my show at Cullom Gallery in Seattle has been extended through April 30.

Beth Cullom did such an amazing job installing my drawings (over 100 pieces!) and created a one (or maybe two) person projection room with Mark for my animation pieces. I would like to thank Beth and Mark for all the wonderful work. Come meet my work at Cullom! and maybe me.



i think my greatest artistic influence was my younger brother. as a child he was always drawing. he would make up strange stories and create drawings to go with them and then add crazy details, almost obsessive, but in a 4 year old's cute way of course. my favorite story was one of a rich little girl and her outrageous pet guinea pig, Angela. they live in a mansion (with her rich clueless grandma) surrounded by lots of sweets, ribbons and fluffy girly stuff. the guinea pig was super spoiled. she was given a bunch of pretty dresses and a diamond collar or something. yes, he was drawing all this stuff. he later became a comic artist. i'm proud of him.

The second annual Seattle Small Press Festival

The second annual Seattle Small Press Festival

http://seattlespf.com/SPF2011/Index.html

Saturday, March 19, 2011(my birthday!) - 7:00pm - Saturday, April 16, 2011 - 11:59am  

Talking Helps: Potluck Social - Saturday, March 19 @ 7pm - Pilot Books
Adamantine: The Poet Shin Yu Pai - Monday, March 21 @ 7pm - Elliott Bay Book Company
Natural Verges: Poets on Visual Art - Thursday, March 24 @ 7pm - Cullom Gallery
Scraps: A Chapbook Making Work Party - Thursday, March 31 @ 4pm - Scenic Drive E. Pike Factory
Always Beginning: A Copper Canyon Press Poetry Reading - Tuesday, April 5 @ 7pm - Town Hall
Maroon: A Literary Mixer - Friday, April 8 @ 7pm - Rogue Scholar
Recto Verso: A Small Press Expo - Saturday, April 8 @ 2pm - Richard Hugo House
Progressive Pitch: An Intro to the Recorded Word - Wednesday, April 13 @7pm - SPLAB
Dances with Pomeranians: The Closing Party - Saturday, April 16 @ 7pm - Arabica Lounge

I'm very excited to announce that Cullom Gallery is one of the venues of the second annual Seattle Small Press Festival this year. Meredith Clark, Debra di Blasi, Lisa Radon and I are giving readings and talks! at the gallery on 3/24 (thu). Starts at 7pm! Free. I will read poems about my mother, ghosts and other crazy stuff. Come join us!

i'm selling drawings from my private collection and donating all the profit to the earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan. if you are interested in helping, please contact me. mugitakei at gmail.com

it's the water that separates us

my ability to see ghosts

when I was a child the snake lady told me I had the eyes to see ghosts she said therefore I must be careful she said I must be afraid I never saw ghosts I never saw ghosts growing up I never saw ghosts until the baby came it’s not true I always saw ghosts everywhere just like any other things I just couldn’t tell them apart ghosts and other things I saw ghosts everywhere I was never lonely my breasts rounder my hair darker I was a young girl I had a lover  the lover took me to the naked forest at night I was seeing ghosts everywhere they were walking, looking, saying something just like anyone else they were everywhere in the naked forest when the lover was kissing my breasts I didn’t close my eyes I didn’t want them to see me my closed eyes the lover and I went to the naked forest at night we made love ghosts everywhere I never closed my eyes the baby came in the spring the baby was born in blood I couldn’t tell it was my blood or the baby’s the baby was meowing so red like a kitten the nurse lady picked it up  from the blood water the baby was like a chunk of flesh then I knew it was my blood I was seeing ghosts in the room and outside the windows they were everywhere the nurse lady passed the baby into my arms as holding the baby meowing louder and louder so red I began to see ghosts as ghosts apart from other things apart from so called living things ghosts were white bodies like lights there was blood everywhere

"i waited a long time for you" opened

my solo show "i waited a long time for you" opened yesterday at Cullom Gallery in Seattle. the show runs until 4/16, features over 100 drawings and stop-motion animation films. there will be a poetry reading evening on 3/24 at the gallery. thank you so much for coming to the opening.