Demolition Days

TutTut it looks like I need my down Vest.

I'm not getting any artwork done this weekend, because Demolition Days are happening in the Airstream. (Meaning we are gutting the silver bullet and living out of plastic storage bins. And did I mention winter has arrived in Central Oregon? Which makes for a chilly nights sleep in our home on wheels. )
However- Thought I would let you in on a what's happening around here.

Though it isn't up online yet, TutTut Looks Like Rain made an appearance on the cover of The Source Weekly this week. Many thousand thanks to Mom and Dad for getting it scanned for me! And for my sister in law Lori for letting them take the frame apart.

First Friday , September 5th, at PoetHouse Art holds the "Human Powered Transportation" show. I am still working on my painting for this (a painting- how old fashioned!)

September is also the month for the Art for India fundraiser- more on that soon.

Most excitingly though- is the promise of visitors! Next week some very special Tennesseans arrive in the great state of Oregon. I am so excited about this- though my pleas to bring several other Tennesseans in their luggage will probably fall on deaf ears- cause of the added cost for checked bags, you know.

my space

Well, Folks- there she is. I have recently become a freelance writer. On a whim, I wrote a two hundred word review of a record by Vampire Weekend and sent it in to Bend's Local Alt Weekly. The arts and culture editor liked it enough to print it, liked it enough to enlist me to write other stories, liked it enough to have the great idea of me writing a story about living in the airstream (al and I had met Mike at a concert in November, and he remembered me and the fact that we lived in what Al calls a silver twinkie).

I wrote the story, with some editing help from Al, and thought, that was cool... Suddenly, it became the cover story. (Unfortunately, The Source doesn't publish it's main course online- but I have several copies left for prosperity. If it weren't on newsprint and so apt to fade, I would do a collage. The aforementioned review is also not online for some odd reason, though I swear on a stack of Okkervil River Cd's that I am telling the truth. ) Kelty even has a cameo in one of the photographs depicting how funky and cool the inside is. The photographer and artist director, Elise, took several shots and Kelty posed for most of them. It was, for a self proclaimed hermit, an interesting and edge pushing experience. And to walk by newsstands and see my house- kinda trippy.

This one little review has lead to a 600 word cover story, a six hundred word story on Hooping that comes out this week, future CD reviews, and my collages being used as cover art this spring. Things are looking interesting for our little artist. Or, our little freelancer. No, artist.