Art & Story Blog

The drawing I purchased from Lotte Klaver arrived today all the way from Amsterdam! I had a feeling it would. I’m glad I stayed home, because it’s been pouring down rain today and this beautiful drawing could have been ruined if left in the wrong place. I’m really happy to have this. I’m going to hunt for a funky little frame and put it up in the bedroom. Lotte has many more of these sorts of drawings which she creates on an almost daily basis online at her sketchbook blog. This one is from January 19th, 2006.

I designed this shirt for friend and singer-songwriter Shannon McNally last month. In case you’re not up on your bovine anatomy, the skeleton to the right is a North American Bison (aka, Buffalo). There’s definitely a Dia De Los Muertos element to this design, but the imagery really came out of trying to represent the concept of “North American Ghost Music,” a term Shannon has coined to describe her own music and as a response to the often clunky categorical attempts of music-reviewers and the like.