tomorrow, i'll be mailing out the art trade (thank you so much to the people who participated!). it's so much fun to trade work and is such a great way to be supportive of another artist's practice. it's just so important to be encouraging and appreciative of the work other people do. it can make such a wonderful difference sometimes. making sure to go to openings, leaving comments on blogs, giving feedback when asked, and making a point to let an artist know that you've had a reaction to what they do is such a big help and, more often than not, just what the artist needed right that very moment. i'd like to do another art trade soon... maybe a bit closer to the holidays.
i also got the new postcards i ordered. based on the overwhelmingly positive response to 'dahlia 1', she is the image on the front of the postcard.
i'll be mailing out a bunch tomorrow as well but if anyone out there would like one, send me an email and i'll add you to my mailing list. it'd be my pleasure. :)
ever since i built a website for the work, i've been much more focused and pleased with the work as a whole. finally sitting down and re-writing my artist statement awakened a wonderful and relieving bit of clarity. putting together work that falls within the parameters of my statement is very satisfying and i feel like i'm exploring my ideas in a much deeper and concentrated way. it's more personal, more powerful... not necessarily more accessible than my previous work, but i'm very proud of the route the work has taken and i feel very attached to it. even the poems i've been writing as an extension of my visual practice have been reigned in and make a lot more sense than they did a few months ago. maybe i'll post a few of them here once i get further along with them. i'll work on getting my courage up to do that.
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Love this image!
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