just listed. air & light.

Dear-hearts, Amidst all of my preparation for the show, I have just listed a brand-new piece in the shoppe. It is an orignal drawing in pencil and watercolor that was inspired by that piece on nova I wrote about a bit ago.
Click right here to link directly to the piece.
Peace.
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floating through the universe.

thursday is one of my favorite days of the week. donnerstag in german. it's a nice day to get some thinking done. this week, and last, have been filled with a lot of busy work. i have not even spent an hour *in* the studio. the drawing and painting i have done have been in the evening, sitting on the couch with my husband-- listening to music, talking about our days, and perhaps half-watching television (more on that later). the busy-ness is good, because it means food for the table. the busy-ness reminds me that i simply must practice yoga and meditate in order to stay grounded. the coffee-crazy-computer lifestyle makes me incapable of thinking on thought all the way through. so there you have it.

although the time has not been quite right for much painting, i am having a little love-affair with my camera right now. we are having a ball exploring all of the nooks and crannies of the century house. i am still in awe of this camera, and i love chasing the light around the house and hood.

I like looking at the world with new eyes, as though the lens of the camera were attached to my head. ... which brings me to the whole television-watching thing. You know I love nova, right? In my opinion, the only shows really worth watching are on pbs-- nova, nature, rick steves, austin city limits--but that is sort of beside the point. Tuesday night, I had a chance to sit down with my sketch book while watching nova. Holy awesome. The show was about the trip to one of Saturn's moons, Titan, by two spacecraft named Cassini & Huygens. Goodness sakes was it enchanting. I created a series of sketches based on the trip that are really still in the R&D phase, but I'll share a tid-bit or two with you now with the promise of more to come. I love space.

This drawing is called Huygens. I drew it in pencil and colored it digitally. (This is a new experiment for me, what do you think?)

Huygens was the spacecraft that launched from his mothership Cassini and actually landed (with a thud) on Titan's surface and recorded live while Cassini (who was meanwhile orbiting Saturn) transmitted the footage back to earth. Cassini stayed in orbit long after Huygens' light dimmed, sending back amazing footage of Saturn's rings and Jupiter. I'm mesmerized.

On a side note, the name Cassini reminds me of the phish song Carini, which has nothing to do with space (necessarily), but I thought you might like to know how my brain works through these things.

my space.

g'day dears. and welcome to my studio. my space. this is where i make art, meditate and practice yoga. i also use this space to brainstorm, keep the books and pet my dog.



This is my inspiration clothesline. I hang all sorts of goodies from this piece of line: sketches and paintings I have been working on lately, pages torn from my favorite magazines, my business license, collages, and art I dig. This changes all the time. Sometimes it is filled with the work of others, sometimes it is where I park ideas so I can free-up mental space for other projects without forgetting what I wanted to do next. It's a good thing.


This is the space above my desk. I keep one of my favorite pieces framed here and stick other things up that I like sort of randomly. The chakra calendar makes me smile and helps ground my work.
This is where a lot of my work takes place. I bought this desk at ikea, and must say it is just perfect for me. There is plenty of space for me to spread out on the table top, and lots of space to stash magazines and supplies underneath. I love looking at this space-- there are so many things happening and it makes me so happy to see them.

This is my alter. I just cleaned up my space and got all of these icons and pictures off the floor and onto a wonderful old t.v. table. I use this space for my yoga and meditation practice as well, and I like the energy it brings to the art (and vice versa).

Thanks for stopping by, dears.

om. is where i want to be.

I have become a bit obsessed with documenting all of the things about our home that I love. (Perhaps this is apropos of the online course I'm taking.) And there are so many things I love about our centenarian of a house. Most of them, of course, are memories associated less with the physical space and more with the times we have shared in it. There are, however, a LOT of juicy, tangible aspects of our house that I love. For example, I love our collections of crystals, shells and crazy natural specimens.
And I love the curve of this Eva Zeisel sauce boat that sits atop the Mongolian Chest of awesomeness.
And. the. light. The light in this house is truly a thing of beauty.
And the prints and patterns that the wind makes on steamed-up windows.
Those are just the beginning. Trust me.

In other news, check out how this little lion is progressing. Do you even recognize her?

Later, kiddos.

k