Morristown Craft Show

So, my first show since the Spring......it was really really bad.  I really don't know what is going to happen to most of us.  Partly its the economy, but....
I don't know, for me, it's something even more.  After the Smithsonian show, which was wonderful, and successful for me, it's hard to go back to trying to educate people, skew their thinking, getting them to take that leap.  Maybe I'm tired.  Maybe I need to go in another direction.
I'm afraid.

The Footsteps of Spring

I remember....

I remember that Spring long ago, holding hands with Sue, under bright dogwoods, breathing her last breaths,

and happy

we lay down in the footsteps of Spring.

ohmygoditsreallysnowing

its been snowing for a long time....thank goodness we still have power.

Rainy Sunday

"For anything great to happen there needs to be a long obedience in the same direction."

I'm quoting Bono here, who is quoting Nietzsche.  
I'm not a real Nietzche fan.  I mean, I've never actually read anything by him,  just absorbed, sort of a mental osmosis a few nuggets here and there.  He was pretty negative about a lot of stuff, and a real misanthrope.  

But, every once in awhile you get these little nuggets, words, that are nice to pick up and put in your pocket, take out to look at once in awhile, hoping they become a part of your psyche.  If you can remember them, that is.

New Leaf?

I swore last week I would turn over a new leaf if I got into Smithsonian.....so of course I spent this whole week sort of cleaning my house.  Here's the thing - I really really suck at cleaning, so of course my house was/is (sort of) a disaster.  Which makes me dread cleaning even more.  But my dear friend pointed out we could no longer see out of any of the windows.  Dear Kit Kat helped me clean the windows but I had to do the dusting and vacuuming myself.  There is not enough Pledge in the world to deal with all the dust....
But today I'm getting into the studio.
The picture above is called "Julian Schnabel's house", a piece i made over a year ago, and sold before I could really even appreciate what it was all about.
I've had a strange couple of days in addition to the whole house cleaning thing.  People contacting me from my past.  It's made me really reflect on who I am.  But it's also put me in an alternative place in my mind.  Last night I actually drove my dear old newly rebuilt fragile car over a big curb (that came out of nowhere) and when I was looking underneath to see what damage I'd done, I locked the car with EVERTHING in it.....keys, money, phone.  fuck fuck fuck.  Another wake up call to the need for absolutely BEING HERE NOW.  Why do I keep pushing the snooze button?

Smithsonian?

Well, the Washington show went okay.....

And then just when once again I'm wondering what it's all about alfie, I got notice that I got into the Smithsonian Show!!  It's funny, because I was kind of (praying) saying to myself that if I just got in, I would turn a whole new leaf and start taking myself way too seriously, and then I opened my mail, and BOOM!

One Week Until the Washington Craft Show

Friday, November 6, 10 - 8

Saturday, November 7, 10 - 6

Sunday, November 8, 11 - 5

at the Washington Convention Center

Hope to see you there