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alison

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About Me

I make things. July 20th, 2004 - Present

My Interests

painting, trash picking, rusty metal, sculpture, found objects, installation art, urban walking, forest hiking, texture, decay, breakfast that takes a long time, coffee, food, books, tape, glue, sharpies, books, manual typewriters, documentation, asian grocery stores, skeletons, human behaviour

I'd like to meet:

prophets and prisoners new years day in phila-ma-delphia

Music:

Beth Orton, Billie Holiday, Bill Withers, Billy Bragg, Birdie Busch, Bjork, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Cat Power, Calexico, Coco Rosie, Devin Greenwood, Ella Fitzgerald, Elliot Smith, Feist, Gillian Welch, Hildegard Von Bingen, Iron and Wine, James Brown, Jimmy Smith, Johnny Cash, John Francis, Kathleen Edwards, Leadbelly, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Mazarin, Mary Jane Lamond, Modest Mouse, Nina Simone, Neutral Milk Hotel, Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright, Sigur Ros, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Be Good Tanyas, The Tragically Hip, Tom Waits, Voix Bulgares, Wilco

Movies:

Dancer in the Dark, City of the Lost Children, Black Cat White Cat, Down By Law, No Country for Old Men, Orpheus

Television:

I hereby change this category to "Quote That Makes Me Happy":Zu: Auntie Alison, do you know what is a lie? A lie is when I say, 'Auntie Alison, come here!' And you come. And there's no cake.

Books:

Murakami, Dostoevsky, Irving, Alistair MacLeod (No Great Mischief), Susan Holbrook, some Kundera (esp. The Unbearable Lightness of Being) , ee cummings, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Watership Down, The Little Prince, A Good House, Grimm fairytales (esp. the Robber Bridegroom), the ongoing saga and performance of TANDEM POEMS, Tom Wolfe, The Secret Life of Bees, A Lover's Discourse, Magical Thinking, The Giving Tree, Dubliners, In The Night Kitchen, Straight Man, God of Small Things, The Reader, White Teeth, The Painted Bird, Mating (Norman Rush), Anais Nin, Four Ages of Man (Jay Macpherson)

Heroes:

saints and sinners, lovers and fighters, people willing to be vulnerable and strong at the same time

My Blog

PW style blog

Tara Murtha (with a taste of Lundy somewhere in there), who wrote the cover story for the month's PW ('Ticked Off') and is a kick-ass woman in the true sense of both words (kick-ass/woman) wrote my ci...
Posted by alison on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:40:00 PST

my website

abbydilworth.com
Posted by alison on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:56:00 PST

My mural at Sassafras

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Posted by alison on Fri, 30 May 2008 12:29:00 PST

Myspace censored my PAINTING.

I would like to publicly express my curiosity regarding the absurd:Myspace removed one of my photographs due to sexually explicit content.  It is a PAINTING of a partially nude woman.  Furth...
Posted by alison on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:28:00 PST

I made this book yesterday.

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Posted by alison on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:14:00 PST

Love Observed

I have seen it over and over again: love emerging from depletion. The movement from loneliness content enough in its solitude to ward off depression (coming home after work to put away the groceries...
Posted by alison on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:52:00 PST

not mother love

There may not be words for something so simple. Dinah still isn't talking very much; she understands everything though. Still, sometimes it makes me sad when she's trying to tell me something and he...
Posted by alison on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:43:00 PST

Confessional (lots of picking involved)

I can sit for hours, in complete and blissful focus, pulling feathers out of a pillow by their little pokey tails. And sometimes, I worry I may pull out a chicken bone.After painstaking deliberation,...
Posted by alison on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:58:00 PST

fuck you, fuck-me barbie

I don't watch very much television. In fact, I don't remember the last time I turned on a television. Not to stake claim as one of those haughty anti-pop culture intellectual bookish types - we get ...
Posted by alison on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:57:00 PST

This Is Where You Lived.

Today, Gregory and I found an abandoned home in Scullville, New Jersey. Something very bad happened there. The front porch was overgrown with weeds and trash; the back door had its window smashed in...
Posted by alison on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:24:00 PST