I am in the studio today. First day back after three days art handling. It’s as beautiful day outside. I don’t feel like I’m missing out though, because if I don’t get quality time painting, everything else I do will feel like it’s hurting me or unenjoyable. It’s hard to explain that to my friends… Continue reading “Three Times Art Made Me Jump The Tracks”
War and Peace
War and Peace shall be my next book, following the four I am in the middle of now. I choose this title because I believe that reading it will place a lot of later literature into context. It’s like the spore of the fiction world’s mycelium. Currently, I am on part three of The Warmth… Continue reading War and Peace
As I wait for my laundry,
As I wait for my laundry, I will do a wrap up of my cultural consuming over the weekend. I didn’t physically visit any galleries, museums, performances or public art. After 3 days of art handling, you get the itch to paint and conceptualize your ideas. My coworker described: “an artist working as an art… Continue reading As I wait for my laundry,
Today was a fun/heavy day at work.
I worked non-stop today cataloging artist edition prints by Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002, French-American) for her retrospective that opens next week. Her prints are a careful cultivation of naiveté, whimsical, sketchbook-like illustrations and writing. They are HUGE prints of PRISTINE quality in editions of up to 150. So I ask the question, how does… Continue reading Today was a fun/heavy day at work.