SuicideGirl: Roethke
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Roethke I will grind your bones to make my bread.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010 @ 11:55 PM




Slender young women with cultivated winter tans walk past me, their foreheads dotted with ashen grey targets, as they walk past and away from me their pants command or entreat me with single words emblazoned across their ass.



On Friday, I give a demonstration to the students on simple relief printing, over enunciating the Japanese words and mentally pen an autobiography in 100 words or less. Entire years compressed into two words, influential portions omitted for the sake of propriety. I attempt to resist my natural inclination to come off as a bit of a wet blanket milquetoast.

Comments
Padre

Padre

Tolleson, AZ
March 2007

FEB 22, 2010 12:01 AM

I love to read your journal entries, I can't help that you're someone I really love to hear about. Sorry for the discomfort you're experiencing.

BellyJack

BellyJack

I'm lost
May 2005

FEB 22, 2010 12:13 AM

Such quiet intensity in the first photo. I'm surprised you'd detect the stone (and hope it passes quickly into oblivion).

llcooln872

llcooln872

Los Angeles, CA
April 2009

FEB 22, 2010 12:44 AM

very, very cool stuff. I watched your stop motion video, I've always wanted to do that. very nice.

TakFuji

TakFuji

I'm lost
February 2006

FEB 22, 2010 03:10 AM

Taped up fingers. *Flashes to image of athletic trainer for the art studio wrapping fingers and giving encouragement, mouth guards, rubdowns, and ice baths*

"The students"? Undergrads? Grade-school field trip? Interesting or merely irritating? I would like it very much if they were impressionable kids who delicately inquire about your scissors. It's fun to imagine your response.

Kstones. What would one look like were they anthropomorphic? What would they sound like? Or say? Monosyllabic or exquisitely articulate? I've got a friend who claims that giving birth was less painful <-- what significance this is supposed to have for you, um, I cannot say. It's a spontaneous stupid factoid that springs out at random moments.

Milquetoast? You? In your dreams.

Little guy with wire hoop in head makes me think of Christmas tree ornaments. (Clearly, I've the makings of a heavyweight art critic.)

Are those headphones elephant size, or is your head tiny? Or does the photo convey an optical delusion? [sic]

"Ashen grey targets" ...I'm working that into my SoCal stereotype. Maybe I'll understand in the morning. Maybe I'll only manufacture a placebo for understanding, a working theory of sorts, much as I have of the JFK assassination and the decades-long embargo of Cuba. Maybe I won't remember anything at all, forgetting my ignorance, which is technically better than bliss. I just made that up.

Pip

Pip

Framingham, MA
OLD SKOOL

FEB 22, 2010 04:53 AM

You constantly impress and amaze me with your creativity and hard work. Could I have a drop of each?

Kidney stones are horrible. OUCH! I hope it passes quickly.

Giggles

Giggles

Claremont, CA
January 2005

FEB 22, 2010 01:21 PM

ouch those kidney stones are the worst

obd

obd

Venice, CA
June 2003

FEB 22, 2010 03:30 PM

oof. sorry to hear about the stones.

I have stuff (hangars and former shirts and such) that I should get to you once I'm done with the taxes. feel better.

Martini

Martini

SUICIDEGIRL

Ontario, Canada

FEB 22, 2010 06:59 PM

you are so awesome.

xo

TakFuji

TakFuji

I'm lost
February 2006

FEB 22, 2010 07:30 PM

I didn't know much about Ash Wednesday either.


Claytoons

Claytoons

Gloucester, MA
July 2005

FEB 27, 2010 09:38 AM

If i had the studio next to you, I would just spend my time staring at you all day.

wasteland

wasteland

USA
January 2004

MAR 03, 2010 09:36 AM

Really hate that shit, the ass advertising.. don't want to see a five year old with the word Juicy on her rump...
those ain't even lady lumps my hump... sadly that's the sort of idiot that it sells to.

Your work is amazing!

Walace

Walace

HOPEFUL

USA

MAR 03, 2010 03:01 PM

hey darling hope you feel better soon! x

mrwarlock

mrwarlock

United Kingdom
February 2010

MAR 31, 2010 09:42 AM

saw your sets and profile and added comment. The imaqges ofyou vare some of the best ive seen as a pro tog of 12 years. Absolutely brilliant and refreshing.

mrwarlock

mrwarlock

United Kingdom
February 2010

MAR 31, 2010 09:44 AM

sorry apear to have lost bthe ability to small whoops spell LOL!

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