I've been spending extra time in the studio lately - I'm teaching myself how to play.   Play is not a natural thing for me and, ironically, it's something I work at.  [I'm very good at work].

I'm playing with new materials, new shapes, new intentions, new sizes of paper, new colors, new subjects, new brushes.   It's been a wonderful thing as I learn to let my normal state of urgency go.  I'm learning how to slow down and to watch the paint do its thing before trying to force it to do my thing.   

I'm making messes and I've devoted a whole table to art journalling, without expecting myself to clean up every day.  I'm keeping things at the ready so I can come in every day and do a little something here or there as I wish.

Every day I go for my regular walk up the road and back.  The peepers are singing. The catkins are lengthening, the ferns are greening.  The woods and birds have not been disturbed at all by current events.  The plum tree is just now starting to bloom. The daffodils and spring bulbs are blooming all over the place.  The bluebell leaves and peony noses are emerging.   The ducks are laying and we're pulling the duck dirt out of the coop to spread on the gardens.  Much of our lives proceeds quietly as usual.   I take great comfort in that.   

Are we impacted?   Yes.  I have a show scheduled for April at the Venue in Bloomington, Indiana.  The Gallery Walk associated with the opening reception has been cancelled and we wait patiently to see what happens next.  Maybe I will be able to hang the show.  Maybe there will be a later reception.  Maybe not.  I have a tall stack of addressed postcards sitting next to me, waiting for decisions.  The postcards are patient. I am patient. 

I see many good things happening right now.  People in my life are able to take a long break and de-stress in a way that hasn't been possible for a long time.  I see so much kindness every where I look.  My garden blooms and I have much time to cultivate and plant it.   

It is all all right, right now. 

Sending you much peace and extra time to watch the paint do its thing -

-Robin

 

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