• Nicole Lavelle Archive
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• 2021
  • I Can't Do This But I'm Doing It Anyway

• 2013
  • The Green River Newspaper
  • Free Pears
  • Tiro Tiro
  • Synonym
  • Skateboard!
  • Art and Social Practice Books
  • Spirit of Windsor
  • Share Document
  • Detroit Conservancy
  • Rabbit Island Benefit
  • Summer Summit Lettering
  • Good Stuff
  • Siiiiiick
  • Casual Sweetheart
  • A Tattoo Of
  • High Five Zine
  • Cool Points

• 2012
  • w-o-r-d-u-p.biz
  • Open Engagement 2012
  • Open Engagement Anthology
  • GOOD Ideas for Cities
  • SLOW NO DUST
  • YOU ARE LIKE
  • #platform
  • Someone Made This T-Shirt
  • Porch Prints
  • Support
  • I'm Talking About Detours
  • Call Me Maybe
  • Four Corners Philadelphia
  • This, Here
  • Thanksgiving Garbage Art
  • designonthedottedline.org
  • A Tattoo Of

• 2011
  • Notecard Postcard
  • Bracket Vol. 3: Education
  • Plants of San Francisco
  • Frontier Fellowship
  • Homemade
  • Epicenter Newsprint
  • Green River Thrift Store Pop Up
  • Geyser Walk
  • Road Maps
  • TINY LADY ONE DOLLAR
  • TINY LADY ONE DOLLAR Posters
  • TINY LADY ONE DOLLAR ZINE
  • 10-22-38 Astoria
  • "The Excitement is Building!"
  • Inside/Outside
  • Wicker Baskets, Molasses,
  • Walking Tour of Historic Downtown
  • Found Parks
  • Poler Postcards
  • Five Things That Are About The Same Size
  • Points of Interest
  • Alabamboo
  • Put A Fire Under It
  • Too Much
  • My Aim is True
  • Open Engagement 2011
  • Everyone Has Something To Gain
  • Two Fold
  • Sincerely Interested
  • North South Portland
  • MORE WALK MORE TALK
  • Walking: North South Portland
  • Listening: North South Portland
  • Histories: North South Portland

• 2010
  • Rural and Proud
  • The Science of Happiness
  • Hypothetical Development Organization
  • America, Slowly.
  • WWWWWMT (ongoing)
  • A Pocket-Sized Constitution
  • Uncle Sam
  • Open Heart
  • Reading Frenzy (DO!)
  • Hometown Lecture Series
  • Portland Mercury Bike Issue
  • Portland Mercury Southeast Neighborhood Guide
  • Portland Mercury Birthday
  • GOOD Neighborhood Flag
  • WEST
  • WEST Zine
  • State of Jefferson T-Shirts
  • WWEEK Cheap Eats Covers
  • Art Talk AM

• 2009
  • An Environmental Experiment
  • We Need To Know Where We Have Been...
  • Where We Don't Live
  • An Ode To Summer In The West
  • Little Artifacts

• 2008
  • State Of Jefferson

• Other
  • Teaching
  • Writing
  • Sincerely Interested

Over Thanksgiving weekend this year my mom was in the hospital. I made a lot of little word paintings.

My parents have a lot of things at their house — a closet full of photos, a greenhouse full of dirt, a barn full of glass bottles, a shed full of pickles, a field full of mice — but they do not have any paper for me to paint on. So I used LL Bean catalogs and old seed catalogs and tried my best.

There are a lot because when you’re painting on garbage you just sort of do whatever you want. Jeff played Assassin’s Creed, dad baby-talked the baby, my sister clipped coupons and I listened to them with my paint brush. Mom was in the ICU.

I’ve been thinking a lot about writing, and listening, and recording, and really like how Ed Ruscha describes it: “linguistic kleptomania.” Yeah. Steal that shit. No one else will remember anyways. Petty thievery, pretty thievery, 100 little poems on ripped out pages.