Category: My Art
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Disappointing News
I am disappointed (*@#%!!) that none of my four entries to the current exhibit at Northwind Arts Center were accepted. I will probably never know why, and it is a pity that none appealed to the jurors, who run a very nice art gallery here in town: the Simon Mace Gallery. I am sorry/disappointed that…
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Revisiting a theme, and making it new
These two birds first appeared, in a full round nest, drawn in graphite with embossing. Now they have a new & different environment. This mixed media piece is about love, parenthood, partnership, safety, and home. It has many digital layers, and now physical layers also: the soft off-white paper is float mounted to the dark…
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Preliminary planning …
Processing very difficult things Safety vs. Fear vs. Excitement Attacks, personal danger, rape, assault Homeless Drug abuse Mixed community: poor, homeless, addicts, artists, Not Boring! Not Boring! Pioneer Square: pioneers on the frontier of homelessness Protest! Don’t attack me! Don’t hurt me! Don’t bore me! Shine a light in the darkness Good & bad drug…
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Moving on …
Now that I have three new sculptures finished, labeled, and set to be entered to an upcoming juried show, it is time to move on to the next thing. I am not sure exactly what this will be. I took a one day “break” from art, working in the yard, walking, cooking (and eating of…
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Further Evidence …
Just in case anyone needs this, I seem to have further evidence that I am very competitive at times. I had not really planned to submit anything to the upcoming art show at Northwind Arts Center. It has the theme: Fins, Feather, Fur. This did not inspire me, or fit any of my more recent…
