Studio Re-Org

For over a week I have been literally knee deep in artworks on paper. See above. The remaining prints from editions going back to the late '70's, watercolor, drawings, sketchbooks, ephemera including children's work, photographs,little mementos etc.  However it is the safety and storage of the lifetime of prints which concerned me the most.  Here are the flat files, that last picture is sideways.  There are two matching closets each with two cabinets of 11 drawers each. 44 drawers. Reminiscent of putting up canned goods!  All that work all organized, labeled, catalogued along with edition numbers, (with records including the provenance of the work which is now out in collections, or galleries, or on the road somewhere).  For the last couple of years I have been stacking up home-made portfolios and then having to search through heavy stacks to get at things which always seemed to be at the bottom.  So it's nice for now, but it lead to a flurry of organization during which I could not work.  So that was difficult.  But well worth it.

It is crazy to look back and think about the time of the works, what I was doing, what was going on in my life and in the world.  All those public radio stories! So many changes, but art is always there, never missing, sketchbooks and pens and pencils and tools all ready for seeing the world through.   For expressing my particular vision in a world which for all of it's troubles, still remains the only and brilliant world that we have.

Looking forward the next phase.