finding patience

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Up to lately? Aside from trying NOT to be distracted by yet another portrait photographer using the entrance to our building as a 'funky' backdrop, ... well, have a look! I've been painting a 4' x 2' panel (working title #17) and making small hand-colored collages from scrap prints in my file drawer. These endeavors have served as an expressive outlet and emotional foil to the tedious carving of block #2 for a woodcut that is really trying my patience!

Also, the past week has been spent recuperating from hand injuries received in a freakish cat attack that happened within days of my transcribing, in reverent bemusement, a note which Mr. Glenn Gould (who, being a phenomenal pianist, was obsessed with the condition of his hands) sent ahead of himself to appointments. Hmm, pure coincidence?

Finally, I've been reading about the artist Dinh Q. Le. One of his works, from the series From Vietnam to Hollywood, can be seen right here in Raleigh at the NCMA. It is a large handmade photoweaving, jewel-like and conceptually resonant, fusing Hollywood glammer with grimmer images from the Vietnam War era into a visual experience that feels almost like having a hallucination. I am inspired by Dinh Q. Le to find the patience to keep working!

#17, detail (acrylic, watercolor, sumi, lead pencil on panel)



lithograph, found paper collage with watercolor

#17, detail top right

#17, detail top left

woodcut and lithograph collage, detail

Message from Glenn Gould, chalk on slate



Handshake/Arm Wrestle, woodcut, acrylic, watercolor, sumi and chalk on paper