pursuits and illumination

I have a list of exhibitions on my marker board with the dates for submission. I decided that I would start again, submitting to juried exhibitions and publications (there is a book to be published of cast work). I don't know where I expect that to lead me. Recognition, at least among my peers, or rather reconnection. Gallery representation perhaps though I still am not very prolific with my work. The last several years have been pretty full with commission work for which I am grateful, so I don't know exactly what I want to get out of it.

With the deadline today for submission to a publication, New Glass Review, published every year by the Corning Museum, I selected three of the Botanicas and rephotographed them and I readied and submitted my entry yesterday. This is the first time in very many years that I have submitted to it but, what the hell.

I was supposed to start the full size art work for our last-one-on-the-books commission yesterday so that's what I'm doing today.

Also yesterday we finally put the new light fixture up. You might remember that I commissioned Carol Nickol to make me a light fixture like one she had in her home that I had seen when we visited one day of the residency last year. I received it a week or so ago and we finally got it up. It was going to go in the dining room but now I have the chandelier from the old city house. If I ever get it cleaned up, we will put it in the dining room. So now the new one hangs in the room where I spend most my time. No complaints about that.

Pretty cool, don't ya think? Now I think I need another, different, one to go on the other ceiling fixture in that room.