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kristin.fialko

kristinfialko

About Me

I'm serious but I'm not.

www.kristinfialko.com

My Interests

one day i'll figure it out....
but for right now, i paint.

guilty pleasures:

#25- bad british pop music.

#42- law & order marathons

I'd like to meet:



Music:



Radiohead
elliot smith
cocorosie
edith piaf
the shins
beirut
editors
broken social scene
the velvet underground
the magnetic fields
slowdive
devendra banhart
marie laforet
peter bjorn & john
a band of bees
portugal the man
andrew bird
camera obscura
band of horses
arctic monkeys
kaki king
seabear
rio en medio
rogue wave
cul de sac
priestbird
secret chiefs 3
serge gainsbourg
the bowerbirds
pleasure forever
deerhoof
melt banana
morrissey

Movies:

holy mountain
el topo
pan's labyrinth
the fountain
3Iron
old boy
the cow
david lynch
manijeh hekmat
...

Books:

the road
100 years of solitude
1984
the bell jar
somebody's heart is burning
a handmaid's tale
the forest people
a natural history of the senses
guns,germs & steel

Heroes:

margaret atwood
colin turnbull
virginia woolf
frida kahlo
h.d.
sylvia plath
hieronymus bosch

My Blog

Goodbye Baltimore, Hello Santa Fe!

To all of my Baltimore friends.. I am packing my bags and moving to Santa Fe, NM. My time here in this gritty yet quirky city has been amazing and I wouldn't change a second of it for anything. I have...
Posted by kristin.fialko on Tue, 27 May 2008 02:10:00 PST

My art on Juxtapoz.com!

My art is featured in the Reader Art section of Juxtapoz Magazine's website. Click here! check it out :)...
Posted by kristin.fialko on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:54:00 PST

Burning Boxes

Burning boxeswe light the fuses ourselves.Opening windowsfueling the ragehanging our heads outfor airbut never leaving.Frying our soulswe seem to enjoythe taste.the smell.Or maybe the years oftheir co...
Posted by kristin.fialko on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:36:00 PST

Dream I

Through frosted glassI witness the sun.Setting now,at the time it once rose,an unfamiliar moontakes it's place.The size of the sky,shrinking.My eyes melt, while attempting to focus.How I wish you were...
Posted by kristin.fialko on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:47:00 PST

Syntheic emotions

Synthetic emotionsset in fake silver, painted gold.Masking.Colors unknown tothe human eye,manipulated into threadsthat embroider skin.Patterns runningalong side veinsstained with this fluidforgetting ...
Posted by kristin.fialko on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:19:00 PST

Questioning

Questioningquality of lifeand your effortless attemptsat beingpoetic.You don't surprise mewith your failure.Having too muchof something grotesque.Like an overflowing ashtrayplaced before a fan.Stingin...
Posted by kristin.fialko on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:00:00 PST

Turquoise

Moments forgotten,now remembered.Paisley, plaid, laceand dirt.Children playing withmelancholic disasterspenetrating the cerebellum.Soaking in.Becoming.Attempting the art of speaking minimally witha ye...
Posted by kristin.fialko on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:08:00 PST

Missing Rib

I was recently informed that i'm missing a rib.It all makes sense now.
Posted by kristin.fialko on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:40:00 PST

Artists Statement - feedback welcome!

Human existence has relied very much on the act of conquering. Throughout history, we have convinced ourselves that to be powerful, we must conquer our counterparts. Gender, race, religion, ethnicity ...
Posted by kristin.fialko on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:07:00 PST

Some thoughts on humanity and existance..

We exist in a world of dualities and we often times don't realize the imbalance between them, until it's far too late. We deny our history and we are blind to the modern social issues and how closely ...
Posted by kristin.fialko on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:17:00 PST