Tonight was my first venture out of my housebound state since Tuesday b/c of the poison ivy rash. It's finally dying down, so I made to an opening at MGC, where I had my
lovely scholarship in the spring of 2008. I was able to see old friends and my teacher
Fred and it was like I had only left yesterday. It's a special place - truly a community of printers - and not many places like this exist in this big bad city. Everyone is so nice and supportive and it made me realize how much I had learned and received from them. Studio space, time, techniques, people to bounce ideas off of, the whole package. I am ever grateful.
It was weird to walk through this old hood - I had worked here for two years and now the office has relocated to Brooklyn, though nothing much has changed. I used to never feel okay w/a visible camera or shooting conspicuously for fear of looking like a Japanese tourist, but after seeing the endless throngs of people in Korea w/huge cameras all the time, I am totally over it.
I'm calmer about the show going up in Miami in just a couple of weeks...oh, wait. It really
is only a couple of weeks! Now I am starting to get scared. I have one ticket booked but no hotel yet, which is likely foolish, but I'm still in denial (plus I can't see past the impending deadlines for other things).
I finished three new pieces plus the biggie, so art-wise I feel solid. Admin and PR, not so solid. Plus I move in less than a week. If I can trick myself into finishing all the big apps by Wed, maybe I'll have a chance at getting things done on time. Since packing will entail summer clothes for Florida and super-duper winter clothes for North Country. Much trickier logistics than usual. Today's coping mechanism for all of it: I baked more cookies.
Tonight was my first venture out of my housebound state since Tuesday b/c of the poison ivy rash. It's finally dying down, so I made to an opening at MGC, where I had my lovely scholarship in the spring of 2008. I was able to see old friends and my teacher Fred and it was like I had only left yesterday. It's a special place - truly a community of printers - and not many places like this exist in this big bad city. Everyone is so nice and supportive and it made me realize how much I had learned and received from them. Studio space, time, techniques, people to bounce ideas off of, the whole package. I am ever grateful.
It was weird to walk through this old hood - I had worked here for two years and now the office has relocated to Brooklyn, though nothing much has changed. I used to never feel okay w/a visible camera or shooting conspicuously for fear of looking like a Japanese tourist, but after seeing the endless throngs of people in Korea w/huge cameras all the time, I am totally over it.
I'm calmer about the show going up in Miami in just a couple of weeks...oh, wait. It really is only a couple of weeks! Now I am starting to get scared. I have one ticket booked but no hotel yet, which is likely foolish, but I'm still in denial (plus I can't see past the impending deadlines for other things).
I finished three new pieces plus the biggie, so art-wise I feel solid. Admin and PR, not so solid. Plus I move in less than a week. If I can trick myself into finishing all the big apps by Wed, maybe I'll have a chance at getting things done on time. Since packing will entail summer clothes for Florida and super-duper winter clothes for North Country. Much trickier logistics than usual. Today's coping mechanism for all of it: I baked more cookies.
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