remix...the aftermath

I'm still waiting for the show in Dallas to come down so I can get my hands on that piece for a good overhaul. In the meantime, here're the results of the first two do-overs.

I salvaged what I liked from the old work and added some new bits. The third one will be longer in process because I sanded it down until I hit the original surface and started completely over.

remix

What do you get when you drive home from Dallas with no children or good friends in the car to distract you from your navel-gazing self?

A road hazard.
(and I have the sketchbook pages to prove it)

Not being completely happy with the piece I just put up in the 'Lost and Found' show led me to contemplating 3 or 4 other pieces that I've never been completely happy with as finished work. One was an experiement that I was mostly happy with, except for a part that I tacked on at the end in an effort to disguise a mistake I'd made. Another was a piece I made with someone else's taste in mind...never a good idea. And so on.

Long story short, mad sketching and note-making (while driving...don't tell my husband or my mother) ensued.

For the last few days, I've been happily tearing apart those old pieces and reassembling them in various ways. So far, so good. I hope to post photos of the new pieces in a day or two.

lost and found

This weekend I ventured into the place where I have always imagined I might live, but don't. It's called Southside on Lamar in Dallas, and I was instantly enamored of it. Whoever thought to take the old Sears and Roebuck catalogue facility and rennovate it into condos and shops...wow. It's been done well, antique merged with modern in just the right proportion. And the gallery space is everything a gallery space should be: antique wood floors; cement pillars; rough old brick walls; whitewashed sheetrocked walls, rectangular plywood pedestals and moveable walls; and a maintenance man who kindly replaces burnt-out halogen bulbs in the numerous adjustable light fixtures.

I was fortunate to meet Lisa Qualls at the Hunting Art Prize reception and more fortunate yet to have her think of me when she needed some extra pieces for her group's current show called Lost and Found. Melianie and I hauled up some of the work and helped hang the show on Tuesday. Valerie Yaklin-Brown had gone up to help hang the show, too. She, Mel and I made short work of hanging the 2-D work. It was great to see Valerie again (we showed together at Eastman) and I still covet her work.