I Know, I Slacked Out!

OK, so I've been missing in action for a while. To be honest I took on more than I could process. As usual. I started the "Omo" series of sculpture last year and got sidetracked by the igniting of The Upstate Book Project which I did not realize would be so time-consuming. Also, the same thing you have delt with for the last 3 months. Aunt Jeanie needing Tylenol instead of Motrin, cousin John is a vegetarian activist, "we should've had turkey instead of ham" ...yadda, yadda, yadda, bills, etc. Oh yeah, I got a dog. Not to mention trying to release the Shadowland book the same week I have the opening of the Alice in Shadowland show at Gallery East in April. And of course, I started doing a body of abstract paintings during all this as well. I know this sounds narcissistic but believe me, it's anything but that. It's about making something happen when your industry seems dead. A quote from Frederic Lord Leighton comes to mind, "As for waiting for inspiration I have no faith in it.  I am guided by the nature of the task I have in hand.  I take the thing as it comes...Waiting for the mood, being unable to control oneself, is the stamp of amateurism.  My principle is that one ought always to control oneself." I'm still working on the "one ought to control oneself" part of it.