AmandaMuses

Month: October 2009

  • Fall in Gothenburg

    The last few days of rain and autumnal gloom have lulled my memories back to Göteborg. I haven’t paid it much mind over the last few years– I finished my MFA and didn’t really look back afterward. But here I am, back in Baltimore after a move back from Sweden, and two three 1500mi+ moves.…

  • Grateful

    Notes like this remind me of how lucky I am to have friends like I do– a little bit of silliness to share a smile. Thank you, Jake, for being such a great friend all these years.

  • Weary swim

  • Sifting

    through the debris

  • Quiet hope

    Feeling quiet and simple tonight

  • Things I missed at Make/Think

    I did not attend the AIGA biennial conference, Make/Think, last week in Memphis. I tried, but my planning efforts quickly became a logistical nightmare; in the end, I decided to save the money for a mortgage payment instead of the agony of figuring out travel to a town with out Southwest service and overbooked hotels…

  • Maybe Sparrow, part two

    This was stuck in my head while working on the most recent daily portrait, Maybe Sparrow by Neko Case. The video was done by Julie and Paul Morstad.

  • Maybe Sparrow

  • Black and blue

    The last month has been one hell of a journey. In fact, the last few years have been a hell of a ride… One that has not always been the easiest. Picking up an exercise that has been neglected woefully, the above is a daily portrait. Will I resume the habit? An excellent question, what…

  • The Spice of Life

    The other day, I read an article in the Washington Post about one of my favorite things tastes– Old Bay. I can’t recall the specific moment in my life where I discovered this amalgam of spices, but I’m pretty certain it was my father who made the introduction. Since that imperceptible moment in my childhood,…

  • Postcards from the Past

    Last weekend, I ventured down to the water for the Fells Point Fun Festival; it was the first time I had been down that way in almost five years. In all of the years I’ve been away, parts of the City have truly grown and revitalized in a way I was not fully prepared for.…

  • Leftovers

    Lately, I’ve been doing more than my fair share of tidying. Though in all fairness, I’ve also done my fair share of space invasion and creating unholy messes of boxes and newspapers from all the unpacking. Nevertheless, I have been on an organization kick; one that extends as far as my hard drives. In sorting…