Let Them Eat Cake
Lately it seems that most of my art conversations have been happening inside the computer. However, yesterday afternoon I was fortunate enough to meet up with artist, Camilla Stacey for tea and cake.
Camilla and I used to work quite closely together when we were both curating shows over at the Here Gallery, the artist-run space that Camilla was instrumental in founding. We haven’t seen as much of each other lately because we’re both taking a curating break and we live in different towns, so it was great to catch up over cheesecake and hot chocolate. The conversation ranged from our lives to our work and back again; we talked about whether I need to continue with obsessive repetition in my work and Camilla explained the rationale behind her latest ceramic pieces.
Because it’s my birthday on Saturday, Camilla brought me these fabulous thistles – she said they reminded her of my Diary Project drawings and I can see what she means.
Having people who ‘get’ your work, whether in real life or in the computer, is such a gift for any artist and I am blessed to know many people with whom I can have these sort of deep conversations. I hope you all have real life friends that you can talk art and eat cake with.
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I knew you’d be able to take some amazing photos of those!
Posted by Camilla on December 11th, 2007 @ 11:50 pm
Hey –
The thistles are a lot like some of your envelopes. And the photography is really lovely.
As for envelopes, congratulations on coming closer to the end of the year. Are you feeling cheerful, resigned, kind of like you’ll miss it? I am realizing that from January, or June, it seemed like forever. Now I’m down to two weeks of postcards, it is kind of anticlimactic. I’m hoping you’ll write some kind of end-of-year thoughts on keeping something like that going.
Posted by lee on December 15th, 2007 @ 11:51 pm