i shouldn't go but i can't really help it

finals are over
and i've entered BFA week,
aka: week of amazing fun!
i've become so much closer to some of my taplin family members.
especially those who i am living with next year!
sometimes things are incredibly blissful,
but i won't lie,
things aren't all

inflatable fun.
i'm going home in 5 days and i can't believe it.
back in the durty with all my lovelies.
for now i'm trying to enjoy every last minute here.
these images are taken by blanca and mads
from our school function, the pink pig.
at which there are no pink pigs.




underdog!


boy of the future in action.
sassy pants.





some strange ohio game called corn hole or something gross like that.
turns out i am very good at it and cara tried to kill me.
i've officially finished my freshman year of college, i am not ready to make any serious judgements, however i think it's safe to say that it was an amazing year, despite some not so amazing things that happened. and as a great close to the year BAM all got huge scholarships from the school. Blanca got the metals scholarship, I got the ceramics scholarship and an honorary scholarship, and Mads got the glass scholarship. our jury certainly respected the trinity.

still, i can't believe that this time is over and i'm feeling sentimental and silly.

throwing stones, rolling home

my new daily wearables.


my clay project. 3 sets of 3 cups, one in each size for B.A.M.

my lung finished and nicely photographed this time. no plant still...
i keep repeating a couple quotes and fortunes to myself. they help a lot.

"she turns her can'ts into cans and her dreams into plans" - kobi yamada

"the best memory is one trained to forget the trivial" - fortune cookie

sometimes it's harder to live your life the way you want to when you have such ideas about how you want to live it. but bad things happen to me when i flounder. sometimes i feel like noodles lately. mostly good noodles though, so i don't really mind.

she's not staying, she's just passing through

our new saturday routine is going to the west side market and sometimes the glass blowing shop that is open to the public. totally ruff and tumble and totally awesome.



then we explore andy's house and cook awesome food.






things are nice and simple.

and also getting so close to the end, the work is piling up!

if i ever leave this world alive

some recent art

this piece was a support structure for your head during the child pose in yoga

3D drawings, interior and exterior studies

this piece is still a work in progress but i am very excited about it.
the idea is a symbiotic relationship between humans and cultivated plants. there is currently a pea plant growing in the glass lung that i blew (with help from a friend) and later there will be tubes going from the top of the lung into my nose and mouth. so as i breath CO2 into the lung the plant creates oxygen which i breath in through my nose.


i'll post pictures of the final product. it's one of my favorite pieces this whole year!

and how crazy, i only have 3 more weeks of class including this one, then one week of exams, and then one week of BFA presentations and then summmmmmmer!