Amy Goodwin

I created this invitation for last year's ARTspace open studio. While I was making it I was thinking about paper cutting techniques as a way of telling a story. The visual branching of ideas paired with the Rorschachy reflection of form.

I am starting to think that birds no longer fly south for the winter.
Instead, they fly over to Etsy and wind up stitched or printed on everything.
Because the birds often need a place to land, don't forget the tree limb imagery .

If birds are the new deer what comes after feathers? Perhaps it is time for the honeybee to have a go?

I made a series of these cupcake lights from a great dollar store score. I positioned one on each side of my large orange desk at my studio. I like to think of it as my "executive " desk at sweet industries.

There was a fun(ny) article about the rise and demise of the cupcake in the NYTimes this past week
It begins…
"THE cupcake is at something of a crossroads. Edible icon of Americana, frosted symbol of comfort and innocence, it may not have faced such an identity crisis since first appearing in cookbooks sometime in the 18th century."

This portrait was challenging and very enjoyable. I hope to do more portraits.

LJ
encaustic
16x20x2"
2007

open studios at my studio building
ARTspace Maynard

patterns and shapes
painting sketches

Boy Wonder
ink on paper
11x14"

The book Woman, An Intimate Geography by the Pulitzer Prize winning author Natalie Angier inspired much of the work I made for my Girlfights and Strong Girls series. There is a chapter in the book called In Defense of Female Aggression where Angier describes the cultural rerouting of girls aggression that occurs once girls start to talk. There is no duking it out in a straight forward battle. Girls retreat to snubs, gossip, eye rolls, etc… and it all becomes a bit more insidious. A meta gesture of being pissed.

a sketch for a painting
a logo for my girls
be strong and bloom