Back in the Land of the Living
with some energy and lots of gratitude
Hi there my friends! I am sort of back to the land of the living! I am 6 months into a year of healing from a complex broken leg and just starting to get around on a cane. While I still look pretty pitiful, my doctors and therapists assure me I am doing as well or better than can be expected from this serious an injury. GEESH! Had I known what I was in for, I would have chosen a different injury!
I am so grateful for my guest post writers, providing thoughtful conversation for us all, for my business team, for my friends, my packers/unpackers and movers, both paid and unpaid. I could not have done this without you!
As my energy returns, I am, again, working in the studio, mostly on works on paper. It is such a balm!
These are the first artworks made in the new studio. Transitional Drawing 1 & 2. (#3 is in process on the work table)
NEW STUDIO? Yes, the injury was serious enough to force a move into a new, safer building! One story living with a walkout basement studio accessed by a stair lift!
These drawings actually began back in 2021 at Virginia Center for Creative Arts, where I did a residency. Toward the end of my stay, having completed what I came to do, I picked up some rotting nuts on the lawn and plopped them in a cup of water, making a walnut “ink.” I grabbed my brush and dipped in. I also grabbed the nuts and drew directly. What I drew were loose, loopy shell forms, reminiscent of the Eros and Thanatos series.
Fast forward 2 years to unpacking the studio in a new location: Burnsville, about 10 miles south of where I lived and worked before. When I came across those pale shell drawings I knew I needed to get out my pencils! The Transitional Drawings, while based on shell/vulvar forms, became bones, lungs, cells. They make me think of being able to breathe again, metaphorically. I feel like myself when I can make art.
And that need gave me the energy to make the studio work again! About 2/3 of the studio is in working order. Imagine unpacking all this while using a walker! That is my studio walker below…it folds up very small! I have tables to work on and a functional embroidery room. The space in between is the wood shop which will be put together next month! And that is a toe, broken on the walker when swinging my feet into bed! GEESH!
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Meanwhile exhibitions continue.
I completed a solo show
I am currently participating in
Women Take The Walls, Garrett Museum of Art, IN
TNBT23, Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
24 Hours of Wonder, Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, AK
International Fiber Art XI, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
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