March: I'm feeling both the month and the action. The temperature is perking up slightly and I have been greeting the change of light eagerly. But I also feel a little as if I am goosestepping through the motions of everything art related (included blogging) now that I am technically not making art. There's a longer more complicated thought about this that I will hopefully get around to expressing in my RFAOH blog before the month is up, but for now I'll just say that the double posting (writing here, writing there) feels a bit unwieldy.
In other news, I did not get either of two public art commissions I was up for/in discussions about with folks when I wrote last. Ironically, I did not get them for directly opposing reasons: One was rejected because it was not risk-taking enough and the other was rejected (essentially) for not being conservative enough. I actually feel slightly relieved on both fronts as one project was going to require far more time and effort than I would really be paid for and the other would not have covered the travel expenses involved...
What else? In lieu of making art (and perhaps as part of an ongoing effort to rid myself of half-made art/unused art materials,) I have struck up an old fashioned correspondence with another artist. Below find a closeup of an envelope made of pages ripped from an unfinished 2011 art project (where I altered books as I read them in order to avoid accumulating more books at home.) It will be mailed this week. Once I've written a letter to put inside of it...
