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ground hog. ground hog. wake up.  wear something uncomfortable. ride public transit. cubicle. cubicle. Bueller?  Bueller? Holiday party. raise. wake up.  wear something uncomfortable.  ride public transit.  cubicle.  cubicle.  Holiday party.  raise… pay your mortgage. insurance. graduate. have a kid.  retire. go on a cruise.  buy a plot.  die. (not to say that you won’t…

My 2-year old is constantly cracking me up in ways that words Cannot describe! But, let me just say that recently she’s been coming home from playschool busting out some new songs.  One is, “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”  (it just turned November! And, it’s summer in Cape Town, so this is feeling a…

I spent a summer in Copenhagen for a design studio, as part of my (interior) architecture degree.  I have to say – I hated it! I think it had a lot to do with timing… Copenhagen (on paper) has a lot going for it:  lots of free bicycles to ride.  a beautiful, walkable, old city…

Just been thinking about weddings recently. Flavorful weddings. I described my wedding in an earlier post.  To brief, let’s put it like this: “Mexican Fiesta” FEAST, 13-piece Cuban Band! flamenco  dress.  guitar. color, color… red.  Red! Decadent.  Chocolate.  Cake. local berries.  whipped cream. Experience. Taste. Backdrops: a yellow house with a purple door.  A coral…

My fascination with the “space” that is Messy Monkey involves questioning the transition between dance studio & street, bedroom & street, church hall & street.  I’ve grown up feeling a bit “tripped out” at the behaviors of street, bedroom, & church, contrasted to those “on the street”… Rolling on the floor in the studio, animal-like…

My “work” has been very colorful, artful, beautiful, playful…jumping on a bed!… rather on the “feminine” side, I realized recently… tho not “girls only” exclusive, by any means!…no, just “feminine” in a way, in it’s inherent nature:  colorful, artful, beautiful, playful… hmm… Yet, flippy/floppy/easy/breezy, kooky/playful/reckless at the same time, in it’s own way… (right, with…

All this talk about car smashing & pie-throwing is again reminding me of a simple moment I had one day in the basement of my father’s drugstore.  I must’ve been pricing some new inventory?  Anyway, one of the jars of jam happened to break, & suddenly I found myself squishing it’s jammy, berry goodness all…

ok – so there are a group of girls in Cape Town who are about to launch their “team-building” & “fun times for any/everybody” event.  What is it?  allowing people to smash a car! It’s all sorted.  They get a totalled car, bring it to their warehouse, bust out the sledghammers, you wear your protective…

I’ve met my nemisis: “someone or something that is the exact opposite of oneself but is also somehow similar”. – Wikipedia. Actually, there’s really no opposition here.  But there are some differences: masculine. feminine. yin. yang. pretty. brutal. …the “dark side” of the Monkey, & I am intrigued! It involves everything I’ve already described as…

His name kept popping up for me, ever since I started the project: Beezy Bailey (one of S. Africa’s most established contemporary artists). Maybe he’d be interested in my project somehow, in one way or another… He’d always been on the back of my mind. I’d recently seen a picture of him, in an article…