Hey there fellows,

I've decided that, since i rarely use this site anymore anyway, I will no longer be posting on deviantArt. It's just one more thing for me to have to keep up with, and frankly, I think this site has become better suited for illustrators and designers and photographers than for weirdo fine artists like me. I'd rather get back into keeping up with my blog (that i haven't touched in months) and of course continuing to maintain my super-slick professional website (hehe). I just have my doubts about how "professional" deviantArt really is, what with all the silliness on here.

That said, there's a LOT of fantastic artists on here that i will continue to check up on every now and again, and i'm going to keep my favorites and my old work up. I just won't be posting anything new.

So, if you want to keep up with my art-shenanigans, you can check out my blog, which features lots of in progress work, studio shots, artistic inspiration, and other bits and pieces, HERE:

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And of course, my main artist website HERE:

[link]

And for those of you who like that crazy sound-quasi-music-business i do, my soundcloud page is HERE:

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Thanks for all the support and feedback through these 9 (!) years that i've been running around on here. You guys rock.

-Emilyylimeemilyylime

ok, so yeah...

you now actually CAN buy that book i was blathering on about earlier...i've been working on it for the past few days, and it's now available for sale thru blurb.com

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it's only $21.99 USD

i'd sell it slightly cheaper, but i'd like to attempt to make a tiny profit.

what with the holidays coming up....uh....yeah, you know the drill....

let's say i self-published a small book of my work.

let's say this book would feature my "best" work from the past 2-3 years.

let's say i decided to sell said book.

who would buy it?

So along with that weird "music" i make under the moniker flesh-like, i have also recently started a new project called Imperial Bitch. Originally conceived as being an experimental metal project, utilizing electric ukulele of all things, it's morphed into something that still retains inspiration from drone, doom, and black metal, but is not in the least metal sounding....i'm calling this work's genre "melancholic drone-folk", heh. Emotionally dark stuff, delves into deeply personal corridors without revealing specifics. Plan on giving the whole thing a sort of slight renegade feminist-twist as well, heheh.

Only 2 tracks completed so far, and they are super lo-fi, rather flawed rough drafts, but go have a listen anyway if you like general weirdness and/or depressing stuff.

"Sex with an Ugly Woman" actually features lyrics originally from poem i found here on dA, but the user no longer is active, and i never knew her name, so i've been unable to find the poem elsewhere online....so i'm sad that i can't give proper credit. This piece has a sort of baroque-dirge quality to it, i suppose. Even though i didn't write the lyrics, they sound like something i would write, conceptually anyway. Their lyricism is rather more eloquent than much of what i would normally write though.

"Forget" features lyrics from a combination of sources, an unknown poem by an unknown poet, a line or 2 from a poem called "mein Kampf" (no relation to Hitler) by David Lerner, and my own weird head. Headphones highly suggested for listening to both of these tracks, so you can fully experience all the nuances and subtleties of sound. Plus it makes the experience that much more personal, and these ARE pretty personal pieces.

have a listen over on Soundcloud:

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tell me what you think!

wanna know what all i've been up to lately? then check out the ol' bloggy-blog

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info about a show i've been curating, and other bits and pieces, are featured therein.


hope all is well in everyone's respective worlds.

haha, wow. of all things to get a daily deviation on, i would not have expected it to be one of the grossest of all my art-makin's. Granted just about everything i make is gross is some respect, but [link] ? Haha, even THAT one makes ME throw up in my mouth a little (which is of course the point).

Ah yes, but thanks for that! The reactions I've thus far received on the piece, and much of my other work for that matter, has proved to be just the kind of response i want...which is along the lines of "intriguing and/but/despite being/although gross." And then of course sometimes to some people it's just plain gross, which i love to hear too. hahah.

thanks again guys. I'll be doing my best to reply to the comments i get here soon. Because i appreciate how grossed out you all are.

so yeahh....other than the depressing news that i must return to the States, I have also recently just released my 4th album under my flesh-like project. you can give it a listen on my bandcamp page, and if you likes it, maybe you buys it? it's only $5! (sorry for not offering this one for free download, but i be a poor gurl and could use the money if anyone's willing to give it to me! don't worry though - my other 3 albums are still available for free download on Sagmo B)

as well, once i can get my hands on an electric ukulele, i plan on starting some sort of ridiculous doom/drone/black metal ukulele project. Sounds insane huh? yeah, i thought so too. Just for kicks, i've already made a short, experimental piece along these lines using nothing but my acoustic ukulele, my voice, and adobe audition to distort everything to Hell and back. If you wanna give this thing a listen, you can visit my soundcloud.

so here's those links for you:

Bandcamp (for the flesh-like album "fear, despair, desire"):
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Soundcloud (for the goofy ukulele drone/doom piece):
[link]


now get thee hence!

Due to various varieties of variables, i have to move back to the States. Blark.

I now officially am a master of fine art. pretty awesome. i can't believe how fast these 2 years have flown by. crazy.

will soon post photos of the final exhibition on the bloggy-blog. And all the new arts i've made on here. patience, patience.

might i suggest taking a jaunt on over to my blog?:
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there you will find loads more watercolor drawings, as well as some new sculptural works.

materials include:
-hair
-wax
-ink
-dirt
-morpho butterfly wings
-salt
-glitter
-animal bones


yummmma.

So i don't know how active i'm really going to be on deviantart from this point on...at least for awhile....only because most of the work i'm doing isn't necessarily easy to post on deviantart (ie, difficult to photograph, works in long boring series, blah blah blah) plus i don't have a ton of time to keep up with any extra internet distractions....my blog and facebook distract me enough as it is, hehe. anyway, i will probably post/update things on here occasionally, but if you wanna keep up with the things i'm working on, i suggest following my blog, which is here:


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i update it pretty regularly with a variety of things, mostly works both in progress and completed, studio shots, sketches, in-depth thoughts on my work, work by other artists who are interesting me at the moment, and other bits and pieces. so yeah....go give it a gander if you haven't already.

yup yup yup.

wanna see my work in the interim show at my school?

then go to le blog:

[link]


craziness


AND MY THESIS IS FINISHED! 57 PAGES (including images, it's not ALL text, heh)! INSANITY!

...i have some new updates on my blog....there you can see:

-some new drawings
-some in progress sculpture crap
-some photos of my studio


go have a looksee:


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GO!

did i seriously just see an ad on here that says:

CLICK ON THE BODY PARTS TO BUILD THE IDEAL WOMAN


???



i mean, really....


deviantart....stop disappointing me so much...for realz. yo.


(yes, i know it's just a silly ad...yes, i have a sense of humor....but no, this isn't particularly funny)

on a personal note, my life is really weird. Or at least, it's been awfully weird lately. good weird, and bad weird. and sometimes just weird weird.

not always sure what to make of it, heh.


how's everyone else's weird lives?

someone recently told me that there is something really 'witchy' about my work. i thought that was rather cool.

when i was a little kid, i wasn't into that whole princess-business...i was a witch. I would play at being a witch in the backyard, busy making brews and potions, casting spells, and generally running around cackling and hissing. hehe.

but that aside, there are elements of magic and mystery in my work i think, running parallel to the idea of transformation of the abject. joseph beuys talks about the artist as a shaman, and in my case, as a woman, i want to discover myself an artist shamanka, heheh.


i'm thinking i may explore, and possibly push, the "witchiness" of my work somewhat.

so let's seeeeee:

*pale flesh; salty and shimmering
*black blood; charred and glittering
*a hairy corner; vaguely sparkles
*animal bone reliquaries; i need to find a pelvis
*tissues saturated with milk, honey, and tears; baked and sewn together
*crying like humming; a nest of sound


and perhaps some other things as well!


(P.S.----> sometimes in life, one happens to find a certain attractive and amazing irish dude, even in middle of nowhere ireland)

i just finished making 2 similar and contrasting series of works; they are not finished in terms of display yet, but in the meantime, if you want to check them out on my blog, you can go here:

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all is explained there, so i won't bother you with the details here

GO!

so weird that i've been back in ireland for 3 weeks +! interestingly, i'm not 100% settled in yet, for whatever reason, gimme another week and i think i'll be feeling it.

work has begun, though there are monetary setbacks involving the purchasing of certain crucial items. so in the meantime, i have to work on projects that are sans these certain crucial items. frustrating, but that's just the way it has to be.

so....what am i working on at the moment then? i'll tell ya:

some fleshly collages, and some black collages...as well, some small wax and cow/goat bone and pearl sculptures. yes, at least things are in the works, mmhmm.

oh yeah, and thesis writing? INSANITY! that's all i have to say about that.