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About Suzanne Forbes

Suzanne Forbes is a traditionally trained figurative artist who makes documentary art of queer culture and Berlin life. She also works in mixed media. She is a former New Yorker who immigrated to Berlin with her third husband and their two cats. Her work is crowdfunded by the support of her Patrons on Patreon; you could help! In previous lives Suzanne was a graffiti artist in downtown NY, a courtroom artist for CBS and CNN, a penciller for DC Comics on Star Trek, and a live-drawing chronicler of Bay Area alternative culture.

First project in our new home.

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beetle_Suzanne_Forbes_Sept_2015Yes, I love bugs and I cannot lie.

This is the first project I finished in our new home, a small but very detailed embroidery using multiple gauges and types of metallic thread to sort of drill down into the shiny carapace. The idea is that stringing a fine web of metallic thread over a two or three color satin-stitch fade will help to make it shine without obscuring the color, like interferent paints.

Our new kitchen has amazing light, and it has rapidly become my favorite workspace for detailed handwork. It’s kind of a construction site, since like many traditional Berlin rentals it was a BYOK- Bring Your Own Kitchen- and we get a little into setting it up, then run out of money and take a break. But I love it anyway, so much. Working in here, I am as happy as I’ve ever been.kitchen

A little old-time music, and Google Translate is in love with death.

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suzanne forbes drawing 2015I made this drawing at the Barkin Kitchen Fish Fry, on a lovely deck overlooking the river in an area where artists have built their own apartment buildings.

These guys are The Curtis Tembeck Outlaw Party.

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Also, Google Translate is scaring me tonight.

Instead of craigslist or regular eBay, most people here use eBay Kleinanzeigen to sell their stuff. It’s free local classifieds.

Because I am broke, insanely cheap, and still missing some 75% of the items one needs to run a household, I buy things there.

I just wanted a used food processor for 10 euros and a cheap dresser I could paint black.

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Not anything to do with the founder of time.founder of time

yes chunksDisturbed, I went to another site and attempted to buy cat litter. (German cat litter SUCKS raw eggs.)

Look what you can get! Sure, we all know that’s what most canned cat food is, but do they have to be so blunt about it? They’re Germans, of course they do.cat sticks

If you think “Cat sticks” sounds like Pocky for cats, you are correct, and Morgan loves them.

 

I’ll leave you with this charming sentiment about cat litter: “What pleases the Stubentiger now?

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