Sub 3 - The Boo Box

Or as it began in December 2009, "The Menstrual Mansion". The running joke that 2 guys vs. 4 girls was ...

Two friends, Shannon Kerrigan and myself decide to rent this big ole' house together a street over from mom, live with other friends, and try and create some incarnation of community living and event organizing under one roof. A big yellow aluminum siding-covered box.

A housewarming party just after the years cross-over 2009/2010 and from then on thru the near end of 2012 it hosted anything from theatre, to potlucks, music from folk to dance to harsh noise, movie nights, birthday parties, fake restaurants, mini workshops, clothing swaps, sleepovers and more.

Sometimes between Shannon and I we think we could pull together donated and purchased music from all sorts of people who've come through the house and put together some kind of mix tape. Maybe we'll manage to make a big list, or schedule of who has played or come through these past 3 years.

House mates turnover, streamers go up and get torn down, you're listed on DODIY.com as a fun loving venue, and then you're not. A "house" or a "home" can be anything you want it to be. It's fun to share your home with others. Hosting strangers moving through town is the next best thing to traveling and meeting new people and making friends. 

We made it our project, Shanny moved out and then out to Seattle and it won't ever be the same. It sits in my life currently, a museum of creaky floorboards, party streamers, paper flowers, LP sleeves, upcycled-decorative-broken electronics, cats, vhs tapes, mis-matched tupperware and broken instruments. The storm of feet seems to have passed unlike our faux sky of home depot plastic, flowers, and branches.

When do we move on?

Sub 2 - "Heroes" mural never completed

Between moving home from Los Angeles in January and moving out of the loft in May I began another mural in pencil. David Bowie's face from the cover of "Heroes". And I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for them pesky landlords! ... kidding. One should know that when renting, if you intend to draw or paint on your walls... in an apartment, and you might want to take it with you, don't do it on a shared wall with another unit.

In Mr. Bowie's case, I never finished, but did get a certain amount up that I felt pretty good about it, and thought it was well on it's way to being another big ole' drawring!

Mr. B did not come with us. We left him behind, part finished. He was painted over after we moved out I'm told.

Maybe another day, may you Mr. B spring up again.

Sub 1 - "Songs From The Big Chair" Mural

Welcome to my catalog!

I would like to share with you my projects. I'm going to try my best and account for them in order here. Maybe here and there you'll have yourself something very up-to-date but never the less, here they are.

In the summer of 2005, my mother and I moved from Westlake, Oh to Cleveland, Oh. We moved into a loft building called Hyacinth Lofts on E.63rd on the edge of what you might call plain ole' East Cleveland and Slavic Village. It was kind of there to cater to film-makers/creative types and such. Not exactly the gushy sweet paradise they describe on their website but I won't really get into that. However they didn't care if I drew on their walls. So I took full advantage and fleshed out my fanboy dream.

The largest wall in my room was 20' by 14' and in July of 2005, just a few days after Independence day I began drawing an eye, and a nose and a mouth in pencil. My favorite album at the time when I was 15 was "Songs From The Big Chair", and still is. So that's what it became. It was even something my parents shared with me, a love for the band Tears For Fears. They were in many ways mentors for my creativity.

Months went by and I'd stop here and there for weeks at a time and take breaks. I'd be up all hours of the night with a movie on, just listening and literally scribbling. I used it as the perfect project to plow through the pencil set gifts of the past 10 years by family and friends of family who knew me as the niece or 2nd cousin or daughter of a co-worker who liked to draw. Many thanks! The eraser dust on the floor looked like a Pompay for ants.

The cable knit sweater could have killed anybody!



I finally finished, made sure I finished 6 months to the day. In December of 2005. It was a relief and I was more happy with it than any drawing I'd ever made. Like many other music loving teens I'd done my share of fan-drawings, scribblings, and pen-written band names on notebooks bookbags and binders. But this to me was the ultimate. In retrospect, I think I had a pretty dreamy teenage bedroom in that loft apartment. Something Annie Potts might have fashioned herself in "Pretty In Pink"... or maybe I'm thinking more of the giant Billy Idol looking face in Demi Moore's apartment in "St. Elmo's Fire".

In October 2008 I moved out to Los Angeles while mom kept the apartment back in Cleveland. I did some doings, saw some movies, worked some jobs, ate some fish tacos, went to Disneyland, almost applied for college, hung out with Sheila my sis, and moved back in 3 months. Ouch!

We waited out the spring and mom started looking into buying a home. By May the deal was sealed and she was buying an Ohio City home. We were moving out. And hey, with permission and some dollars we zipsawed the Tears For Fears mural right on out of there! The product of my teen dreams all heavy cut and lifted out and hauled across town in a u-haul out to a car storage warehouse near Bratnahl where it would sit for almost 4 years. And just last weekend with the help of my good friends Alex and Christophe, we hauled it out again and put it up for display behind Rising Star Coffee's table inside the Slovenian Home on St. Clair and E.64th for it's first annual Kurentovanje! It will be in the storefront just east of the hall space for the next Cleveland Flea, second Saturday in March. Who knows where it will go next.

Here's to knowing... the pencil has no limit! Catch the whirlwind!