Not quite Spring yet here, but waaaaaay past time to clean up my studio.
I just took a "Before" picture, but I won't publish it until I have an "After" to mitigate the horror. Let this Piranesi prison stand in for my mess temporarily...
The days before and absolutely after violent insurrection in the Capitol! felt like carrying a teacup, a precious, antique see-the-light-through-it porcelain teacup, a teacup that your grandmother treasured, a teacup that traveled by ox cart across the prairie from the East to California, a delicate, cracked, heirloom teacup cradled in your hands... as you walk through a dark room filled with random chairs and scatter rugs and black cats toward the safe kitchen light in a doorway... Just an awful fragile feeling.
Let's just hope the crazy gets toned down once the presidents switch out, huh?
Meanwhile: a cool architecture project, "super adobe" domes in Hormuz by ZAV Architects HERE.
What have I been up to? Starting (finally! because I find armed insurrection distracting, don't you?) to revise the 3D model for an in-the-future show I'm working on. Since the design has changed, I think it's okay to publish the old version here.
A little reading too: I'm half way through Michelle Obama's Becoming which is as interesting as I kept hearing people say. And I finished Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel, who wrote the great Station Eleven. Love that book! The new one is very good... but doesn't, somehow, resonate with me as much as her earlier dystopian pandemic novel. I'm also going, day by day, through Lin-Manuel Miranda's book (illustrated by Jonny Sun) of tweets, Gmorning, Gnight. Which, as I hoped and planned, are helping raise my mood.
Mood.
That's my biggest challenge lately. The cumulative effect of the past year has rather dampened my usual cheery optimism and (sporadically) bustling work ethic. A little cabin-fevered. Kinda depressed. Actually.
But Spring cometh.
Meanwhile, I'm building a mood-protecto buttress of good books and films (and bi-weekly virtual/distanced Movie Night hurrah!) and, you know, making myself take walks and wash dishes and Do Work and stuff. I hope you all are being careful and cheerful-as-possible too.
Movie Night films so far? Desperately Seeking Susan, Office Space, Big Trouble in Little China, Kung Fu Hustle, and up-coming, Love and Death.
What, you ask, have I been up to in that long blank period when I wasn't posting here?
Sadly, it wasn't theater. Theater is shut.
But it did include a lot of Minecraft building - a sanity-saving outlet for design energy this past year. And here's a You Tube vid to prove it:
