DETAIL: space gallery 35x56" this is one of the 22 paintings headed to houston for my exhibition, ANO KATO.
2:34 pm: in 2 days a dear friend will undergo open heart surgery for a valve replacement. at the same time, we're scurrying about packing up paintings. last night i had a dream of loss. no phone; no way to communicate with mikela & make sure we would arrive at our destination on time. i wasn't even sure she knew what the destination was. fuck, even i didn't know.
i tend to move between the macro and the micro. from the beautiful decaying pieces of tree you see below to the galaxies and our insignificance. and it's tempting to wonder why; why do i make these paintings? why have we created actionlab360, which we believe to be an essential next step in education? our history together is one of "bumping into stuff" at exactly the right moment. opportunities, insights, people we could never have dreamt up or planned in advance.
2:27 pm: today mikela and i created preliminary boxes for the smaller paintings we left on their stretcher bars. those boxes will go inside larger boxes we hop we'll find in alamosa. if not, we'll wait and find them when we're in denver. next, we'll focus on the larger paintings we un-stretched and will roll & put in a large heavy duty tube, along with the disassembled stretcher bars. we'll breathe a huge sigh of relief once they've been received by the gallery in houston.
7:57 am: from our trail walk on friday afternoon:
