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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Mike Finnigan is a veteran keyboardist and
blues vocalist who has toured with more than 20 major acts, including
Jimi Hendrix, Etta James, Leonard Cohen, and Los Lonely Boys. There's a
primal quality to his singing. It's gritty and fluid and tempestuous, almost
feral at times. I understand perfectly why Bonnie Raitt has called him a
"tall drink of bacon." The sound he makes with his voice is that lush and
tasty. Can you guess his astrological sign? It's Taurus, of course. I'm
naming him your patron saint this week because you yourself are as close
as you have ever come to being a tall drink of bacon.

endings.....

unbelievably, the term is coming to a close. The work has been stop motion animation with mirrors and sky and chickens. Performance art has included baking bread as dad and the gingerbread wall.

from stop motion animation scenes

there is focus....beginning focus.....in turns out that I am creating unconventional self portraits. I have known for a while that the work was about my identity, but as the semester has evolved, the mirrors continue to show up, the outdoors, performance, all manners of telling a story about myself, a self portrait per se, for the audience.

until next time,
Michele