David Lee Labby

online portfolio
---- paintings, drawings, journals
---- documenting a passion for mark making
---- using words and images to express my passage on this spinning rock
--------words
--------current visual work
--------recent art exhibitions
--------benevolent parasites - a continuing sculptural project
--------thoughts on art education - and the process of teacher education

Diversity Gallery & Studios 2000-2005
---- Leesville, Louisiana's "first little art gallery"
---- history of a non-commercial art space on Louisiana's west edge

RAD, RealArt DeRidder Arts Cooperative 2009...
---- a community supported arts cooperative in DeRidder, Louisiana
---- documenting the value of sharing your creative passions with your community
---- choosing the principles of cooperation instead of competition in the visual arts


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"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself in a kind of track that has been there the whole while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living."
Joseph Campbell


...in the studio
with Punkin Schmunkin Critterhead, the studio cat.

...in Lake Charles, Louisiana
taking a break from coursework in art education at McNeese.
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Lake Charles, facing west, I-10 bridge ------------- and facing east, toward downtown


Busterbrat - the "super campin' dawg", an old soul, his humans miss him.
Kisatchie - I've spent weeks at a time living in Kisatchie. If I could figure out a way to live full-time in this forest, I would.
Oui, on peut! - filmed in a club just down the road - the best of Louisiana
Punkin's house - progress on my DeRidder studio