Never argue with Mother Nature

Happy Sunday! I wish Sunday's came before Saturday so that tomorrow would be Saturday instead of Monday. There really isn't enough "END" in my week.
Well it's that time of year-finally! Things on the Gallery front are getting into full swing. Wow I can't believe my exhibit is in a little over a month. I finally started my piece,but in true artista fashion I was late in getting a picture in time for the card we mail out. Like how I say, we and mine? I'm playing this Guest Curator part to the hilt. Seriously though, it still fills me with wonder and amazement.I wonder what the hell I got myself into and it amazes me they actually want me to do this and are paying me real feria to do it and not in mickey money. In previous years the opening has been an evening affair,but this year it's an all day and into the night pachanga. Makes me tired just thinking about it. Whatever will I wear. Last year I wore the Dia De Los Muertos skirt I had created and sewed my self.ok so it was stapled and duct taped. Some habits die hard. As soon as I can figure out how to upload pictures on to this thing I will put some up of the piece in progress.
It's taken on a mind of it's own. Beware of the evils of newspaper and chicken wire! if it knows what it wants to be, it will not let you create otherwise! That's what I love about creating my pieces. You think and think and think some more about what you want to do,so you take out a sketch book or a cocktail napkin which is sometimes the case and sketch out a rough idea for what you at the time think of as an inanimate object. Then from there you decide what the tools of the trade are going to be. Once that is done your super sillious mind thinks WOW! that was easy, now I just have to put the pieces together. Well my Brothers and Sisters I'm here to tell you, that is sooo WRONG! Not to mention that when you try to make chicken wire go where it doesn't want to...the damn thing bites! I drank water and could have used my hands for sprinklers from all the punctures. Nope, I'm a big girl I don't use gloves! Ok so I couldn't find them after I used them to mend the corral fence. Yes I know..if you put things back where you got them... I'm an artist, If I can find what I need it makes things boring.

Well my original intent was to do something with the Virgen of Guadalupe, did you notice I said "intent"? Well Mother Nature had other ideas. My original outline was on a smaller scale and Mamacita earth, as we all know, is not and I mean NOT to be scaled down (think Katrina,Peru et al) so she or the form that is soon to be She, stands a freckle short of 4 feet tall,and could get hired on at HOOTERS if you catch my drift.I had created a head for her,but she has decided she wants a tree growing inside her. Some may call it schizophrenia I call it a psychopathic piece. She haunts me,screams at me, and fills my dreams with what she wants. For example I was at Micheal's(my youngest) football game and afterward I worked the snackbar(against my wishes,but that's another story) and this little mocoso had this huge dried leaveless tree branch with a bunch of smaller branches protruding from it. I really paid no mind to him or the branch aside from the fact he was hitting things with it and wouldn't you know good old Mother Nature to be decided she had to have that for her head. I tried to ignore her for a while and she was relentless. So when Micheal came up to the bar I told him of my dilema,he asked if I wanted him to go bargain for it and before I could decide Micheal pointed out the fact that the little Mocoso was now jumping up and down on the poor defenseless branch. I could almost hear the poor branch cry. Did Mother Nature go away? Not a chance! Now I get this nagging little voice telling me that I need to go out and find another head friendly branch. Maybe I can send Micheal out into the north 40 to procure me another branch. He is very sympathetic to my artistic travesty's. Unlike the artistically unloyal first and second born. Mom you want me to do WHAT??? With that said I have to go solder something now,so until next time .PEACE,LOVE,and SOUL (yes,it's a Soul Train liine but so effective)