Hi Friends

Sorry for the post delay. I forgot my flashdrive on whenever and blah blah.

So this week, I cleaned my studio, and it's feeling like a much better place to work. I know where stuff is again and I have room to put stuff and almost enough room to move around, so that's good.

I spent a lot of time painting this week, but I don't think I'm going to show any of it because you might be getting sick of seeing the same paintings in different states. I'll let you know when they're done.

But I've been drawing too. The image below is an alteration of a drawing I did last semester. Part of my studio cleaning process was figuring out what I've actually done these past uhhhhfive?six?four?months? and what of it I actually like, and what can be worked on more or destroyed or given away. I added acrylic and watercolor to the image below and cropped it in photoshop. I think I like it that way better, so I may crop the actual drawing too. Oh and I flipped it 90 degrees.

Here's another drawing in the series I am tentatively titling "The Exact Location" (in reference to the human heart, or spirit, or experience, or whatever, because, where is it exactly, if we're always changing and moving around? ) But maybe that title is not good, and if it isn't, please let me know.

I was really excited about this drawing for maaaybee 2 reasons. I really like the emotional shift in the figure on the right. I think it's getting closer to what I want motion to express, because it's a movement, but here it's also an emotional change. It's like, shy affection, to distracted comment . . . Or something. That's not quite it.

But then the figure on the left is concentrated on something else entirely.  He's looking at the the other's wrist, and is maybe captivated by it in a way that also maybe seems insane.

But maybe that's not something else entirely, because it almost looks like the figure on the right is saying "look here, my wrist is broken" and the figure on the left discovered the secret of life in the vision of the broken wrist.

I don't know. haha. But I think there's something there.

I mentioned last week that I started altering a book. Here are a few pages from that. It's a little more lighthearted than the rest of my work, though still in a dark sort of way. Last year, words were a big part of my painting and drawing, but for whatever reason they seem to be absent this year. Maybe working on books again will bring that back.

Also, this face that I painted last semester is going to be on a TEDx poster. Look for it around town I guess. They all turned out really cool. To see the whole collection, go here.

Timekeeping

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