Sonnymoon, "Run Away", & "Golden Age"

So I have been working on a response for Dane Orr and Anna Wise since they posted "Run Away" on Miscellus last year. Since then, the duo has become Sonnymoon, and has been blowing the minds of Boston, and are now taking over the minds of earthlings everywhere. Here is my first animation in response to "Run Away" which has expanded my imagination to a whole other level. It took me a few months and many sleepless nights to concieve this piece but I think there will be so many more like it to come.

Like my other side collage projects I work on I feel that I had alot of fun and just all-around enjoyed every second of putting this together. Check it out:


Also since last year Sonnymoon has been making magic themselves and has last week just released the debut album Golden Age







You can download it fo'free here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?nnjdmfnjxlw


I insure that you will be bumping this album.

I would also like to say that I am proud to see how far these two have come, and thank them for their support and inspiration as a friends/fellow artists. Thanks for that post guys!

Response to Bo Pedersen Geel's: Afternoon, March*

I found responding to this poem both easy, but yet extremely difficult. Because I can relate to the setting of this poem, I found myself trying to hold back as much as I could from depicting the streets of Schenectady, but I found that no matter how hard I tried, and how abstractly I tried to respond to the piece, my representations seemed to have Schenectady within them. I guess within all of my pieces, my surroundings of where I grew up are represented only because I know that environment so well, and it is the place where I have spent most of my life thus far. I felt a sense of longing within the piece, and myself also longing to be in the environment which the author has set up. I found myself picturing what this specific place looked like a few months ago. I went through a number of alterations with these, and it took me a number of tries to finally choose the four of these pieces to respond with.

It would be interesting to see how someone who is not familiar with this background responds to this poem, so anyone with time on their hands should.

Janine Chai's Love Letter:

Response to Andy Kissner's Obituary

I came across some found images last semester and was wondering how I could collage them. Here are a few which I have used to respond to Andy's poetry with. I felt that Andy's poem had a strong representation of youth, so I went with that feeling.

All of these are collages, made up of found photographs. The first one also has crushed tobacco leaves on it.

I also have one more image that has started a few more collages circling around this same idea. I can post the others when I am back in Boston, but for now here's this one.

More to come soon Andy!

Response to Peter Shapiro

Apologies to Peter, but I decided to take some time to respond to his post. It took me a while to figure out how to respond to his napkin doodle, but I began thinking in class the other day how often people doodle on whatever it is that is in front of them. It started as I was in class staring at a Coke can, and then found myself drawing Coca-Cola Mountains? It's amazing when you look at people's sketchbooks, and even at just random notes how much imagination you can find.
I decided to look through my notebooks from last semester and see if there were any sketches. I usually just find myself making small designs in corners of pages, so here are some that I came across. I know for a fact that Peter and I are not the only people who do this. I have heard of art therapy classes where people draw lines and shapes to express their emotions, and even some types music therapy. I think I want to make a collection of these at the end of each semester just to try to recollect on where my mind was during these times.

If anyone would like to add to this I think that would be awesome. Or if anyone has any cool techniques for creative therapies?

Response To Chelsea Lauzon's Photography

Lauren Santorio:

Chelsea's one image of water running in a water fountain inspired me to do these paintings. All of them are a mixture of oil pastels, watercolor, and India ink. The three of them are fairly large. I have been thinking about making several more of these and connecting them together to make a large landscape.