I am one of the featured artists in the 2010 Unclad Exhibition in Stanwood WA.

I’m so excited that I’ve been over-investing myself in mold compounds for days!
The website has all the works of the 108 artists represented this year from all over the USA, but my entry is on this page: http://www.uncladart.com/nggallery/page-7/page-4/

The figure, Mwindo, respresents my first in a series of characters from the Clyde Ford book, Hero With An African Face, whose father, Shemwindo has decreed that no child of his many wives is to be a son. Mwindo is therefore an abomination and a miracle.

The show opens March 13 and runs till March 28, 2010

Here’s the map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=8700+271st+St+NW+Stanwood+WA+98292&ie=UTF8&om=1&hq=&hnear=8700+271st+St+NW,+Stanwood,+Snohomish,+Washington+98292&ll=48.244568,-122.351389&spn=0.063447,0.118446&z=13

Jocelyn and I are, still at 2AM, preparing things for the Kirkland Art Studio Tour.  

It has been a hectic three weeks of preparation, and I don’t think I like it. I like doing the work. I should work at this pace much of the time, but I don’t. What I have trouble with, what drives me to scream with anger and frustration is the iterative conformation – doing over and over again the interrupting chores required for successful selling – how much, how many, how to show, how to describe, how to/when to/where to promote, and cetera, and cetera.

Of course I don’t know yet whether it will BE successful selling or merely hopeful marketing. The same, or at least a similar uncertainty surrounds the creation of the art itself, but I seldom chafe at the artistic uncertainty whereas I rave against the nuisances of the mercenary. 

Poor Jocelyn. 

All the work has brought inspiration to new projects – a couple paintings, a sculpture or two, and

More, later…