ShupFace

So I don’t often gush about Cathrine. It just seems crass to use the public forum of the internet to boast about how great my girlfriend is. I tell her in private moments that I love her and that I think she’s the bee’s knees. But today I’m going to tell you one of the reasons she’s so great.

Cathrine has this way of directing my usually scattered brain and helping me to be productive. We’ve been talking about art a lot since she got back from the Philippines. With her help and support I came up with some ideas for a show of painting based performance work (or is that performance based painting work?). In the last two weeks these ideas have started coming to fruition at a pace unseen before in my practice. I am usually a slow boiler. Ideas have to spend time percolating in my brain for months before they ever make it into reality. This description may give you the impression that percolation is necessary, some kind of distillation process, I’m not sure if this is true.

In the last week I have bought wood and tools, used my new tools to cut the wood to size and paint it white. Some time in the next few days I will begin the performances that involve these wooden canvases. I am feeling my usual mix of nerves and excitement in the lead up to the actual performance. Let’s hope all goes well.