Julie Püttgen, Zoosphere. Still from digital animation, total duration 43," 2009.

[June, 2009] Welcome to the website of Sewanee-based artist Julie Püttgen. I have just completed a month-long residency at the Hambidge Center in the mountains of north Georgia. Fabulous place! I got a lot done, including a series of new paintings, a book design for Unless & Until, 108 clay animals, and a new video.

I am still working on Unless & Until, a performace-text-image-music-animation-stravaganza collaboration with poet JS van Buskirk, composer James R. Carlson, and animator Matt Gilbert. The project now has its own website, which includes text, images, music, and videos! Also I have set up a place to buy posters of the complete Cloudmapping paintings, which form the nucleus of UnUn and are also online here. The Blurb UnUn book will be launched with the opening in September of an exhibition in the University Gallery at Sewanee: The University of the South.

In other exciting news, I will be traveling shortly to Ladakh (northern India) with my husband, Timothy, for the purpose of studying animal imagery in Himalayan Buddhist art. Hoorah for the summer!

Ratsalad DeLuxe, online quasi-quarterly arts journal extraordinaire, is on indefinite hiatus (anyone out there interested in Editorship?), but all past issues are online & available here.