these texts are an archive of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area from march 2007 - march 2015. it stands as a record of close to a decade of my life, charting the struggles i faced as an artist, daughter, and lover. messy and chaotic at times, eloquent and poetic at others, these texts are an index i am proud of. it was here in this electric box that i learned how to be honest about my experiences and the person i needed to become. it was here that i first learned the truism that words make the world and how to trust such a beautiful, rife, hard fact.

thank you for meeting me here in such tall grass.


my artist website is here.

Aug 22, 2009

and so it continues...

geez. round 2 through my portfolios. it is never-ending, i swear. when will i see the bottom of the art pile? the massive problem of storage and archiving and yadda, yadda, yadda. the major issue here is that i'm just at a total loss as to what i should do with all this work. the vast majority is work on paper. and the vast majority of it is good work too. but it just doesn't fit with my current portfolio at HANG and it doesn't fit with the current inventory at black fence. where to send it? where oh where oh where? it's too good to toss in the recycle bin, that's for sure. but storing it has become such a big, sticky issue that i find myself completely overwhelmed within minutes of trying to find a solution. maybe the only thing to do is go through it all, piece by piece, photograph it, and try to compile some sort of "new" portfolio of work and find another venue for it to be available through. maybe. but even the thought of that is daunting. we're talking about no less than 8 huge portfolios of work here. i am not counting the closet full of little paintings on canvas i still need to contend with. any insight in to this problem is completely welcome. entirely welcome. in fact, i am begging for advice! any system at all that you may have had even the smallest success with i am willing to try. except for burning it or something like that. 'no fire near the artwork' is definitely a commandment in my household and shall not be broken. anyway... help.

2 comments:

Radish King said...

Oh girl, you do not to know about the system I finally came around to. All I can suggest is hang on to it until you're 50.



Rebecca the BAD ADVICE Giver

angela simione said...

ha! i think i remember reading something about fire over in your neck of the woods. :)