A lot of my non-artist friends ask me how I come up with ideas for my work. Perhaps it was easier when I was focusing on ceramic vessels? But here's a prime example of how ideas intersect, or sometimes encounter each other and align. While reading Carlo Rovelli's book, Reality is Not What it Seems (the journey to quantum gravity), I encountered the above illustration on the upper left addressing packets of space, and later reading about the granularity of time. I have stopped  considering it a coincidence that I picked up this particular book at Daunt books, a travel bookstore of all places, during mid January when I was wrestling with how time is illusory, and how memories puncture through time and space.

The trip to Oxford's Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum coalesced like some metaphysical experiment. One minute you're at Victoria Station in bustling London, and the next you  find yourself in a quiet university town, complete with fantastical Harry Potter vignettes and hidden university courtyards. Another metaphysical twist was encountering Cliona patera, also known as Neptune's Goblet, a sea sponge thought to have become extinct in the early 1900s--only to pop back up on history's timeline, a hundred years later, in 2011. Oxford's specimen captured my attention with its stippled surface, exposed fissures and its interior cellular structure revealed by erosion and punctuated time. Three days after encountering Neptune's Goblet, I photographed the piece below:

Well Reader, I am sharing my take on a week in the art world, or rather the small world of this particular artist caught between ARTnews and life while still adapting to postgraduate studies...

News, Sunday February 2, 2020:
Please see Saturday’s news.

Meanwhile: The Yankee artist starts the morning sipping tea and reading up on being a “Badass” and “how to stop doubting her greatness”. Red lipstick and a trip to the British Museum ensue, where she is
moved by several prints and drawings shown from the Alexander Walker collection bequest: Edda Redouf’s Hidden Energy; Victor Pasmore’s spiral drawing, Untitled 1981; a Peter Doig etching, Blotter; and especially Brice Marden’s Zen Study 5. Upon returning home, she endeavors to faithfully execute her last "Week in the Art World" diary entry while fulfilling her weekly horoscope’s charge to “borrow some of Diogenes’ attitude in the coming weeks” by experimenting “with being brassy, saucy and sassy”. God bless America! Or should it be God save the Queen?

Well Reader, I am sharing my take on a week in the art world, or rather the small world of this particular artist caught between ARTnews and life while still adapting to postgraduate studies...

News, Saturday February 1, 2020: Apparently there is no art news that happens on this Saturday, as artists and art organizations have better things to do than to make news on the weekend for ARTnews.com.
This may, however, change on Monday.

Meanwhile: Working in studio, experimenting with making an obsidian mirror, the Yankee artist frustratingly comes to the conclusion that she has no idea how to proceed. A playfully ornate drawing, with illustrated quote, from the esteemed Pakistani artist, S. Subzwari, comes to mind: F*** this s**t