

She's pretty(I did it again.) but really, really dirty. After some cleaning up, WD-40, nice little paint job, and a name we'll be ready to launch and my dad and brother are prepared to start growing matching disheveled beards.
A NAME??? We haven't settled on a name YET!!!!!!!!!!!!

my suggestion was pretty terrible:

The Aquarian Dipper

.... that was it. My parents hated that.

Names for boats are hard to pick!

obviously we're going to think of Greek mythology or water things.

I don't think I should be awake right now. I have an eight hour drive tomorrow.

Leave me a comment of name ideas!!!!

2010-05-10T22:41:00.004-04:00

I worked as an artist for Trader Joe's a few summers ago. I was responsible for illustrating chalkboards and designing templates for the company's products. These are two images I produced for the store during my employment there:

This following illustration was installed for promotion of Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer.

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The materials used in the construction of these soil bomb-balls are burlap, soil, egg carton, flower seeds (mexican sunflower, cosmos, snap dragon, zinnia, and others), twine, and small instructional illustration for each. Last week, I cut 450 cups out of egg carton, making it so that I could successfully fill each of the 450 with seed and soil but unfortunately the project had to discontinue because my supply of burlap ran out!!! I finished making about 200 and took to the streets... images from that experience will be posted later. My idea was to give each of these small gifts to people I encounter in my community during the hours of 12-3 but my hands became emptier and emptier! I had given 198 of the soil bomb-balls away and realized that it had only been an hour. THis project was exciting and it really lit up the streets(Sterling Place, Washington Avenue, Underhill, Classon Avenue), making strangers interact with one another. I allowed people to take more than one if they insisted. Something I learned while giving the bombs away, that people are truly skeptic of "free" things. I felt that I had to clarify that I just wanted people to learn how to plant and that I want nothing to do with your credit card and your email address.

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Cleanse (2010) from Andrea Solow on Vimeo.

Cleanse(2010), is a visual portrayal of a relationship with nature that encompass thoughts of ritualistic cleansing and self imposed burial.

By use of soil as a material to lather my skin, ideas about the human relationship to nature are conducted. In most cultures, the acts of burials are demonstrated to symbolize death, to celebrate each occupant by returning it's mass to nature.
The moon and the night sky are also present in this video. The background my body is centered in front of indicates the celestial place of nature that I am reaching from my small terrace in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. As my new skin consumes my body, I am unified with the sky. As my skin virtually vanishes into the darkness of the night sky, I am unseen. I am cleansed.

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