I have been working two jobs. It isn’t a lot of hours, but two days a week I’ve been working all day and then a shift most days of the week at one or the other. I’ve been feeling a little depressed, wondering how I will get the money together for the college loans from graduate school that I have to start paying next month. I’ve also been making a bunch of work that I’m really pleased with. Unfortunately the work has been for last minute shows and I feel claustrophobic. Last night I had a dream that I was stuck in the corner of a large school and that I couldn’t get out because there were too many people and I couldn’t stand it. So this weekend, I’m going to leave for a bit. I need a break. The trip to New York was awesome, but far too quick to count as a break.
Here’s a bit of what I’ve been working on though, if you’re interested.
This is the newest piece that I’ve put together in the power line series. I really am getting into it. This imagery is really pretty interesting to me right now, but even more so I am into the way that this piece was put together. I also wrote what is perhaps my most concise artist’s statement to date about it.
However, as I pass through this world looking to the sky where this perfect composition of power lines constantly frames my upward view, I recall being a child and counting telephone poles in the back seat of my father’s car. In this mindset, the overwhelming simplicity of life strikes me. I tell myself to calm down. I tell myself to keep counting telephone poles.”
I also put together a bunch of small animal pieces for Artstream studios. The opening is this Saturday. I will be at a wedding in Connecticut and unable to make it, however, my friend Susan will be there and her new work is excellent. The opening is from 5-7 in Rochester, NH. Be there or be square.
It’s been some pretty exciting work, but I need to stop for a weekend. I need to regroup. Hope you dig the work though.
Peace
-Mike
One reply on “Living Fast.”
You have a lot of cool stuff here! Awesome.