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KateLab is a place where I share the work I'm creating and find people who are interested in creating similar work. Now you're asking, what type of work. Well it depends...
Although I specialize in Tobacco Control and Health Communication, I've found that I have a new idea every day for the kind of work I could be doing well. Besides travel planning, floral arrangements, and museum curating, I'm a pretty great artist. I specialize in water colors and pen work, and I'm getting pretty good at acrylics. These badasseries do not prevent me from interests in marble sculpting, 3d printing, and oils, which I intend to pursue eventually. This is a learning space for me to do something new. That's why it isn't just a studio, it's a lab.
Per the advice I've read in the totally incredible book "Show Your Work" by Austin Kleon, I'm doing it. In the book they describe 10 ways to share your creativity and get discovered. One of the major tenets is to show the work you've created, regardless of its state. I can get into this because apparently it's a good way to find other people who are doing similar work who may be in similar stages. Help a sista' out, I always say.
In the vain of Vogue magazine and the like, I wanted to get started by doing a brief anatomy of my desk.
So let's break it down, from left to right.
Although I specialize in Tobacco Control and Health Communication, I've found that I have a new idea every day for the kind of work I could be doing well. Besides travel planning, floral arrangements, and museum curating, I'm a pretty great artist. I specialize in water colors and pen work, and I'm getting pretty good at acrylics. These badasseries do not prevent me from interests in marble sculpting, 3d printing, and oils, which I intend to pursue eventually. This is a learning space for me to do something new. That's why it isn't just a studio, it's a lab.
Per the advice I've read in the totally incredible book "Show Your Work" by Austin Kleon, I'm doing it. In the book they describe 10 ways to share your creativity and get discovered. One of the major tenets is to show the work you've created, regardless of its state. I can get into this because apparently it's a good way to find other people who are doing similar work who may be in similar stages. Help a sista' out, I always say.
In the vain of Vogue magazine and the like, I wanted to get started by doing a brief anatomy of my desk.
So let's break it down, from left to right.
- Eiffel tower lamp: Pretty standard procedure for a Francophile such as myself. I've spent time archaelogizing in Marseille and working at the WHO in Lyon. So yeah, I get an eiffel tower lamp
- American Cancer Society folder: Currently consulting on a smokefree Multi Unit Housing deal in San Diego.
- Show Your Work by Austin Kleon: The reason we're all here
- Slanty Mouse Pad: If your hands bug you, just twist the mouse pad for a new angle. You may notice that the touchpad on my laptop is covered with a postcard from California. Touchpads are bad for your hands, mouses are better.
- Silver vase of white roses: Because I'm not an animal
- Yves Saint Laurent scarf that once belong to my mom's employer Ducky in the seventies when she worked in a fine leather shop in Pasadena. We found it at the Huntington Collection a week ago and my mom nearly fainted.
- Phrenology head wearing Scarlet O'Hara's BBQ Hat: Best representation of the Elegance, Academia, and artistic flair by which I live my life. This, I would save in a fire.
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