Retrograde Renegade

New Podcast. Slice o' life...a chunk of my history, willy nilly. Mid to late 80's/very early 90's version #1. I could go on and on, and I shall!



http://www.mixcloud.com/monicarrochester/retrograde-renegade-late-80searly-90s-nostalgia/

Profile In City Arts Magazine

A full-page write-up in the print and online versions of City Arts Magazine here in Seattle! I knew my love of being a goofball would get me somewhere in life...haha...

http://cityartsonline.com/issues/seattle/2013/02/snow-pourri

If'n You Haven't Heard My Podcasts....Lissen in....

http://www.mixcloud.com/monicarrochester/the-celebration-of-saturnalia-in-the-ignorant-21st-century/

http://www.mixcloud.com/monicarrochester/snapshot-of-a-tumultuous-mind/

http://www.mixcloud.com/monicarrochester/end-of-the-world-jim-jam/


And More!

Madness

Rough scan of  "Madness".  Paper collage on glass (both sides). 8" diameter. 2012.

Gerontophobia

Finally finished this latest paper collage on glass piece:  Gerontophobia

15" x 6 " double-sided glass collage
Using paper cutouts circa 1860 to 1980.

This one has been in the works for about a year.  A dreamlike commentary on my fears of aging and of the terrible possibility of "giving up" as one grows older and infirm (mentally and physically).
Seeing elderly humans who have given up and whose lives revolve around their illness du jour makes me incredibly sad and frightened...
I'm trying to work on these feelings and reconcile them, but I see it every day (living in an older neighborhood with many octogenarians gives me a strange perspective...)

City Arts Magazine Mention!

Wow! I'm thrilled to have some pages from my collage sketchbooks included in this post by Amanda Manitach for City Arts Magazine! 

I'm in fine company, and am feeling inspired just looking at the other talented artists' sketches/ideas.

Summer of Individuation

Ah, "blogging"...seems I'm late to the party, so my intermittent posts are ghosts in the undulations of the internet. Probably for the best. I've been working hard...so much accomplished and yet my mind exclaims "You damned layabout!". I've finished at least 7 new collages in 3 months, begun a strict dream recall and analysis habit, finished up a lot of old business (had the tattoo on my right arm finished...it covers the scars of my youth without obliterating them, and will be a constant reminder that errors can be corrected, albiet imperfectly from time to time.
Had my hair cut, got rid of "mopey fat face" persona, and am en route to sharpened sculptor of preferred reality (with lots of room for surprises, of course!).  I'm including rough scans of my recently finished pieces.


Reading list right now and recently would be mind-boggling...let me try to reconstruct:

10 Ways to Meditate - Paul Reps
Knowing Woman - Irene de Castillejo
Sacred Selfishness (Jungian psych) - Bud Harris
Alchemical Active Imagination - Marie Louise Von Franz
The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
Fellini's Book of Dreams
Alcoholism and Women (Jungian approach) - Jan Bauer
Pathways to Bliss - Joseph Campbell
Electrical Banana, Masters of Psychedelic Art
On the Psychology of Dreams - Freud

etc...