My hands are so danged achy from the dank now that they feel about 90. I doubt I could get a jar lid off if you gave me $50 to do it- there is no way I could forge a piece of metal and progress on the Red Queen Crown has sadly ground to a halt. I’m so excited to fly home tomorrow and warm the hell up and MAKE THINGS.
I’m excited to see friends, a bit sad to leave all of the lads for so long. I don’t even know when I’ll be back- I haven’t yet got a grip on our schedule for the final wrap of the book, because it involves so many more people than me. I suspect that there will be a month-long session in Tucson starting Sunday, and then another push in France.
How long we have left to work depends on what type of flow we can create. Between Dustin Wedekind, Jean Power, Gabriella van Diepen, Teresa Sullivan, and I we are attempting to weave a satisfactory fabric of time and space that works for everyone; it’s gradually coming into focus. I’m also looking forward to collaborating with Jeannette Cook, Debi Nicholson, Gail Crosman Moore and others during the shows.
Since I seem to be quite untethered in time and space, I’ve decided to simply tie everything I am thinking about to the completion of the book; this ought to make everything come into focus fairly neatly. That and renting out my house- those are my humble yet lofty goals for February, March and April.
Red Queen Crown, an illustration of reversible Rick-Rack on top of a neat Modified RAW, from our new book in progress, Geometrics.
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