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Monthly Archives: February 2020
27 February 2020
26 February 2020
25 February 2020
24 February 2020
23 February 2020
I spent the afternoon and evening at reunion concerts for the Bay State Hotel, which was the center of the Northampton independent music scene when we first moved there in the ’90’s. It was the best sort of reunion. There was touching into old connections and making new ones, rich with memories of shared and private joys and sorrows, all woven together with strands of music.
22 February 2020
Time for the annual collage party. This day I only finished one piece. It’s small, and angry. Mostly pictures taken from National Geographic magazines, which have a history of brilliantly and beautifully documenting and objectifying/commodifying Nature and Other Cultures.
I did put a lot in on the group collage below, where the 4 women present had a really interesting conversation on art and aesthetics, both in words and in the interaction of making the piece.
21 February 2020
I didn’t get any studio time this day, but instead went to a drag show hosted by my friend Lily DeValley. I made a bunch of sketches that did not please me, which reminded me that I haven’t done much practice in observation in quite a while. Here’s the most finished one, which doesn’t really do Edith Arsch justice. But hey, it was a day, and I did some drawing.










