JUNE:
This is a rock in my husband’s garden under the kitchen window. I asked him to bring it to the front moss garden so I could set up a shot. I had no idea that this 18” x 18” rock was extremely heavy and would take all his strength to move-roll-lift it onto a hand truck to be wheeled around to the front and roll-lifted off into place. I was so grateful that he was willing to put his back at risk for the off-chance that I might be able to make a photograph I was imagining.
And when I was sure I had the shot, he went through all the work to put it back. I love that man!
I was imagining that I could use it for a Bruegal/Bosch fantasy mural inspired by these two examples (click to embiggen):
I plan to take all sorts of crazy pictures of myself crawling into eggshells, being dropped from the sky by a monster, my distorted body with two heads and three legs or whatever I dream up…and plunk them crawling in or out of the holes in the rock, or brought in by a hot air balloon, or cavorting with monstrosities. You get the idea. I haven’t started yet.
JULY:
I created a portrait of myself as the Tooth Fairy and wrote about it on this post from August 4. This included making a jar full of teeth and shrinking myself down to fairy size. I sold one print of it to a grandmother whose granddaughter is getting a “big girl” room and will someday be getting visits from Dentella Floss, the Tooth Fairy. She wanted to give her art for her new room.
AUGUST:
I finished the 12th image in my “Seeing Dementia” series, this time focusing on the emotional trials of the Caregiver instead of the person experiencing dementia. I wrote about it on this post from August 25.
SEPTEMBER:
I got the latest Covid vaccine today. I’ll get my flu vaccine in a few weeks.
I am delivering this piece titled "In Costume" that I created in June for the Wisconsin Visual Arts - SE Chapter “From Where I Sit” exhibition at Lakeland University on Sept. 7. I’ll be staying during the afternoon to help check in other artwork.
It is past time for me to finish preparing for my solo exhibition at the PhotoMidwest Gallery in Madison, WI that will be opening in November. They need a list of the works I’ll be hanging, small digital copies for the simultaneous online exhibition on their website, and written descriptions for marketing the show in their newsletter.
That’s my summer. How was yours?
“I haven’t started yet.” Snip snap! I was in Europe visiting family and friends and thinking I would write. I haven’t started yet. Instead I ate everything I missed and am all the happier for it 🌝
My summer is good and not-great at the same time. I really miss my poor kitty.