Back to the Studio

So many more ghosts need faces for my upcoming show in November, Mything Persons. Here' s the start of one - I'll be in my studio again today conjuring up another...

I've been nested so solidly at home and in my garden this whole summer, I had to rip myself out yesterday to get back to the city and into my studio. My entire adult life I have struggled with acknowledging, paying attention to, and then balancing these two parts of myself: the mother/homebody and the artist, or "the domestic and the wild," to quote the wise poet mother of an artist friend of mine. Brings to mind this truly atrocious old song...

Rockin' The Shadow

Moon Rock Self, I, II, III, IV, V

Icons Updike and Katz

I've just started rereading John Updike. I inhaled his Rabbit series back in the eighties (when I was in my thirties) along with several other of his novels; Roger's Version, The Witches of Eastwick, Couples, and The Coup, to name a few. In recent years I have not been able to get into much fiction. I've mostly read artists' biographies and books on theology. Funny how our literary tastes can change. But while at the library last week I picked up Updike's collection The Early Stories and am thoroughly enjoying again his fine artist's eye and visceral, detailed portraits of his characters. Funny also that I should find on-line today this portrait of Updike by Alex Katz (top image), an artist whose portrait work I think of as the opposite of visceral. Typically iconic, cool and slick, his faces and heads never really interested me. Not enough juice, I'd thought. But today I see in them a depth, and a ripple of emotional movement under the surface that I had not detected before. Like I said, funny how tastes can change...

Local Color

Zinnias, daisies, and sunflowers from my garden.

House full of company just left - summer partying is over.

This is the week that I get back to my studio! Stay tuned...

Fledgling Shadow

An Ode to the Glorious Chagall

I know not why, but my morning glories, the warmth of this morning's sun, the crickets' song, and the early September light, all bring to mind the work of Chagall.

Get in Line!

Big End of Summer sale going on over in our Etsy shop!

Come check it out!