We all live in Coronaville.
And we can't leave.
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| View from my desk.
Our governor, Tim Walz, was quoted in this morning's paper as saying that Minnesotans need to view this pandemic not as a blizzard, but as a winter. If it doesn't snow where you are, insert your own weather metaphor. Not as a wildfire, but as hell. Not as a hurricane, but as ....I dunno. A washing machine stuck in the spin cycle...for months?
I went to my paper making internship (because I work alone in a huge space) yesterday and spent seven hours dipping handmade paper into a vat of indigo. When I wasn't doing that I was spraying down handmade ochre paper for flattening. Ochre and indigo are two excellent colors to spend time with during a pandemic, I think.
And my boss gave me an old scanner which I hope will function with my vintage macbook air. That would be swell.
I've been calling friends. Have a date to FaceTime with more friends tonight. Gonna keep doing that.
The teaching myself to draw is crazy. After a couple of days, I realized I couldn't figure this out without help. I bought "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain." And I'm very excited. What the author has to say about drawing is stupendously good. I just thought it was innate talent--that I don't have. You just need the skill set, she says. I hope she's right and I'm wrong. It's like learning to read, she says.
The first assignment is to make three pre-instruction drawings. OMG.
How are you? What are you doing? How do you feel? Tell me.
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3 comments:
I feel like I, too, need projects and new things to challenge my brain. I can feel myself sort of drifting towards depression and Lord knows that's not what I want right now. Thank you for being inspirational in this regard, Denise.
Oh my gosh! I have this book by Lynda Barry on my bedside that I've been dying to read (but forgot) every since I heard her on some radio show talking about it. She says much the same thing about drawing as you've said here. You should check it out.
I have two copies of "The Artist's Way." Let me know if you want one and I can drop it off for you. I'm currently reading 3 books: The "Water Dancer", "Inside a Pearl", and Adam Platt's "The Book of Eating" Oh! and The subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck".
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