It has been nearly two weeks since my last update and the whirlwind continues.
On Tuesday I delivered a whole bunch of little houses to the Gallery at 48 Natoma in Folsom, then went home to edit rough drafts for the one paper my Elementary Photo students have to write in the course of the semester. When I went to class, I administered a midterm but didn’t do the planned demo because I couldn’t really speak.
I have felt like I’ve been fighting off some virus thing for weeks now and it has finally caught up with me. I will be at the reception Friday night, regardless, but I’m just trying to rest as much as possible until then.
And then there’s the smoke. If you’re not in the Sacramento area you may not know, but the huge fire in Northern California right now is about an hour and a half north of us and weather patterns being what they are, we have been living under a thick blanket of smoke for about a week now. This doesn’t help the respiratory virus that I’m dealing with and I’m not entirely sure what symptoms are from which thing at the moment. At any rate, the air quality is so poor that classes were canceled at Sierra College where I teach yesterday and today, which means I can’t work sick, like I had planned. (It’s just so late in the semester I couldn’t deprive my students of the lab time!) But my smoke challenges are nothing compared to all that some have suffered from the fires in California right now.
If you’re the praying sort, prayers for rain here would be much appreciated.
At the same time on the art front, I have been wonderfully overwhelmed by all the positive responses that I’ve been getting from folks when they see the photos of my new little house artworks! I had done some of these sculptural pieces several years ago but hadn’t pursued them much. About a year ago, I had randomly emailed the curator for the Gallery at 48 Natoma and she had instantly responded that my house works that she saw on my website would fit well into this show that she had titled “Home for the Holidays,” noting that it was really a home themed show at the holiday time of year. So I was given a reason to create new works in this vein, which I was happy to do.
For those of you in the area that have been eagerly awaiting seeing these new little artworks, I am eager to see you, too! I will be at the gallery this Friday night from 6 p.m. til 8 p.m.
Oh yeah, AND then there’s NEXT WEEK: on Tuesday I will be delivering another show to the Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento, with an artist’s talk and reception NEXT FRIDAY, from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. and I would love for you to spend part of your Thanksgiving weekend with me!
Because some of us apparently don’t know how to look at calendars when agreeing to do exhibits.
But it’s all good because they are completely different bodies of work and I’m one of those artists who couldn’t stop creating if my life depended on it. Really. Some of you know that my life actually depends on me continually creating, but that’s a post for another day.