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shelley

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About Me

I spend a lot of time talking to inanimate objects. I think I live for moments of poignant ephemeral beauty and for the ways we learn to understand and talk about them. Art is, hands-down, the love of my life.

You can see some things I made here .

My Interests

the things we find and what we make of them, the construction of bridges, personal mythologies, relativity, sophie calle, joseph cornell, yoko ono, my father's heart, love in all its forms

I'd like to meet:

that ramshackle house of crazy love and support, people who try, people who keep trying, people who think, people who make me think, people who want to know more, people who make room, people who will tell me stories, people who listen to my stories, witty folk, wacky folk, people who talk with their hands, people who are endlessly enthralled amazed or fascinated, people who stop to notice, kind people, people who tell the truth, people who are accountable for their actions, people who will go for midnight walks, long walks in the rain, or spur of the moment trips to the beach with me, people who make, say, or do lovely things, people who thrive on things like fresh air and the sound of the ocean, people who do nice things for each other out of the blue, anyone who laughs so hard that they cry, people for whom trust and love are verbs, people who pay attention, still, any member of any of the summers of love.

and we've already met, but I can't wait to get to know MY NEW PRESS!

love.love.love.

Music:

my latest fixations include neko case, regina spektor, feist, and, as always, tom waits.

Movies:

an affair to remember, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, me and you and everyone we know, science of sleep, harold and maude, my neighbor toturo, breakfast at tiffany's, dirty dancing, like water for chocolate, sordid lives, high fidelity, rivers and tides, lost in translation, garden state, kicking and screaming, amelie, life as a house, antonioni films, your home movies.

Television:

netflix is filling my evenings with the office and northern exposure.

Books:

the last book i fell madly in love with was extremely loud and incredibly close. the hours is something like a heart laid out on paper. i also love griffin and sabine, the time traveler's wife, goodnight moon, and miss jasper's garden. i am finally reading the wind-up bird chronicle.

Heroes:

the bold honest and kind

My Blog

The moon. The moon.

Tonight with a bottle of wine, under the tree east of the field, under the sky, we watched them. The swifts have just begun for the year, just the first few birds fluttering in the pink sky, just the...
Posted by shelley on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:24:00 PST

midjune friday

it is june suddenly, and oh what a week/month/year; lately the exhaustion has been thicker than in some time, but i spent the morning in my studio--precise rivers of ink cascading down clean pages, ro...
Posted by shelley on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:23:00 PST

art news

My lovely friend Matthew Peckam is putting out an album, and he has asked me to do the cover art.  I am very excited, as he is delightful and his music is wonderful.  You can listen to some ...
Posted by shelley on Sun, 06 May 2007 03:55:00 PST

bagpipes, limousines, the ides of march

across the street: benash bar benash, benash delicatessen in red neon letters. it is snowing outside and slush piles up at the convergence of the street and the sidewalk. there are tenuous paths ove...
Posted by shelley on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:28:00 PST

Paper Chase

Guestroom Gallery Presents:Paper ChaseCurated by Jenny StrayerMarch 2-31, 2007Reception: Friday, March 26-9 pmMichael BriegerShelley ChamberlinJames GallagherHeidi KirkpatrickPhilip IoscaEva LakeShawn...
Posted by shelley on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:49:00 PST

paper chase part two:

also:from the Jenny Strayer, the curator of the show:"Shawn and I will be on Eva Lake's radio show Artstar next Monday at 5:00. Shawn will talk about the Guestroom and I will talk about Paper Chase. ...
Posted by shelley on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:14:00 PST

a lovely weekend at the beach

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Posted by shelley on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:45:00 PST

merry christmas

it has become a tradition, my christmas night on the beach, after dark, the cold sand against my back, the horizon circling around me. tonight clouds filled the sky, threatened rain. tonight i did ...
Posted by shelley on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 01:16:00 PST

12.23.06

it is morning, but barely. the light outside is still cool and grey against the warm yellow halo from my bedroom lamp. today is my last day of work before christmas, before the new year. upon my re...
Posted by shelley on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:04:00 PST

a christmas present for myself

i finally broke down and bought a scanner (and i'm very excited about it!)so now you can see more things i made at shelleychamberlin.blogspot.comlots more coming soon too, so if you're interested, kee...
Posted by shelley on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:18:00 PST