Two years ago at this time, I was shoveling 2-3 foot snow drifts out of my mom’s driveway. Today I woke up to sweatshirt weather and the smell of spring rain and it’s making me a little antsy to be outdoors and to hit the road for some travel.. I love being out there. I told a friend once that the reason I liked to go out for morning country drives is because no matter what I’ve got going on, at least I’m moving forward… I got laughed at.
In other news, I just found out that Beatrice Coron and Clay Rice, two amazing cut paper artists that I’ve admired since I began cutting paper are both in the exhibit I’m in this summer in Topeka. I saw a Beatrice Coron exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library when I lived in NY. It was mind blowing.. I’ll be giving some sort of presentation during the month of June for this exhibit – working out the details now.. more on that later.
The MacGuffin, a national & international literary magazine, is coming out in Feb. My work titled “Stacks” is the cover image and I’ll have a few works inside. I’ll post it when it’s out.
Also, look out for Lawrence Magazine, a local Lawrence, KS, magazine on city-goings-on, for an article about Lora Jost, Dave Lowenstein (two Lawrence-based artists) & myself. It went to press last week and should be hitting stands anytime.. and it’s free.
That’s all. Here’s a song. “Dust On My Boots” by Jerry Jeff Walker
When I was in high school, I didn’t go out much and instead sat around listening to music most of the time – my best friend was a dj at the local AM country station.. And twice m’life later, I pretty much still do the same thing.. I spent the better part of my weekend sifting through crates, boxes, bins, etc., of records at record stores, thrift stores and antique stores in town… And during the time that I wasn’t doing that, I’ve been listening to a lot of these folks, whilst cutting paper of course:
From right to left, top to bottom:
1. Jerry Jeff Walker – Driftin’ Way of Life
2. John Prine
3. The Pennywhistlers – Folksongs of Eastern Europe
4. Songs of Leonard Cohen
5. Peter, Paul and Mary – See What Tomorrow Brings (in my mind, I’m the fourth member)
6. Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters
Many thanks to leading Danish women’s magazine Alt for Damerne for including me in their ALT Interior trend guide. Check here for more details (it’s in danish, btw). I spotted a couple of my prints (by the red arrows) in the picture.. now I know why I was getting all those orders from Denmark. Thanks!
I’m still chugging along on this thing.. hoping to finish it up tomorrow morning.
Sent out a few more packages to Denmark. Whatever I did to deserve the love in Denmark, I don’t know, but thank you for your orders! Also got some things mail-bound to Maine, Maryland, and Californiaaaa…
I’m still chugging along on this thing.. hoping to finish it up tomorrow morning.