After weeks of overcast skies, my mild case of SAD has settled in for the next month or so. It makes me laugh because anything beyond hanging out under the covers listening to Radiohead and Nina Simone while obsessively playing solitaire is an impertinent inconvenience. Fortunately, I'm still able to overcome the inertia and get to where I need to go on time. But my brain is just...
Making tesserae for Antarctic Ice
I picked the promotional image for our exhibit of civil rights photographer, Bernard Kleina of the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma. It's very poignant and now I'm tearing up a little.
My oldest is home and taking selfies in the art workshop.
Detail of a mosaic maquette in progress. The bottom part is grey grout with gravel. The top portion might have a translucent grout. I am considering not grouting this water panel. The top panel is all sun and sky. I might use the fancy grout up there. The sky is more matte and the water is more reflective. That said, I might go in and frost some water tiles if there is too much glare.
Olafur Eliassons instagram featured this soil piece today. This is relevant to my mornings art activities. This piece is awesome.
How do you make a teenager cringe?
Tell them you are edging.
I finally saw the Banshees of Inisherin. I liked it. I'm not a socially needy and chatty person who prefers for things stay the way they are, so I guess I indentified more with the fiddler and the sister.
I thought the miniature donkey deserved an Oscar. I was moved.
