a new week {and lots of links}

Kiki Smith

I told you I was doing a lot of reading. As well as Women who Run With The Wolves & Alice Through The Visual Arts, I am also working my way through e-books from The Mindful Artist and Roadmap to Action.
There's a good reason for these two. Today is a fresh start. Sad as I am (in that just-lost-my-right-arm kind of way) that my gorgeous girls have gone back to school after two weeks, Joe will be home later today for another two weeks. It will be the first time I've seen him since christmas and there will be much noise, music, mess, fridge-raiding, films to be watched and the kind of banter/heated debates that only 19 year old art students (who know everything) can instigate. Of course, he has to have his room back so for now I've got to work on the dining table.
I will be working pretty full on for a while too. Three, possibly four (different) exhibitions need to be prepared for. It's a mixed blessing that my car broke down big time on Friday as I'm going to have no choice but to stay home and get on with it.


I have also found so much inspiration:
snow pictures by Sonja Hinrichsen
cyanotypes for the Sigur Rós ljóspappír competition (my friend Jonathan is on page 19)
printmaking by Kouki Tsuritani
Omm writer - I love it to free-form ideas {and used to write this post too}
…..and above all, enjoying the return of the warmth of the sun

P.S. - Does anyone else find the new blogger word verification really annoying and a little discouraging to leave comments? I get round it on here by only asking for it on posts older than two weeks; spammers only bother with my old posts.