Sugar Power // Lint Museum

chimera

2009-07-09T08:46:00.003+04:00

it looks like this diary has fizzled but that
is simply not true

it just got some new shoes

and walked over here

bubble talk

2009-03-20T05:00:00.005+03:00

did you ever start talking
to someone and feel like
it was all bubbles and smoke
to them? did you

ever hear yourself
say something and
wish
it was underwater

did you ever
lay across your bed
and cross your legs
like a school-girl
when talking became
so delightful

you did not know what else
to do

i suppose the thread there
is that the words reaching
someone are rare and
suddenly you become

a mermaid when

finally
understood

watching

2009-03-17T05:10:00.002+03:00

i am watching a man on a rooftop
smoking a cigarette looking down
on the world wondering whether
to jump or start a revolution

i am watching a man on a rooftop
who looks like he shouldn't be there
but he likes that it is dangerous and now

i am watching that man look straight across
at me

sometimes i love pizza

2009-03-13T10:50:00.006+03:00

sometimes i love pizza more than anything, really
more than nearly being there
or even being here
even

but i've been thinking lately
that everything keeps turning faster
no matter what i do
to slow it down

not even pizza helps

i think could write miles about this
but that would even waste more time

in fact i might marry a slice if i had to

i keep thinking of things i want to marry

and fuck

storytelling

2009-02-03T00:59:00.009+03:00

you really know how to tell a story
you do

to knot and inch and bind
to cast and crochet

to find abalone
under lumber jackets

and crows deep under the weight
of snow

i like watching you doing something
you are naturally good at. it's like
tying a boot

i love watching you weave
the old recipes
slightly shifting the ingredients
each time

but what i love most
is everyone else
bending slightly backward to swallow
your small joys and your
large truths

lagoon

2009-01-22T09:49:00.005+03:00

sometimes i think i am a moat

surrounding you with a dull life foam

and then i realize i am a
hurricane of love

limp
in your blue water

i want to be a lagoon
of fevered green ecstasy

not waves, really
or any other mess of water

just a moment of ferment, fervent
perfect and fecund

devilishly kind flowers blossoming
while it happens

and my fire could never be squelched
by your dire strings of reason

dying, drying everything

while i lay back
in my sick swamp as the arrows
stack into me

you report nothing
from your long beach chair
impossible glutton
of harmlessness

thus fraudulent and gorgeous
adulterous laughter appears
from nowhere, everywhere

let us laugh

let us
wait for your emotion to
appear, let us

know

know how good pink looks
alongside green

in this inevitable sequence of events

private

2009-01-12T07:17:00.001+03:00

we are so private

even when we are alone
we are alone, together

when we are on display
we are so private

so private like
pirates'
wild hearts
fighting flight

we
quietly display affection
slay onlookers

from time to time and

love everything about
one another but

we

are so private

sometimes i do not know
if we are ever going
to merge

into the sea

your golden cage

2008-12-23T13:28:00.005+03:00

i think it might be your rib cage
i think of the most

those golden clamps
that damning holster, holding
your heart inside

it's claws

blame it on reason

you keep your fires burning slow
mine, i cannot

i am alive with fire

touch me with your cold hands, just
so we can heal

each another

finally

and

sigh

Art Whimsy

2008-12-07T02:03:00.011+03:00

Anado McLauchlin and Patrice Wynne
are two inspirational magical human beings
and artist working in San Miguel de Allende.

This is a promotional image I made
for their open house this year.

If you'd like to see the house, check out this article
in The New York Times. Pure magic:

www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/garden/23mexico

chain-smokers

2008-09-29T03:10:00.015+04:00

i have always had a soft spot for chain-smokers

sometimes you meet a stranger
maybe the stranger is your friend
and you don't even know how close
you really are

but they are still a stranger

suddenly you flutter
and everything around you shifts
swirls into new directions

and strange is still strange
but better strange

a kind of enlightening

without purpose or meaning
or beginning or end

makes you feel awake, alive

sometimes there is simply
nothing more beautiful
than watching another human being
smoking a cigarette

this week for me was a week of strangeness
it replenished all the thoughts
i thought i lost about mystery

and the infinite beauty of faces

it is a simple antidote just to
look at someone unique

and bask
in their existence

like the most
incredible film

glimpse at HOW feature

2008-09-18T20:36:00.005+04:00

here is a little glimpse of the feature
i have in the October issue of HOW magazine

it is just a sneak peek but thought it
would be nice for those of you who
cannot access the magazine from where
you live

surprisingly, i had no trouble at all finding
it in mexico which is a pretty good sign
i'd say

the photo is from my birthday

happy birthday, ha

well thank you!

Que Pasa Cover

2008-09-06T21:18:00.008+04:00

in san miguel de allende, mexico
there is a very cool newspaper printed
both in spanish and english called

atencion

they have a pull-out entertainment section
called que pasa and luckily i was able to do
their cover illustration for this week

but what is even better is
now i am going to be
doing illustrations for them on an on-going basis

can you think of a better way to get to know a town,
its people and whats the happs

more on this one soon

HOW magazine

2008-08-30T06:31:00.007+04:00

HOW magazine has featured this miss
sugar power in the october issue
out on the stands now. (page 26)

pretty exciting.

one of those very memorable moments
always longed for.

savor it. i say.

like all good things.

i am grateful for.

lost at e minor

2008-08-10T06:36:00.005+04:00

i have a sweet new little interview up at the amazing
lost at e minor site

check it out if you like costumes, pirates or werewolves

or even just me

the Guardian

2008-08-05T03:26:00.005+04:00

this week i did a "spot the difference" illustration
for the guardian newspaper in the uk

and they liked it so much
i think i might be the official

"spot the difference" girl
for the guardian

how fun would that be?

didn't you LOVE doing them
when you were a kid...

or still...

Oakley Sunglasses

2008-08-05T03:15:00.007+04:00

lucky!!

i just found out I was short-listed to design for the
Oakley artist's series: sunglasses, box and sleeve.

super happy about this one because I created
the design with so many friends of mine in mind
I think I am going to have to give a pair
to almost everyone I know.

plus there is a golden little buddha snuck into each one for
good luck. these are like the fortune cookie of sunglasses!

check out all the other talented artists here
(then click on "design brief enter" and you can see
all the other great work as well

and keep your fingers crossed for little miss
sugar power.

BIG movie-star style KISS. ha.

Signed with Anna Goodson

2008-07-01T00:30:00.005+04:00

ANNA GOODSON

for years i have watched anna's agency
grow and been inspired by her ubiquity,
her propensity for collecting charming,
wonderful illustrators and, quite frankly,
her discerning knack for business.

i am very happy to announce
that i have been invited to join her team
and hope you get the chance to take a look
at some of the amazing work she has
put into building her agency from the ground up.

it is among those honors it is hard to find words for.

so let me, for this moment, just say:

thank you anna

i will make you proud.

Won GOLD for Volkswagen

2008-05-10T00:57:00.009+04:00

very happy to announce i just won

the GOLD prize
in Montreaux, Switzerland

for the Volkswagen billboards i created with Grabarz & Partners

to celebrate i have added this photo
of my proud ma looking at one of
my online interviews, sigh

i would be nothing without her
she is a glistening, charming, loving
gem of a woman

thanks ma!

and, well, if that were not enough,
my work will be featured in the next issue of:

How magazine as well

one of my favorites!

i am going to pop some champagne
and dance like a monkey

luck and love

there is nothing better

GOLD and then some!

2008-04-24T05:21:00.009+04:00

well i could not be more grateful
the series of billboards i created
for Volkswagen

have been nominated for several awards
including One Show, ADC - Germany and
D&AD...more to follow..

the illustrations will also be published in the amazing
publications: "Creative Review", "Luerzers Archive",
and "American Illustration 27"

pretty overwhelming for this little sugar power

a lot of dreams all coming true at once

the best part of this project was
collaborating with the brilliant

Grabarz & Partners

and, of course, my agent in Germany

Margarethe Hubauer

i had great fun building these little dioramas combining them with
3-d images and traditional illustration

the infinite possibilities of photography, illustration and collage
never cease to propel me into the nether regions

many thanks to all for the recognition
on this very rewarding project

sincerely,

sugar power

Sugar Power for NYC Lotto

2008-04-24T05:03:00.007+04:00

another fun project i just finished
was a collaboration with DDB
for NYC Lotto

(also available in full view at the
lint museum)

my mother would be proud

she is a professional gambler
and a very lucky one at that

I LOVE YOU MOM!

sugar power

the london times

2008-04-24T04:23:00.006+04:00

i was lucky enough to be invited
to create an image for the london times
"sex question"

to see the full image
and other commercial projects
you can download the sugar power portfolio here:

the lint museum portfolio

you know what is fun?

the more i collaborate with new clients
the more i learn about things i never knew
and the more i remember about things
i already know

ah, the memories

fashion wonderland

2008-04-24T03:38:00.005+04:00

wow

i was very excited to have this image published
in Victionary's "Fashion Wonderland" book
which just came out

if you can get your hands on it
it is the most amazing collection of the world's
best fashion illustrators

a true honor for sugar power
to be included among the greats

available here:

victionary's "fashion wonderland

friends

2008-04-24T03:25:00.005+04:00

it has been a month of friends visiting
and showing them around
the unbearably complex
and beautiful labyrinth
of buenos aires

seeing everything with fresh eyes
and
with friends like this

who needs

anything else?

lint museum updates

2008-04-24T03:14:00.004+04:00

there have been many updates to my site folks

as i slowly evolve

into something

other

less crap and more trickery
trompe l'oeil and such
i suppose

just learning how to do things better
and writing poems on rolls of toilet paper
so long i can't sleep at night
or wipe properly in the morning

making
eventually

a novel
i hope

it is suffused with swear words
and transcendental vikings

and vodka

and
just
good clean fun
really

sugar power love

2008-04-24T02:18:00.007+04:00

brace yourselves

this is just the beginning of a slew,
no, a veritable onslaught
of entries

from the new and improved sugar power
for all of you
who love me (thankfully) and bait me
to add more often to my much neglected
lint museum diary

thank you for making me feel needed, vital,
and a source of inspiration

lord knows you are that to me
every single day

you know who you are

LOVE YOU VERY MUCH

with all of my

sugar power

Volkswagen

2008-01-13T02:22:00.000+03:00

IdN

2007-11-01T15:01:00.000+03:00

very happy to announce i have been included
in the "collage" issue of IdN magazine

it is a beautiful issue
get your hands on it if you can

saatchi & saatchi

2007-08-23T12:27:00.000+04:00

just finished a series of illustrations
for saatchi & saatchi, new zealand

i had a lot of fun making these.
if you'd like a closer look, see
the "work" section of the lint museum.

the bar

2007-07-26T15:28:00.001+04:00

i like going to the bar
they say
it ain't that healthy
for you

to be breathing in smoke
and drinking liquor but
i don't know

i find it strangely

uplifting

kudos magazine

2007-06-15T19:53:00.000+04:00

will be featured in this month's
kudos magazine

the image is part homage to dita von teese and
part secret fantasy
to bathe in veuve cliquot

or at least drink it from my manolo blahniks

nevermind all that though
we all know i am a tom-boy at heart

and just need to slip once in a while
into a glass of champagne to

even the score

knorr

2007-06-15T19:44:00.001+04:00

been pitching ideas this week and having
a lot of fun with knorr

this half - swiss girl
is inspired by the flavors of childhood

and wandering

still not finished but
i think they are coming along well

offf barcelona 2007

2007-05-17T19:23:00.000+04:00

i just finished my presentation
at offf in barcelona and
well

so many things happened
to me there

like a new sugar was unleashed

because i wandered so far outside of my body
to do it

that when i came back
it was a new self
which i had never explored

like i had laundered
my soul

or something

or maybe it was just the streets
of barcelona

those
black little riddles
tied together with ribbons and smoke

making the mind's eye
lather

better

a lot of good news

2007-05-09T09:18:00.000+04:00

there is so much good news that i want
to stuff it all in one entry like a present
that is so full you cannot even close
the box

so i found this heart-shaped pepper
on my pizza and
if that wasn't good enough

- i was invited to speak at OFFF 2007

- i have a 10-page feature in Design Graphics
you can download and read the whole thing here

- i signed with a new agency in Paris Creative Syndicate

- and i pitched for a major soft drink

so i would have to say these are

apple days
and i am grateful

crotch

2007-02-25T19:34:00.000+03:00

sometimes there is nothing prettier
than a man's crotch

okay
maybe a man's crotch split
at the seams

seemingly innocent but
inevitably conjuring
both sexes
at once

soft spot

2007-02-20T15:34:00.000+03:00

i have a soft spot for the accordian
and playing hands
folding over notes

i know i am not alone in this
but will somebody
please stand up and admit it

unleash the closeted
umpapa

band

blog city

2007-01-06T19:28:00.000+03:00

i joined 2 really cool blogs today

finally
(apologies to those who invited me for the time lapse)

if you get the chance
check them out

they are both really wonderful:

sugar frosted goodness

and

on my desk

pure love

2006-12-20T19:44:00.000+03:00

o my fucking god
how beautiful is this crazy doll

i found it the other day
at my aunt's house
nestled

in the swiss alps

i love this man so much
and his moustache is so overwhelming
that i think i want to swallow him

whole

catalina estrada

2006-11-05T12:07:00.000+03:00

last night
i went to meet the lovely,
talented, poetic and
incredibly modest

catalina estrada

she took us to see her solo show

at the
iguapop gallery
in barcelona

amazing, inspiring, and fun

the text accompanying the paintings, she explained,
is from columbian folk songs

love songs

after spending a little more time with her and her husband
over drinks i realized how incredibly sincere
her pictures are

and i might have got a little
choked up

if i wasn't just so overwhelmed
by happiness

the enigma of sugar power

2006-10-25T17:36:00.000+04:00

fresh off the shelf

the latest issue #13 of designer magazine
out of singapore has featured my work
in a double page spread and interview

entitled: the enigma of sugar power

it is a pretty good read i suppose
if you like enigmas and/or
sugar power

even if you don't
the entire issue is
impeccably written
and visually constructed

sugar power doll

2006-09-26T11:38:00.000+04:00

as part of a collaborative show in new york city for
living dead dolls

i would like to introduce
the first ever

sugar power doll
complete with moveable parts

the show takes place
october 31st - november 14th 2006
at NYC showroom gallery

the river

2006-09-21T20:57:00.000+04:00

i like falling into the river

i fall into the emerald green and cold
most awake feeling that
freezes my body into a tiny

human jewel

or myriad jeweled atoms
flickering with abandon at random points

and a feeling too lost to remember comes back
and everything sad is suddenly fleeting
flushing, rushing abundance and

birds, lizards, and fish swim cumulus
in white green and blue light forever
mesmerized by the inevitable
motion of everything

and yet the specifics
are equally available
in this dream

the man with colored tattoos
like cartoons virtually moving
across his arms as the river records them and
beautiful girls

so many beautiful girls
reminding me

that the world is a treasure trove
and everyone breathes the same air
with different voices
and poisons flickering through them and out again

circling like helicopters
it is almost
too much to bear

but then i lie down again
beside the green river

and i remember to breathe
being inside it

and what it feels like to be completely alive
inside the dream

a day makes

if you are awake to it
frolicking

kick boxing

2006-09-16T19:22:00.000+04:00

i went to see kick boxing last night and
let me tell you it was
nothing like i thought it would be
it was quite

fantastic

half dance and a hell of a lot of
punching but

there was a man there who had
only sideburns

nothing else

like an invisible man, really
just a big pair of bushy sideburns
and

i kind of loved it

i am not sure i am allowed to say it but
the girls in the audience looked tougher
than the boxers

and the boxers in the audience swayed
with the same movements of the men in the ring
shaking the benches

so you knew
immediately
who was truly participating and who
was just watching

like the well-groomed businessmen slightly
salivating on the side for some unknown
reason

anyway

i was struck with astonishment that i lasted
the evening there and that i fell in love
with at least one

of the boxers

WON illustration of the year

2006-08-28T03:08:00.000+04:00

i am very happy to announce
i took home the prize for
illustration of the year

from the desktop create: awards 2006

my lovely friends lia and rosie
accompanied my to the awards ceremony
where the competition was stiff
but i managed to squeeze through
as the winner

gallons of champagne ensued
and i am still recovering

grateful to those who
voted for me

many, many thanks

pop 13

2006-08-08T05:28:00.000+04:00

linger too long and you pass through seeing

into seeing something new
or becoming completely distracted

and daydreaming yourself off a cliff

like when you find yourself staring
at someone on the bus

only you were looking through them
into another region
but they don't know that and move

very abruptly from your
field of vision

i fail to see when i linger too long on something

glimpses are often better than
long, drawn out gaping

(unless you are in love
in which case every atom
unleashes universes)

it is good to breathe something in
but not until you forget it

try glimpsing at things
and then try spending one single day

taking nothing
for granted

pop 13
interview

zolton

2006-08-08T03:01:00.000+04:00

this week i was added to

lost at e minor

a well-written and impecably edited
online collection of artists

run by zolton

and i won't go on and on
about how pretty i think
his name is

spunk interview

2006-07-26T05:16:00.000+04:00

new interview is up here:

Spunk United magazine
out of Singapore.

hope you enjoy it!

bad girl

2006-07-19T07:04:00.000+04:00

i have been a bad girl
neglecting my news + diary section

it's just that
i have been so busy i might
need to hire an assistant soon

now you can spank me
or you can be my daddy
and buy me a pony

(yes i wrote that because i think it is funny)

featured in DESIGNER magazine

2006-06-26T05:35:00.000+04:00

the lint museum will be featured in
the upcoming issue of DESIGNER magazine
out of singapore

it is the INTERACTIVE issue

we had a very funny interview
the other night over the phone

buy it
it is a fantastic magazine
with a great new editor

julian stone

also featured this month
the celebrated
tomato interactive
out of the uk

poster

2006-06-13T07:53:00.000+04:00

working on a poster
for rock legends

music vs physics
and 7 other bands

and the bandit musicians
in the poster are
making me want to
open up the costume trunk
at home at

fire on all

cylinders

i don't know you

2006-06-11T08:29:00.000+04:00

i don't know you but i
somehow
feel close to you

recognize things in your name
which remind me
of elementary school
riddles

i don't know you but i feel you
when i look at your photograph

its as though we've had conversations
about suicide and other life-altering mishaps
in the past

i don't know you, but i

like you
and find myself caring without
even thinking

i don't know you

but i would like to

watch you tie your shoes while
taking sips of coffee

just before we set out
onto that

long path

falling down the rabbit hole

2006-05-24T03:57:00.000+04:00

i have been falling down the rabbit hole
a lot lately

so much is happening
i don't know where to start

sometimes i feel like white light
is pouring through me
and that is a sharp contrast

to how i felt this time
last year

which is why i want to document it
to remember

that happiness is always on the other side
of despair

ILLUSTRATION of the YEAR

2006-05-20T07:43:00.000+04:00

i am humbled and delighted to say
that the illustrations i did for saatchi & saatchi
have been short-listed for illustration of the year
at desktop magazine's create: awards.

i very much look forward to the outcome of this one
and, in the meantime, you can take a closer look at
the work in the june edition of desktop magazine.

many thanks to saatchi & saatchi for being so
damn wonderful to work with.

celebrate

2006-05-11T02:23:00.000+04:00

sometimes i like to celebrate
for no apparent reason

celebrate nothing

or everything breathing and moving
around me

sometimes i like to celebrate
by wearing elaborate costumes

sometimes
i like to celebrate by holding you
in a small cup of rainwater
and remembering your reflection

when we were small
we would celebrate

with snowballs or slurpees or
ding dongs

now i celebrate with stronger liquids
but the joy

is just
as complete

won powagirrrls award at netdiver.net

2006-05-03T11:52:00.000+04:00

happy to say

i made it into the esteemed powagirrrls section

over at http://www.netdiver.net/powagirrrls/

now this is an honor i have coveted

for years

thanks so much!

won site of the day!

2006-04-22T11:23:00.000+04:00

won site of the day at the wonerful taxi

www.designtaxi.com

very happy about that

thanks

magazine illustration

2006-04-22T10:56:00.000+04:00

i recently created an illustration for
the wonderful magazine ascent

http://www.ascentmagazine.com/

the article was about star-gazing

and i couldn't imagine a better subject
to draw from

saatchi & saatchi

2006-04-22T10:28:00.000+04:00

this is a sketch i did for an upcoming
series of ads for saatchi & saatchi

they were not only lovely people
to collaborate with but the success
of this project will be featured
in an upcoming issue of desktop magazine

http://www.desktopmag.com.au/

the idea was to illustrate daydreaming

imagine me

doing that

k10k nice review

2006-04-22T10:00:00.000+04:00

got a nice little review
over at

www.k10k.net

about the www.pixelsurgeon.com
interview and the lint museum

i am blowing kisses at
all of you nice folks

over there

art show

2006-04-22T08:51:00.000+04:00

made 36 pieces for an art show
based loosely on love and cussing

i sold most of them which was
enough impetus to begin a new series

of 1001 paintings

and stave off the inevitable
a while

interview on pixelsurgeon

2006-04-22T08:39:00.000+04:00

my intereview at www.pixelsurgeon.com
is up and

it's a doozy

i have 3 more interviews
coming up this month

so lookout

people will be overdosing on lint

all over the world

the heat of the moment

2006-04-18T02:59:00.000+04:00

and then i woke up
and i remembered the evening
in flashes backward

as you do

stading in the kitchen
with one arm up
forefinger extended
to the roof

knees bent
rockin roll style

yelling
I LOVE ASIA

and proceeding to sing along
"heat of the moment"
at the top of my lungs

then dance

like a shaved turtle

it was at that point i also remember
the look on my guests' faces

a novelist and another esteemed collegue
who came to buy some paintings

and i remember their faces
becoming quite blank

and i remember them earlier in the evening
seeming much less frightened

and then i remember them leaving

and somewhere in the middle of it all i remember
someone asking if i was okay

i was okay

i had a great time

i hope you did as well

the moment of suspension

2006-04-03T02:04:00.000+04:00

there is nothing quite like
blowing a bubble

a really big pink it-is-the-middle-of-summer kind of bubble

sometimes love is like that

a giant pink fucking bubble
that grows sweeter and sweeter filling with air
taut, near-floating

then bang!
the motion slows

down

to a complete mess

bad mood

2006-03-21T01:14:00.000+03:00

today i am in a really bad mood
like i want to squish

really soft little things

not in a sexy good way but
kind of in a badass way

like
"screw you soft nice little things"
"you never did nothing but make me miserable"

but then

i can't

because

they are just

too cute

assholes

2006-03-09T06:40:00.000+03:00

sometimes i think the world is full of assholes

and that that

is really funny

people who do dumb shit like

o i dont know

stealing cars
lying to their friends
rippin off money
from their mothers' purses

funny because their triumphs are often so
fumbling and pathetic

and then sometimes

i think

the world really is full of
a bunch of dumb assholes

and it makes me
angrier

i want

2006-03-06T01:46:00.000+03:00

i want the long cool hands of time
to move more slowly over
my body i want

to be showered with love at all times
i want your calm goodness and humor
washing over me at every occasion i want

a small studio of my own inside
an even smaller
garden i want

to invite a man for tea and call him
my husband i want
to be debt free i want

flourishing and flourishes and nourishment
at every turn i want

to be able to sleep at night i want
more serenity and travelling and hope popsicles
flying everywhere i want

caskets made out of bags
of
stone cold sugar

and i want your heart in my mouth
always

pulsing

pink jello

2006-02-22T00:24:00.000+03:00

sometimes you just want to live
inside a block of pink jello or

sleep on one
at the very least

i kind of wonder
what it would be like to make
an entire city out of jello or maybe

a roller-rink
softer

i miss the days when
running into you was
akin to dessert

and everything melting all over
with only so much time to eat it

i miss the soft ruin that would come from
pressing ourselves together

and the colors
left on the plate

afterward

all that juicy debris
and cream

a good wife

2006-02-17T00:05:00.000+03:00

i want to be a good wife, to keep
my slippers clean

the bed sated, the
cupboards full

i want to be a good wife, the
funny kind that makes you split
your pants when you are laughing

i want to be a good wife and listen
to all the atrocities and mundanities
with equal measure i want

to be a good wife and
adorn my husband with garlands of love
and feasts of pheasant

even when it is raining
and we have no money

i want to be a good wife
and tend to the little things
while he is away

sifting through the promises of grandeur

i want to be a good wife
and slide all the nuances of pain and disappointment
underneath the rug

i want to be a good wife
clad in fashionable skirts

and well-kept

juggling a hot sheet of cookies
and a martini as

he walks in the door

finally away

no more

40

2006-02-13T05:02:00.000+03:00

i have this pact
with my friend johnny

that if neither of us
is hitched by 40

we are going to make babies

which is fucking funny
not because this sounds like an episode
from one of those really shitty sitcoms
but because

he is so devastatingly beautiful
that all our babies
would come out looking

like this sculpture

i know a girl

2006-02-09T00:08:00.000+03:00

i know a girl
with a little curl

right in the middle of her
forehead

alright
no curl

but a world of petals
folding inward

to her gorgeous
soul

rose

small things

2006-01-24T01:45:00.000+03:00

small things open up
other universes
of life

like
when you get lost
in the construction of a word

its architecture suddenly
becomes woody
or grained

it doesnt look right any more
it grows branches

or the forest of your eyelashes
when they are fluttering

my wild oblivion
lives

in your every

detail

black

2006-01-19T03:50:00.000+03:00

black as your heart
and drip coffee

you said

but your heart was red
a real red mush
pulped dread

and feeling everything
you had no

shiny coating no
outer skin to protect you

had no shield

black as your heart
and drip coffee
you said

but everything

made you
weak

in the knees

america

2006-01-19T00:52:00.000+03:00

i've been to america
a few times now

and i have to say

it is very pretty

but its also kind of
a lonely place

now
they have really nice hills there
and pretty good signage
and wonderful deserts

but
there are
and a lot of people
who seem to be wandering

psychically

without
aim

or maybe it was just that one mall
i was at

stunning
me

strangers

2006-01-17T23:51:00.000+03:00

sometimes we tell secrets to ourselves
sometimes we tell them to friends

i prefer
to tell my darkest secrets
to absolute
strangers

and then laugh
as i see them
float into the wind

i like talking to strangers
becuase they have something
nice about them and
tabla rasa

often means
you get away
with being really funny

i don't know
maybe it is just because of the movies
and the idea of how two people meet

and the blossoming of friendship

like this morning
when i found myself face to face
with a complete stranger
hunched over the ground
in the center of the city street

each
tying
his own

shoelace

pretend

2006-01-16T01:01:00.000+03:00

i am going to pretend
i am this lady today

and my name will be lulu
or coco or something
fun

i will mainly lay on the beach
and watch the young boys
lap up the waves with their
vanilla arms

i will likely brush my long locks
a lot

and sip ever so subtly from my
eternal martini

i think this evening i will wear
the long gown
you gave me, you know
the silk one

and remove my polka dot bikini
for the day

i will possibly be thinking about sergio
and rudolfo
and my darling new handbag
and, well, everything maybe

but only for split

seconds

pink laundry

2006-01-11T01:56:00.000+03:00

we used to go to this place
called the pink laundry

and i secretly wished
that meant

all our clothes would become
that malnutritioned red

we used to drive there
in your station wagon

i love brown
station wagons

that hold all that remote
beauty of memory

in their every

rusty
curve

pirates

2006-01-10T03:02:00.000+03:00

when i was a 5

i wanted to be a pirate

maybe not a blood-thirsty
killing kind of pirate but

more of a swashbuckling
snappy dresser daredevil kind

i would wear a leather satchel
strapped diagonally
across my chest and just my
underwear

i never got as far as the eye-patch
but i was quite handy with a plastic sword

i am not sure
what got me hooked on pirates but

now that i think of it

i am sure it had something to do with
pippi longstocking

and to this day
i think part of me still resembles her

but maybe it is just

the teeth

virgins

2006-01-09T02:07:00.000+03:00

i suppose some days
you feel much cleaner than others

unscathed

and then some days
it is like
your whole soul has been dragged
through the grime

and there is no way to extricate
yourself from the slime

i am winding my way through this now

unfettered by chance

or anything remotely
hooligan

which is the part

that bores me

the most

ready

2006-01-03T03:24:00.000+03:00

i am ready
for amazing things
to happen to me

i am wide open to luck
and sizzling beauty

i want to have magical powers
and treat people
with a kind of dignity
that changes
how they feel

about themselves

i want my luck to be viral

and to leave a trail of great things

i want all my interactions to transform me
at the molecular level

and all my anxieties to find a home
in the trash

i am ready

learning

2005-12-30T00:26:00.000+03:00

i like learning about you
as we go

i like that your backpack
is made of dough

and the flaps are flaky pastries

i like that you put fruit juice
on your cereal

and that nothing scares you

i hear your phrases
even when you have gone away

and can smell your presence
from over the phone

i like that your mind
has several external hard-drives

which all buzz at once
when you start talking

and i like the hot rainbow
of holy smoke
when you kiss me

and hold me
with your

fingers

other days

2005-12-30T00:17:00.000+03:00

some days
i dont know who i am i
look in the mirror

and i cant tell

am i young?
am i old?

am i closer to myself?
am i further?

whose feet are these?
do they look strange to others?

when will i die?
what will cause it?

will my children be sad or
secretly relieved?

will i even have children?

i look and i look and then i think

i know!

i will run in the meadows
without clothes

i love

2005-12-27T08:14:00.000+03:00

i love rotten bastards
who steal peoples parking spots

and thin trees that crack
upon the slightest wind

i love the forest
with your name upon it
and the oceans
your hands make
when they fall over me

i love the naked breath it takes
to get anything heard around here

i love the hurting and the formless song
we take on when we aren't talking

i love the hernia and the band-aid
and the wisp and smoke

i love the daunted
and the unkempt
and the unbound
disaster

i love the fever pitch
and the west wind
and the wizards lips

as he recites rhyming
poems

i love the horse fly
and the stains
and the wild trophies

you have left behind

when we falter

little octopus limb

2005-12-21T08:11:00.000+03:00

your little octopus limb
wraps around me
when we are near water

like you want to take me
down into the deepest blue

you like being tangled you
you feel better

nestled
between things

i
am the opposite

i like wandering
further across the desert

away
from

all of the soft things

which merge

scared or floating

2005-12-19T23:54:00.000+03:00

i don't feel scared so much

or floating

just not part of the noise

here where people creak like cranes
and i am a

half-melted

chocolate

rabbit

licorice

2005-12-14T00:28:00.000+03:00

this love is like licorice
in my mouth

and i am clinging to it

with the audacity of a child

and the forethought
of an adult

making time machines
in my mouth

as i chew

thimbles of doubt

2005-12-14T00:26:00.000+03:00

i used to ride on thimbles of doubt
but now i take provisions

for the ground

the devil's picnic

2005-12-14T00:11:00.000+03:00

your soft voice
in the nocturnal forest

where we were surrounded
by the feeling of trees

black shapes shifted
in the back of the woods

a lot like sendak

and we layed our items out
safely
on a blanket
crafted from hair

a breeze snuck in
from someplace

distant

and the animals
were taciturn

you showed me your wares
and i was astonished

a yellow moon hung above us
slowly filling

with ominous orange

and there was no one around

not even the small breathless ones
that carried us there

i think even the grass was asleep

and you poured me the potions
from your travelled cup

and i drank them

thinking nothing

nothing is so unbearable as

being strange

little things

2005-12-14T00:05:00.000+03:00

i like looking for little things
in tiny places

that way
even the bus stop

is a garden of symbols

not in the
voices-from-the-underworld
kind of way

but simply

ripe

with meaning

additional thanks

2005-12-13T00:02:00.000+03:00

i also want to thank and shake some boobs at
the following people who continue to inspire me
on a daily basis whether they know it or not:

suzanne hancock
amber doyle
taras grescoe
robert scott mcmillan
thomas vogel

sabrina ward harrison
andrea scher
keri smith
tiphanie brooke

art perry
celia king
anna stokke
eiko kawano

jeffry lee
aquilla

and lia!

without these people
i would surely be

miserable

www.lintmuseum.com

2005-12-12T23:54:00.000+03:00

i am finally going to launch my new site

www.lintmuseum.com

it has been a year in the making
and i could not have done it without:

john power + stewart haines

both darling friends to me
and always there during

the hard times

little pony

2005-12-12T00:28:00.000+03:00

i never wanted a pony
but i did want

you to get to know me

so i could show you my skills
and maybe

bake some cakes for you
when you were feeling low

dreamlife

2005-12-12T00:20:00.000+03:00

once in a while
and i wish it were more often

i step into a dream

i am walking
and i see this car
and this wild haze
comes over me

and i get into the car
and start it
by sparking some wires

and it is all too easy

and then
i drive down coastal terrain
and the glove compartment is filled
with those little liquor bottles
like a mini bar

and i drink some

and you are hitch-hiking
and i am so glad it is you
on the side of the road

because we haven't seen each other in a while

and it is good to talk

besides which
you have excellent taste in music
and are always into something new

which you now showcase on my car stereo
while you open the little whiskeys
with the other hand

it is all quite miraculous
and obscenely beautiful

but that is always what happens
darling

when you are in my vicinity

game over

2005-12-12T00:17:00.000+03:00

i think
ending things
is often
overlooked

as a celebratory
occassion

one time
when i quit my job

me and my girlfriend
took bottles of champagne

and ran through the fields
covered ourselves
with cherry blossoms

and got

really drunk

oxo

2005-12-12T00:14:00.000+03:00

i believe you can find beauty anywhere
i like it

when the street signs

hug and kiss me, blow

sweet nothings
to me

in traffic

little nurse

2005-12-12T00:07:00.000+03:00

i will be your little nurse

i will prop you up in bed
polish your windows
so the sun shines in

i will arrange your pills cleverly
so you don't mix them up

i will feed you apple mousse
and sweet biscuits
until you feel slightly sick
from all the

doting

i will hug you
and fluff up your pillow

i will take care of you
when you have forgotten

your own self

and misplaced
the golden

kernal

lament

2005-12-11T23:53:00.000+03:00

i try not to lament too much
but sometimes

all

the glasses are empty

tattoos and sushi

2005-12-09T00:09:00.000+03:00

i love tattoos
and sushi

not necessarily

in that order

but being feisty

has got me out of
some really weird
situations

and a few taxis
helped too

baroque

2005-12-09T00:00:00.000+03:00

you are so baroque
it frightens me

i wonder
what you are up to

now that you have wandered
into the ether

your vulnerabilities
were lily pads
once

made you larger
than life

your honesty was a trigger
for my hunger

and we ate mountains of time
together

inside little swamps of love

space ship

2005-12-08T23:56:00.000+03:00

i want to build a space ship
and fly out this window

cracker jacks

2005-12-08T00:08:00.000+03:00

he ate a lot of cracker jacks
and cheerios

you know, happy food

but
he was

the grouchiest asshole

i have ever met

7 things

2005-12-08T00:06:00.000+03:00

panties
black linen

swimming at night

liquor tracks

kissing
orange crush

dust