Being Sorry. is my latest short film. It's about three minutes long and it's about what it's like to feel this sorry.

A high quality version is available here. It streams and loads instantly. A low-quality version is available on YouTube.

Hi. My personal life is a wreck and I'm really responding to this song right now. I don't know what else to tell you, except that Women and Children received the Provost's Purchase award in my school's senior show. I'm getting a monetary award which is nice because I'm saving up to move to Seattle later this summer. Nobody cared!

Breakfast with Al Pacino is a short film I did starring Sally Arlette for a class. It's about a woman and her special relationship with Al Pacino. It's my first short and I'd love it if you were to watch it.

A high quality version is available here. It loads fast! A low-quality version is available on YouTube.

"Bears on Swings" is a public art installation I did as part of UNBOUND, for our school's art festival. UNBOUND, which I co-curated with my best friend James Pearson, enables students to take their works out of the gallery and studio and place them in a public setting. I built the website and narrated our podcast which James composed. It's good! I participated last year with my piece, "Call Your Mom" and co-curating with James was great.

I have a lot to say about UNBOUND, which has become a platform for controversy regarding the topic of censorship at our school's arts festival, but I don't know if the time is right to discuss it. I'm going to remain gracefully silent for now. Anyway! Here's my statement for Bears on Swings:

Bears on Swings is a celebration of the springtime depicted through nature's most notorious hibernators: bears. The work is comprised of approximately thirty hand-knit stuffed bears suspended by swings from the trees which line the academic mall.

The use of knitting as a medium is part of an ongoing effort in the exploration of the domestic arts. As for the concept, bears on swings are simply adorable.

I simplified Vanessa Carter's Bubby pattern and used size 8 needles and a lot of the acrylic yarn I had from when I was learning how to knit. Into each swing, which I built in our woodshop, I nailed a large nail in order for the bears to have something to sit on and hold them upright. Another successful adorable work!

Also The Hand Off received an honorable mention at the URECA show, where undergraduate students are nominated by professors to submit work. I get $25 and a free lunch in the Dean's Suite.

If you want to see more Bears on Swings installation photos, they're available.

Hello blog. I feel better now. Here's a sculpture I did in the fall. It looks like the Star of David head on, but as you rotate around the sculpture the form gets abstracted. Conversely, it's an abstract sculpture that just so happens to look like the star of David from only two points of view.

The thing is five feet by five feet by nine inches and cost me $150 in steel.

YOU MUST VIEW THE VIDEO IF YOU WANT TO "GET IT" (20 MB)

Hey. Promise me you'll come back to this blog a bunch in the next week. Everything happens at once and I have a bunch of fine art related stuff coming up in this week alone!. One is even almost knitting related and the other is certainly Al Pacino related.

3/4ths view.

Full frontal David.

Hi blog. How are you? I am AWFUL. Here's a piece I drew in 2005, but updated it. It's a Flash movie, about two and a half minutes long. Click on the image above or click here to view it.

First I took a picture of a canvas.
Then I overlayed the drawing on the canvas in Photoshop.
Then I painted the picture in with my opacity set such that the paint looked like it was being absorbed by the canvas.
Then I embroidered a few stitches and photographed those.
Then I made them all designy in Photoshop as to create a landscape.
I placed the landscape behind the people.
Then I exported two layers from Photoshop: (1) the background, and (2) the people.
I made a Flash movie with the two components moving at different rates.

Ta da!

Also my Women and Children piece got an honorable mention at the LICA Show.

Hi I'm sick how are you? I knit Shedir and heavens, what a frustrating knit. I'm glad it's over. It was done over three days of sickness in time to give to my brother's girlfriend who is coming for the New Year.

FIRST it was stressful because of the ribbing and I hate ribbing. THEN it was stressful because of the cables. Cables are annoying. I know how to do it without a cable needle...they're just annoying! THEN it was stressful because it looked like I was running out of yarn and I was panicking THE WHOLE TIME. Toward the cap decreases I had to sacrifice all the rows that didn't have cables which is a shame because the only reason I knit this was so that I could incorporate that pretty star effect on the top of the cap and I had to SACRIFICE HALF OF MY FAVORITE PART that I was looking forward to, so now it looks kind of like a flower AND NOT A STAR. The fourth and final stress was something that was irritating throughout the whole project - I made the decision to twist every knit stitch and that sucked. So there was both acute and chronic irritations throughout this project. Anyway it's a little big and I probably should have used size 2 needles, I probably wouldn't have run out of yarn that way and I could have had my star. I also eliminated one of the pattern repeats and I was glad to have done so! I didn't have time to block this sucka and who cares?

Pattern Shedir by Jenna Wilson. Knitty Fall 2004.
Yarn Calmer from Rowan via Cirilia, in a color I call "lettuce"
Needles Size 3 Takumi Premium DPNs

Yet another photo where I am wearing something I knit for somebody else.

Shedir on the bed-ir.

This is all the yarn I had left!!!

Lastly, here is a picture of a sculpture I did in September next to one I did last year. For those not in the know, I'm doing an art minor where I go to school with a focus in metal sculpture. I used to love it but now I hate it because everyone in the department is a jerk. ONE BIG JERK!

So I made a big ass diamond out of steel this fall and the popsicle is from last semester. I never want to take another sculpture class ever but I have to take one more to get my stupid minor. Remind me to care.

"Call Your Mom" is a public installation I did on the Stony Brook Campus for Unbound, which is part of the Shirley Strum Kenny Art Festival.

I constructed 45 small ramekin cakes out of felt and hung these from the lower branches from a single tree on campus, located outside the south side of the library. The bottom of each cake is embroidered with a piece of face-value advice on small things one can do to lead a more fulfilling life and improve their interactions with others. To wit : "Call your mom", "Avoid trans fats", "Say 'please' and 'thank you'", "Don't yell." By using common crafters materials, I hope that my project has an accessible, handmade simplicity to it. I am not attempting to be profound, shock, or make a statement. By contrast, I aim to amuse and charm.

Click here to listen to Alton Frabetti, curator of Unbound, talk about the installation on Stony Brook Radio.

The complete set of photos may be viewed here.