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Skipping is the walk of joy.  ~Jessi Lane Adams

Wounds to the Face

Wounds to the Face by Howard Barker is one of my favorite plays that I performed in directed by my friend, Frances Hearn. It's a complex, poetic piece that explores the meaning we give to our faces and the identity that we get from them. We had an all female cast comprised of my fellow class mates from CalArts each playing multiple roles. I played a dictator and a soldier. Here are some of the beautiful images we created.

Me as a dictator

Me as a soldier whose face was destroyed by a grenade and Keri-Anne Telford as the surgeon who I plead for help

Soldier killing his mother (it's a dark play)

Director Frances Hearn

In Wonderland

This weekend I finally got to check out the fantastic exhibit "In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States" at LACMA. I've been looking forward to seeing this ever since I heard that they would be showing works by some of my favorite artists like Frida Kahlo and Louise Bourgeois. I also discovered artists I never heard of before like Kay Sage, Remedios Varo, Rosa Rolanda and many others.  Brilliant exhibit that took me on a wild, beautiful, intense, disturbing, emotional, and funny journey. Go women artists!!!

One of Frida's first large-scale pieces (and one of my faves) depicting her broken heart from her divorce with Diego Rivera.

"Self portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird"

and this is one of a series of works by Louise Bourgeois called "Femme Maison" depicting the artist feeling trapped in her domestic life.

On a side note, this is Chris Burden's "Metropolis II" exhibit which is also at LACMA. It's a kinetic sculpture of a modern city complete with highways and miniature cars and trains speeding through it. Totally awesome!

The Alchemist

Re-read one of my favorite books, The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho, over the weekend. It's about following your heart and pursuing your dream and it also takes place in Egypt which reminded me of my amazing trip to the pyramids last year. One of my favorite quotes from the book ~

“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”

Happy Thursday!