Next week we leave for a five day trip to Portland Maine. I am an mfa candidate for Maine College of Art and will spend the summer there for “intensive program”. Ready for it. What happens when I come back is uncertain. I am fairly sure that i will be living in Chicago in West Logan Square in an apartment that is just perfect. I am fairly certain that there are buckets full of Montessori jobs waiting for a dedicated art instructor and or assistant teacher. I have had one interview and a few inquires. All is settling in. However, as per usual, the monetary situation (poverty) is never-ending. My financial aid is 2,000 shy of just covering tuition. I applied for a Plus Loan, but it is based on credit. And if you are banker, ‘we don’t like your kind’.

I have been busy with art, anyway. I worked on three large panels in response to my House on the Rock experience. They were in a poorly lit show. And by poorly lit, I mean literally and, that the focus was more on local bands than art. The good news is there are more people interested in making an established contemporary art scene here in Tippecanoe county. It really is a shame that I will be leaving. Next month, at Alchemy Salon there will be the “Gun and Knife Show” that I will be participating in. We bounced around the idea that someone just has to paint ‘the prying of the rifle from his cold, DEAD hands’ but I am fairly certain that the internet has beaten us to it, in spades. Other art projects range from dollmaking, papermaking, and a woodcut print that i made  for my friend’s birthday. I need to get over there and take a picture of it for my files. (edit: now in the gallery)
Back to House on the Rock for a moment. I am sure that I am not alone when I think that this place was just overwhelming. I cannot list the contents of this place. It would take away from your personal experience. I will say that if I am a filling buckets of interactions so that I can react to them, my bucket runneth over. As soon as I get to Willow Stained Glass Studio downtown (where they are hanging as a triptych) I will post the pictures of those as well as updating them to the website gallery. There is so much that isn’t on there.

Also, here is my first attempt at webcomicking. It really is a shame that the comments are disabled. Anyone want to email me and tell me how to fix this would be a doll. A real live doll. Well, anyway, here it is.