food frenzy

No, I'm not eating the baby goat!! Food comes later...

This tiny baby goat (10 days old) was following us all around the farm today like a dog, nibbling everything in its path. It was so soft and cuddly (even more so than a chicken!). Baby goats are some of the most adorable creatures (as I'm sure Joseph would attest to.)

I've had a cooking-fest these past few days. I made apple/kumquat cake with chocolate chunks, roasted kale, tempeh with garlic sage tomato sauce, kumquat rhubarb jam scented with lavender, and roasted delicata squash. I also made artichokes for the first time- they're yummy!

I've also found a fun way to waste my time: making these cute little ingredient illustrations of stuff I cook. Great way to pass the hours of studio talk and pretend like I'm a real artist who actually is inspired to sketch something.

I know, looks GRAPHIC. But it was awesome...apple cake with kumquat jam and yogurt with a sprinkle of sugar on top. The green specks are lavender (that was a topsy-turvy color statement).

Tomato sauce: olive oil, garlic, fresh sage, strained tomatoes, red pepper flakes, salt, pepperthem CHOKESand JAM

architecture!

Here is some of the individual work I've done in the past couple of weeks.

These first two are sections of a portion of River North in San Antonio; the first c. 1930, the other present day 2010. I realize these came out tiny on this page, but the main idea = the area used to be lively, now it's desolate. The left building is a Turner's club, still functioning today but struggling. The right building was a book-binding factory; now the same structure serves as parking for AT&T employees. And there's more trees way back when, especially near the (then undeveloped) Riverwalk.

These next two drawings are sections exploring "space" in terms of usage over time and public vs. private.

The first drawing takes 4 times of day (7 AM, 12 noon, 5 PM, 10PM) and shows who's occupying three levels of an apartment grid at these certain times. Each floor is the realm of a separate person's life.

The second drawing simply depicts the spatial relationship between public and private in a mixed-use building (commercial space on the first floor, residential above).

If you click on the pictures they should get bigger and you'll be able to see the detail.

This last drawing was part of a group presentation. Our group of 4 people was the "LIVE" group, in which we investigated how people might live in River North when the area gets redeveloped. These are 3 housing types which match the "districts" we made up: Urban, Family, and Arts. You probably can't see much but you get the idea...