time and temporality #1- 7 Rings December 2010

I'm now going to suspend disbelief and ask you to do the same. As I suspected, I am no better at blogging than I was at keeping a diary as a kid or a journal as a teenager. I'm really bad at it, in fact. But I am going to post some blogs now about the work of the last few months.

So, imagine it is not August, it is December 2010 and I am posting about my experience doing Huffington Post's  7 rings !!

I was excited to get an invitation to participate in this ongoing game of artist telephone, as I'd been reading and viewing it since it began. I was given 24-48 hours to to paint "a response" to a piece of writing by Anna Abelo, and then Steve Tuttle had the same amount of time to write a response to my paintings

I don't know if I'm allowed to repost Abelo's or Tuttle's work here, but the link to the original article works and you can read for yourself:   7 rings

You'll need to scroll down towards the bottom to Day 7 to find Abelo's piece about a recurring dream.
My paintings are Day 1.
I really loved Steve Tuttle's response on Day 2, entitled The Scold.

I was pretty happy with the painting called dreaming of the perfect.  Unfortunately, the other painting came second and needed one more day, but... that's the way things go.

dreaming of the perfect, 2010, oil on canvas 20x20 inches

the woman with the owls, 2010, oil on canvas,
 24x20 inches