I'm busy...

Yesterday I had to drop off a piece for the group show for open studios. The piece in the youtube video is the one I dropped off. In less than 2 minutes you can see what I have created. Somehow the sound was lost in the upload so the lovely John Coltrane track I'd added is gone. Yet, even still – ENJOY!

the reviewer of the arts

He put photos of our show on his site!
CLICK HERE and scroll down the page to see images of our show.

experience my day

I went over to my friends live/work loft to see the walls I will be using for this years big open studio show. My time at the building was pleasant as I hung out with an artist named Jennifer. After I saw the space I will be using we hung out in her studio and she showed me some of the paintings she's working on. My friend John arrived at his place and I ended up seeing some of his latest work too as well as his new camera. We all talked about what we are working on and the creative process and it just felt really GOOD. In some ways it reminded me of this video (below). The look of the studio spaces - all junky and with so many works in progress, the way we shared with one another - all of it comes to mind when I see this video. It makes me happy - like wow, this is my life...

{sigh}

It's been a rough day. I spent most of the day focusing on PR efforts for my show. At the same time I have been feeling kinda depressed and wondering if my efforts will pay off. I think I'm pushing when I probably should just trust, breathe, and pray. I'm also catching a cold, which doesn't help my mood...

ordinary day

It's been a strange day. Today was low key and a bit blah as I regroup from the opening this past weekend. I'm daydreaming about open studios next month and today I found this magazine page in a drawer. Maybe it will work it's way into a sculpture... we'll see. I love the idea of creating aspects of movement!

five senses no.62 (but on a Saturday)

HEAR
- me giving directions to two women , telling them which bus to take to Golden Gate Park
- Lenny Kravitz's new album
- a teenager telling her friend how she and a bunch of kids got drunk last weekend. "We all went to Alex's house. We were so messed up! We took turns throwing up. Now just the smell of alcohol makes me want to throw up!"

SEE
- a line of immigrant day laborers waiting and hoping someone will pick them up
- a gray haired man with long gray hair and an even grayer beard driving a vehicle the size of a greyhound bus that looked like a ship on wheels. He looked like a pirate on dry land.
- an Asian woman in jeans and a gray hoodie wearing really ornately beaded sandals with brass beads and clear jewels. The way she sat and held her feet was elegant like one a traditional dancer from Thailand
- a girl wearing a swatch watch and a slouch sweatshirt like Jennifer Beals in Flashdance along with black leggings. 80's!
- a woman looking like the white witch from Narnia is proof that not everyone can be a platinum blonde

SMELL
- funky, sweaty, smelly boys on the bus coming from school
- food burning

TASTE
- spaghetti
- bartlett pears
- peanut butter cookies
- ginger ale

FEEL
- nervous about today's art opening
- an ongoing ache in my knees
- hopeful, excited

fall back into fashion

a day in the life

Always prepare for an unexpected opportunity to knock on your door. – me

I scraped myself out of bed today. I have been so exhausted after a week of going to bed around 3AM each morning as I worked on my sculptures for my show. I got up this morning slow and draggy contemplating my next move. My room needs a major cleaning as half of it is piled up with sculptures and paperwork, old mail, recycling and books that need to be put away. I wondered if I should tackle this task or forget it all and go downtown to a gallery show I have wanted to see. It doesn’t help that I am out of coffee and the boost that a hot cup of Sumatra would offer isn’t readily available.

I got up and went to the computer to check my email when the phone rang. And just like that I have a new venue to show my work. My work will be featured in a fashion show at a high end shopping area in Marin next week. They are having an event that includes a cocktail party, fashion show and a screening of the documentary about Bill Cunningham – the famous street photographer. My art dealer will pick up several pieces from me tomorrow. So, just like that, my day was planned – I selected artwork for the event, retouched paint, wrapped pieces and created an invoice sheet.

sneak peek of the show

We installed the show yesterday. It was the fastest installation I have ever been a part of. Tanya's husband hung the work and he was as meticulous and detailed about it as my husband is when hanging work so I felt relieved knowing he’d do a great job.
Tanya and I finally got a chance to see what the other has been creating (in person- as opposed to photos) and we were both excited about what we'd created. Our work complements each others in a wonderful way. The show is very beautiful, magical and intriguing. Gosh - it was such a good day.

I tried to upload pieces of Tanya’s and they would not load properly. Click HERE and HERE to see some of her amazing work for the show.



title: the transformation
inspired by Cinderella

“The clothes are like us, worn and worn until our ideas and values are slackened by the passing of time. The renewal, the revivifying, takes place in water, in the re-discovering of what we really hold to be true, what we really hold sacred.”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Woman Who Run With Wolves

Beauty from ashes, the refiner’s fire… Hardship and struggle to become the people we were always meant to be is a life long journey.

400 beads and some sculpting...

Oh how we all wish for magical shoes to lead us to new adventures, to take us far away, to change the course of our current dreary lives.

hey there, hi there...

I'm very tired. I haven't been sleeping well and I have been sculpting/working many hours. Most of the work I have come up with lately has me thinking, "This is insane. What the hell are you doing?" mostly because I feel like I am pushing the envelope. As I fall asleep each night (Which may be why I DON'T fall asleep) I ask myself if the work is good. It's hard to create in a vacuum. I love some of it but whether anyone else will love it as much as I do remains to be seen... Meanwhile I am catching a cold, have a sty in my eye and I am exhausted. One day I will blog regularly again but for now - here's a quick check in and a hello.
Hello!

inspiration saturday

One day I will sculpt a dress like this, blowing in the wind...

- found via le coil

this room makes me happy

- found via Desire to Inspire

Purple in a kitchen! How unexpected and yet so cool...

- found via the style files