sprung...

Last night we did what all visitors to NY must do (my little sister in law is in town)
Saw Broadway.
We saw the refreshingly honest and modern Spring Awakening.

A musical about budding sexuality and the confusion, fear, misunderstanding and maliciousness that comes out of young teenage bodies learning to be sexual bodies.

It was quite great I mean we heard songs about masturbation, sex, falling in love, how rules suck, and what you do when "you're fucked"
What more do we need in a musical?
A bare breast, a racy sex scene, the hot young lead's bare bum...oh you get those too!

Did I mention the lead was the adorable Hunter Parrish from Weeds...I have a feeling that since I have seen his bum many young teenage girls are jealous of me.

books that seem to weep...

Romance

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Donna Ruff's book projects seem to weep and yearn with emotion.
The romance piece above bleeds with love and yearning but also bleeds with pain and heartbreak..such the reality of romance.
Again we see the use of paper like fabric with weaving and hanging threads...

The Fable

somehow I think she has been inspired by the great Ann Hamilton as the sensibilities towards words and words as object are similar...in the absolute best ways.

Father in Law

she is so fabulous she deserves multiple days...

Artist Donna Ruff makes such amazing work I am going to visit her work over the next few days.
You simply cannot fit such a talented and diverse artist in one post.

I love her combination of found words and paper being built into installations that feel airy and full of movement even in their quiet stillness...much of her work is inspired by her childhood:

The form is derived from my childhood years spent at my grandparents' scrap paper warehouse.

so lovely and inspiring.

hide from the week...

much like my blue I would like to hide from the week and the work of the week...

the end of one and the beginning of another...

So my show in New Orleans is coming to an end, it seemed a success and I was delighted to do it and expose my work to a new community and I am delighted to get my work back. I have an open studios coming up and need some stuff to hang up and sell!


Next week my work will be in the show From our Perspective; A National Women's Perspective in Michigan it opens September 18th.


And... I just found out that 2 of my photographs got into the show Kitchen Stories at the Nave Gallery in Boston.
So all is good in the showing of work.

But I sent out a massive amount of applications, so hopefully I will find out more good news...

woops...

Sorry that there was no post today but the internet was down.
So frustrating and annoying.
Technology, we love it and yet we hate it....

have you dome this????

quiz to pick the right president for you.

very interesting.

bad night. 2

I took this post off and moved it to waking with you where it was suppose to live...but then I read all the amazing comments that I had waiting in my inbox, and put it back up here.
I appreciate all of your sweet honesty and I am so glad that people appreciate mine.
And since I made the mistake of moving the post before I read the comments I lost them.
So...I have copied some below:

Original Post:



bad night.
bad dreams.
sometimes it is really hard being married.
today it is very hard being married to you.

Comments:

From Veronica
Thank you for saying that out loud. Sometimes when I read all these lovely blogs I get the sense that everyone out there has a perfect life except for me. Perfect marriages, perfect mothers, perfect kids in perfect houses. It is refreshing to hear someone admit that sometimes it is hard being married. You made me feel better this morning, knowing that I am not the only one.

Right! I love celebrating beauty and joy but sometimes it is beautiful to celebrate and share our sadness, loss and frustrations...Veronica I too feel better knowing that I am not the only one.

From Nadia
this morning my husband looked at me and all i could say is you are meany!

i do not like those nights, i hope you have your yellow shoes on so when you are staring done the sun can stare back at you....

Meany is the perfect word for what I was feeling...
and yes the sun was staring back at me all day.

From Kendelee
...it's as if your words expressed some of my own recent thoughts! And I agree...I like that you are happy to say these things out loud. It's brave to acknowledge this so openly, and I admire that in you. And although I don't want to celebrate the sadness or wish it for others, I do find it strangely reassuring to see my life's imperfections mirrored out in the world, and so I thank you for that.

It is wonderful for us all to connect by what makes our experiences similar...thank you.

From Erica
I echo all the comments ... I'm inspired by your willingness to put it all out there...

BTW - I could totally relate to your past post about sometimes wanting to just throw a cutting board at your man......yup. Of course other times we just want to throw our arms around them.

And finally in the light of another day I am back to wanting to throw my arms around him.




So to all of us who are in love... none of us are alone in the fact that it sure as hell is not perfect...but somehow it is still worth it.

Thank you

yellow slippers.

Look at my fabulous shiny new yellow shoes,
I love them and they are on sale.

They might not be ruby but I think sunshine yellow is even more magical.

From j. crew

visitors...

C's little sister is coming to visit with a friend for 5 days...
The good thing is that it will be great to see her...
The thing that sucks means that I will not be able to spend anytime in my studio...which I have so been craving.
But I will just have to be diligent about working at home and get to the studio as soon as possible.

The good thing about winter coming is that our weekends will end up being quieter which will allow me to get to the studio.

Just last night I finished the embroidery on a new piece...but I am making it into a pillow so I still have a bit of work to do. Hopefully, I will remember to take a picture soon and share it with all of you.

How do you make sure you get to your studio or space?