What Happens the Rest of the Time

Many preparations afoot for the upcoming opening of Elsewhere  on January 9 2015.What it all amounts to is what happens 'the rest of the time' in the work of working on my practice.And for the last several days, that has looked like:400 square feet of ethafoamtwo large rolls of bubble wraphalf a roll of cling wrappingthree and a half rolls of packing tape20 feet of 12" diameter concrete forms48 square feet of foamcorea large roll of heavy weight plastic sheetcardboard ... lots of corrugated cardboardseveral large tubsAnd this: **Extra-special thanks to amazing artist Sara McKarney for her mad preparator-skills and help with some of the packing!... and once all of that was done, it looked like this: AND special thanks to John Waldron for the assistance with packing the truck and getting all of this, and me, to the gallery to unload!So. That bit is done: work is packed and delivered to the gallery, and installation of the exhibition will begin January 5th. (ah, the glamourous life!)In a bit of serendipity, this evening I came across a pertinent bit of writing concerning the whole subject of the artist's life and practice. It's a speech by artist Teresita Fernandez, and it hits so many salient points. Read excerpts (and hear it too) at the lovely Brain Pickings, here.But first - before I get back to considering all of the relative successes and potential failures in this and other work to come, I can actually take a little bit of time and catch my breath, and reacquaint myself with the world outside my studio walls (like my kitchen ... oh, ya ... and the laundry).