My gaze hits your backside

man on the mountain
we meet in my dreams
the magic you spin
with those spider fingers
weaves fractals and summer rafts

                    to float downstream

you are a natural charmer
and shoot it like robin hood's arrow
               
                   unwavering, precise

your string of hearts,
              a day's catch
dangle, waiting
to help you solve eternity
as you dare to strip search time

the beast in your body
hammers at home and hardship
friends and foes
death and dreams

love is not a luxury you endulge

 in May, I went to the cutest wedding that EVER happened.  My friend Risa made a dress that looked like a house, with a sunburst veil and a cloud bolero.  Her train was a long road leading up to the house.  We swam in a pond and tried to catch frogs and didn't wear shoes.  It was a magical wonderland that we had been invited to, surrounded by oak trees and blue-green lichen.  The wedding party was led by a giant seahorse down the long trail to the pond, everyone else in bright colors and playing trumpets and kazoos, banging on buckets and twinkly triangles.  We played the compliment game, and watched Risa's parents read a children's book about forgiveness using two hippopotamus hand-puppets.  At the end we threw colorful plastic balls up in the air.  All was as it should be, and I knew it.  I decided recently to create a little doll-camping installation every time I go camping somewhere, and this was the first.  It's Jane West and Jordy LaForge with a Tyrannosaurus hat.  

Dying Gods blog

I made a blog specifically for this show i'm working on, so all posts on the show will be there. I'll post process pics, inspiration, thoughts, motivation, etc. as I build, redirect, focus, lose focus, re-focus, explode, and vacillate my way through this process.

Dyinggods.tumblr.com

Ink On Paper

Hailey Gaiser
Brooke (2006)
etching, drypoint, chine-colle
Rives BFK White paper (France)
Kitakata hand colored paper (Japan)
47x31 inches
artist's proof

 The Mary Alice Cooley Print Collection at Cornish College of the Arts has finally been published, and I am one of the contributing artists!


INK ON PAPER is 25 years of print art by selected Cornish Alumni. It was published by Cornish College of the Arts and produced by Marquand Books, Seattle 2012

Slab City 2012 Booty Bounce!

the internet is so jealous of this video

painting progress

I've been working in my new studio! It's very exciting.

jewel wallet

Here's another wallet, commissioned by a friend.

Rainbow heart wallet

I designed this for my friend Melissa. Yes, the hearts are pockets. It's the cutest thing, ever.

last chance to vote!

Today is the last day of the public voting round for the Saatchi Online college competition. Only 300 out of 1960 artists from around the world will make it into the juried competition! Help me to be one of those artists. Copy paste the url to get to the page (for some reason, whenever I post links, they don't work...) Thanks!!!


http://www.saatchionline.com/showdown/match/showdown/9/artist/315480

Mountain Magesty (diorama)

This is a diorama that I made for a magical man on a magical mountain that I wanted to make an altar piece for. The box itself was a 1970s travel box with tourist info pamphlets about all the different continents. Much of the information was quite racist. I covered it in tree fabric that was given to me at a set shop I work for, and green triangle fabric from Senegal that a friend gave me. Everything in this thing is a found object, each little thing having its own story. There are many keys and old jewelry, some pieces of polymer clay tiny sculptural things that I made (like the rainbow--from pieces of jewelry that I made that broke or didn't work out). There is quite a bit of little metal/wire sqigglies that I found on the street that had been run over by cars a million times. The bejeweled mouse mummy with crystal and color blasting out it's corpus I found in an old shed full of antiques in Santa Cruz. That thing could be from the late 1800s. He's lookin' good, eh? Hopefully this whole box of treasures brings that spirit of the forest some good luck and tidings of eternity.

Duct Tape wallets for a brighter future

I've been going crazy making duct tape wallets!

Saatchi Online collage competition

vote for my piece in the Saatchi Online collage competition, to send me to the juried round! (copy paste the web address if the link doesn't work)

http://www.saatchionline.com/showdown/match/showdown/9/artist/315480