Okay so i’m a little bit behind. Forgive me as I’m crashing from the most amazing month ever at Medalta. The residency ended with a bang (literally) and many sad goodbyes as we all went our separate ways, well except for Jeremy Hatch who is left in the studio all by himself to finish his work, hopefully it’s not too lonely.
Sunday morning after no more than 3 hours sleep I took one final swing by the studio to catch a peek at this week’s eye candy – a piece that Brendan Tang had just unloaded from the kiln hours before.
Stunning to say the least.
And then it was time to hit the road and head home to my lovely family. It has been such an amazing month that i’m still trying to digest it all. It really feels like it will be months/years before the inspiration I gained at Medalta will fade. My mommy brain was brought back to life and is still churning with theory talk, new techniques, business ideas and conceptual richness. Needless to say it’s been both lovely and strange to be back home in an all too familiar day to day routine. The studio is once again filled with the crackle of the baby monitor rather than Robin Lambert’s amazing studio mix of music. There is no one to stop by and provide random insight into my work, or to simply make me smile a mile wide with their humor. But it’s not like being home is a bad thing. I need to digest all this information, and more importantly finish all the pieces I started in Medicine Hat. It might be a few weeks before I have images to share with you all of the works completed, but fear not, you’ll get to see them finished.
The studio is in the process of being cleaned, the family cuddles abound, I have a wonderful gift of a new computer to keep up with all my work (killed not one but 2 MAC’s during the residency). Life is good. Friends will be missed, but never forgotten, and the internet as always will bring us together.
To sum up any thoughts on the “Technology” residency…hmmm….I think that it reconfirmed my beliefs that technology is an amazing tool for growth of a practice, of marketing and community building, of sharing and nurturing. I guess I have to declare that I officially remove my luddite label. I am fully and completely in tune with technology and my desire to find better ways of making it work to my, and the larger community’s, advantage has grown. After many chats about this blog with the residency’s artists and staff, I have a renewed energy for building this site into something even greater. What? i’m not totally sure yet. When? As soon as I have some time : )
Great things are a foot, stay tuned.
You sound soooo inspired! I remember this feeling after I came home from Penland, there were lots of tears from so much emotion, so many things to digest. Look forward to seeing where all of this takes you!
a) Darl! You are far from a luddite going by your blogging tech skills
b) Did you really kill two Macs? How do you do that? Typing too fast, asking too much of the CPU??
I only ask as at the beginning of this year there was a problem with a model of mac laptop – not sure which but a friend was affected – just as she left LA to live in Oz – very inconvenient. You may have some comeback from Apple, worth looking into it.
c)How did Brendan achieve that delish Yellow? Underglaze or glaze?
Elaine
You really are living in two worlds. We know our bread is buttered by action and growth in the studio… Lots of it!
But there's a larger community that's finding it's feet with grassroots diligence of artists turned activists.
Thank you!
indeed so much to digest. I'm as curious as anyone where this will take me!
as for killing macs – they we're both old powerbook g4's. one had suffered a fall before being given to me and the other had recently had a pop spilled on it. needless to say it was their time to go. if anything i served as a warning to others to back up files on an external drive : )
regarding brendan's yellow – i'm pretty sure it's underglaze but that boy has some magic skills in his tool box so one never knows…
(yeah for artists turned activists!)
you win for the first post Hat updates. I have been overwhelmed with 'life' since getting home. good job and gald you made it home safely.