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Studio Space

One of the benefits of being an artist is that you get to meet SO many talented people and they are always more than willing to share. This is me working at the Sawhorse, a carpentry studio and work shop owned by Harald von Gahlen in Columbia, MS.  Harald was so sweet to share his work space with me and I enjoyed watching this fine craftsman work.  I've added oiled spanish cedar to my list of favorite smells.  I hope that I will get the chance to work with this guy again!  In the mean time...my hunt for a new studio space begins!

Sunny Sunday

Its 90 degrees out and while I'm waiting on laundry to finish, I thought that it would be fun to piddle and play around...happy Sunday :)

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Playing catch up!

As always, I have been neglectful in my postings!  I will do better, I will do better, I will do better.

It's getting close the full summer here in Columbia, MS.  As the weather is starting to change as are many things in the MMArtwindow's world.  I am now back from my first juried art show in Oxford, MS and getting ready for an art show in Palmer Park in New Orleans, LA.

The Beatles really knew what they were talking about when they said, "I get by with a little help from my friends." With help from an extra pair of eyes, i.e. my friend Paris, I bought about 20 of these really great windows.  Most of them still had the original weights on them and some still even had the original old rollers attached to them.  I love finding old windows like these and made a new friend, Jim, who loves these old finds too.

After I finished the Double Decker Art show in Oxford, I came back fully focused on searching for an art studio.  The good news about living in a small town, is that most people around here know me and it didn't take long to find a spot.  I can't say that my new found space was love at first sight or anywhere close to that  actually, but there was something in its bones.  So after a discussion and a handshake I agreed to take this spot on the corner of an the old historical Newsome building in Columbia, MS.

*Sorry guys this post apparently hadn't been publishing from a while back.  Its out of order, but I felt like it should be included anyway!

Over the Rainbow

My article came out this week.  Its been about a month since I met with the Gary Pettus, the writer for Under the Rainbow, a magazine that supports the Blair E. Batson Childrens Hospital.  I wasn't sure what they would use, and I have been praying that it would not be melancholy like the t.v. spots Sarah Mclachlan does for the ASPCA.  SO RELIEVED!  I was happiest to see he touched on my story about the blind girl.  She sticks out in my mind all the time.

"People cannot resist touching her windows.  She cannot forget the little girl who kept running her hands over one. 'I just knew she was going to slice her hands.' But she kept saying, 'I can see it; I can see it.  I can see the colors."

"The girl was blind."

And she was.  I held my breath the entire time she ran her fingers up and down that glass.  I was thankful that  I keep band aids in my purse, but her mom didn't seem phased or worried.  I was at an art festival in Oxford, MS when this young lady stepped into my tent. That is an experience that I hope I will always remember.  Because even though there is 99.9% chance that she had no clue what my art was about or what it looked like, who am I to say that the texture or smoothness of the glass she was touching didn't express color.  I like to think that if Beethoven wrote concertos being deaf, than the blind can see color.  Just maybe not how we do.

I am so lucky to have people in my life that have made my recovery from cancer and my growth in my art a celebrated journey. I'm not done yet, and neither are they.  I dedicate this article to them.