It happened! A third of us are vaxed. The problem now is those people that aren’t. The only reason ANY of us are drawing breath is because of vaccines. POLIO? DIPHTHERIA? TYPHOID FEVER? SMALL POX?!!! During the last months, I’ve been preoccupied with my the Storytelling Lab, Storytelling Lab which I created during Covid. My…
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COVID & CREATIVITY
While most of us are squirreled away in our houses in some form of hibernation, trying to avoid contracting Covid, few of us are being creative. I read that 20 percent of the American people contemplated suicide in June 2020! That’s one out of five, if math isn’t your thing. I’m not sure there are…
CHANGING IT UP
As long as I’m imprisoned, I’m determined to make the best of it. I’m in the throes of a final phase in a very ambitious painting of New York City. The painting includes things I struggle with most: lines, perspective and more lines. Even with a ruler, I find it difficult to draw a straight…
COVID, CREATIVITY OR THE LACK THEREOF
I admit that by month seven – or whatever the hell it is – of this pandemic, I’m frazzled. I’m certainly not alone. Anyone with a pulse feels the same. I don’t feel I can complain because I’m 1) alive; 2) healthy; 3) roof over my head and food on my table (and hips). Therefore,…
COVID, CRAZINESS AND COLOR
When the world is dissolving into madness, it helps to have a distraction. Painting flowers has become mine in recent weeks. What a lifesaver! I’ve been experimenting with new oils, water based, so they have no toxic fumes and are easy to clean up. That’s a MAJOR plus for me because I’m so messy. I’ve…
ART IN THE AGE OF COVID VIRUS
I spend as much time as possible these days trying to paint. It’s the most distracting and relaxing thing I can do. It certainly is saving my mental health. At the moment I’m painting something I’m going to name “Social Distancing.” I’ve never put so much time into any painting. It’s a huge challenge. There…
2020 – Coming From Behind
It’s been a very long while since I posted anything. We’re well into the New Year. It’s a difficult year for me personally, because I’m nuts and take the madness in our country personally. Painting is definitely what stands between me and a total breakdown. I’ve started the new year with a promise to move…
UPSIDE/DOWNSIDE
Having a blog sounds like fun. Keeping a blog less so. MONTHS have gone since I made an entry. Over the summer, despite all my rantings about how I was in Italy and I was going to paint, blah blah blah. I didn’t spend ten minutes painting. My paints were stolen, a long story not…