inspiration and february beading

yesterday i was feeling better from my cold so i ventured out in the rainy night to ballard's art walk. i stopped a couple places but the high point was a visit to bridgette mill's studio. it is SO good to get to talk to another artist face to face. you would think this would happen to me more often in my line of (day) work, but when i interact with people it's all business or they aren't the sort of artists i really want to talk to -- now, please i am not trying to trash art school, but a lot of people take some time to recover from it -- they get very intellectual and cerebral about their art -- i really want to talk to people whose art is .. spiritual, undiluted emotion, a quiet internal passion.

i also got a new painting! this is not the best picture, and i have not decided where to put it yet. right now it is sitting on my shelf next to some of my beaded sculptures. it just spoke to me -- in spanish apparently, a language i don't speak, but sometimes you do not need words. (the phrase does not translate very well but bridgette said it means something like yesterday is a tree of long memory and was inspired by neruda.) i think my visit to her studio and some dylan thomas i was reading last night have inspired me too, though it has not crystalized yet.


today i did some chores and worked on my february beaded house. now this is what i would call wishful thinking. last month's house was about winter and my desire to hibernate. this month i still want to hibernate and feel dragged down by winter, but i am thinking of spring.