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.