It has been delicious to be back in the studio. I have dedicated a certain number of studio hours a week to complete current series like Marking Time and COVID Cost. The knowledge that these projects will be completed by Fall 2025 has eased my mind and has allowed me to use the rest of the studio hours to revel in the materials and the ideas that I have collected over the last couple of years.
I was invited to exhibit work in the Moira Fitzsimmons Arons Art Gallery at the Hamden Country Day School (Hamden, CT). It's curator, Caryn Azoff, has had an integral part in creating a rich and wide-ranging art program, as well as a vibrant exhibition schedule rooted in both traditional and contemporary art. It is an unusual space in that its main wall is a large, curved surface facing a bank of glass windows and doors.
After the anticipation and intense work involved in mounting my solo exhibition, it came down at the end of May. I felt unable to dive back into my work. I was drained, listless, let down and had little desire to actively create.
This summer was a period of intense artistic exploration: papermaking, cyanotype, sculptural paper, natural ephemera collecting, drying and embedding. Different processes demand different setups. Since my studio is small, I needed to get inventive