trust me on this

i am not sure why these are "from the studio" today
i just know that they are
perhaps they are a poem
this was

some synchronicity

for the first time in ages
the rain came down in buckets
it was a welcome change

and i continued finding little bits of meaning
and moments that made some sort of sense

a/c

i made a little video of the transparent envelopes fluttering on my wall
one i put sound to
the other is them coming to rest as the a/c shuts down
it seems to be true
heat turns your brain to mush
;D

also learning to play with imovie

and trying to figure out which service to use to embed videos

shooting

i haven't brought these lights out in a long, long time
this might be the first time since the loft

whites

2 steps forward,
1 back
i suppose

postcard from the edge

i think this blog will be moving,
it is no longer appropriate for the front page of my site,
there will most likely be a link to it
from the behind the lens section of this site

light

beginning to see the light...
not so much at the end of the proverbial tunnel
but just where i should go next

installation in progress

i knew that if i just let it happen
this piece would kind of pull itself together
and i guess if it didn't,
i was comfortable with that as well
seeing marina in white today, without the table
kind of pulled it together for me

a sense of smell

last year i transplanted these from all over the garden to one bed
very few bloomed
this year the wind rusyles them
and the smell is incredibly delicious

crab apple

i wanted so much to bring these into the studio
to paint them for my project
but i couldn't bear to cut them

on a wing and a prayer

still stumbling around
trying to regain a sense of routine
a sense of purpose
but i feel like i am on pause
and i feel like i need to play catch up
and neither of those things feel right

onward ho!

working with the random thoughts again
priming the boards for once
because i have started working
(shhhh! this is a real secret)
with pure pigment on them

finished the thing-a-day project
you can see the whole thing on its own blog
(which ends with the slide show for february's flickr posts)

significance

trash

drawing


composite

extremely significant that this was my tweet a from today
and that these were my fotola posts from a year ago:

daily bread		animus

missing

i took this picture this morning
because i felt so "missing"
i had to take it again this evening
because it seems
something else is missing
it's a lot about not listening to t_l_v
maybe i will finally learn my lesson
it's the only way i can make bad things right
by learning from them

wip

i started laboring over this too much
so i peeled back some of the layers
and painted over others
and am looking at another fresh start
but some things i have saved


and added to paintings i am trying not to totally obliterate

*earlier versions

good morning

it always is
(a good morning)
when i can walk into the studio
and see evidence of myself
i have had an epiphany of sorts;
a new understanding of how all my processes could come together
more of that will unfold here
as usual it involves feeling "other"
and involves being ok with that
had dinner with one of my oldest friends who i hadn't seen in some time
when 2 "others" get together, it can be very nice

life imitates art

clean up

days & days interrupted
today will be the last
cleared most things
off my plate
off my desk
&
out of the clutter of my mind
i MUST simplify things

precious

the strangest things can become precious
like when you need find that 100 white map pins are needed to hang a show
and there are none to be had except ones that are in use
and when you try to remove them from the wall
the little heads come off...

i managed to collect enough :)

i also managed to post a show invitation

and looking for something else
(pictures of plants)
i found this version of a self portrait that strangely,
i didn't use, i kind of like it

the color of white

i told you it would be white (left)
and this is just how it's been going for the past couple of months
my process is so strongly influenced by that picasso quote that's all over this site,
the one about painting out anything that doesn't work...
it's my touchstone in a way

started a new little piece of all this
a twitter companion to this blog
i've been doing it privately for a while
let's see if it works
the last 5 posts will always be at the bottom of this blog
or if you tweet, you can follow me...