Interesting couple of days. I really really really wish I didn’t understand HTML. Because I spent about an hour last night editing it…
Why? Because Blogger is a piece of crap sometimes. Sigh. Some bug in the fonts was driving me nuts, so I just went in and deleted all the code until I could make it work. Just so I could write a post about the Night Stand exhibit I’m in with Feminist Image Group…go check it out. We’re having a pajama party (no really) on Thursday, aka an artists’ talk, but not really? But if you want to hear the artists talk about their pieces, that would be the time to go. In your pajamas. There’s food.
This might be the closest I got to making art this weekend…photographing the cat next to the cold iron.
Oh wait, I did buy background fabrics. I couldn’t choose. I will use the others (I use blue a lot for some reason), so I’m not worried about having extra, but I haven’t made a decision yet.
Which is fine, because I still haven’t cut out the last yard. Tonight. Hopefully. I went back to school yesterday and graded more science units, plus spent about 4 hours on that post (resizing photos, pulling all the text, editing the text, at least I didn’t have to type the text, fussing with the damn stupid code. See a non-copyeditor would have said “Oh Well” and moved on because they wouldn’t have known what to do.).
I don’t think this is art. Although it seems like it.
But I did make it to art on Saturday night. This is amazing work by Marianela de la Hoz, currently at ArtProduce.
Her work is tiny and delicate and incredibly detailed…
And political on top of it. This is Paradise Lost and the Big Bang.
The detail on this piece…The Absurd Monologue Between Adam, His Image, and His Likeness…
I stared at this one for a long time…
The skulls alone…
Behold the Man I…no joke there.
Definitely fitting work for the times. I really enjoyed this show.
Anyway. So I’m still not getting art time in, although my plan is to spend almost all of next week arting. I now have two full drawings in my head, and I still need to start ironing Wonder Under to fabric this week. Somehow! Seriously. I’m not enjoying this. My chiropractor is gonna have a field day with my neck and back this week. Deep breaths. I can survive this week and have a week off with all the goodness that I can save up until Winter Break. I can do it!
*AWOLNATION, Sail
Kathy Nida 