Been awhile....

My laptop has gone kerplunk and I'm overly cautious about using my husband's laptop because it's the newest thing in our house. Plus he's overly protective with it. But I'm using it anyways. He can learn to trust me. After blogging then I'm going to play on YouTube. Linkin Park has their new song out called "Burn It Down". Love the song! It has more of the tremble synthesized sound rather than the deep bass and guitar. It's interesting listening to how their music has evolved over the years. Their earlier songs expressed darkness, frustration, and emotional angst with relationships, particularly parental ones. Now their more recent work seems to have a type of political feeling - maybe not political but more social commentary type. Whatever it may be, they leave the lyrics vague enough to allow your own personal interpretation and relation.

My own artwork has been changing as well. I just painted two abstracts inspired by Mark Rothko, an Abstract Expressionist from the 1950s. He would paint these large areas of a single color and place large colored rectangles creating like a window or a doorway into another realm that only your mind could take you. Reminding myself of what my instructors always told me - simplify your compositions - I painted a large area of one color but with many value variations and a second smaller area with one color. I think of landscapes, barren landscapes. I apply an accent color like a red line in between the two colors for some variation in interest. My focus is on texture and color. I should have done that for my Final Thesis - the exploration of imagery through texture and color. They're simple to paint so I'm suspicious if they are good or not. I need for them to been seen so I can receive some kind of input. I'm going to start looking more into the gallery scene in Salt Lake because my art ain't doing any good sitting in the coat closet. I'm still working on my prescription paintings. They're encaustic paintings expressing how each drug made me feel and the side effects I tolerated or not tolerated.

I'm getting sleepy now. The Zyprexa is kicking in finally. I hate the sedated feeling in the morning but if that is the only side effect, I'll take it. It's better than the others.