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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Sculptor, Student
Location	Florida/Delaware, United States
Introduction	I am a return student at this moment, getting my BFA in sculpture at the University of Delaware. I use to study opera, but now I'm just a music minor. Currently that and my motorcycles (1972 Honda CB350Four (Solame), 2006 Triumph Bonneville Black (Strumpet), a Yamaha DT100 (nameless) and 1975 Norton Commando 850 (Jezebel) (which was recently passed on to my good friend Keith) are some of my favorite avenues in which I can find a release from the seemingly organized chaos that is life. My ultimate goals... get the hell our of here, fast. Go to grad school and acquire my MFA, do some residencies and eventually teach college level. The end results... to live nestled on a mountainside with a cozy cottage perfect for two, a fishing pond (well stocked), lotsa trees to run through and a huge monster of a studio converted from an old barn. Mmmmm.... Tack on my motorcycles and the ideal person to experience it with and I'd be so deliriously happy I wouldn't know what to make of myself.
Interests	Old Country, Bluegrass, Southern Blues, Americana artists, vintage and not-so-vintage pin-ups, vintage motorcycles and yummy Cafe Racers, art, museums, antique stores, flea markets, traveling, antique purses (specifically lucite), Olivia, female nudes, Starbucks on 67th and Queens Blvd (no other Starbucks count), Untitled Artist's, The Plowhaus Artists' Co-Op, Art Restoration, Oils, Pastels, Pencils (colored and graphite)... all mediums EXCEPT plain old acrylic paint (You know, the only reason I state this is because I am totally unfamiliar with the medium), Fair Trade Independent coffee shops, old rusting metal objects (really into industrial architectural pieces/buildings), old decaying wood, pretty much anything with character (houses, art, furniture, people, music, land, life), graffiti, art that consciously combined aesthetics with concept and artists who know their craft and respect it. My greatest interest.. learning and experiencing as much as possible before I leave this earth.
Favorite Movies	Scarlet Diva, The Dreamers, Harold and Maude, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Malena, Gia, Hackers, The Breakfast Club, Donnie Darko, Secretary, Midnight Cowboy, Sayonara, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill Kill... (all Meyer's movies), Last Days, The Heart is Deceitful..., Stray Cat Sex Rock..., Sex, Lies and Videotape, Swimming Pool, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Velvet Goldmine, The Rear Window, Strangeland, High Art, Bladerunner, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Hardware, Scarlet Pimpernel (B&W version), All Bettie Page Movies, Pride & Prejudice (A&E), Brown Bunny (just watched it again... so fucking good... Mmmmmm... motorcycle across the salt flats. Purrrrrrr), Bertolucci, John Waters, Ghost World, Heathers, Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, Pretty in Pink, Lost in Translation, Groundhog Day, City of the Lost Children, Angels and Insects, Say Anything, Brazil, Lolita, Boys Don't Cry, Foxfire, Metropolis, Killing Zoe, Prozac Nation, Buffalo 66, Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Newsies, American Psycho, The Hot Spot and all Brando movies, An American in Paris, Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Gigi, Sinatra and Kelly movies, Julie Strain and Jenna Jameson flicks, Exotica, The Last Unicorn, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Basquiat, The Juniper Tree, Mary Reilly, Dangerous Liaisons, Requiem for a Dream, Maria's Lovers, Tess, Purple Rain, Cold Mountain, DUNE, Girl with a Pearl Earring, A Night to Remember, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Henry and June, Red, Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus, "The Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover", Amores Perros, On Any Sunday, The Science of Sleep, Pan's Labyrinth, The History Boys, Marie Antoinette, Helf Nelson, Quadrophenia, Steve McQueen's my hero...still working on this list, too....
Favorite Music	Bowie, Bjork, Allison Moorer, Shelby Lynne, Knopfler, Kasey Chambers, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Ryan Adams, Keith Urban, Julie Miller, Dead Can Dance, Apop Berzerk, Oneriod Psychosis, VNV, Severed Heads, Pink Dots, Skinny Puppy, Tear Garden, Tom Waits, Neko Case, Nick Cave, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Hank Willians, John Prine, Suzanne Vega, George Jones, Tom Jones, Joni Mitchell(but if I hear that BLUE album one more time!!!!!), Little Feat, The Band, Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, White Stripes, Interpol, NIN, Jane's Addiction, Jayhawks, The Thorns, Stones, Pixies, Charlie Pride, Willie Nelson, Webb Pierce, Louvin Brothers, Audioslave, Black Tape, Cowboy Junkies, The Cure, Diamanda Galas, Grant Lee Phillips/Buffalo, Julie Miller, Buddy Miller, LPD, Lucinda Williams, Peter Gabriel, Portishead, Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright, Loudon Wainwright III, Severed Heads, Tori, VAC, Velvet Revolver, VNV, Bessie Smith, Sarah Vaughn, Count Bassie, BB, Coltrane, Screamin' J Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Leonard Cohen, Echo and the Bunnymen, Erasure, Hank Jr and Hank III, John McNicholas, Duran Duran, Blondie, Aimee Mann, Pearl Jam, Prince, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Hendrix, Joplin, Randy Newman, Kinky Friedman, Warren Zevon, Townes Van Zandt, Julian Lennon, John Lennon, Kris Kristofferson, The Highwaymen, Jeff Buckley, New Pornographers, Johnny Paycheck, Haujobb, Velvet Acid Christ, Nusfrat F.A.K., Soundtracks to Hackers, Eyes Wide Shut, Macross Plus, Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, DEVO, The Flaming Lips, Coldplay, Edith Piaf, Nina Simone, Death Cab, The Decemberists, The Raconteurs, PJ Harvey, The Books, Fatboy Slim, Boxcar Willie, Wilco, Modest Mouse, Billy Bragg, Old Crow Medicine Show, Nick Drake, Levon Helm, Iris Dement, Michelle Shocked, Neil Young, Van, Arcade Fire, The Somnambulants, The Strokes, New Order, Aphex Twin, black mountain, MGMT, IAMX, Margot and the Nuclear.., Mates of State, The Black Angels, Muse, The Confusions, Mute Math, Jose Gonzales, Rafter, Red Leaves, Dead Confederates, Black Ghosts, Band of Horses..
Favorite Books	Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Norton Parts book, Norton Commando 850 Shop Manual, Honda CB350F Shop Manual, The DaVinci Code, Anais Nin, Hermann Hesse (number one on my list), Ayn Rand, Guido Argentini, The Scarlet Pimpernel (Sigme!), Dostoevsky, Tom Robbins, JT Leroy, Paolini, CS Lewis, Frank Herbert, Jenna Jameson, Dimestore Sleaze, photography books on the human figure and female nudes/erotica, books on graffiti, low art, pin-ups and artists of all genres, motorcycle magazines, Walneck's, custom bike and rod mags, tattoo rags, indie zines, alt art publications and anything that clues me into the madness that exists around me culturally and artistically...