After over a year of having it languish in cyberspace, I finally redesigned and updated my website: artgyrl.com.

I still have at least 3 galleries of work to add (graphic design, photography, and sketchbook), but It’s a big improvement on what was there before. I did some serious house cleaning. It’s still to be determined how I will organize my old work, as I want to keep it available for viewing so y’all can see a progression of my artistic style.

Let me know what you think.

August 20, 2008 . Pensacola, FL

Good morning.

More SGA fan art. Done for 12 Days of Teyla at livejournal.

August 2008 – Restroom mirror at the Skyview Lounge in the Holiday Inn downtown, Mobile, AL.

I’m woefully behind as far as picture posts go, I know.

I’m starting to experience why stress is such a killer. Older people have told me that I’m too young to be stressed, and that should be true. If only someone would stop being lazy and actually be banking on her talent.

I’m working on it, though.

Jafet Barrera . 1983-2008

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
—from “Dirge Without Music” by Ednan St. Vincent Millay

I was surfing the local news link from my Yahoo! mail account. It’s really hard to follow current events, since most everything is doom, gloom, and turmoil. I clicked the link to the article about a successful prostitution sting and read it. Then a headline caught my eye about a USA student being killed in a car accident over the weekend. I’ve been out of college for nearly two years now, and most of my acquaintances have graduated as well. Still, I followed the link on the off chance that the victim was someone I had known.

It was.

I one or two graphic design classes with Jafet back in college. I just remember that he was shy and soft spoken, sweet.