'Votives'
Ceramic
Juniper Yun Kruser
2013

Arizona

you wear sadness

like a crown of 

calla lilies and bird skulls.

your desert moon face 

cookie-cutter 

in milky way memories.

you know,

the sun's bright here

and the birds sing

and you think of 

dead mothers and how

someone poured acid

on a little girl's face.

the grand canyon

sentences, too deep

and too wide.

incomprehensible

Psyche at the cliff,

loving nowhere.

'Heritage'
Wood Sculpture Study
Placed in Union Art Gallery
Milwaukee Fall 2012


goodbye fullness

remember? the time you took my sweatshirt and wiped away the dead mayflies on your headlights.

your stance and shadow from behind the dash murky, yet as memorable as mother’s funeral.

like the new moon finds a hiding place in the umbra of the Earth, her face finds refuge under mine.

do you see it now, I wonder? With clearer eyes, high beams disengaging the night-flies at your lashes.

do you hate it? My nose a tombstone, my lips an entrance to the crypt, teeth picket fences saying no,

you may not have her back, you only have me, half of her, a half-moon half submerged in night.

I only shine half as bright, lighting the path enough to frighten, making anxious on what lies ahead.

goodbye fullness, I said long ago, while you still wait for lunar landings, I wait for the sun.

'Strangers'
Pen Sketch

Last Place

Done hanging with broken girls, with

Soprano softness slithering slight

Hands, sliding out reddened barbed

Feathers a new shuffling skin to paint.

I’m all clear for landing meteorites

Atmosphere atom-bombs appear like

Spring rain, slow then sharp on twi-

light loose days like these ones.

Did the mind win the loss? Pyrrhic

Victory viral victims of vile verses

Please elaborate more clearest dear,

Finished reading between empty lines.

dreamings of autumn harvest

'Lunar'
Mixed Media Collage
(h: 26 in. x w: 20 in.)

Corn Tides

Among 

chimes

and 

sky-songs,

your 

drought.

Combines

cut through

rusted curls,

summertime

sadness,

and

dust-devils.

Skull Studies - 1

'absolution'

oops, dad,

at least

the car's

not as

trashed as

i am.

Thursday ;

I spend most of my seconds today capturing images. I rendered a half-ass drawing of some full-assed model who fell asleep mid-pose. I don't blame her, it was a long morning and the temperature of the room must have felt awful nice in the nude. In fact, I'm almost jealous of her. Almost.

We used mixed media, taking already used paintings on soft paper and building a figure drawing with vine, then compressed charcoal. From there, I mixed with crushed charcoal and gesso to make gray washes, and went at smoothing out her form. It took much longer than expected, with little results. It took me many attempts to render the drawing, and by the end, I was unsatisfied.

Wednesday;

Took hold of my life by starting the morning with a bowl of soggy Kashi and counting my breaths. It's become more possible for my awareness be heightened by the night before, a mixture of nightmares and nail-biting. It's become so peaceful in the waking world, since I was given two more projects to work on. I'm greatly excited to keep these lids taped open, truly, so that I can submerge myself in pink foam and rubber. The screech of the material when I drag a razor through it is visceral and makes my hairs stand, and the idea of the slow, honey-like rubber mold being made and set soon makes me giggle in delight. By the end of semester, I better be staring at two fucking interesting sculptures.

On a more important note:

If you have the time, I highly suggest you look up the artist Adrian Villar Rojas. Argentinian based, he creates sculptures and installations that are absolutely breathtaking.

Here is a video of this beautiful artist:

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Not much these days to share that will take you in, yeah?

My name is Juniper Yun Kruser, I'm a sophomore in the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee. My major is Fine Arts, with a focus in Sculpture. My minor is in Global Studies.

I suppose these aren't the important details though. I've many 

incarnations, many philosophies, and many passions.

And I suppose this is a dumping zone for that.

Please stay and enjoy the show.

(image credit: juniper yun kruser)