So I just spent my evening typing ten million emails! And knocked a significant chunk of stuff off of my to-do list. Now I just have to wait for responses to move forward with several projects. I also now have an official artist statement. WOW! It was nerve-wracking, and yet very cool to create that. Mostly it was cool that there was an actual need for it. It took me about two hours of tweaking, and stressing, and pacing. One of those times when I felt I needed a cigarette just to calm me down!
Last week was a blur of activity – and I think I’ve got things well in hand – art-wise. I’m halfway through an eight piece series that will be part of an eight person show in August (8/8/08 – get it?) I’ve decided to go with abstract encaustic pieces. I am using 8 x 8 Claybord panels and they are looking really hot on my walls right now – not sure I want to give them up to the world – at least I have them until August! I don’t want to show the whole pieces – so I’m just including closeups. To really get a good look at the waxy goodness clock on each individual pic for a larger view.
Title refers to the stars that look like the Star of David. Some of the early settlers of New Mexico were “conversos” – Jews who had converted to Catholicism during the Inquisition but still practiced their faith in secret – or at least kept some of their Jewish traditions and passed them down to their descendants. I don’t know if the person buried here was a converso – but it was the first thought I had when I saw this gravestone.
So yesterday will definitely go down in history as one of the weirdest of my life. I woke up yesterday feeling a little weird. My stomach had been bothering me on Wednesday also so I decided to stay home. I called my boss and work and went back to bed. Within a half hour of calling in I was in agony – repeatedly throwing up, cold sweat, and having the most excruciating pain in my lower abdomen – worse that labor. I hobbled over to my neighbor’s house and asked her to take me to the emergency room. At the emergency room an angel (aka Pete the nurse) swooped down and immediately took me back and provided blessed relief in the form of morphine. I had a CT scan and found out I had 3 kidney stones!! A little more morphine, a lot of water, and time was all it was going to take to make me feel better. What a relief!! The morphine made me a little loopy and I decided that I need to continue on with my day – that included having my work hung at the Satellite Coffee in the Nob Hill area. I sent my fabulous friend Leau over to my work with a disk containing the layout for my tags to go with the work. I got released around noon and we headed over to my work to pickup the tags and then met the lovely Spring at Satellite so that she could commence with the hanging. Shortly after leaving the hospital I started feeling horrible and after meeting Spring we went back to the hospital. A little more morphine and a few more drugs and I was back out at around 5. Leau and I sped over to Satellite to view my work (it looked awesome), and then headed over to the pharmacy to pickup my pain meds.
End of Day
Fade to Black
Went back to the Bernalillo Cemetery with my Brit friend, Jeanne. We had a fabulous day that started with a heartfelt chat at my house, continued to our photohunt at the cemetery, and ended at the Range (one of the yummiest places to eat in NM) I saw things at the cemetery I had never seen before including a tombstone that was shaped like a house! Here’s some pics..I think I’m having a “decay” phase.
It’s been a long week, it’s been a long year already. Finally making some new art with my glass negatives. This woman is dressed so well, the rest of the photo show her two smiling, healthy children – and yet she looks so…..tired. Kind of like how I’m feeling these days.
So I’m on the main page of Duke City Fix today! I blogged over there about the railyard and Chantal, the owner of the site, put my post on the main page! How cool is that? And here’s another pic.
Photo taken in 1917 at Cobb Studios (location is an educated guess based on previous research
This is from the 1910 census, Santiago was living with his uncle (possible great-uncle?) Candido Juipe and a large extended family, in Los Lentes in Valencia County, NM. I believe Pedro Peralta was his father – the census only lists an individual’s relationship to the head of household so I’m not sure.
Draft card from 1918, shows Santiago living in Armijo (now part of ABQ). Note that it lists Candido as his nearest relative. And he doesn’t even know his birthday!
The Printer’s Daughter
Memory
