I am part or particle of God. -Emerson

I had the most glorious morning yesterday.

I went on a run/adventure in the cool fall nearly rain, and ended up finding a bunch of glass bottles and carrying them to the studio while they marvelously clinked and squeaked together.  The rain, the squeaky glass, the everything (as my sister likes to say, “Listen to this, and think about EVERYTHING.”) got into my heart and allowed me to reach the place I needed to in the Studio…

Things have been out of control.  I’ve been hopping around frantically like a flea and then crashing like, as my friend Cassie would say, like a soggy potato chip (ie. a potato).  I was in desperate need of fall, and now that it’s here, I’m doing a lot better in its cozy, dreamy, mysterious arms.

(Balancing eggs on the equinox in honor of my mother.)

Unfortunately, I didn’t have my camera when I was over at the Studio, but I will share some updates and then some goofy other pictures from the weekend.

1. GOOD BRUSHES = LOVE.  I had been using this cheap set that I got for free at the Art Majors Meeting, and I finally got sick of them and got out some of the old trusty ones and just wanted to die from relief.  Trying to paint with a crappy brush is like trying to run on smokers lungs.

2. Have really gotten into the mood of collages 2 and 3.  2 captures so many emotions, the idea of embracing the environment, stepping out and being part of the world that we are meant to be.  I got caught up in the idea of plants made out of maps- how adventure is intrinsic to nature.  3 is taking on the memory of a particularly beautiful day by the ocean where my mom and I got way behind on a walk along the beach and she talked to me about her earliest memories involving an apple tree that was in her back yard.

Getting pretty excited… artist research/work updates coming soon!  Until then…

Here’s an abstract that I did, oh jeez, two years ago at this point.  One of my favorite things that I’ve ever painted.  It currently hangs in my living room.  I like to rotate it once in a while.

Here’s the clover in my living room window from the angle that I was looking at it while doing Yoga on Saturday- I thought it and the abstract made an interesting duo.

This was an extremely silly part of my weekend.  (Which was entirely made up of extremely silly elements.  Lots of jazz and dancing and windows were involved.)  This is a picture of a shoe, my roommate’s keys and a spatula that some of our guy friends froze into a pitcher in our freezer.  We found it today, laughed really hard, and decided to throw it out the window.

It was awesome.

Happy Monday everyone!  Extensive art updates soon, I promiiiissssseeeee.