Starry Starry Night
Hey! The situation in Gaza is deteriorating. Yazan and his family are fleeing to the south. A few days ago they woke up to bombing behind their house, and there’s fighting in his street.
My friend set up a fundraiser for him, which I’ve posted before. Here’s the link if you can help:
https://chuffed.org/project/help-provide-necessities-for-yazan-and-his-family
Yazan Omar selfie.
A sterling silver pendant featuring a hematite cabochon, and a hematite phantom quartz.
I really like what learning about rocks has done to my work. Hematite cabochon up top, hematite phantom quartz below.
This worked up pretty fast from idea to execution. I’m getting to a point where I can just imagine something and build it because I have my library of techniques already developed. It felt more like assembly of something that I had already done before rather than the usual problem solving I have to do with organic pendants. This is exciting.
This one was already grabbed by a collector. Gonna try and ramp up a bit next week to get some inventory in.
A colored-pencil rendition that I made of a famous Van Gogh self-portrait.
I have now officially outlived Van Gogh, a completely normal and not concerning thing to be so aware of that I knew the exact day.
I feel like I’ve fallen into and out of a number of dark nights of the soul, mostly due to the disconnect I feel between what is good and just and how the society I live in has been designed. I am not surprised to reach this age, but I am both not exactly where I hoped I’d be and more than I what I feared I might become. I suppose that’s better than a lot of people. I can imagine that this era, middle age, might hit others significantly harder.
I am determined to ride this meat suit until it falls apart around me, no worries. It’s just an interesting date.
Keeping on. Trying to split my time between fundraising and making art, mostly. Take care of yourselves, friends. I’ll have more art shortly.