making art about material culture: obsessive consumption

i recently purchased (hey, irony) a print from kate bingamin-burt, who maintains the blog "obsessive consumption," where she draws the things she buys on a daily basis. kate is another artist whose work directly addresses issues of our material-based culture:

while visual culture is a teaching tool that can be used to engage with countless big ideas, it can also be the very content being explored.

a new friend for heart-sleeve studio.

heart-sleeve studio (and its companion blog, heart-sleeve studio blog) have served as my online handle for what i lovingly refer to as my "illustration and other nice things" for quite some time now, mostly because my name is unreasonably difficult to spell. here we have a new friend to showcase all the other nice things that i didn't actually draw slash make myself, but instead want to share so other people can make or teach or learn them too. feel free to visit heart-sleeve studio to see where i'm coming from (and probably notice that the distance is not very far at all). in any case, welcome!