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Today I traded in Marianne, my faithful 1991 Jeep Cherokee Laredo, and I kind of feel like I lost a best friend. This song (‘Marianne’ by Tori Amos), which she was named for, is in honor of her.

“Marianne represents the death of the girlhood.” - Tori Amos

tuna, rubber, a little blubber in my igloo, yes

and I knew you, pigtails and all

girls when they fall

and they said Marianne killed herself

and I said not a chance, not a chance

don’t you love the girls, ladies, babes, old bags

who say she was so pretty, why

why, why, why did she crawl down in the old deep ravine?

c’mon pigtails, girls, and all those sailors

get your bags and hold down

won’t you just hold down, hold down

‘cause Ed is watching my every sound, I said

they’re watching my every sound

the weasel squeaks faster than a seven day week

I said Timmy and that purple monkey

are all down at Bobby’s house

making themselves pesters and lesters and jesters

and my traitors of kind

and I’m just having thoughts, I said

I’m just having thoughts of, having thoughts, having

Marianne, she could outrun the fastest slug, she could

I’m just having thoughts of Marianne

quickest girl in the frying pan

I’m just having thoughts of Marianne.

My final creation of college.

My painting gets to hang next to this DESTINY sculpture I’ve been admiring all semester in the Junior/Senior exhibition! Everything’s hung a bit too squished for my liking, but yay!

So long studio West 1. May you inspire future generations like you did me.

‘unknowing I must soon unpetal’ has been chosen for inclusion in the 2012 Junior + Senior Exhibition at Herter Gallery! The show will be hung tomorrow and will be up through May 12th.

when you sing, when you sing

the stars fill up my eyes

galaxies pour down my cheeks, galaxies

galaxies, they flood the street

galaxies

when we dance, when we dance

eels and sea grass float on by

I’m 10,000 leagues beneath the sea, 10,000 leagues

10,000 leagues beneath the green

10,000 leagues

when we kiss, when we kiss

bears and boulders vibrate through the air

gravity is dead you see, no gravity

all I need is beating red

no gravity

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Laura Veirs - Galaxies (Video) (by warnerbrosrecords)

Turns out I can fit all my thesis work in my car after all!

My selections to be judged for entry in the 2012 Junior + Senior Exhibition. I decided to keep it simple instead of trying to cram as many paintings as would fit in my studio- they need room to breathe (although they are communicating with each other in diptychs and triptychs today!)

Final BFA Thesis Work Up! 

Please check out my artist Facebook page (and give it a ‘Like’!) to see the final 20 works that made up my BFA Thesis Exhibition!

https://www.facebook.com/laurenmiddletonartist

My friend and fellow artist Sam Zaruba wrote a blog post about my Thesis Exhibition for NYPOP! Click here to read the whole thing.

nypop-art:

When stepping back and staring at the series of brightly pigmented watercolors, I am filled with awe in a way that I haven’t experienced since seeing a Jackson Pollack in person for the very first time. The exhibition space was set up with a series of cadmium hued macro images of flowers…