Ursula is a New Yorker who sometimes makes pictures and sometimes makes words, and often sits very very still and tries to pyrokinetically melt herself from the inside out. She graduated from Fiorello H. Laguardia (the “Fame”) High School in 2002, bitter, but confident that things would be looking up real soon. She then went on to Parsons School of Design where she spent more money than she likes to think about on a single piece of paper (you know… the fancy one… that says you’re qualified to draw for a living). In 2007 she escaped Parsons with a surprising amount of her dignity still intact. These days she’s still bitter, but pretty confident that things won’t be looking much worse anytime real soon.
Sometimes Ursula draws dead babies. It’s not cause she dislikes babies and wants them dead or anything; if you take her to the Natural History Museum she’s liable to cry when she sees that family of elephants with the little dead baby elephant holding on to the dead momma elephant’s tail. Ursula draws dead babies cause she’s profoundly disturbed by the fact that dead babies exist in the Universe.
Same goes for lots of stuff she draws.
She’s just working through it.
Contact:
Ursula Viglietta Delgado: art@ursulaviglietta.com
or if you prefer to stalk: www.myspace.com/nadjagipsie
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I always seem to have trouble with the idea of beginnings and endings.
One day I'll write a book thats all about the middle.
There will be 56 blank pages at the start, and 43 at the end...
And the rest will be made up of weekly to do lists.
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Page 97:
To do:
1- call apple store/ send computer to be fixed
2- remember to feed the cats
3- wouldn't it be cool if you had a gun and you could put "gun cleaning" on your to do lists? find out what kind of licence you need to clean small fire arms.
4- laundry
5- develop new system for cutting tiles
6- cut and lay tiles
7- make curtains
8- remember to be social, not to snap at friends,
not to close your eyes and pretend they can't see
you if you can't see them
9- organize your files and print what needs printing
10- make some time to contemplate suicide.
11- fix the holes in the living room walls
12- go to post office
-Ursula
Page 101:
1-Laundry (again) this time shake out the cat hair before you do it so you don't wind up with a wardrobe full of clean cat hair.
2-I think I saw mold growing on some of the dishes in the sink... call kyle and see if he wants to make a few bucks on a dare.
3-Cat box
4-Rearrange furniture in studio in a way that is more conductive to using it as a studio rather than a storage room
5-Drinky drinky
6-Nail file- where is it?
7-Buy Sandman Dustcovers book
8-Lists should have at least 10 parts
9-We all know what's coming next
10-BUNNIES!
Page 115
(Extended to do)
Long term goal: Med School for psychiatric medicine.
Complications:
1- Poor choice of undergraduate education.
2- Tendency to give up on goals when met with complications.
3- Lack of money.
Solutions:
1- Research and develop a navigational plan to make up the requirements in the shortest amount of time possible.
2- Remind self: "At least you weren't born an angler fish." on a daily basis.
3-
...
...
prostitution?
Page 122
Revisions to the Extended to do list (aka, a 5 year "plan")
1- Avoid intentional death at all costs.
2- Get into grad school program for Art Therapy at either NYU, SVA, or Hunter.
3- Date an astronaut and sneak onto a space craft. This may require spending some time in Texas, unless maybe NASA sends out rockets from other places nowadays... look into that.
4- Recover from the "Parsons debacle" without succumbing to the doctor's Lithium suggestion.
5- Never work in advertising.
6
- Help little brother get into a non-CUNY college... this may require you to take the SAT's for him.
7- Re-read all books on your shelves that have been interrupted by intellectually under stimulating homework over the last 5 years... that's probably a good year's worth of reading.
8- Find a university job that will allow you to work while making up pre-requisite psychology course work needed for the Art Therapy masters programs.
9- Complete at least one, if not many, of the half cocked book ideas that are sitting on the shelf of abandoned projects. Draw more. Try to enjoy it.
10- Practice being 20% less angry at life.
11- Avoid unintentional death at all costs.
Page 160
1- Laundry again. It's never ending. The cats got into the bag, and now there's a 50 lb bag of dirty clothes that look like they may have last been worn by... a cat.
2- Shave the cats. It'll be fun. For you, not them.
3- Finish emptying the studio so you can rent it out and not starve to death.
4- Build more shelves so you'll have a place to put all the crap you're emptying.
5- Find someone with a Digital SLR and steal it from them. Because you'll never be able to afford that on your own.
6- There's some tupperware in the back of the fridge... yeah, you know what I'm refering to. It's time.
7- The obvious: FIND A JOB.
8- The less obvious: When you find one, try not to spontaneously combust on your very first day.
9- Everyday when you wake up try to remember that you never have to go near Parsons again. Ever. It's like a get out of hell free pass. Ever.
10- Don't smile at strangers, it only encourages uncomfortable situations.
Page 172
1- Work on David's painting. Try to get the darks as rich as possible, without losing the layered colors. Try to keep that quality of stained, peeling wall paper.
2- Collect a bag of old clothes to sell on ebay. Being jobless doesn't have to mean being broke.
3- Find Jack's mice. Places you should look: Under the couch, behind the stove, in the closets.
