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Bea

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About Me

I draw, paint, etch amongst other things.I like:
learning, drawing, painting, etching, wire, nikujaga, sewing + needlework, plaster strips, old toys, dolls, hand-making, macrame, boxes, book-making/book-binding, cinema, architecture...
I like to go bead/fabric/thread hunting!
I know anything or care about make-up!

My Interests

Artists-
Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Unica Zurn, JMW Turner, Hans Bellmer, Odilon Redon, Takato Yamamoto, Jean Tinguely, Joseph Cornell, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Kurt Schwitters, Alexander Calder, Karath=Razar, Katan Amano, Hermann Nitsch, Ryo Yoshida, Joseph Beuys, Pieter Bruegel the Older, Diego Velázquez, Giorgio Morandi, Gustav Klimt, Robert Smithson, Otto Dix, James Abbot McNeill Whistler, Ruth Asawa...
Eikoh Hosoe, Nobuyoshi Araki,

I'd like to meet:


Sweet, uncompromising creative people.
Mercurial folk who get away with many interesting things
Cats and birds of all kinds

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Music:

John Zorn, Alban Berg, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Iannis Xenakis, Luigi Nono, Toru Takemitsu, Joji Yuasa, Eric Dolphy, Olivier Messiaen,, Art Bears, G.I. Gurdjieff, Henry Cow, Slapp Happy, Alexander Scriabin, Baden Powell, Terry Riley, Painkiller, Mahmoud Ahmed, Teiji Ito, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Jaap Blonk, Koichi Makigami, Beach Boys, Byrds, Beatles, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Morton Feldman, Karlheinz Stockhausen (Momente is my favourite), Toshiro Mayuzumi, Kurt Weill, Anton Webern, Pandit Pran Nath, Jerry Goldsmith, Eyvind Kang, Luciano Berio, Alice & John Coltrane, Yuji Takahashi, Tsuruta Kinshi, Evan Parker, Ennio Morricone, Harry Partch, Sam Rivers, Derek Bailey
And a lot of others.

Movies:

Hiroshi Teshigahara,

Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Kon Ichikawa & Natto Wada, Jack Smith, Harry Smith, Alexander Hammid, G.W. Pabst, Stan Brakhage, Jean Renoir, Carl T. Dreyer, Jean Cocteau, Kim Ki-Duk, F.W. Murnau, Josef von Sternberg, Kaneto Shindo, Louis Malle, Kenneth Anger, Kenji Mizoguchi, Maya Deren, Yasujiro Ozu, Sergio Leone, Nagisa Oshima, Seijun Suzuki, Chris Marker, Shohei Imamura, Ira Cohen, Werner Herzog, Alfred Hitchcock, Emir Kusturica, Takeshi Kitano, Alejandro Jodorowsky..

Television:

Get Smart, Twin Peaks, The Naked City, Scenes From A Marriage, Black Books, Spaced, anything with/narrated by David Attenborough

Books:

Steinbeck, Brecht, Kobo Abe, J. Genet, M. Proust, Delmore Schwartz, Shusaku Endo, Fanon, Julio Cortázar, Foucault, de Nerval, Mallarme, Raymond Chandler, Octave Mirbeau, Alistair Horne, Marguerite Duras, Antonin Artaud, Isidore Lucien Ducasse, Pier Paolo Pasolini, William Blake, Edward Said, Alberto Moravia, Alfred Jarry...

Heroes:

friends, loved ones
Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ub Iwerks, Louise Brooks, Lotte Reiniger... many.

My Blog

Infection Repertory

Infection Repertory.I'm making a collection of 77 accounts of "infections."They'll be collected in a wire slide-drawer-top box which I am making now, nearly finished.These are the first two.Azra'ilEla...
Posted by Bea on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:58:00 PST

perfect day

I spent the day with Julia, my closest friend from high school who I shamefully have not seen since she left... making that four or five years. I was kind of afraid I might have changed so much and ma...
Posted by Bea on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:32:00 PST

Very strange..

I just listened to a slew of Beach Boys songs while working on my websiteI suddenly felt like I didn't need to depend on anyone for love, emotional help and encouragement....sort of with defiance.Mayb...
Posted by Bea on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:10:00 PST

Myspace

I am thinking of getting rid of my myspace account for several reasons..So if you want to stay in contact with me please send a message with your email..I'll also send ones out asking too..Hope everyo...
Posted by Bea on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:14:00 PST

Au deuxième jour de cet bonheur, des images commencent à sourdre comme des aveux

"On the second day of this happiness, images begin to seep like confessions."Part of a series called"Je te condamne parce que tu sais pourquoi... je te condamne, et moi- je ne le sais pas."I condemn y...
Posted by Bea on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:19:00 PST

Drawings from Improv night at The Stone, June 2nd 2007

I am back from New York... I had an amazing time and I feel so in love.While I was there I visited The Stone (www.thestonenyc.com) a few times to hear some good music.. the last night I went was the i...
Posted by Bea on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:00:00 PST

Xenakis drawing

I'm not quite finished with the drawing yet but I wanted to show it anyway.Of course, my scanner isn't too great. Just about any subtlety there was is lost. ...
Posted by Bea on Tue, 15 May 2007 04:30:00 PST

Palimpsest

"Palimpsest"I'll write a bit about this one very soon.. very very tired right now...
Posted by Bea on Mon, 07 May 2007 11:32:00 PST

Deux regards après la debacle

Two contemplations after the debacle.
Posted by Bea on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:30:00 PST

4/18/07 Marino Formenti

Tonight I went to a piano concert at the de Young museum here of Marino Formenti.It was really amazing, I'm so grateful my teacher, Charles Boone (who coordinated the tape/electronics for the Nono pie...
Posted by Bea on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:00:00 PST