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crossgirl's Interests
General
Folk art, outsider art, blues, football, hockey, fishing, reading, finding the answer to "why?", watching waves, enjoying the sun, savoring chocolate, exploring new places, cooking for someone who appreciates it. I'm partial to shiny things and rusty things and interesting things and people.
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Music
YES, YES, YES!! Im all over the board. I've recently started listening to the new country music. You know, the country the country lovin' people are hatin' right now cause it sounds like pop. Taj Mahal, Janis Joplin, Uncle Kracker, Jack Johnson, Sister Hazel, Green Day, 80's hair bands, Johnny Lang, Omar and the Howlers, Bob Marley, Tom Petty, Jimmy Buffett and the list goes on.....
Movies
I'm partial to improbable romantic comedies and anything quirky. Love Tim Burton's stuff.
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Television
I still watch Sex and the City reruns on TBS. Miami Ink, half the stuff on Discovery Channel and TLC and VH1. House and Wife Swap.I have high hopes for Pushing Daisies.
*MICHAEL'S INSTRUMENT AND A POT LID*SOLD*
Books
I'll read anything that holds still long enough. Love Carl Hiassen, John Irving, Stephen King, Tim Dorsey. Again, I go for quirky. One of my favorite books is "Peter Pan" and you'd just have to read it as an adult to understand the appeal. Same with "Alice in Wonderland." I've reread "Gone with the Wind" several times, also C.S. Lewis' "The Great Divorce" and "All over but the Shoutin'" by Rick Bragg.
*THE FIRST,AND SO FAR LAST, CRUCIFIX*
Heroes
We all need more of these. My dad. Howard Finster. Rick Bragg's momma. Mother Theresa. Nando Parrado. Mark Zupan. Jimmy Carter, CJ.
I am a self taught outsider folk artist raising three boys from scratch, always in need of a roadie for art shows, who could use a couple extra hours built into every day. In true folk art tradition, I do not have a studio, making do instead with covering all the spare space in my bedroom with my vast collection of found objects, wood and a few basic tools. I try to keep the sawdust vacuumed up. The art I create is mostly crosses from found objects. I've made a few other pieces but it's the crosses that I keep returning to. I don't have a good reason for this. That's part of the journey I suppose and maybe when there's an answer, there won't be any more crosses. I assume I'm in the midst of some sort of spiritual crisis that I simply don't have the time to explore. I'm sorry to say, I have no affliction, addiction or hard luck story. I did have an epiphany once. I've shown at the Mennello Museum's Folk Fest, three Who-Fest's, at Arts in the Park in Lakeland, House of Blues in Orlando, Platform Florida, the Polk Museum, where two crosses have joined their permanent folk art collection, and I've donated artwork to the Project Life annual auction in Tampa. I want more than anything to show at Kentuck. Check out my website.
Who I'd like to meet: Patrons!!! Sponsors! Artists! Artists who work with found objects. People who've been to Burning Man. Anyone who wants to donate found objects. Interesting people with interesting ideas. People of imagination. Bono, John Irving, Johnny Depp, Jesse James of Monster Garage fame, Rick Bragg. My guardian angel. Cher. Alice Cooper. George Lowe.
(THIS WAS A RACCOON. NOW IT'S AN ANGEL.)
(YEAH, THOSE ARE DENTAL MOLDS. THEY MAKE A NEAT FLOWER, HUH?)
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Never worry or judge yourself good or bad friend. We have lifes which keep us at times from our friends. And yet the mark of friendship in truth, is the conversation begins where it ended as if without interruption, for it was carried on in our hearts despite time and distance. You are ever my Good friend! ;~)
Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth. - Sutta Nipata
Today, may your smile beam as brightly as the sun. May the cool afternoon breeze whisper its secrets just for you. And may you sleep serenely, wrapped in the arms of unconditional love...
Cheers!!! Jay Jii x
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
hey girl sorry it's been so long since i said hello been busy lame excuse hope you are fine. i went to bob sevens for a party last weekend what a blast. take care love,billy fred
Hey, Actually it is two pitchforks I heated up and bent around a chunk of glass shaped like a heart and welded it down with some old chain. Do you have any upcoming shows? See ya, Steve
