cobaltika

probably something weird is going to happen to this journal soon.

doesn’t it always? oh you libra!

it is somewhat difficult to accept that this rather infantile visual journal is the only artwork i have done for most of this year so far. normally i am quite prolific. but much energy is going to clearing the hoard from the studio and learning new things about cameras. also the normal day-to-day things.

what a libra.

i keep going back and forth with coming back to write my regular journal here and then f-locking the juicy (oh yeah right) parts and then letting cobaltika be sort of an art journal thing. i miss my peeps here, even though i visit all the time. i don’t like feeling like a lurker. and then i feel dumb if i want to add someone i like to read and there is not really anyone here (knock knock?). i suppose i could feed this journal into reco-mind again like i used to…but i don’t want to have all these damned journals! and i don’t think anyone really reads that one anyway. i’m so boring now! i know some people keep several in different spots and update them with the same posts, sort of a networking thing, but i don’t really want to use my journal for an advertisement, although i know it is a fairly friendly marketing tool, if it doesn’t get out of hand. oh my my my. what to do? i’ve even started using flickr again and i was so cranky about that for a while!

i really like the page layout of reco-mind though. and it is so easy to work with, the wordpress thing. uploading images and all.

erf. decisions.

i want some tea. i’ll think about it.

last night when i went to bed, i realized i don’t mind going back to work on monday if i have had a pleasant, productive, yet relaxing weekend. which it was. on friday after work, i met traci for a quick dinner and the downtown gallery walk. it was good to hang out, but it was probably the worst gallery walk ever. a couple of galleries who listed, were not even open. including Olive, which is closing next month. i looked in the window and saw toys, so i didn’t feel i missed much. it is more than a little sad that so many galleries are closing, and the ones left often don’t wish to participate. true, it is not a big shopping event, but the generosity involved in being open, providing a few treats and letting people mingle and look, is good karma, in my opinion. the galleries that are left in town have the same old stuff, i am sorry to say. the best work was at the Lawrence Arts Center, Carol Ann Carter, but it was difficult to view because there were too many people. i will return. ha. if they are *ever* open at a time i can actually go in. i am sad about the art scene in this town right now. how i would love to have a little space and have an awesome gallery with interesting and NEW things at great prices. i know how to do it. and i know it would work. i have done it in my head for years. but … no capital.

i came home and curled up in my bigChair in my nightgown and talked to my poet for a long time.

saturday was errands and chores and the Italian epic film, which actually turned out to be an Italian mini-series from Italian TV - 6 hours!!! holyjebus. and i stayed up and watched it ALL. it was quite lame and Hallmarkish, but i wasn’t sleepy and the scenery was good. the best part of the evening though was talking for a long time to my little margaret.

sunday was scanning and listing more things on etsy, talking to my mama, walking downtown for Indian buffet and trying to see the Carol Ann Carter work, but the damned Arts Center gallery was closed. please tell me why, if the *Center* is open and the guy is sitting there anyway, the gallery can’t be open on a Sunday afternoon??? grrrrrrrrrrrrr. then walking to the frozen river, and playing at the artTable the rest of the day. to bed early with a book. sleep.

the end.

signs of life : lawrence ks : friday night gallery walk january 2007

so many of our galleries are closing. it is very sad.

i guess it is a little icky when someone doesn’t make a public post for weeks and then they finally do and it is a damned SPAM! but yes. i am. i am forcing myself out into the world and marketing and all etc. this year. i do want to sell a little work, but more than anything i want to clear the space in my studio, as i find having a hoard of finished work just sitting and waiting for attention is somewhat of a block for my creative energy. sure. i could put it in neat plastic boxes in the basement. with the other stuff. but that seems unkind (to the pieces).

so i’m selling it all. well actually. almost giving it away.

cobaltika.etsy.com

and thank you for looking.

that same truck in the neighborhood : brownie hawkeye flash

i am in love with this camera! of course there is a certain intimacy because i opened her up and looked at her insides and cleaned her nicely and even put her back together without killing her. then took her out, with her silly little plastic handle and made a set of pictures with her. today the film was returned to me and i was delighted!! there are more on flickr upon clicking the image.

otherwise it is a pleasant and busy saturday. much packing and shipping this morning. etsy is fun! then post office, food and household products, laundry and a little cleaning. film scanning. a dinner of pasta with ricotta, spinach, walnuts and morningstar farms fake bacon. red wine. yep. and soon an Italian Epic Film (don’t ask me. i like to be surprised). all seems well today except for worries about my small girl, so far away and young. there always lurks that missing thing. about the girls. and my family. i try to beat it down and carry on. because what else can i do?