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Texting and falling into a fountain, 6X8, Carol L. Douglas. Artists can justify keeping anything as still life props.
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Sometimes God likes to remind me that I’m not superhuman. Like this week, when my work has been limited by asthma. The combination of pollen, dust and exertion has pretty much done me in by early afternoon, and I’m about 20 boxes behind in my packing.
Every American family should pack once a decade. That way we would relentlessly cull our stuff. It would be nicer for our children when we die, for one thing.
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| Yes, all the weird stuff has to come with me. And much of it requires special handling in packing. |
Every studio is full of odd and useful things. In my case, several plaster heads, one blue glass head, a Vaseline glass figurine, several compotes, and a glass bowl full of rocks from Maine. That last one has me baffled; I use those rocks for still lives, but I can’t really see moving them back to Maine.
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| Paintings and frames are a hassle to pack. |
The fine art of packing consists entirely in tossing stuff out until your current house is empty and you fall in love with it again. I’m not a hoarder. I can be relentless with books, with clothes and with furnishings. But there’s still an awful lot of stuff here to go through, and time is slipping through my fingers.
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| Where there was once order, there are now… boxes. |
Meanwhile, I remember what it’s like to paint. Really, I do.
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