It's a New Year and as always, cannot manage to post regularly. It is a time for evaluation of the past year and looking forward to the new one. It was a good year for me personally but the tragedies others faced make it impossible to judge as a good one in general. Between natural disasters and the war in Iraq that is taking so many of our children/sons/loved ones, it is hard to celebrate our personal good fortune.
Posting on a regular basis still eludes me............Now I have a need to refocus on my work and make my plans for the rest of the year and into the next one. This has been a successful year and one of many life changes.
What I do the next three months will determine the direction of my work for the next year so special attention must be paid. Complicating matters, one project already determined must be completed this month so I must focus, focus, focus............
This year has been interesting on the blogging front........while I cannot seem to get a blog written every few months, many in the quilt world have discovered it, embraced it, and are totally possessed by it. Competitive blogging seems to be the rage. Their daily posts include pictures and accounts of all of their thoughts and schedule of activities. Then they have to read all the other ones from their "blog group" and comment on those...........All this makes me realize that I am just not a good sorority girl. I am more comfortable in telephone conversations with a couple of my good friends and my daughters, where I can be totally myself, for better or for worse and not committed to a daily activity that takes my valuable time.
I have always looked at it as a way to express some views or just "journal" online instead of my paper one.........to get things off my chest, to review my life issues from time to time, and help with focus in general.....................but hey...........thats just me.
Still concerned about our Country's lack of leadership, the made up war in Iraq, victims of recent natural disasters and our lack of competetent response, and now the Supreme Court.
Better go make some art...................
Still can't get my act together to post on a regular basis. The exhibition was a great success with the art center getting considerably more attendance than usual. I got lots of positive comments and the whole experience was good for the ego. When you work everyday in a solitary manner, its good to get it all together and have your work validated.
The news has been so depressing, especially the Terri Shivo stuff and now the Pope is clinging to life. I understand that as soon as the Pope dies, Michael Shivo will be charged with his murder.
I have been in the studio every day for at least 10 hours. Lots of good things are coming from my efforts. Life is good
The exhibition looks like a success and its good to have that over..........its a lot of work to get it all together and you are always anxious until the show is up and the opening is over.
The political front is starting to get scary and a bit encouraging at the same time. I am so hoping that all of our kids come back from Iraq soon. We need to get them out of harm's way. The scary thing is that Bush feels so empowered right now. In Texas the expression "big hat, no cattle" applies. The scary thing is that GW's people have told him that he does have the cattle. That is a horrifying thought. The encouraging thing is that now the news reports are coming out about the manipulating of the press and all of the memos that show that the war was bogus. His approval level is dropping and I think in time will continue to do so. The thing that continues to confound me is how the Christian community continues to support him when he continues the big lie, gets caught at it, our troups continue to be killed and the situation does not improve.
What do I know.........I'm just a grandma.
I had promised myself that starting with the first of the year that I would post on a regular basis and am just getting around to it.
The past few weeks have been consumed with getting up my exhibition in Lewisville. I have a show at the Visual Arts League gallery which will be up through March 13. Its very exciting.
Have been really bummed since the election and trying to not think about important issues and concentrating on doing art. That has actually been quite productive and in the process of having a good amount of work done.
Lets see if I can get back on track and do a better job of communication.
Have not posted for a while which is good and bad. It means that I have had some interesting things going on. The best thing is that I have some interesting art going on right now. I am going to have a solo exhibition of my work next spring and some important juried exhibitions are also coming up soon. That may sound like a long way off but when you make quilts, the process is quite more labor intensive than some mediums even considering that much of the work is done by machine.
The exciting part of this is that I have returned to a way of working that I have done for most of my "art" life but have not followed lately. That is working in a more improvisational way. I have a series going that I call "childs play" and some of this new work has grown from that concept. I am playing with color, design, fabrics, and all my favorite things.
Basically, right at this moment, I am living my dream.
