Hello from Wichita, KS. I drove down today for the 53rd annual Art & Book Fair presented by the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum. I’ve got my booth all set up and ready to go for what looks like will be a great show (there’s an amazing stoneware artist across from me… I’ll not be coming home empty-handed). The fair runs Saturday from 10-5 and Sunday from 10-4 at the Century II Exhibition Hall.
11 x 14 inch paper cutting.
I just finished this one — inspired, as promised, by my recent post about the bird on the bike. Better photo when daylight comes back.
16 x 20 inch paper cutting.
I just finished this one.. Had hoped to finish it before last weekend’s art fair, but alas, it could not be done. Better picture coming tomorrow after I flatten it out with some heavy books and get some daylight to photograph it under.
I found a small strawberry patch growing under some overgrowth next to my garbage bin while I was mowing yesterday. I’ve had this song stuck in my head since…
I caught this bird hanging out on my neighbor’s old bike yesterday afternoon. This might very well inspire a near-future paper cutting.
This really saddens me. He’s always been a great inspiration.
“Doing books, doing pictures.. and it’s the only true happiness I’ve ever enjoyed in my life. It’s sublime to just go into another room and make pictures, it’s magic time, where all your weaknesses of character and all blemishes of personality and whatever else torments you fades away… You’re doing the one thing you want to do and you do it well and you know you do it well. And you’re happy. The whole promise is to do the work. Sitting down at the drawing table, turning on the radio. And I think what a transcendent life this is that I’m doing everything that I want to do and at that moment I feel like I’m a lucky man. I’m trying very hard to concentrate on what is here. What I can see, what I can smell, what I can feel, making that the important business of life.”
11 x 14 inch paper cutting.