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The decking is pretty much sacred. Tyler's feet are still spray painted on the floor, it's always messy with art supplies and tools, and all kinds of people are drawn there like a magnet. Many a beautiful night, parties or otherwise, has been spent wearing away those floorboards. Some of my most memorable meals have been prepared there, the kind that feed your mind and soul. And as the weather warms, my new little office space is over by the giant disco ball, which is presently stored there.

Between the overflowing recycle bins, all my coffee and tea cups, alters, and animals of all sorts, lies the heart of the Enchanted Forest. Robert, Brandon and I replaced the tent and btw, we are still perfecting it. It is nestled high and delicately in the trees with lacing and carabiners. And now the lounge is almost twice as big as it was.

It's more than a living room, more than a kitchen, this plot is always full of creativity, music and vibrant energy. The leaves are bursting from the trees due to the unusually warm winter we have had. I'm glad to be working outside late into the evenings. I recently said goodbye to an old friend Mr. Eyeballs, my old bubble imac, and have fallen madly in love with my new laptop. Und yes that is an 8-track under the 'puter....I love my airstream. I gifted Mr. Eyeball to my dad who is still using dial up... He discovered Craigslist the other day, I was so proud...<3

Johnny and I are enthralled in the building of the new and improved Mandorla structure. The whole structure can be put up or taken down in less than an hour due to it now being assembled with pins and hinges. It's now 30'x30' round and 16' tall. I'm so proud of Juicebox for his fabulous engineering skillz.

The muse came to me again about a week ago. I sure needed it without ArtOutside happening this year, and all the momentum it builds. I'm plowing away and am soo busy right now. I'm reinspired and super excited about this year. Maybe its 'cause spring is here, maybe it's 'cause this TED Talk, but just maybe it's 'cause I'm building right beside the magical Enchanted Forest lounge.

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beautiful travelers

“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” - D. H. Lawrence

I awoke to these guys waiting outside the office the other day. I thought it was a mirage, so I quickly went about seducing them with food and promises of the most beautiful chickens ever...My silly hens were scared and Pea the Rooster was quite offended. Only Orangina, my favourite, showed wide eyed wonder and clucked shyly about how handsome they are.

They slept high in the trees for a coupla nights and continued on their way to where ever busy peacocks go.

For the inauguration The Pink Revolution stopped by. We had such a wonderful time with Miss Suzi Chang and company & hope to see them again soon. The van they originally rode up in got a stencil attack but soon broke down somewhere on the way to D.C. So is the life of more beautiful travelers.....Love you Suzi.

Send us more angelic travelers, just like last year.

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I guess I am simply a voice of my environment and as an artist I don't have a choice, the element just works through me, not me through it. The skys have opened @ the Forest, a new wind is blowing. I just wish there were more hours of the day & right now time is passing just too quickly. I have committed 3 days to helping Brandon and Robert give a facelift to the big circus tents over the E. Forest lounge...and it looks amazing, but I know my work really starts when I move in all the art, decorations, lights and hangy stuff... I cant wait. We have been climbing in the trees, drinking way too much coffee, peeling raw cedar trunks, shit-talking, untieing tangles, getting muddy, getting flustered, getting machete blisters, and running out of rope ...again. Its a blast. I gasp when I see them monkey around way up on the rickety old ladders or shimmy up 20 feet on a small cracking tree. I think it's even more amusing that it hasn't rained here in months...untill we decide to pull down all the old tents and tarps exposing all the couches and kitchen stuff, and tomorrow possibly freezing rain#$@! We will be out there early morning anyway.. it's great working with them. Big new plans are brewing @ the Forest. And trust me Brandon, hanging odd shaped circus tents in this forest is "quite" an art, it's so beautiful. pictures to come.

oh yeah, I finally got to go dancing. Ana Sia played @ the Parish and it was deliciously perfect, and a wonderfully warm night. The chickas were getting down... way down....and it seemed the guys were having problems keeping up with the crispy glitchy goo. I was boggled...whoa. Familia and I raided the stage and held our own, it was to say the least, very, very tasty, Did I mention i am soo thirsty for new music? Me thinks I gotta buy one of these.


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new orleans

I just got back from a short trip to New Orleans and Florida with "Juicebox". We had a great time getting out of texass for a bit, and I miss NOLA so much, the good and the bad. There are so many memories for me tied to those streets of some past life I lived for 3 or so years. They are still so much a part of me. We stayed at a gorgeous hotel on St. Charles right in front of City Hall and ate at some of my favourite old haunts. It was really quiet in the city and the cold front kept us inside much of the time.

We drove the beautiful I-90 between Nola and Biloxi along the beach. Hurricane Ike literally destroyed all the old mansions on the shorefront ...wiped them clean. It's rather tragic. I picked up some broken shells and played in the sand, put my feet in the cold Atlantic very quickly and left.

This whole trip I was busy hand wireing all the antique bottles. I estimate that there will be 200+ tiny hanging bottles on my new improved Mandorla Aureola installation. They need some new Lightning inside. As soon as Papr gets back, I'm really gonna go at that piece hard and build flying buttresses, a new huge backdrop and 2 more hanging gaslight bowls....for the love of compound chopsaws and beautiful southern architecture.

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