Closing time

Today our family begins to say our last goodbyes to the home we've lived in for more than a decade.

As The Husband said, in order to make our house look like somewhere you'd want to live, we had to make it unliveable.

We're all looking forward to the new house, of course. More elbow room for the kids as they get bigger, new views...

But it's bittersweet leaving the home I brought my babies home to, the home in which I became an artist. I'll have a home studio soon (!), but it'll be... different.

"Medicine Ball": throwdown of the arts

Ladies! Gentlemen! No need to fight over me: there's plenty of my art to go around! [secretly hopes her art inspires the duelers to throw down harder]

"It's Already Happened Here" by Lisa Myers Bulmash. ©2017

I'm one of seven visual artists whose work kicks off Seattle's literary Cage Match of the Millennium. We've created work especially for "Medicine Ball: Playwrights v. Poets." 

A team of playwrights and a team of poets are now creating works inspired by the visual art, which speaks to the theme of "unity." Then on the weekend of June 22nd, the teams face off in front of an audience -- that's where you come in -- and the audience decides which poem or play they like best. Mainly, this battle is for (a little bit of) honor and glory: Winners take home a bottle of cheap wine; losers get a can of warm, cheap beer.

Should be interesting to see where they take my collage, which addresses a harsher kind of unity.

I'm sure the Confederate flag and the illustration of human trafficking are going to be a challenge. But you're up to it, right, poets? How about you, playwrights?

I'll have the scrambled artist brain, please

This is how my brain operates right now: all the thoughts at the same time! The house/ the yard/ the art/ the grocery shopping...

My brain is too scrambled. I plan on taking a break from the chaos at Juan Alonso Studio this weekend...

First Thursday Art Walk, Front Room Gallery @ Juan Alonso Studio. Photo credit: Roger Stuckly

... where my (completed!) artwork will be on display during Second Saturday open studios. We're adding another artist to the mix: Anna Mastronardi Novak brings small encaustic work for a pop-up show.

And studio time is coming this weekend! I think! I hope...