In about a week, I leave for Barcelona. In my (final) German class last week, we were discussing our feelings and experiences relating to 'die Fremde' (foreign countries). I said (as best I could) that I enjoy traveling best when I know little about a new place, because it leaves me more open to new experiences. The downside of this is that there are also things that I wind up finding out about after I've been somewhere that I would have loved to see. I'm hoping that travel in a group where all have guide books (although I don't think any of us have been before) will give me a good intro to the city, major site wise, and that I can take some wandering trips and find some of the other things that dwell in Barcelona. I asked someone to meet up on CouchSurfing, my first time doing so.
In the meantime, I've been doing lots of transcription work. Alice Aycock has been brought to my attention, someone I didn't know before. I should never have cancelled my ArtForum subscription, I never know what's going on anymore. Her sculptures are not of much interest to me, but the drawings are worth some further study.
I've also been spending a bit of time printing at Spudnik Press, which recently moved into the building I work at. It's been mostly a refresher at this point, a bit of screenprinting to see if I remember how. In the spring they are having an intaglio class, which I plan to take. I've always thought etching would be an interesting medium for me. In the meantime, I think screenprinting may lend itself nicely to my work.
I think paintings like the two above (there are more at my website) would work well in print form. But also, ones like the following, which comes from a series of similar houseplant paintings, might be more appropriate as a smaller series of prints (perhaps mounted together) than as a disparate series of paintings:
Some stuff to think about. For now, I'm thinking about sketching and drinking some red wine in warmer climes.
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