Rising to the Surface

So, along with “real job”, I thought I’d share some other words that are surfacing a lot lately:

Vortex
Manifest
Belief/Believe
Understand/Understanding
Grateful
Consume/Consumption
Illusion
Implement
Patience

I’ve also been photographing a lot and imagery that keeps showing up in my composition include:

Stairs
Lines
Lines
Lines
Design/Shape/Form
Cold Temperature “feeling imagery”

I’m defining an acrylic series for 2007. My paintings have started to develop similar elements naturally and I feel ready to take it to the next level. I’m tossing around ideas, but I’m fitting it into my “one painting per month goal” which should give me a 12-piece series by the year’s end.

As well, I’m going to do the same with photography, only more. I’m gonna do a series a month. January broke down into two series that were both familiar territory: Freeway Park & the Seattle Public Library (Central). Looking over these pictures, some of them damn good, I can’t help but to think, “Well no shit they’re good pictures. How hard can in be to capture beauty in those places?”

February’s photographic theme is transportation. King Street Station has recently received a pretty major facelift: I think that’ll be a good place to start.

Pedestrians. Metro. Cabs. Bicyclists. Monorail. Light Rail construction. I-5 Congestion. And it’s looking as though February and March will present frequent use of SeaTac again. I miss flying. I love flying. Being in the air, above the clouds with all the light and colors bouncing around: I love it. And it’s time to pitch this show. (I can do this.)

Other than that, the deadline for Sicily is tomorrow (they’re willing to extend late entries till Monday, Feb 5th). If there’s one thing I’m consistent with, it’s being late.

The four blank canvases that are waiting for Sicily to find them stare at me now as I write.

“Fine. I’m coming.”