Now entering...the studio!

Hi again!

Okay, I'm finally back to work. It has been a rough road getting to start painting again. Since I had to ship my materials here pre-arrival, I had to stop painting about a week before the residency.

In addition, the weeks of painting prior were not that great. The last few weeks and months, have been strange as far as my painting mood goes. I am a new person, but not a new painter. To evolve as a new artist, the art must change first. Work and personality however do not move in the same streams. They are rivers of energy that simply do not follow the same rules of gravity or current. Obstacles are in different places and diversions at different points.

In the differences, however, lies the solution. The balance between these worlds is where good work lies. I may not be a new painter just yet, but I am evolving into one, as I balance my worlds out, and learn about who I am as this new person, this adult I've become.

Anyway, my studio is very large, too big to fill in just a month, but that's fine. Everyone is very active here and usually there is a good dozen or so other residents floating around whenever I arrive or depart. Since the studios close at midnight, it sort of forces everyone to be bit more efficient with their energy and time. The distraction that is New York makes this very difficult, even for someone like myself. I've never considered focus an issue, but I swear being here means I need to adjust my lens every few seconds just to focus of the immediate task in front of me.

That's the real life of a painter, however. That's the reality of living and painting. I enjoy it very much but I can feel how exhausting it is, and I am not getting used to it as quickly as I would like. I find myself very tired even by noon or 1pm. I want to absorb everything and express everything, but I am only one person and cannot do everything all at once.

Whatev, as my friends and I say. I'm here to paint and have fun. I love New York very much and I believe in it and everything it has to offer me. My painting has grown very much already, and I see new ideas and possibilities on my horizon, which is a feeling I have not had in a good while.