Chicago

I will be leaving for Chicago to participate in Bare Walls 2005 the first weekend in November. On one hand I am excited to be doing some traveling, seeing Joe, Harmony,and Matt; on the other hand I am terrified. I have been practicing as you can see above with the iris, but I still don’t like painting in acrylics, it just doesn’t feel right and it comes out looking like shit. And painting in front of people with the pressure of having the work done in 8 hours in unnerving. For me, painting is a very private solitary act not to be shared with others. The end product and how I get there is viewable, but the process of mixing, scrapping, drawing, mistake correcting, analyzing , thinking, and the frustration is for me alone. It is my therapy, my escape, and the reason I get out of bed in the morning. Or maybe I’m making too much of the whole trip. It will be a great chance to network that is for sure…