Work-in-progress: If you want an omelette...
"... You gotta break a few eggs."
Remember those plastic Easter eggs I found?
I'm finally getting back to them, and the piece for which I bought them in the first place. I plan to repaint them before I place them back into the carton. A toy bat will hang over the eggs.
Then I shall attempt the improbable: finish the whole piece by next week. Wish me luck!
Liberty Bank Building: Shovel-ready for art
First, the groundbreaking...
All images courtesy of LibertyBankBuilding.org
... and then we really get serious about making the art for the new Liberty Bank Building.
This location used to be the site of the first black-owned bank west of the Mississippi.
Now the land's being redeveloped into affordable apartments -- with art and design elements created by artists of African descent. I'm honored to contribute ten collage portraits for the future residents' permanent art collection.
As construction begins there, I'll be starting on the collages in my studio. It's a big project that will take a while, but I have A Plan, you'll see.
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.
