Posts Tagged “artwork”

Look at this totally cute flip book that Brian made at school!

Brian is doing a lot of interesting projects in his art classes at Delta State.

This semester, one of his classes is 2-D Design, and they were assigned a project inspired by the work of Chuck Close — the instructor took photos of everyone, then they cut them into little squares, then they hand-drew enlargements of the squares onto bigger squares using various patterns, then pieced them all back together onto a board.

Here’s a close-up of the piece so you can see the squares.

Brian’s final piece was accepted into the student art show:

If you’re in Cleveland, go over to the Wright Art Gallery at DSU and check out the show. It’s there until April 23!

There’s a lot of great work on display. I’m looking forward to seeing what else Brian will create over the next few years!

Hi everyone. Remember us? Sorry we haven’t updated in so long. We’ve been very busy with some major life changes.

First of all, we bought this:

That’s pretty crazy in and of itself, but what’s even crazier is its location: Cleveland, Mississippi. After being here a few months, Brian decided to attend art school (which he is loving) at Delta State University here in Cleveland, so here we are! We got the house at the beginning of February, and my mom and I went to Austin to fetch all our stuff from storage. Pre-stuff, our house looked like this:

Ahhh… so fresh, clean, and full of potential….

Now, our house looks like this:

Gah!! At first I had these really lofty ideas that we would be totally unpacked and organized in a couple of weeks, but those dreams were swiftly destroyed by the crushing force of reality and the fact that we have soooooo much stuff. Whoops! I’m no longer on a timeline, but someday before we move away, I’m hoping we can actually have people over comfortably.

Anyway, it’s all very exciting because we have lots of space and a yard with room for a garden and a fence to contain my canine sister Trixie when she visits, and I have a new stove and a laundry room and a lot of other fun homeownery things I’ve not had as an adult. We’ll share more about our new home as we slowly (but surely!) get set up!

Also:

Brian and I got married!

We met (at a Starbucks in Dupont Circle) on February 26, 2005, so we decided to marry on Friday, February 26, 2010. Brian had class that morning, so we chose a very simple, very small mini-wedding at the Alluvian Hotel in Greenwood, Mississippi, which is another little Delta town about an hour from Cleveland. It was a truly lovely, low-key affair, which was just what we wanted. My parents attended in person, and Brian’s mother, sisters, nieces & nephews, and brothers-in-law attended via Skype. Hooray!

Our ceremony (performed by a Justice of the Peace) was just about 3 minutes long, and then we said goodbye to our web conference guests:

… and went to Giardina’s (the Alluvian’s restaurant) for dinner, cake, and champagne.

Then Brian and I spent the weekend at the Alluvian for our mini-honeymoon and enjoyed the amazing Alluvian Spa and many of Greenwood’s other exciting attractions, including downtown Greenwood:

Note the dentist office with the Coca-Cola ad!

We also visited the Cottonlandia Museum:

And that was that. It was a perfect weekend! Thanks, the Mississippi Delta!

More adventures to come!