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Tigerflight
* Tigerflight
2-D Visual
, DC
Home page:http://magpiedc.blogspot.com
Email:gobethgo@gmail.com
Space:8 NE D4

I recently read 'Geek Love' by Katherine Dunn and now I'm a bit obsessed with side-show acts.

I collect comic books, make toys and collect too much junk.

Posted Fri, 05/09/2008 - 11:17am

I wasn't very girlie growing up in a largely rural area outside of Philadelphia. I had lots to do- trees to climb, streams to wade, brothers to chase, and across the street was a farm where I'd visit.
There's a great photo of me when I'm about 4 wearing a tu-tu and a football helmet. It pretty much sums me up. Most of my life I went about detesting the color pink. Pink was girly and soft and weak and I didn't want to be any of those. I designed and built scenery for theatre- we wore black and used table saws! At some point in college, I think when I was working in summerstock theatre, I started using pink spraypaint and hello kitty stickers (Hello Kitty, I will admit, has been an obsession since 3rd grade)to identify my tools because no self-respecting burly carpenter would steal a pink hammer or kitty-fied tape measure. And somewhere in grad school, it just stuck. I became that girl. And I'm ok with that! Although I no longer design scenery for a living, I'm still pleased to know that I was able to rip 4x8 sheets of luan by myself on a tablesaw (don't do that...i don't recommend it) and have finally owned up to my 'pinkness'.
I bring this up because someone complimented me on the colors of my wall. Colors which I use often, and as fate would have it, didn't fit someone else's taste at home depot and were therefore afforable "OOPS" paint. And it suited me fine.

Posted Thu, 05/08/2008 - 9:41am
Whole wall (full size)
yes
8'x12'
2008
This is my wall at Artomatic 2008
Posted Thu, 05/08/2008 - 9:34am
Joined at the hip (full size)
acrylic, gouache, pencil on wood
10" round
2008
I read 'Geek Love' by Katherine Dunn recently and I'm obsessed with circus side-show acts right now.
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