8/7: setting up
...a little "showing" of my work in the classroom I usually teach in and run workshops in. A curator from Little Rock asked to see my pamphlets, and that classroom seemed to be the most fitting spot to meet. I went well in advance to create four different stations and arrangements of pamphlets on the tables; each clustering focused on a different aspect of my work (line, type, form, and words). It was good to see the pieces in a new way, in the context they create for one another, and to feel afresh the affection I have for them individually.
8/6: working at getting better
...at talking about my pamphlet-making. Because I send things out through the mail, I don't have much practice in talking with folks in an extended or formal way about my process or the particular pieces. A conversation this afternoon with a wonderful ceramic artist pushed me further in my articulation.
8/4: done revising (for now)
There are a few pamphlets I've made in the past that didn't come together in a way that felt wholly right to me. I've spent some time over the past three days reworking two of them. They're better for sure, but the difficulties I had with them were harder nuts to crack than I thought.
8/3: compiling
...an information sheet about myself and my Cuckoo Grey pamphlets for two artist-book meetings in the coming week. It felt good to put it together.
8/2: an hour outside
...this morning, since it was cool enough to walk. (Not "cool," but "cool enough.")
8/1: shown to the children
In the morning I read that Leonora Carrington had Insects Shown to the Children on her bookshelf. I looked for a digital copy online but didn't find one. However, I did find out that it was one in a series of books, and Project Gutenberg had another title in the series: Butterflies and Moths Shown to the Children. Even the cover is amazing! (I wish I had the whole set.) It was fun to poke around in the book and do a few on-the-spot erasures.
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