the first step of the last phase…

My plans for the evening got cancelled. Well, postponed. An obligation ran long and I had to call the day and stay in the rest of my evening, which is fine considering. I had missed a call from my studiomate while thrifting this morning. I hadn’t yet returned the call. The phone rang later than […]

the slow goodbye

My studiomate’s health has been dropping steadily for over a year now. I don’t wish to get into his details, so I will just say that after a long series of difficulties, his liver has shut down. He is losing weight, well, perhaps maintaining weight now, but has lost so much which he cannot regain. He […]

the emotional debt of dying

My inner child, that part of me that never seems to age past eighteen years of age, faced a curious moment of maturity. I spend the early evening with my studio-mate, discussing further the decision to let go of the studio space at the end of the current lease, which would be July of 2011… […]

Protected: what a difference twelve hours makes…

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open studio @ the hobbs

The crunch is on!Fall Open Studio at the Hobbs is October 10 and 11: Friday from 6-10 pm, Saturday from noon to 4 pm… The studio is always a disaster going into it. Write that up under the never-learns column. I still haven’t gotten back to drawing. No big concern there as long as I […]

An extra day

Michael and I will be in Aberdeen one more day…The shipping company (companies) messed upand the exhibit did not arrive today. Good thing the exhibit was late shipping out of KC though.The museum here – which is a kick-ass old bank buildingwith most the original woodwork and tin ceilings –was not prepared for the shear […]

Yea for me!

Here I am in scenic Aberdeen, South Dakota… Just finished dinner. Luckily, Michael U. brought along his laptopand the hotel has free wireless internet. I am a serious LJ addict.I don’t think I could survive four days without posting… Next two days are assisting the staff at the Dakota Prairie Museumwith the exhibit installation. The […]

BBBRRRRRRR…What in the hell is up there anyway…

So this exhibits company, for which I have been contracting,is sending me to South Dakota. The show is going out late.It was scheduled for overnight this coming thursdayfor delivery on Friday. Not gonna make it.We have pushed back the shipping schedule until Sunday,for delivery Monday. Michael U – A-number-one friend – and I are being […]