The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their
simplicity might suggest. Thomas Moore
Lesson #5 from Gorman
5. Thank People Who Help You. The art world can be pretty unforgiving. It sometimes seems as if you can expect only rejection. In the face of discouragement, we may forget to thank the people who have been helpful or have given us time in their busy lives to find out what we do. One museum curator mentioned that artists never thanked him for the exhibitions of their work he organized and put together. They just wanted him to show more of their work. He felt that the arts community did not support him, and that made him bitter.Start getting into the habit of writing thank you notes to everyone you meet and work with, such as collectors who are interested and buy your work, dealers you show your portfolio to and dealers who show your work, arts writers who write about your work, and other people who intersect with your career. This habit can make a big difference to other people and requires very little effort on your part.Always have a stack of postcards with your image on it ready to use for thank you notes. People will remember a thank you note, they will appreciate your thoughtfulness, and you will develop a wider group of supporters.
Today my little group meets for some stitching and some lunch, my time with the humans! It will be good to see what they're doing and hear the gossip, not to mention eat a meal not made by me! I look forward to it every week. I don't show them my quilts, just the hand stuff- not many of them would get it. I do have the Open Studio once a year so they see what I do there, but I keep my shared work in progress to knitting or stitching. So I don't have to 'splain. After the lunch part I'll walk the doggies and then head for the studio to see what kind of mood the machine is in today. It BIT me yesterday, needle went right through my left index finger but pulled right out without breaking- good thing I HATE changing needles, especially in my fonger. Finger is fine today, just two little pinpoints at entry and exit points. Sigh.
I know, this doesn't make for fascinating blog stuff, but I had my stone floors cleaned yesterday and I'm pretty happy with the results:
after
I made a major mistake picking this stone and not having it 'filled' because I loved the natural broken edges and thousands of holes. Little did I think ahead that those holes would become filled with dirt and grime, especially in the kitchen and bathroom. Every time water was spilled, it would find a hole to catch dirt- How could people emerging from a nice shower have dirt on 'em, you ask? Nope, its the water that sits in there and calls for dirty dogs to walk by to grab at their grungy feet. Whateah, as we say in Bahston, the floors were a disgusting mess. Now they are clean and spiffy and the guy even honed them a bit to make them a little bit shiny. At great expense.
NEXT TIME I will get filled stone (all the holes filled with stuff) or smooth tiles. Or, if we stay here, Ill get the floor 'filled' so I can clean it myself.
Lesson learned the hard way.
Angélique-Marguerite du Coudray was a famous 18th century midwife and designed this mannequin to teach midwife trainees about delivering babies. Louis XV learned of her expertise and asked her to set up courses throughout France. From 1759-1779 she traveled the country with her mannequin and published her Abrégé de l’Art des accouchements (Abridged Art of Child Delivery).
New York-based photographer Thomas Prior traveled to Tultepec, a major producer of fireworks in Mexico, to document the the National Pyrotechnic Festival during a holiday that honors Saint Juan de la Dios - the patron saint of the city (and fireworks). The main event is a “running of the bulls," featuring a seven-hour parade of large paper-mache bulls outfitted with 4,000 fireworks that explode around spectators.
For San Francisco International Airport,Janet Echelman was asked to create a “Zone of Recomposure” for travelers after they go through security. She finds calm in nature, and since airports seems to be completely devoid of nature, she wanted to bring it in. She did this with the installation Every Beating Second by cutting 3 round skylights into the ceiling and suspending delicate layers of translucent colored netting to create 3 volumetric forms.
Janet Echelman builds living, breathing sculpture environments that respond to the forces of nature—wind, water, and light—and become inviting focal points for civic life. Named Architectural Digest’s 2012 Innovator for “changing the very essence of urban spaces,” Echelman combines ancient craft with cutting-edge technology to create permanent sculpture on the scale of buildings.During the day, sun streams through the skylights to cast real shadows that interplay with fictional shadows we embedded in the floor. At night, a program of shifting colored lighting makes the sculpture glow as computer-mechanized airflow animates the sculpture to suggest wind and the presence of nature within Terminal 2. Visually, the sculpture evokes the contours and colors of cloud formations over San Francisco Bay and hints at the silhouette of the Golden Gate Bridge. (Photos from SDA Journal interview)
awwww.
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