Yay! I was checking on the blogs I follow and noticed a small little change on my list of blogs. Instead of having one blog, I had three, two of which were ghosted out. Imagine my joy upon seeing a little link with the words "Undelete this blog"!
So I was able to recover those five or so posts that I accidentally deleted a month ago and merge them into my current set-up! Hooray!
Monday, March 30, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
Spring Break in New Mexico
Over spring break I had the opportunity to head over to New Mexico to visit family there, namely (big list) my mother, sister, three nieces, grandma, aunt, and Saúl. While there I got to go see a plethora of art galleries in Santa Fe. I also got to pound dirt into tires with a sledgehammer. And I saw the Mystery Machine at Trader Joe's.
I got chewed out for trying to take a picture outside of one gallery...oops. But another one had a rather amiable guy who let me take some pictures of the raku-fired pottery that they had there. Saúl and I went to Santa Fa two days to see galleries, and we only made it up one side of Canyon Rd. and wandered around the square for a while. So many galleries, packed into so little space, it was amazing how much variety of good art there was to see. Several people in the galleries were more than happy to talk about art, artists, technique, art as a business, etc., and I learned a lot as a result. It was great!
Some galleries I particularly liked: Chalk Farm Fallery | Pippin Meikle Fine Art | Art of Russia Gallery | Seven-O-Seven | Canyon Road Fine Art
One of the big reasons I wanted to go to New Mexico over the break was to visit my grandma. I hadn't seen her in years, and it was her birthday the Sunday after I arrived. I brought her one of my painting as a birthday present, pictured here. She appreciated it a lot.
As far as pounding dirt into tires, my mother is building an "earthship" addition to her home on a mountainside in the New Mexico countryside. Earthships are designed to be sustainable homes that operate off the grid and are built mainly from natural and recycled materials. The walls are made either from bottles and cans mixed with cement, or, as my mother is doing, from tires filled with rammed earth. The designs and ideas used in Earthships are well-researched...the guy who designed them (who graduated as an architect) has been working and improving on it all for years and years. I am rather intrigued by the whole thing, and impressed with how well it all seems to work. Of course, nothing's perfect, but that's true throughout this life.
I got chewed out for trying to take a picture outside of one gallery...oops. But another one had a rather amiable guy who let me take some pictures of the raku-fired pottery that they had there. Saúl and I went to Santa Fa two days to see galleries, and we only made it up one side of Canyon Rd. and wandered around the square for a while. So many galleries, packed into so little space, it was amazing how much variety of good art there was to see. Several people in the galleries were more than happy to talk about art, artists, technique, art as a business, etc., and I learned a lot as a result. It was great!Some galleries I particularly liked: Chalk Farm Fallery | Pippin Meikle Fine Art | Art of Russia Gallery | Seven-O-Seven | Canyon Road Fine Art
One of the big reasons I wanted to go to New Mexico over the break was to visit my grandma. I hadn't seen her in years, and it was her birthday the Sunday after I arrived. I brought her one of my painting as a birthday present, pictured here. She appreciated it a lot.As far as pounding dirt into tires, my mother is building an "earthship" addition to her home on a mountainside in the New Mexico countryside. Earthships are designed to be sustainable homes that operate off the grid and are built mainly from natural and recycled materials. The walls are made either from bottles and cans mixed with cement, or, as my mother is doing, from tires filled with rammed earth. The designs and ideas used in Earthships are well-researched...the guy who designed them (who graduated as an architect) has been working and improving on it all for years and years. I am rather intrigued by the whole thing, and impressed with how well it all seems to work. Of course, nothing's perfect, but that's true throughout this life.
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