About Carabella

I work with what I got.

Assorted Drawing and Paintings

A sampling of other works.
  • Homicidal Ideations
    Homicidal Ideations
    Gel pens on paper, Winter 2011
  • Rince Peeing
    Rince Peeing
    Marker on paper, Summer 2012
  • My Parents Said I Was Too Irresponsible So The Got Me A Robot/My Parents Said I Was Too Responsible So They Got me A Baby
    My Parents Said I Was Too Irresponsible So The Got Me A Robot/My Parents Said I Was Too Responsible So They Got me A Baby
    Ink on paper, Spring 2008
  • Lion Hearted
    Lion Hearted
    Ink on paper, Spring 2008
  • The Rat King Is forced Onto An Air-Balloon That Later Catches Fire
    The Rat King Is forced Onto An Air-Balloon That Later Catches Fire
    Water color and markers on construction paper, Summer 2011
  • Candy Hag
    Candy Hag
    Spring 2012
  • Beautiful Mommy
    Beautiful Mommy
    Someone once told me that they had an inside joke about the cooler a person was, the bigger a horn they would grow. This made me wonder if someone could then be hindered by their coolness. That is what I think happened to my mother. I think she got tangled and weighed down by what she thought she was and could be.
  • A Sympathetic Demon
    A Sympathetic Demon
    Marker on paper, Spring 2011
  • Rainbow In The Form Of A Depressed Girl
    Rainbow In The Form Of A Depressed Girl
    Pastels on paper, Spring 2011
  • A Rainbow In Boy Form Pulling A Twizzler
    A Rainbow In Boy Form Pulling A Twizzler
    Watercolor on paper Spring 2011

Mermaids

I'm always drawing mermaids. That they are as much animal as human is useful in expressing how animal humans really are.
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Cross Hatchling

Cross Hatchling is a frame story written and illustrated by me about how familial bonds, memory and truth are transitory things.
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    ink on mat board
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    Pen on paper
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    Pen, marker, and watercolor on paper
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    Pen on paper
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    Pen and marker on paper
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    Pen and marker on paper
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    Watercolor and pen on paper, Summer 2009
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    Pen on paper, Spring 2009
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    Pen, Marker, Pencil on bristle board, Spring 2011

Published works and Illustrations

  • Birdie
    Birdie
    Published Brown Mega Corporation Arts Newsletter, # 11 on Dec. 12 20012
  • Napkin Drawing
    Napkin Drawing
    Published in Everyday Genius on 9/18/12
  • Animal Hospitality
    Animal Hospitality
    Illustration for Timmy Reed's story Animal Hospitality published in LITERARY ANIMALS in Winter of 2012.
  • Portrait of a Virgin Mother
    Portrait of a Virgin Mother
    Illustration for Timmy Reed's story, Portrait of a Virgin Mother published in Smile Hon, You're In Flagrante! in 2/10/10
  • Merwolf
    Merwolf
    Published in Artichoke Haircut in the fall of 2012
  • Bioluminescence
    Bioluminescence
    Illustration for Timmy Reeds story Bioluminescence published in the zine Animal Stories fall 2009
  • Man Thought to be Antichrist Actually Just Kind Of Depressed
    Man Thought to be Antichrist Actually Just Kind Of Depressed
    Illustration for article in Mugwump Corporation march 2012
  • INSIDE ME LIVES A LITTLE GIRL
    INSIDE ME LIVES A LITTLE GIRL
    Watercolor illustration for Alisha Kaplan's poem INSIDE ME LIVES A LITTLE GIRL published in Hoot Online july 2012 http://www.hootreview.com/onlineissue10/
  • Sunday Morning, Wicklow Town
    Sunday Morning, Wicklow Town
    An illustrations for Richard Byrn's poem Sunday Morning, Wicklow Town published in the May 2012 issue of the Light Ekphrastic. http://thelightekphrastic.com/issues/may-2012-issue-10/sands-byrne-may-2012/
  • Angels? No?
    Angels? No?
    Published in Espresso Inc's 1st Issue.

Napkin Art

I like to give a drawing to everyone I meet.
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Performance

Here are examples of my street performance, theater, and film
  • Death of the Cock
    This is one of the folktales I choreographed with my hula-hoop. 2007
  • Rooms Play March 2010
    Rooms play is a social experience/experiment that gives the audience an opportunity to be the main character of a confrontational journey. The play consists of a string of intimate performances that occur back to back in a constructed labyrinthian space
  • SNELS
    SNELS is a short film I wrote and directed, starring Carabella Sands, Juliana Converse, and Nicholas Rengarts. The plot concerns two mask-wearing adult children who inhabit a world of alleys, where their occupation is to scribble inane and nonsensical graffiti for the general public (who they rarely encounter) to misunderstand. After discovering a firearm, they are given a stern lesson by a tall blonde vamp clad in leather. This results in a newfound acceptance of their lives through doing nothing. You can only see half of the screen here, but follow this link for the full screen version on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxwvb8aozOs&list=HL1383139691&feature=mh_lolz
  • BIRDS
    Birds is a piece of flash fiction, originally published by the Australian journal, Pure Slush, on which Carabella Sands and I collaborated to create a live action/stop-motion animated video and soundtrack for. Here is a link to the published poem http://pureslush.webs.com/birds.htm And to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgN5l1ppDSY
  • The Lift
    The Lift
    I played a creepy little vampire in this movie.

Woems

Woems are like poems that Keanu Reeves would go whoa at.
  • Call To Arms
  • HIS MOTHER CRASHED OUR DINNER DATE
  • Summer Flu
  • While My Boyfriend's Away
  • We Make You Look Good
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  • Baltimore Deity
    Baltimore Deity
    This poem/drawing was featured on tumbr in November 2012.
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A portrait of my Grandparents

This is an installation I did for the Jordan Faye Block Contemporary Gallery for a three day salon show. Here is the accompanying artist statement:


Portrait of My Grandmother

Having children and making a family is the greatest creative act available to us as humans. Beyond creating a family of 5 children and 5 grandchildren, my grandmother had the compulsion to take pictures of every landscape, animal, and person she encountered (occasionally with the threat of destruction of her precious camera.), but mostly she took pictures of her family. My grandmother doesn’t remember taking a single picture and if she lives long enough, she may not remember the family she created.

Portrait of My Grandfather

Granddad also took pictures, too. It was his job when he was a soldier in the WWII, but after the war he only took pictures of my grandmother when she asked him to.

Photographic Evidence

I wanted there to be a part of my family that the viewer could take home with them so I made copies of my grandparents snapshots, bagged, and made carbon copies of my Grandmother handwriting (and sometimes my Grandfather’s chicken scratch) on the packages.
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