We went to Galisteo, NM on a lark yesterday. It’s a tiny town with lots of charm. These mailboxes were directly across from the church – which seems to be the center of town. I think the mailman only makes one stop in Galisteo – and this is it.

Here’s my entry:

Albuquerque

Hot yet cool,
expansive yet intimate,
embracing it’s history
and hurtling towards the future,

open, accepting, welcoming

HOME!

A little cheesy, eh? Oh well, I did rather quickly at 2am one night – and really can’t believe it won. But I’ll take it – and the chocolate that is my prize!

I’m a poet and didn’t know it! (Sorry, I had to throw that in here)

“Crafting art
Linguistic and artistic lines are beginning to blur in the craft world.
Kurt Nelson, owner of Palette Contemporary Art and Craft, says “craft” has often been unfairly maligned. The distinctions between “art” and “craft” are on their way out, “like the dodo,” he says.
He used “craft” to describe his gallery to showcase the diversity of contemporary art — from oil painting to $3,700 submerged solid glass — but none is what he calls traditional “Aunt Millie” crafts.
A few doors down in the same Northeast Albuquerque outdoor mall, artists scurry around the Wooden Cow Gallery and Art Space, a new multigenre cooperative gallery that opened last month. At the Wooden Cow, distinctions between high and low art blur as mosaic designs share space with Chinese brush work. The gallery includes pieces that could be called craft, such as resin-coated rings made from recycled Scrabble pieces.
Lorraine Klover, one of the Wooden Cow founders, is a photographer who also sells on Etsy. She says the term “craft” has been denigrated because it is associated with practical work done by women. Some locals eschew the “craft” label because of those traditional connotations.”

This is for the 8 x 8 x 8 show I am in in August. The concept is that we have eight artists, each creating 8 pieces of work that are 8″ x 8″. I have six completed, one might be done (still thinking about it), and one that is still completely inside my head. I am doing encaustics on 2 inch deep cradled boards. This will be my first encaustic series to be shown to the world – so I’m excited about that. And several of my friends are participating – and the wild and crazy Paula is the one who came up with the idea and gathered the artist together. Should be a great show – more details as it gets closer.