After leaving New York at 4:00 a.m., 3 flights later I landed in Sheridan, Wyoming for an artist's residency at Jentel Foundation. There are 6 of us (4 visual artists and 2 writers), with shared living space and individual studios nestled in a bend in the creek in the eastern foothills of the Bighorn Mountains. The place is beautiful and the landscape just stunning, with that Big Sky, undulating hills, and snow-capped mountains on the horizon. This is ranch country, where black angus and pickup trucks abound. I've settled in quickly in the house and studio (I'm getting good at this!) and it is going to be a wonderful month. After a trip to town for groceries yesterday, I hiked up into the Snake Hills (no snakes, fortunately) behind Jentel with one of the other artists for a spectacular view of the surrounding landscape. The residency has 1,000 acres, so there will be a lot to explore. Today I launched into studio work, and after international travel where all my work was done on a laptop it is good to be in a place where I could bring physical materials. Looking forward to a productive month!
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| The house |
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| The main living space |
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| my studio |
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| outside the studio door |
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| Out the back door |
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| Into the back 1,000 |
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| Looking west from the Snake Hills towards the Bighorn Mountains, Jentel in the lower right |
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