babble
Saturday, September 27, 2003
Shower power:
Saturday is typically the day of the week during which I do absolutely nothing. I try to run errands and such during the week or on Sunday so that I can spend Saturday recuperating from my weekday rock star schedule. That all changes when Artwalk is about to happen. Many of my neighbors have a much more hectic schedule than I do - most of them are painters, so they will hurry to produce as many new works as they can, some of them painting up until the time that the doors open. My process is a little less hectic, since I take all my film to a lab for development and enlargements, so I can't really push things up to the last minute. I have to have all of my enlargement orders in at the lab no later than a week prior to the event. However, this time around I have quite a few new pieces, and I'm experimenting with some alternative processes and creating some mixed media pieces, so I'm much busier with preparations than I was the last two times I participated. I have already sent my enlargement orders to the lab, though, so at least that part is done, but I still have to frame them, which I'll spend this afternoon doing. Then it's off to the gallery to help Sean and Caryn with the opening reception for This Is Your God, which is sure to be great.
While I was in the shower a little while ago, I started thinking about this new, top-secret collaborative art and writing project that I'm working on, and came up with some more ideas for it that I'm really excited about. I really do a lot of my best thinking in the shower, I kid you not. Anyway, thinking about that project got me thinking about my goals in life, and how I've achieved many of the things that I wanted to before I turned 30. Some of the goals are financial and materialistic - I like being able to earn enough money to finance my travels and my hobbies, and I like being able to live comfortably without having to constantly worry about money. If that makes me a materialistic asshole, so be it. I feel very lucky that I am able to earn a very good living working in a field that I love. Some of the other goals are travel-related - I wanted to travel to Ireland, and did so several years ago, and I get to go back in October. I really love to travel, and I'll get to do a lot more of it in the next year or so, as I have several trips planned to various parts of the U.S. and Europe. The only travel-related goal that I haven't accomplished yet is to go to Machu Picchu in Peru, but hopefully I'll get to go there within the next 5 years.
I'm very excited about the aforementioned secret project that I'm working on. The only thing I can tell you is that I will get to work with some of my favorite people, who are all extremely talented and capable. The path to world domination begins.
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