Weaving Again

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Originally uploaded by Makstin.

Here's a photog of me working on the loom - aren't I intent on my work? Well, this is staged. I took the picture myself because I wanted to document my weaving for posterity's sake and I happened to be home alone. Sorry to ruin the mystique. Look at our orange chair instead, and the giant dog curled up in it. If you come to my house, never sit in that chair. It's Mowgli's and he'll let you know it. Plus it's starting to smell a little like him, and is covered in his fur. All around, it's an unpleasant experience.

Art Fart

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Originally uploaded by Makstin.

I just got done having a critique for this piece, and boy are my arms tired. This is an in-progress shot of my tapestry loom final, which is an interpretation of a painting Maggie did of Mowgli. It didn't turn out as well as I would have liked, but to be honest they hardly ever do. I wondered today if when I have a child, I'm going to be a little disappointed on how he/she comes out merely because he/she wasn't exactly what I expected.....maybe I should adopt. All joking aside, when you just put so much of yourself into something it's physically painful to see it less than what you imagined. Everyone in the crit was very VERY supportive, though. It's always a nice surprise when someone random says something incredibly beautiful about your work - that they've been paying attention and have been considering it, not just looking at it. A critique is an intense process, even if it's a little TOO friendly/supportive at times. I don't think anyone said anything negative, or questioned anyones process or anything. And I'm not sure if I think that's a good thing or a bad thing.

HIATUS

Just wanted to drop a little niz-ote on you to apologize for so slack with this whole blog thing for so long. Too many got-damned things to keep up with, I'm afraid. Just to catch you up: I've gotten my first bit of sunburn of the summer, have switched over to 'all flipflops all the time' mode, lost a little more weight (yay!), fell in love with sushi all over again, painfully realized through a good friend's experience how easy it is to lose someone if you aren't vigilant about it, got food poisoning for the second time this year, learned that just because someone is running around in their underwear doesn't give you or your husband the right to touch their peepee, and that taking a vitamin on an empty stomach can sometimes scare you into thinking you're pregnant, but just for a couple days.

I should be back on this shit, with pictures and all that happy crap, in about 2 weeks. Bear with me.