Saturday was already sorta packed…I wanted to go to a show that was closing that day, plus I had a meeting, an actual in-person meeting. I totally spaced on the fact that it was October and there was a women’s march. Damnit. I meant to look it up, but apparently I’m off the information list or something, and I missed it. Sigh. I did come home after everything I DID do and start drawing an angry quilt in response to the crazy Texas abortion ban. It’s been in my head, drawing and redrawing itself for days, so I finally started to vomit it on paper. With a pen. Much cleaner that way.
I tried drawing part of this in my sketchbook earlier in the day, but eh. Not so much. And my evening was kind of irritating. I almost just shut down and did nothing. My brain was in a bad place. But then I got up and cut the paper and started sketching in pencil, getting the broad idea of where things were going, and kept going from there. This was about an hour in…
And then last night, I started in on the details…which is the one problem with drawing full size…I put too many details in and they’re small…
I’m trying to remember that. But maybe I don’t care as much as I should. I just want a project that takes up all of my mind after work and keeps me going for a while, and work is taking up too much time and brainpower. I need something to counteract that. Big complicated quilt to the rescue!
The closing show I went to was Paula Kovarik’s exhibit at Visions Art Museum…
It was a fascinating show. I have seen some of this develop online, but it’s so much better in person. I’m glad I made it to the show. I did say to the volunteers working there about 5 times that they need to make hours that working people can get to, more than just 10-2 on Saturday. That’s a really rough time for me. If I want to hike, I won’t make it. If I have anything else I need to do, it’s during those same hours. It’s hard, because I know they’re making financial decisions as well, but it’s been near impossible to get there until this weekend. It was totally worth getting up earlier and getting out of the house before I usually do. Saturday is my relaxation morning, the only one I get, so I give it up to very little.
Her work is fascinating…I probably said that already.
The stitched line…
The 3D shapes…
Cutting things up and making them into new things…
The hint of traditional quilting but really not…
Fascinating. Like I said.
I just walked around and enjoyed it…
More than once…
Yeah, that phrase pisses me off.
Crazy amount of details…
If you ever have a chance to see her work, you should. I did listen to her talk back in early August, when the show opened, right before school started (hence my inability to get to the actual show). And I bought her book. Fun stuff. I’m always inspired by how other artists do the work.
I stitched a little on this at the meeting I was at, until I volunteered to remove paper from pieced blocks…
And I drew this at dinner…
The weekend also included a negative COVID test after two positive cases in my classrooms, and a COVID booster. So far, my arm hurts, but nothing else symptom-wise that I’m noticing. Good news.
Nova support on the drawing front…
Although some of her support is not really supportive…
I need those.
And to finish with this…
I wish I lived in a ‘socialist’ country that cared about the health of its people. Sigh. My biggest retirement expense will be medications.
OK, long busy day, already feel tired. Could be vaccine; could just be life. Hopefully energy will rebound at the end for more drawing. I’d like to get done with that stage and onto the tracing.
We’ll see how that goes.
Kathy Nida 
Holy shit that insulin is expensive! We have a national diabetes support scheme so all the supplies are subsidised. How very socialist of us. It’s odd…what in your country is seen as “left wing communism” is, in most of the rest of the world, pretty mainstream centre. Individualism vs the common good. I find it fascinating.
PS yes, the Aussie health care system is pretty damn good.
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