2009 in review

This has been quite a year. My car was stolen in Jan on the day I was supposed to close on my house on 1/21. Keith and I went to the Pop Evil concert in Houma as planned that night in spite of the incident and the delay on the closing. I got the car back minus the radio/cd player Keith had bought me and I did end up closing on the house on 2/2. The a/c in the house gave out during the summer and my car broke down but I managed to get through it all. Keith had to drive me to work and I had to spend the night at his place a few times b/c of that. Work cut our pay but only for a few months. Mama turned 80 and we discovered Daddy has congestive heart failure when he started hallucinating. He seems better now but is going to finally retire and we’re all worried that he’ll go downhill when he stops working. I struggle to make ends meet and haven’t really produced any art. I need to finish the pieces for the Grand Isle show and have the inspiration to do some pieces based on the trip I took with Kevin to Poverty Point around Thanksgiving. I did do some face painting and had a couple of jobs through a temp agency selling tickets but that really barely helps. The website is still not complete and I still have no money to produce prints. I did ask a prof at Nichols about figure drawing and he is supposed to supply me with the names of some recent graduates interested in figure drawing and the names of some models. There are of course loose ends with both Kevin and Keith and I am hesitant to say that the strong candidates are the two young men who work off shore (Young men — one is young enough to be my son!) Great Goddess help me through 2010!

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mail art

This past year I’ve been participating in mail art projects. Visit the links below to see them

 

Feb 2008  “Gluttony” — if you scroll all the way to the bottom it is the one right above the last image.

http://papervoices.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

May 2008 “100 years of Beauty” — You have to scroll half way down to see the piece which I did to celebrate the 100th birthday of Frida Kahlo in 2007.

http://skulladay.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html

Sept 2008 – Three separate pieces devoted to alternatiave forms of energy – “Earth”  “Wind” “Fire” were sent in and are supposed to be displayed in Sept at the below site. Their is a choice of English or Italian and the English site is not finished. The Italian version mixes Italian with English.

http://www.sacsart.net/

Midphase

Seems like I’m not the only one with problems with Midphase! Below are some links to some other articles/blogs with issues with Midphase. 

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000189.html

http://cinediva.livejournal.com/127574.html?view=610134#t610134

 http://vacantsites.blogspot.com/2006/11/midphase-thief.html

For this one you have to go down to the 3rd or 4th headline – past the second photo for the healine “Other miscellaneous trickiness, aka – MidPhase Hosting sucks”

http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/friday-photo-blogging-the-midphase-sucks-edition-british-sea-power/

With this one you have to go over to your right – sort of middle of the page to read everyone’s horror story. Marc Bollinger, General Manager with Midphase, actually gives his email address there and asks anyone with problems to email him directly. I did that today – he responded w/in minuties! We’ll see what acutally happens.

http://www.vistainter.com/reviews/M/midphase

 

I have been struggling since Oct 07 to get a website up to show my art. Who knew it would be this much trouble!!! I absolutely detest midphase. The designer there lacks any ability to communicate and it is impossible to get a response from either the designer or any of the management team. Apparently once they have your money you cease to be important. The site they designed is down right now and a friend is trying to help me get the site back up but he’s never dealt with a content management type site so until this is figured out or I find an affordable designer who knows how to give a client what they want this will have to do as a forum. 

This piece is called Sophia. It was a self portrait I started when I was 39 and it was done by the time my 40th birthday rolled around. I didn’t like the original drawing which was a modified contour drawing but my husband said it looked like me at 70 or 80 years old so I finished it.