I am back after a month hiatus. I didn't mean to be gone so long from this blog, but I was really wiped out after the DAC show. I forget how much of myself gets put into each piece. It wiped me out. I loved the show. It was so wonderful to do this show with Jan Schubert. We had a lot of fun hanging the art together, hosting the reception, and finally taking the art down.
I learned something about myself at the reception - I have an inner troll. Jan did a puppet show of the "Three Billy Goats Gruff" (she is a wonderful story teller). I was the troll. All I had to do was "man" the strings on the marionette troll. I didn't have any lines - but afterwards many people commented on my troll facial expressions when ever my troll was on stage. I didn't know what my face was doing because I was concentrating on not tangling the trolls strings - but it must have been pretty funny. One of the dads said to me, as he was leaving the reception - "I will never forget that troll" (head shaking, quirky smile playing on his face). -I think I will stick to the behind the scenes making of art, and let my inner troll play with the sewing machine.
Fall is quickly approaching. The light has changed, the air smells of drying grasses, and my children will be headed off to school again. I am enjoying this change of season, and looking forward to doing more art. I hope to learn the business end of art this year, (I need to make enough money to put a down payment on my italian dream home -a rustic fixer-upper farm house).
Ciao Bellas
Teresa (said with an Italian accent)
