If anyone is interested ... you can find Jack's website at http://www.jacktroy.net/

I know you can look it up but I've got nothing to say and this gives me another blog:) Sorry Linda!

I got an email back from Jack Troy! He is interested in becoming my mentor which is a huge relief! Very excited for the fall~

Hey okay so here I am... filling up my studio space... lots of pots to choose from for the show but not at all attached to any of them. I'll be looking to keep producing all this week until I find THE ONE or several:)

Two thoughts....

I am combining my 1000 journal project and my "starting from scratch" studio work. After talking with Linda, I am focusing on one form-the vessel- and black and white slip instead of glaze. Jumping back into artist mode was more than overwhelming and left me lost as to where to start.

SO with this direction, I am creating these vessels to be used to display the journals that return to me describing the most creative aspect individuals offer to their partnership as a couple. How the audience will interact with this is still under construction...

So here is my appropriation for my drawing class....I appropriated from the Portrait of the Reverend Mother Maria Antonia de Rivera... The piece was painted in the eighteenth century- it was fashionable for Mexican families to have portraits painted of their daughters who were taking their final vows to become nuns... also known as Monjas Corondas. It wasn't until I read about the piece did the beauty come out. As I read it I made the relation to all people - maybe not going through extravagant processes of crowns and portraits but we all "crown" ourselves with devotion to something. Here I have my crowd crowned with their clothes, themselves, food, activities etc. The concept here expands a little further in that this woman painted has her years laid out- born in 1736, took vows in 1757, became prioress in 1791, and then died in 1806. It was a little depressing seeing how quickly your years can be lumped summed. How often do we go on about our way without thinking what we are summing up in the time we have?

It was great seeing Hide and Carol work together last week and learn about Hide's history as an artist. Beautiful work ( I was partial to his functional pieces:) It was not only encouraging seeing him create around us, but watching him form a bust from bottom up was good for me to see! Really interesting to see him process the goal of combining all his images while he was forming his features....