ITS ALIVE....AGAIN!!!

Oh joy!

The website is back up again, slowly regaining goods.

This time I am so happy to offer screenprinted shirts with 2 of my original line drawings on em- "Yacqui" and "Untitled Lines"

These have been printed in extremely limited #s- so once they go, they go.

I'm working on getting more designs to t-shirts, as well as girly shirts, too. 100% cotton- you can't go wrong. Professionally printed- high quality by some of the best in the business. Check them out here!

I also added 3 leftover tie dye mandalas from the summer vending season up for grabs. These are very special dyes to me because i incorporated a unique way of tying them this time around and I'm very happy with the results.

More items to be coming soon, as well as prints of some paintings, and all that good stuff. I still am here taking custom orders for anything dyed or sewn. holler if you need anything!

transmission of mission

"The Transmission of Mission", (c)2001 by Tisziji Munoz (excerpt) "Spirit is Source. Spirit is the absolute origin. Everyone and everything originates from Spirit. However, fixed identification with and as karmatic conditions, relative to dimensions of matter, energy, space, time and mind, prevents enlightenment as Spirit. Everyone is capable of experiencing and perceiving changes, but no one is their changes, their stuff of attachment, their preferences and desires, their hopes and fears. All of that is a testing ground of one's opportunity to begin transcending the world of cause and effect and being subject to, or being the slave of karmatic(space/time/matter/energy/mind) conditions. Everyone, as Spirit, is inherently neutral to all changes, all karmas, all relations and all identifications for or against any appearance or condition of self, thought or mind. While no one is self, the device, which is self, is a matrix for karmatic experience. While no one is thought, the mechanism, which is thought, is a matrix. While no one is mind, the assumption, which is mind, is also a matrix. The conscious, creative and selfless use of these three functions, mechanisms or perceived components of consciousness are preliminary to a cosmic understanding of life as a human being, and are fundamental to a realization of the higher worlds of Spirit. Love is the perfection of being. Always turn to love directly. Love is the true master of the Heart. Love is true life, beyond all laws, limits, conditions and promises. Love transcends all barriers, all dimensions, all relative planes of perception and understanding. Only love is love, and nothing and no one is as perfect as love is, except when one IS that love. Let this be the transmission of the mission of Love. This love is the Heart's mission to love without all doubt, hesitation or condition."

2008 live paintings thus far (to be updated as they are added)

whee. a new year.
new paintings.
embarking on a voyage of color through sound.
"got no lands guided by magic hands....."
i know where these paintings come from. i know where they have been. i'm falling more and more in love with the act of creating over the past years.... at first a little apprehensive-but gradually finding a voice.
i do not have any pre-thought- i literally put the paint to canvas and just go. meditation in motion.

ive calmed my soul to such a degree doing these i need to take a few days to recover afterwards, its an outpouring and inpouring all at the same time- a massive energy exchange of cosmic proportion.


so i will add them for the year as i go.....

heres the offerings so far::::

8/26/08 - Bear's Picnic - PA
Painted live to the music of Juggling Suns/ Moonalice
Had issues with a last minute canvas purchase- sub par art supplies are a real pain. But I made it work the best I could - now G.E> Smith to me was a legend- the years of him playing on SNL were my favorites. Meeting him was absolutely amazing! He - as well as Jack Cassady and Barry Sless signed my painting. Will I sell it? No way.

8/1/08- - painted live @ Gathering of the Vibes::

Zappa Plays Zappa (with the bottom left being partially painted by li'l one Azalea"

Umphrey's McGee- 8/3/08- GOTV

stonehenge:: 6/20/08-- a very interesting night. outside:: in the woods:: lots of things surrounding me energy-wise. got to the point where the painting itself physically spoke. i had to take a break at that point and give some time to breathe, this painting got sold the very next day. it had a certain love to it- a calmness. a creative spirit where it spoke on its own. enjoy

april 26th, 2008::some kind of jam 3.... kempton,pa

painted alongside CRB onstage...onstage!!! HOLY SHIT!!...now I am terrified of being onstage while painting- but jon promised me he would stand by me. and he did. splattered paint on me too- but i dont care- it's all relative. this was done to juggling suns during a blitering set. Ive never painted onstage before, and i doubt i will again, but the energy is so completely different than anything. it's a high, but i'd rather much be down below. or behind a curtain like the wizard of Oz :0) this one isn't for sale, the husband fell in love with it and isn't ready to part with it anytime soon ;)

feb. 29 2008- juggling suns @ surf taco-jackson,nj




(yes- you may think a taco joint in a strip mall is no big deal, but the VIBE of the place and the VIBE of everyone there was probably the most comfortable i've ever felt. love these guys- love their love...rock on) I will be there in the future..... painted to Juggling Suns- total time: 2.5 hours

Cabin Fever 2008::

This canvas- painted to both bands U-Melt and Juggling Suns.... I painted next to my cosmic soul brother Crazyredbeard ... both him and i have numerously painted side by side...ive found my painting twin in him. i hardly look at what he's painting while the shows are being played---but when we get done, we seem to mirror image each other a lot. i like to say we have telepathic tin cans and string.

my painting of that evening is here...U-melt's set was painted on top/ Juggling Suns is on the bottom. (this painting has been sold)....secret messages are also painted in glo in the dark paint. only visible with xray vision!!* or unless you have a blacklight.

you can see crazyredbeard's painting here



aint we twins???


more paintings to follow as i go.
maybe next? parliament funkadelic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
may 8th kiddos!!!!! sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

craftster's best of 2007.....

i kept looking at my blog tracks and wondered where all the hits were coming from! lol....

check it.
http://www.craftster.org/bestof2007/

in the fiber arts: completed projects: dyeing..... my batik dandelion dress and the birth of a mandala got the best of 2007!
who knew that the maiden blog post would grow up to get hits from all over the world?
i'm humbled.

much love*
b

falling curtains of hydrogen

hello,readers...its been a while. just when i think I've never been more busy in my life, it gets busier. i rarely have a free moment to sit down for more than a few minutes anymore-but surprisingly-my stress levels haven't risen all too much. I'm handling it...
I've also found a new job that occupies my weekdays- I'm delivering coffee and squishie machines to different places in NJ, I've learned how to fix the squishie machines, enter into loading docks, and install coffee makers in offices... For the coffee addict- this is a nice job. My delivery vehicle (the trusty buick) constantly smells like coffee. It's great. Plus I get to meet really neat people all the time. One day we had to pick up squishie machines in the schools of Paterson- and I was just in awe of how beautiful the downtown area is. I mean, I grew up on the outskirts of this town since I was 10, and I never remembered too well the downtown, but oh boy. So it inspired me to start taking my camera to work with me since I get sent to all these crazy places in NJ. Ive taken a good # of photos so far-dashboard mounted camera has an interesting angle. Every photo was taken in black and white- somehow new jersey looks better that way sometimes.
So the more I'm out on the road- it;s the time that I am away from my pens and paper. I still have yet to paint anything lately-I am really itching to though...
I sat down recently and took the time to just sit and draw. I was always wondering why I'm just compelled to squiggle every line- It just what comes out of my hands. This and the other ink drawings I have done have always been as it happens. I do not pencil draw anything beforehand. But I'm so in love with this latest piece.
"(falling curtains of) hydrogen". But back to the squiggles- I find that they are almost little pockets of meditation, just a small particle of the Giant Spiral of Everything... The milky way comes to mind when I think of it. They just seem to happen. I like it.

:)

Hopefully I should have that design printed on some sort of fabric goods soon- the fish makes me smile.

:)

take care folks and have a great day*

i took a li'l break from the bloggin...

Greetings!

Been a while since I last posted here, I've been terribly busy with work and at the same time sending the little one off to kindergarten. Children grow quickly.

Been creating at a slower pace than usual, but thats the way things work sometimes and its nice not to be rushed all over.
So I've created a new batik mandala, and a whole mess of new skirts lately. And now I'm doing one of a kind mandalas on tshirts now. mandalas are everywhere!
its crazy because like the wheels they are - they seem to be turning faster and faster to where i feel comfortable in my calling as an artist with being a maker of them finally. I was always a bit apprehensive about putting them out there at first- but the past couple of years have turned that table. I now get a sense of purpose from them, each one is its own bird when they get started aand then it creates itself.

been fascinated by them since I first laid a pencil on graph paper many many years ago. symmetrical patterns....i make them in so many different forms its like breathing to me now.
I think I'm going to do another 'mandala in progress' blog post like My first ever blog entry again. I loved how it take a journey and shows the process. Stay tuned!

So yes- mandalas have been everywhere lately.

The wheel is turning and you can't slow down. Can't let go and you can't hold on.... ;)

so little time...so much to restock...

working on dyeing up a bunch of new corduroys for some winter items and COATS! and more MENS pants!...., restocking the vending booth for the last of the summer fests, running round like a headless chicken everywhere. There's also a persnickety serger who isn't behaving very nice lately. i think she needs a tune up...
mainly cleaning and rearranging a lot lately too. cleaning sucks. lol! How and where this all this crap come from??? lol

totally unrelated- i'm going to talk about salt...
and i've finally found that i should own stock in the company that produces non-iodized kosher salt.... i go through POUNDS of it in dye baths one after another probably about 10 lbs of salt at least per batik piece i do... the folks at the supermarket see us with shopping carts full of salt every so often and i'm sure they wonder wtf...lol....- yet I cant find it in those giant sacks like at costco. Iodized only.... hm.
so i'm stuck for now buying those little round boxes...at least they recycle well :)

.............
stay tuned for new goods to be showing up very very soon!!*
love&light*

ooh! new clothing...finally!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finally up and added some new clothing.... the hand dye turquoise top resurfaces, a printed skirt with original art, and a woodblock hand printed piece too. i'll be adding more soon- but I had these pics and I figured I'd burn some midnight oil and post them. Thanks to my girl beth for taing the pics on her swanky new camera. I'm really proud of this little batch- and slowly eeking myself from out of the patchwork box. Don't get me wrong- i love doing the patchwork, but I'm hoping to integrate more and more wearable non-patchy art as well. I hope you enjoy... and thoughts and suggestions and recipes with mayonnaise for ingredients are always welcome :)
someday i'll find a model to help with wearing these clothes for the camera.... :lol:....

much love

sight thru the night. 2007

woo! Its a new baby!

presenting::

'sight thru the night'

17 x 11

ink on paper.

hi res prints available very soon. :)

the robots! the robots!!!

stonehenge bound with simultaneous art!

Stonehenge is a small family music festival set out in the middle of pennsylvania. It's a happening that has been in many different places- but the small magical family vibe is always there. ... it's just a weekend of great music and family. i cant love it any more than i do.

this year will be my 9th stonehenge in a row- held on the weekend of june 22 - 23 2007. I've been vending there the past 5 years- so I have to make sure my inventory is nice and fat for the booth. And this will be my first vending gig of the summer- so I'm really psyched to pull out something different this season. I'll have the dyes and a few pieces of patchwork clothing as always, but I'm also offering those funky shirts, prints of my work, and some non-patchwork clothing pieces which incorporate more art than ever. Like stamping and printing the clothing with original artwork and woodcuts, as well as showcasing more of the one of a kind batik art i've been into. So these coming days up until the festival every year is always filled with running everywhere- dye buckets, thread all over the place, messy bathtubs and floors, 1 half broken washing machine and 90 projects going on at once.

And this is where i find my peace- when all this 'stuff' and inspiration seems to just come in sporadic floods. its funny- sometimes i cant find anything in my brain to work with at all--. but i when i push it and make myself get out of the box, make it something i need to reckon with---it tends to just blossom.

I'm working on a new line drawing- with every one they seem to grow and evolve- its another 17 x 11 big un- so stay tuned. and this one was also improvised as it happened. that happy little robot appeared at some point. i see him as a next future tattoo. :) its a really beautiful piece.... probably my favorite line drawing so far. My scanner crapped out on me so it might be awhile before its unleashed-but it's coming....

I'm thrilled at this whole new direction.... and starting at such a perfect family reunion such as Stonehenge is going to be a fine beginning.