It's me.

My friend Ben took this photo of me at school the other day. He's working on his book project for our Visual Studies class. Something that I too must start working on...

It's taken with a 4x5 with a polaroid back, and selective focus on the facial region. Fancy, I know. I hyper-linked his name so you may view his blog at your earliest convenience.

Rick Moranis- break me off a piece of that...

Instead of going out into the world today to see the real people, I stayed at home and watched "Little Shop of Horrors" with my cat. This led me to ponder, could there be anyone any hotter than Rick Moranis? My friend Maddy and I certainly don't think so. Although he's usually playing the dork, he still manages to always have a relatively hot wife by his side in most roles. That's because nerdy go-getters are babes. A fact created my me. You know that scene in "Honey I Shrunk the Kids", where he's trying to find the mini children in the backyard before his wife gets home, and he suspends himself from that crazy clothesline-hammock contraption while wearing a helmet with a giant magnifying glass attached to it? Made me swoon. I also thought to myself "My god, what a fantastic father he must be." Then I found out that he retired from show business to spend more time with his kids, and my hypothesis was confirmed. Did I mention that he is from Toronto, much like myself? AND to top it all off, he went to elementary school with rock sensation Geddy Lee. Wow. Rick Moranis, not only are you ravishingly sexy, but you're an excellent human being. Thank you for existing.

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Pulling an artist statement out of your butt 25 minutes before you have to hand in and talk about a print is a skill all on its own...

Image and Text

For this image, I wanted to recreate a fragment of the dream-like vision that Holden Caulfield describes to his little sister, Phoebe, in the novel The Catcher In The Rye. His vision spawns from his misinterpretation of the Robert Burns poem Comin’ Through The Rye, in which one of the lines reads “If a body meet a body”; whereas he believes the line to be “If a body catch a body”. He tells his sister that he sees himself standing in this big field of rye, and his job is to find the children that are inexplicably playing in it, and catch them, should they fall. The image displays a soft colour palate, which I intentionally chose in order to keep with the dreamy tone of Holden’s vision. The way the words above his head are displayed are meant to suggest the feeling of falling, representing the falling children in his vision, as well as Holden’s own declining mental health, which is described by him throughout the novel.