Day 17

It's been coming along! I re-seeded the patchy spots over the weekend... so it will be full and compact by another week! BUT... I am going to hate having to start mowing it again! HAHA

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Day 7

Over night it just started to spring up!!! Yesterday there was not even a HINT of grass and then this morning I went out to water it and some of the lil guys are over an inch out of the ground! Amazing! =)

Old Images Lost Feelings

I wanted to add a few old images I shot earlier in the year. They are just some shots that I never posted. I think that I am hoping to inspire myself... I have just not really been in the mood to do any artwork or even shoot... I have WANTED to shoot.... but I just don't have the heart to go thru with it... Like I think that with everything that I have gone thru... I have just kinda lost my passion.... I have had a bunch of ideas I have wanted to try and shoot... and I LOVE the ideas! But then... ??? I just can't seem to bring myself to go thru with doing them.... I don't really have any desire to do any artwork anymore... I think that with the death of my dad... ??? I don't know... just something in me is lost... This year has just been filled with so much loss ... and then each month seems to just continue to take more from me... ... I don't really know what to think... ... and as far as artwork/ photography.... I think that I need a muse....

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Shark Attack?

Back in Nov. and Dec. I had been looking for this one location that I have seen in photos but can't seem to find along the coast. -- So last month I just needed to kinda get away and get out. I decided to go site hunting and while I was at the beach I came along these remains... It was so weird! I never see this kinda stuff on the shores. So I just had to take pics of it! =)

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Day 4

Well, in putting our house up for sale one problem about our house is that the backyard has no grass... we had it at one time but then because of our big dogs it just kept dying and then was easier to maintain just as a big patch of dirt. While talking about it to a friend he asked why I didn't plant seeds and wait for grass to grow?? And... I just had never considered it... Since we always just see people ROLL in the grass or place in big square "already grown" grass chunks. So last week I bought some seed for ONLY 6 bucks! Spent a few days turning over the dirt and getting it kinda ready... and then 5 days ago I planted the seeds! So it says 7 to 14 days we'd have grass.... I can't wait! I keep looking for ANY HINT of it... but nothing yet! =)

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Pedersen Projects: May

REVOLUTIONARIES will be extended for the month of May! The show will have a 2cd Opening night on May 14th at PEDERSEN projects... featuring Los Angeles artists ABCNT, CRYPTIK, Asad Fauwell and Oscar Magallanes

Open every second Saturday for Art Walk, Friday / Saturday 12 - 6:00 and by appointment.

396 Thomas Avenue, Pomona, California, 91766

*All Rights Reserved - Images taken by/ belong to Kirk Pedersen

Cyanotype Print

I haven't had much time to work on artwork - been busy prepping the ground to plant grass in the back yard and dealing with a bunch of other things in life... I actually have had very little desire recently to do any more artwork or photography. But here and there I have taken a few hours to do some cyanotypes. Here is one that I recently did.

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Screen Print at Mt San Antonio Art Gallery

This is one of my screen prints that will be shown in the up coming Mt. San Antonio Art Gallery show. It is free to the public! Opening Reception is May 10th. 4 - 6 PM. Here is a link for more information : http://www.mtsac.edu/instruction/arts/gallery/

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Falling Out

Well, for those of you that I've worked with, I wanted to let everyone know that over this past weekend I had a lil falling out with one of the group leaders in both of the curating groups: Image Spaces and Group Show. It has since smoothed over, but because of the way that I see things different then them I will no longer be associated with either of the groups. I wish them well in all their endeavors! And welcome contact from anyone in the group/ hold no ill will to any of you. Thanks!

Happily, I am still working with some great curators with the Ars Variare group. And I am sure that they would welcome any of the others curators to join in with any of our projects!

Pacific Asian Museum

Urban Asia: Photographs by Kirk Pedersen

May 5 through June 26, 2011

Link: http://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/_on_view/

Kirk Pedersen,
Nissin, Central District, Hong Kong, 2009,
Digital C-print,
Courtesy of the artist

Cyanotype Print

This is one of the cyanotypes I had been working on about a month ago... I had a bunch of different attempts - because the chemicals I mixed don't react quite the same as the chemicals that I had used before. The exposure time is radically different and so I had to do a bunch of experiments! But this was my best print out of this batch.

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Dad Made My Mom Dinner

Ok sooo for those of you that don't know... My dad died not to long ago... And my mom was just feeling really down - It was night, maybe 9 PM, her and I were here working on things. She started to tell me she was really hungry but didn't want to make anything... She said that she wished she just had something in a can that she could eat. -- Not have to see about making something. =)

Well, I told here to hold on ... and I ran out to my dads van. It just so happened that earlier in the day I had been working on something and had gotten tools out of my dads truck. And while I was in there a bag caught my attention. It was a bunch of canned food that my dad would keep in his car to give to homeless people... the cans had pull off tops so they didn't need a can opener. So I grabbed one and ran into the house and told my mom that dad made her dinner... she cried and lol a little and enjoyed her dinner. =)

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Snail in the Tree

I was watering the grass and saw this snail like 4 feet up in the tree on this leaf... I think that it just kept going UP... and then didn't know where to go after it got onto one of the outer limbs on the leaf! But it made me kinda laugh and smile!

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Abstract Photography

Something I shot in the beginning of April - Figured I'd post it. =)

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