OK.

Things have been very quiet for awhile, what with a trip to Florida and a fallen tree and the new garden that's going in the backyard. Then there's our son, of course, and the new daughter who'll be making an appearance soon, and time just seems to be getting away from us.

The downside is that I haven't been in the studio much. I'm hoping that will change- more work at night, maybe, and some additional time on the weekends. We'll see.

Anyway, the newest news is the project for the WATER show at Penny Cluse Cafe in Burlington is finished, and doesn't look so bad. I was pretty nervous about this one- I work in a shared studio, so there's always a chance of breakage of whatever else that's a bit out of my control. Basically, I just drop my stuff off and then come back a week later. They've been great, and I have nothing but good things to say about Burlington City Arts, but still, it's nervewracking. If someone's going to break a thing, I like that person to be me.

The theme for the show is water, and I went with the half-empty/half-full idea. We're basically a wasteful culture- how many wrappers do you see in a day?- and water is no different. There's a lot of bad news about where the environment is headed, and I don't think that's a bad thing- we can also tend to get complacent. But I like to stay optomistic, glass half-full, and think that we will be able to create, in some meaningful way, a manner of living with this planet that won't eventually kill us both.
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