Studio Update • 03/11/2024

I am changing everyday...

I am changing everyday...

Sometimes nothing changes, and that’s okay.

Studio Update:

This week was not eventful in the studio. I am preparing to finish applications for a few different residencies, and in turn that means finishing up bodies of work and getting documentation in. I have one painting that has been in the works for a few weeks now. It’s at such a hard spot for me and I cannot figure out what it is that will complete it. I believe the figures face has to go back to being gesso and starting from the ground up. I’m uncomfortable with starting over, but why is that? I spent my Friday in class speaking to other students about the fact that I don’t toss things out if they prove to not provide me anything, but I am now debating this when it comes to this painting. I have attachment issues to things that I spend time with and I recognize that even when it comes to my artwork. How can I make it still work for me? What did I learn?

On top of working on the painting I am finishing out my glycerin soap dogs. I’m currently at 42 dogs and I am aiming for 44, but also should think more about the intentions behind this number. The other number im thinking of tentatively is the number 36 (the age my great grandmother crossed the border — this makes my grandmother 7 years old when she crosses). There is a lot up in the air and I only have two hands to catch it all — it feels impossible almost. I have to write my next (final) section of my thesis this week. I’m not sure it’s going well, but I am at least meeting deadlines so it’s something.

Thoughts/Dreams/Other:

I’m trying to keep it all together with everything in flux. There is a part of me that wants to return home. Home as in Indiana, but I felt as if I grew out of that place. I want to live and feel — I want to feel fulfilled and at peace. Money and working and all that other stuff isn’t a worry. It is a state of peace in my mind and with my decisions. A lot of the things that got me to this place in terms of my own decisions have been met with me wanting to change what they were at some point or anoother. I want the next decision to be void of that. I want to feel like I did what was right for me. It’s hard to know — Which I don’t think I can know ahead of time that the decision I make will be the right one. That’s life. Tough — unknowing as always.