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Kristi Beisecker is a graphic designer, photographer, printmaker and alternative scientist whose interested in making images through two contrasting elements. She is also a blogger in lifestyle, travel, wellness and health, art and design, beauty and fashion.
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Blessed for Abundance!

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YOU GUYS. This has been the best week for me professionally in a LONG time, if not the last two years!! I feel like my life restarted and makes sense because this time two years ago, I started working at the Tremont Tearoom. Which IRONICALLY is closing for two months as they relocate, next week.

First, on Tuesday, I went into Pembroke, Ma for an interview for a social media and graphic design position at an antique and vintage shop and he hired me by the end of the interview! The shop is owned by an artist who wants to work on his artwork more often, so he’s expanding his staff. He is a sweet man, and psychically I haven’t been able to pick anything up on him yet. So he’ll be interesting to get to know. He did say he’s been through a lot, so I’m sure it’s just his walls that he’s built up. But this position can turn into a lucrative position for me, if I play my cards right. He wants me to work on the website and maybe make a brand identity for him, etc.

Art wise, I got accepted into two publications – “Bluebells” Gulfstream Literary Magazine which is online is based in Florida and and “Goldenrod #2” (new piece) Spirits Volume 28 that is another printed publication. Exhibition wise, “Pine Needles” was accepted into a show in Framingham, Ma called Visual Alchemy. ALSO, the press release for the New York show will be released officially tomorrow. The show I’m really excited and honored to be in as it is about making and taking photographs!

ALSO – Wednesday, I got on the phone and spoke with a client based in NYC doing design work for an online magazine. It looks pretty cool and he was attracted to my work done with Jetsetter Gypsy – haha – for the style, luxury and travel part. I really enjoyed speaking with him on Wednesday and we speak again tomorrow. I might even stop by his office when I’m in NYC next month for the exhibition.

I have another client coming through tomorrow morning. I’m not sure where this is headed… it’s off to a good start, but we’ll see after the interview tomorrow!

I feel so RELIEVED to have some work finally coming to me. Although, I do admit that working at Hafta Havit has made me really miss minuteman. It’s given me intense nostalgia and yearning to see Michael and his staff again.

 

Art, Blog, Projects

Experimentation in Mixed Media

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Since my residency in CA I had been pouring over videos of mixed media artists on youtube and realized that it is not that much different from the way I design in photoshop and in general. My mom does cardmaking so she already had a lot of the supplies. I’ve also been looking for something to keep my mind off a few things and just to have fun. I think mixed media is the way to go! I’m definitely planning on making more this weekend. 🙂

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Art, Blog, Business, Excursions, Massachusetts, New England, Receptions

Statehouse Working to Make Art Buying Tax Exempt

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Yesterday, I finally attended the Artist Under the Dome Event!  It is sponsored by the Mass Cultural Council. The event was geared to celebrating artists are who working and living in Massachusetts. The morning was filled with political figures speaking about the work they’re doing to improve the quality of life of artists working and living in Massachusetts. Treasurer Steven Grossman spoke about working to make art buying tax exempt which will encourage potential art collectors to buy more art directly from the artists as they’ll get a tax break as well. I also learned that they are working on improving the quality of life for Independent Contractors.

The afternoon was filled with lunch, networking and trips to our Senators’ offices. Unfortunately mine weren’t around so I just dropped off my press kits in hopes of something coming out of it! You never know. The afternoon had a panel of leaders who are working in the Boston area who hold leadership positions in prominent artist groups that are trying to make things a little easier. They also talked about major issues that keep popping up; finding space, unpaid internships, etc. Most of which I was already aware of.

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Blog, Excursions, Lifestyle, ◆◆◆

Thrifting, Dog Walks and Zia’s

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Yesterday I met up with my artist friend Heather who I met at the Younger Than Amy Show in Provincetown back in June and then later met up with our mutual friend Hilary. I recently gave Heather an old keyboard piano that I had so she can learn to play and we promised to meetup one of these days. Yesterday was one of those days! We went thrifting and then Hilary and Heather and I went to Nauset Beach to walk their dogs and we said goodbye to Hilary as she went back to work. Heather and I went to Zia’s a Pizzaria and Cafe type of restaurant. I had a calzone and she had an Italian sandwich. It was a lot of fun and it was nice to hang out again after the show too. We’re going to try to hang out more. I was going to go chanting with Hilary this morning, but I ended up not sleeping well last night and was really tired and we tried to get together again this afternoon before I left town, but it got too close to the time I was going to leave.

Blog, Excursions, ◆◆◆

Halloween!

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I hope everyone had a great Halloween! I am on the Cape for a week, and I was going to go to the Lost Dog in Orleans, MA for a costume party with one of my artist friends and her friend, but I had been suffering from indigestion since Thursday and was overcome by exhaustion for some weird reason that I decided to end up not going. Also my friend decided to not go as well and her friend ended up being non-responsive. But I will be seeing my friend on Monday of next week! We’re planning on going thrifting and maybe lunch or coffee somewhere in town.

I’ll post more next week if I get any good finds from thrifting. 🙂

Blog, Reflections

Pray for Strength

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Lately things a been a bit rough.

Last month I had surgery in my left ear to remove a cyst that blocked my hearing and caused significant hearing loss. After working in a cubical at Minuteman and not being able to hear my co-workers through the glass pushed me over the edge to get it looked at. The best news about this was that the original surgery I had in the ear wasn’t affected and that this could be removed and my left ear would mirror my right ear. Well, I went in for surgery, came out fine and healed properly and everything seemed a success. A week and a half before my last post-op appointment I noticed something funny about the hearing of the left ear and just chopped it up to wax building up since I stopped using the medical drops that allowed it to heal as instructed. But during my post-op appointment, the Dr. checked it out and found out that due to aggressive healing a new membrane continued to grow and caused the same hearing loss problem. After this news I felt really defeated. I then had to have emergency surgery in the left ear because the membrane would just continue to grow and I’ll continue to loose my hearing. In between all this… I had a really bad viral infection the week of my residency which happened after the first surgery, and then five days before my second surgery I started to get high fevers. Between two surgeries in two months and feeling ill a couple of times in between, I’ve been feeling a bit down and defeated.

I’m also still trying to force myself to move on from Minuteman… coming to terms with the experience, and my feelings and realizing that my attempts to establish a professional relationship with them have been thwarted is making it really difficult for me to let go. Also leaving someone who I cared a lot about and held close to my heart there, is not helping this healing process. This experience also had me change the way I view negative experiences. I am teaching myself to learn to accept negative experiences, but don’t let negative experiences control me. Shit will continue to happen to me, but how I react to it will change how it molds into my life and affects me.

I’m just worried about how this experience at Minuteman will affect my career. Right now, I have no desire to go off job hunting again – after three years of sitting through resume calls and sitting and waiting and never hearing back to finally being hired in my desired position only to be fired six months later…; to sit through dozens of interviews only to never get a call back… to be ‘won over’ by someone else because of something that I don’t have… to be told that I don’t have the experience, skills or some other goddamn thing. I am worried my design career is coming to a heed. As a graduating senior, this isn’t how I envisioned my design career to be, no not at all! After my heartbreak, things just seemed to crumble and fall apart for me. I have thought of a temporary solution that will help me get through until my next design gig. I’m hoping that after my internship at JetSetterGypsy that I’ll be able to apply for Social Media marketing positions and just work with social media until another contract position comes through or something better. There just isn’t a job for me…

Blog, Reflections, Spirituality

Leaving the Past Behind

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I recently had closure on something that has allowed me to finally leave a situation in the past. It is bittersweet and while I thoroughly appreciated the closure, it’s left me with an empty heart. I had looked up to this person and admired them for what they have accomplished. As I feel like I could be in their shoes one day, and felt that if things went well I could learn a lot from them. But things didn’t go well, and I was forced to leave. My heart stings with the absence of their warmth. What’s frustrating me about this particular situation is my intuition. It’s telling me, that things are DEFINITELY not over, and it’s making moving on even more difficult. But what I find interesting about a similar situation that I was going through about a year ago, was my intuition telling me then that it was DEFINITELY OVER. This is different. I don’t feel the sinking feeling of disappointment creeping up on me, it’s quite different. It’s like the fact that I know things aren’t over are making it easier to move on. I guess I am just impatient and I want the new start to happen.

I also feel like a huge cycle just ended and this closure has allowed and opened some new things coming to me. I haven’t had a whole lot of luck with exhibitions lately, and I’m kinda wondering if its because the negative energy of that situation was still lingering. But now that it is closed, I should have better luck… it was like a block.