Two years ago Seattle welcomed me with warm rainy weather, sidewalks covered in moss and green everywhere.
As many of you know I spent about three and a half months this summer house sitting for friends of mine. I really enjoyed living in houses with yards, gardens, instruments, a gazebo and hot tub. In mid October I moved into my own studio! I have been so fortunate to be able to live alone again, after months of desiring the space.
My studio is very cute. 450 square feet, wood floors, old wooden windows (facing west), a built in dresser and plenty of shelving. It even has a separate kitchen for all of my cooking and baking needs.
Since I don't yet have a website, I have decided to start posting my current artwork up on my blog. Soon, I will have a formal website.
Last year I began making small structures out of the wooden pieces that come with pre-stretched canvases. For those of you unaware, they are semi-triangular shaped pieces, not larger than a few inches wide and tall. With every canvas you purchase, comes a small plastic package of these for inserting into the corners of the canvas boards. Over the years of painting, I have collected quite a few. Since I don't like throwing anything out, I started using them.
In my first apartment in Seattle, I had a small room with large windows and deep window ledges and trim above the window. To decorate, I began making houses out of these wood pieces to display above my windows on the ledge. When I moved I brought them with me. Unfortunately at my new place, the window ledges were narrow and shallow. While putting my bicycle in the basement one day, I came across an old dresser drawer. After asking my house dwellers, I decided to claim it. It was then that I began to place my houses inside of the drawers.
Since then, I have collected more drawers, cassette boxes and gesso board boxes to make dioramas. They are three-dimensional in that they covered on all four sides. Below is the first one I have completed, most are an ongoing process. They evolve at their own speed. More to come.