about that october project ...mmm ... well things got a little busy i guess. i was terribly well-intentioned and got an AMAZING amount done, but ... it will not be done. i'm not even sure where i really want to go with the pieces although i know i will go, because they are too good to toss (yet).
maybe it seems like i have not done very much artMaking this summer? have i shown anything? no? oh. well, surprise. despite the fact that i thought i was doing quite a bit of piddling, when i moved my belongings from my sister's house last week, i was astounded to be dragging out 3 large shopping bags full of completed/in-progress art. art soothes. it is a good thing i had no expectations about having an ordinary home, because this tiny joint is indeed studio, sleeping room, tiny kitchen, small bath ... and storage space (for which i am intensely grateful, having copious amounts of completed/in-progress art). i do hope to have some sitting chairs eventually.
i realize i have developed some agoraphobia and i MUST get over it, so one evening a couple of nights ago, i made myself go out and walk at early sunset. i fell in love with my weird little neighborhood. trailers, live oaks, grandma houses, dirt yards with chickens, goats and YES ... llamas, some new fancy places, like the reconstructed Fredericksburg Herb Farm, where we have been going for years, but it is now this freaky, upscale, "spa" with the gardens bulldozed for cutesy cottages. the original owner still seems to have a house on the estate and has an Urban Garden, a little business. that is his gate and i love it.
tonight it is my first cold front and my first solo "outing" since living here. i walked back to the Herb Farm, where there was an event of art in the garden and an $89/dinner/wine/thing (um. no. i just wanted to see the art stuff.) and i did. it was mostly watercolor and i had a supreme attack of Lonely Alien, but i was glad i went out. and i am glad it is cold. and i am REALLY glad that i spent the day at my new artTable.
this new life is very strange.
![](<a href="http://www.adfreeblog.org/" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.adfreeblog.org/art_not_ads.jpg"></a>)
2 comentarios:
I love reading you. Thanks for continuing to post. I've lived in NYC almost all my life and STILL feel like an alien! Good luck with your new home :)
bulldozed the herb gardens? Sad and really weird...remember visiting them in, hmmm, 1992? They were fresh and normal and homey.
I am glad you are settled more now and back at your Art Table
Publicar un comentario