5 of the 2014 works on paper i picked out this afternoon
2:34 PM: today, after switching out the piece i placed in the square white frame yesterday, i went through other works on paper from 2014 mostly. i picked out a handful that stood out to me & tacked them to a wall and placed others on the ledge beneath my west facing window.
4 more of the 2014 works on paper that caught my eye (upper left & the 3 on the bottom)
11:14 AM: it’s rather rare to have a dark day in crestone, with no sign of sunlight. it’s been raining on & off, although, as usual, the predictions for “heavy rain” have not materialized, other than a very brief period at 1am this morning, which woke me up it was so loud.
neither of us really liked the smaller of the two pieces i framed yesterday & brought to the house. so i brought it back and am replacing it with this one, which i picked out of a stack of watercolor/collages in my watch series. i’ve been a big watch guy for as long as i can remember, and in 2014 i included cropped images of watches in this series. it’s kind of depressing that, after going through the whole group of 15 or 20, this was the only one that held up. and we won’t know till i place it in the white frame & hang it in the entryway of our house, whether it passes the test. what makes me feel somewhat better about this is that, when i browse through the work of even the greatest of the artists i love, like matisse, i have a similar experience of finding only one in ten or even twenty that really sings. that’s just how it is. even when i look at those fabulous 1st c. pompeian frescos, the same holds true. if you could hit it out of the park every time, or hit an ace on every serve, there would be no point to the game.
5-26-14 watch 1, 13x11"
6:54 AM: these are a variety of ceramics on out living room table; some painted by me, along with local crestone conglomerate rocks.