It's time for my yearly post! (Oh.. that is embarrassing.) It's been a strange year for us all. I simply haven't painted as much as usual - art is language and, under lock down, I guess I felt like I had no one to talk to. And I was really overwhelmed with trying to process that I am actually living in a time of global pandemic, let alone all of the other stuff going on, of which there is a whole lot! Aren't we all? Anyway, early on I was looking at images of the first-line people and I really felt like I should paint about it. I painted this last spring but it's just as relevant now. For artists this has been such a weird time. I had an opening for a two person show just a few days before our state shut down in March. People were scared so it was a pretty quiet event, and then my work was locked up in a gallery for two months. Since then I have participated in a few things, but I was really heartened and excited to have a chance to try to enter a juried show because I am so ready for something. I have realized that I will be sorry if I continue to squander my time trying to decipher the news, so I am just going to live my life and make some art. Thank you, thank you to the New Ulm Artscape Juried Art Show and to Dana Sikkila, the best juror in the world! ;-)
