February 19, 2013
Feel Ignore (More Sore Lore),  2001 30.5cm x 23cm linoleum cut print on 120lb paper series of 10 In 2000 I was studying art/design and folk magick at Southwest Texas State University K/N/A Texas State University-San Marcos. During that year’s spring break, a fellow student, Amber Kulhanek went to South Padre Island for her 21st birthday and ended up taking off her shirt at a wet T-shirt contest in Mexico. “A few months later Kulhanek saw herself in national ads for a “Wild Party Girls” video on the E! cable network, a red strip proclaiming “Too hot for TV” stamped across her naked breasts. In a nutshell, (there was coercion and booze plying involved) she sued E! and Accromedia Group Inc. for invasion of privacy and emotional distress. In 2002 (the year we both graduated!), she won the first judgment of its kind against Accromedia Group Inc., who never officially responded to the lawsuit. Kulhanek earned a $5 million default judgment. I don’t know if she actually received payment as I’m having difficulty finding much follow up regarding this tiny bit of San Marcos history. I think there was an appeal and then it was dismissed based on this PDF I did find. Either way, Feel Ignore (More Sore Lore)  was inspired by that whole mess. 

Feel Ignore (More Sore Lore),  2001 30.5cm x 23cm linoleum cut print on 120lb paper series of 10

In 2000 I was studying art/design and folk magick at Southwest Texas State University K/N/A Texas State University-San Marcos. During that year’s spring break, a fellow student, Amber Kulhanek went to South Padre Island for her 21st birthday and ended up taking off her shirt at a wet T-shirt contest in Mexico. “A few months later Kulhanek saw herself in national ads for a “Wild Party Girls” video on the E! cable network, a red strip proclaiming “Too hot for TV” stamped across her naked breasts. In a nutshell, (there was coercion and booze plying involved) she sued E! and Accromedia Group Inc. for invasion of privacy and emotional distress. In 2002 (the year we both graduated!), she won the first judgment of its kind against Accromedia Group Inc., who never officially responded to the lawsuit. Kulhanek earned a $5 million default judgment. I don’t know if she actually received payment as I’m having difficulty finding much follow up regarding this tiny bit of San Marcos history. I think there was an appeal and then it was dismissed based on this PDF I did find. Either way, Feel Ignore (More Sore Lore)  was inspired by that whole mess. 

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July 2, 2012
Wood Anemone (Anemone Nemorosa) , 2012 56.5cm x 76cm acrylic on 88lbs paper Anemone, symbolisizing dying love, derived from the Greek for ‘windflower’. In Greek mythology the anemone sprung from the tears of Aphrodite as she mourned the death of her love, Adonis. In folklore the anemone is believed to bring luck and protection against evil. The flower was said to foretell rain by closing its petals, and fairies were believed to sleep beneath the petals of the wood anemone during the night after they closed at sunset. The anemone is also called thimbleweed and smell fox, an allusion to the musky smell of its leaves. The Chinese aptly call it the flower of death as it contains poisonous chemicals such as the toxin protoanemonin.

Wood Anemone (Anemone Nemorosa) , 2012 56.5cm x 76cm acrylic on 88lbs paper

Anemone, symbolisizing dying love, derived from the Greek for ‘windflower’. In Greek mythology the anemone sprung from the tears of Aphrodite as she mourned the death of her love, Adonis. In folklore the anemone is believed to bring luck and protection against evil. The flower was said to foretell rain by closing its petals, and fairies were believed to sleep beneath the petals of the wood anemone during the night after they closed at sunset. The anemone is also called thimbleweed and smell fox, an allusion to the musky smell of its leaves. The Chinese aptly call it the flower of death as it contains poisonous chemicals such as the toxin protoanemonin.

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