What I want for Christmas. A car, just a little one. Ain't gonna happen. So therefore I'm going to stop wanting and just deal with what I have, which some might say is copious stuff. I want the elves to come in and wrap the few little token gifts I am taking home. And I'd love for them to break into my house in Boston and prepare my dinner for 12 that I have to get together on Thursday. I'd like a miraculous driver to appear drop Molly at the kennel so I don't have to see her do her 'sad-eyes', and to take me to the airport, and he could actually come with me to vacuum the house and go pick up the things I need for the dinner. He can also pay for it all and I will say 'thanks'. Why is it I have simply lost all momentum? I don't want to travel, don't want to cook, all I want is time in the studio.
Two unrelated things have happened this week. One dear friend had to race her husband to the hospital where he had emergency surgery and his prognosis isn't good. He seems to be fighting his way through but the whole situation os dicey. I wish I could be there for her to do SOMEthing- walk the dog, clean a cupboard, water plants, I don't know. So a day after that news reached me, I got a short email from my long time great friend and mentor back in Boston and her husband died unexpectedly the evening before. He has been gravely ill for some time and was awaiting a triple bypass in the hospital when he passed away. I really am glad to be going home for the single reason that I need to hug her. I have always admired both these guys and both these long term marriages, and it just is a real blow to lose one and have the other hanging by a thread. Both these events are sobering, and thus, my lack of enthusiasm for wanting stuff. These reality checks are whomping me from all sides lately, so I gave TY his second Christmas present this morning. Time for that line changing the subject:
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The series I'm working on now is somewhat sober- I have printed the essence of a sky or cloud formation on 8 panels, and here it's being mounted on a board to accept the wax. I finished four the other day and will go work on them today- here are the four with just the printed cloud images, lower left is too subtle so I will re-print today.
First coat of wax and one fusing later. Next I am going to paint over the surface or add collage elements, the jury is out, but while I am thinking and doing try-outs I will be working on the four at the top.
And I may as well show Four Turkeys as its progressing, v e r y s l o w l y, to it's end:
I know, it really looks like a ragg bagg exploded, doesn't it? Basically only the top third is worked on, the rest is pinned and ready to appliqué but I'm mulling over edge treatments before I go any further. The left vertical orange stripe is actually the edge of a tablecloth I will use on the back if it still fits after all my fooling around. I am aiming to have this top done before the first of the year so that's lots of hand sewing of all these elements. Maybe Easter? Whenever. The point IS just to finish, not meet a deadline. But (see above paragraph) I am feeling short of time with so much to do.
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