An amazing thing happened last weekend.
I hosted the Studio Tour on Saturday and Sunday. I rearranged my studio both to reveal its working spaces and to set up my display panels for a gallery setting. I had lots of art to see.
Additionally, to make room, I moved my working easel and the house-memory quilt I’m currently working on into the adjacent laundry room.
EVERYBODY wanted to go into the laundry room!
Maybe it’s the impulse of the bargain hunter—wanting to dig in the secret places to see what’s in there.
But it meant that this work, that has been mostly seen only by me, was seen by a lot of visitors. And — there in the laundry room — I enjoyed some of the greatest art conversations.
Visitors told me what they saw. They told me what they liked. People had questions. People shared their own memories of home. Women shared insights about being a girl. People looked up close at the photo transfers and we talked transfer how-to. People commented on the palette.
It was fabulous.
After I cleaned up and re-arranged my studio early in the week, I’ve spent a lot of time like this:
Just looking. Processing. Giving it time. Seeing where it needs to go.
My conversations with studio visitors focused mostly on the emotional response, and that’s where I am putting my attention.
So, while I am usually analytical in my evaluations, I have been trying instead to be responsive. To feel my way to what comes next.
I ended up this weekend adding some large blocks of transparent value to the house section, pushing them back further into the surface.
I THINK I’ve reached the stage of finishing touches. But I’m going to let it steep and speak to me some more to decide.
It’s becoming a wonderfully immersive experience.
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Just for fun: For last week’s tour, I created a number of new paper collaged works. That gallery on my website now has new images I’m happy to share.
You can find work to peruse HERE
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Nice one-day art event near DeLand is coming up next weekend: Saturday, March 15, ARTISTS IN THE GARDEN at Select Growers in DeLeon Springs. It’s a casual art-oriented event under pavilions in a beautiful plant nursery. The fabulous guild of Museum of Art DeLand sponsors the event. If you are near this area, please drop by. I’ll have work to share, and there are many other artists to visit too.
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For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating
Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi
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