The other day, Star and I could NOT believe that it had been an ENTIRE YEAR since the reception of our senior art show, Fire and Ice. That show felt like a milestone in our artistic career at the time ( even though it was a requirement to graduate rather than an awarded accomplishment ). When you're little, a year is the longest stretch of time imaginable, because when you're a kid, every single thing you know is different in a year's time. A year shouldn't seem so long anymore but we can't help but feel like our lives haven't changed all that much in the last year. But if you think about it,  they really have. We are real working artists now, not just stressed out students. We get shows downtown for First Friday just like all the other local artist and, oh ya... we have a DEGREE! Everything IS different. We have a much more refined artistic voice and a little more direction. We still don't really know what we're gonna do next but we're working on it. Fire and Ice was an amazing accomplishment. I was one big compilation of our portfolios from our entire college careers. And the reception was KILLER.

I read the Good Times weekly. I think it's an awesome local paper with the best info on all the events and shows and whatnot, plus great articles on really interesting and relevant things to us Santa Cruzians. It was an honor to be selected by the very talented and lovely Bridget Henry to create and exhibit a piece in the inspiring Broken Halos show at the Felix Kulpa Gallery in February. It was also an honor to be interviewed and mentioned in the article "Nature Reclaimed" centered around the intentions behind the Broken Halos show featured in the Good Times! Anne-Marie Harrison wrote the article and I think did an excellent job expressing the many complicated yet interconnected themes within the installation. You can tell she really had an understanding and appreciation for what we were trying to convey. Everyone should read the article, it's really great. I, however sound flustered and stuttery in the brief blurb that Anne-Marie captured. I think it sounds convoluted but at least i have a quote in the paper!!! 

"'Broken Halos' also features work by Dave Gardner and Whitney Humphreys, who build off a similar environmental theme.

Humphreys, a recent UC Santa Cruz graduate and artist, says that it’s always easiest to ignore the cautionary tales.

“A lot of things that the masters of science fiction predicted, like George Orwell and Ray Bradbury, they all predicted a lot of things that are going on right now—simple things like technology for the sake of technology, but it being detrimental to our health and our environment,” says Humphreys.

Humphreys stripped down an old newspaper stand and hand-printed some 50-something newspapers with original articles commenting on the current state of the environment in a satirical pre-apocalyptic world."

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Two exhibitions in one month! The second show that I was featured in was at the first monthly Art Bazaare that takes place at the CDK coop house here in SC, hosted and organized by the unbelievably talented artist slash my good buddy Danny Fernandez.  It was a super great, super Santa Cruzy event complete with live DJ, astrological sushi, and tea ceremonies.  I was able to exhibit a large portion of works from my Goddess collection as well as sell a number of others. In the pic above, my work is on the left of the light barrier and my beautiful bff Star Huson's is on the right. I cant wait to see what Danny cooks up for the next few bazaares because this was a super fun night with super cool ppl.