I still haven’t finished the work project that has me illustrating these, and to be honest I’m not sure I will at this point—it’s not exactly a organizational priority.
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I feel like every single elementary school in the city looks like this. Mine definitely did.
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Another day, another little Minneapolis house. This one is somewhere up on the Northside in the Harrison neighborhood near my office. I made her a pretty purple because the world needs more purple houses.
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People are often surprised to learn that I still go to church because they see it as irrelevant, illogical, or detrimental to society. Some folks carry a lot of anger and pain in their bodies from hurtful experiences with Christians and the church and they can’t understand how or why I would want to align myself with Christian faith. Still others are confused because it always seems like the loudest people in the faith are those wielding it for personal gain. But the thing is, I’m still part of the church because it has taught me that faith is a radical business.
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All I want is to buy a little Longfellow house. Now if only our housing market would cooperate...Until then, I’ll have to settle for a drawing these little future homes.
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Still working on little Minneapolis buildings. Here’s a southside apartment building, complete with rising rents and that weird smell in the second floor hallway.
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I would tattoo this on the face of our broken country if I could.
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Inspired by the apartment buildings in my own neighborhood, I made sure to put some air conditioners in the windows, lots of plants, and of course a cat. (Whittier is nothing if not consistent in our window trimmings.)
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I made this for a new grad who was dealt some rough shit but who deserves to know just how valuable and remarkable she really is.
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I’ve been working on some weird illustrations of Minneapolis buildings for a work project. They have been a trial run at really illustrating with my iPad and trying out Procreate, while simultaneously terrifying me.
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“Nothing to do. Nowhere to go. No one to be.”
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“Just because someone is nice doesn’t mean they’re good.” Three cocktails in and these were my words of wisdom for dating. Not too bad if I do say so myself.
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Last night I pulled out all my scraps and started trimming and selecting, but ended up just organizing rather than creating any meaningful type of collage. Free creating can be a frustrating beast sometimes.
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Procrastinating by making a motivational gif to try and end my procrastination.
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Happy International Women's Day! Just a friendly reminder that we are strong, powerful, and completely unstoppable.
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Since finishing school, apparently all I do is go home from work, ignore my dishes, and draw random things. It's the cathartic habit I didn't know I needed apparently.
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Sometime around 7th grade, I just stopped drawing. No idea why, except that maybe it had something to do with a general lack of confidence and a greater awareness of boy bands and Abercrombie shopping bags. No matter the reason, the fact remains that for 15 years, that skill lay dormant—getting rusty and becoming quite unfamiliar.
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