Is it really the end of May? Have I really not posted since February? Well, it looks like a quick transition, but it really was not—I've just arrived in Iceland again. More on that later.
I meant to post some more photos of Virginia and kind of tie up that experience. It was really a different kind of place for me, with 24 people at meals, lots of readings, etc., much more social than the small-group things I'd been going to. Residents were leaving and new ones coming all the time, a dynamic that has both good and bad things about it. Jerry, who'd been at Caldera with me showed up the last week I was there.
And I had a car for once, so I could drive down with 50 encaustic panels and all my tools in the back. It was really great to actually finish things there since I'd been making so many mockups at other residencies. It was an incredibly productive month and I finished as astonishing 50 encaustic pieces. (there are 100 in the group that I want to do, so 50 more to go). Having an uncluttered, ventilated space to do that in was really fabulous, and I could see so much more of what was evolving by working on the whole group at once. That tells me it may be time to restructure my home studio.
During the last week in Virginia I could see that the work was going to get done, so I took a couple of day off and went hiking with some other residents. VCCA is close to the Blue Ridge Mountains, so there are plenty of places to go and taking a break was a good idea.
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| Crabtree Falls |
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Lots of evidence of artists in the woods... |
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| I added my name on the edge of the studio door... |
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| And went back to the real world. |
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