these texts are an archive of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area from march 2007 - march 2015. it stands as a record of close to a decade of my life, charting the struggles i faced as an artist, daughter, and lover. messy and chaotic at times, eloquent and poetic at others, these texts are an index i am proud of. it was here in this electric box that i learned how to be honest about my experiences and the person i needed to become. it was here that i first learned the truism that words make the world and how to trust such a beautiful, rife, hard fact.

thank you for meeting me here in such tall grass.


my artist website is here.

Jul 19, 2009

while i should've been sleeping...

last night after drinking way too much coffee at way too late an hour, i made these. i'm glad for the bad caffeine decision.


mama (1)
11" x 7.5"
water-soluble graphite and gouache on paper
angela simione, 2009


mama (2)
11" x 7.5"
water-soluble graphite and gouache on paper
angela simione, 2009
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5 comments:

Hannah Stephenson said...

Wow! I just love them.

I like how they look like someone just took them off. They almost seem to be suspended in air, which is also quite ghostly and magical.

July 19, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Alanna Risse said...

These are absolutely stunning. I think you're onto something.

July 20, 2009 at 11:35 AM
angela simione said...

thanks guys! they are my new favorites! ha! seems like everything becomes my "new favorite" lately. i'm definitely going to stick with this idea. i really like how they compliment the maid portraits but, the more i look at the aprons, there seems to be something even more powerful going on... a less in more type of thing. a kind of serrogacy (is that a word?) that i really like and creates a more wide-open narrative than the maid portraits do... at least it seems that way right now.

i'm so glad you both like them! i promise to follow where it leads. :)

July 20, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Heather Jerdee said...

So beautiful Angela. I agree there is something powerful with these, and they do seem to have a suspended, floating feeling to them.

July 20, 2009 at 8:58 PM
angela simione said...

i'm so glad you like them. i guess when i was making them i didn't really think about them floating, but now that it's been pointed out, i think it's my favorite aspect of these.

July 21, 2009 at 7:18 PM

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