Thank you for coming to the gallery on Thursday. We had a nice showing. I am glad this event is over, six weeks to prepare is stressful. After a show is complete there is a time lapse of not knowing what to do, like when flying, the plane lifts off of the ground and becomes suspended, everything seems to stop. This sensation only lasts a few moments but it is distinct and weightless.

My practice is to clean the studio making it more acceptable of the materials I plan to fling in its direction next. This is what I do in the suspended time.

On to the larger plan of the solo exhibition in December, 2011. One of my reoccurring themes is Identity. What objects do we identify with? How do we identify ourselves? We are not what we do or what we have, what identifies us? 

I had an idea: I would explore these questions through collaborating with a variety of people some known to me and some not. I would ask the participants to choose objects that described aspects of their identity. This idea was formally hatched when I decided to paint Patrick with his trumpet. (Living in a house where live music is played is pretty nice.) His complete dedication to mastering this instrument gave me the opportunity to see the symbolism of an object in a new way. The painting is simple and direct. I made a list of potential participants, Kevin was first on my list. 

Later...

I was driving on the freeway thinking about who I would ask to participate in this project, having photographed Kevin a few weeks earlier. I started feeling penned in, claustrophobic.   I thought why do I always set myself up with a plan then half way through it I am no longer interested? What if I didn't want to paint the people I asked? How would I feel in July, trapped in an idea of yesterday? 

Wait - A - Minute, waaaaiiiittt... This is my gig!

I am not required to make anything certain.

How freeing.

I want to fully exercise my many talents as an interdisciplinary artist. To freely allow creativity to take over and to begin with uncertainty and identity and see where the work takes me.