Rhy-mazing!

So I'm home sick today, drinking mad ginger ale and watching painfully bad daytime tv (today's episode: Beautiful Women, Tormented Lives) and painfully good movies that put me to sleep.

While perusing my blog, I realize that despite several posts highlighting artists/designers in Canada and beyond, I haven't mentioned a good friend - soft sculpture phenom Rhya Tamasauskas. This seems a glaring and embarassing omission, so... behold:


Rhya (on right) at the Monster Factory launch with business partners Bliss Man (best name ever) and Adam Dunn


Collaborative piece for Toronto contemporary art 'thing' Nuit Blanche entitled Curbside Getaway.


Garden Mites, one of Rhya's personal projects.


More Garden Mites.

Rhya is kind of the artist other artists would hate if she wasn't so freakishly likable. Why? Because she's achieved mad commercial success through her company Monster Factory, and she still does amazing projects the other 16 hours of the day, like making outfits for art robots, speaking at various art/fashion schools and generally rocking the Toronto indie art world.

Wanna see some of the monsters come to life? Check them out busting mad moves in Guster's video - One Man Wrecking Machine.



Okay then, my conscience is purged. Time to chug some Buckley's and go back to sleep. Being sick is the best...