The going has been rough these past several months, waves of unfavorable events kept washing up my shores, making at times hard to contain the stressful residue of momentary discouragement... I have not been able to work at my work much.

Things are diffused in surreal moments in black and white, landscapes awaiting re-awakening through hands in motion, and a healing absence of thought.
I have not been working at my work much, I have had to tend to matters of life that kept me away from the bench, and away from the drawing table.

And yet, enduring these times, keeping the eyes on the prize, never letting go!

So here we go, this is me in the studio, playing model with my Swinging Coil Earrings!

No frills. But those earrings are so light and fun to wear and I just keep them on these days, as I churn a few more and snap shots...
This IS a rare peek into my studio and surroundings, and I am sharing it here today, sooo...

Well, I have been working on it.

After several trial and error attempts, the trash cans table has finally settled in its cozy location just across the entrance, and with the red stools around, it all makes for a pleasant spot to hang out.
Have been 'testing' it myself these past few days, sipping my tea and jotting down notes on life and work, looking out the big doors onto the bare and quiet parking lot.

I still have to replace the curtain rod and turn the shades into white light canvas drapes, pulling out all the 'show stuff' I have been schlepping all over the country for years.

The other half of the space is still in progress, display cases are out, lights and last details to be figured out, but looking at next weekend for a possible tentative date.

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It's been hot in the studio and the showroom progress slow, but steady.
In between several breaks, fans twirling and innumerable glasses of water, I think I have the final overall setup down.

Got all the recycled black rubber mats in place (which my blessing of a 4-legged companion seems to like very much!), putting the rest of my show and booth equipment to good use, have white canvas I can use for curtains and lights to assemble, and then...ready to go in July!

It's slowly coming together.
After more than a year of gaps, false starts, regrouping and simply stalling I rolled up my sleeves (it's also getting warm here...) and picked up the first piece of clutter - my tent weights, actually, that had been sitting in the front part of the studio collecting a lot of dust..

A little over 200 square feet, front part of my studio in industrial Santa Fe, high up on the mesa.
The building needs work and repairs, it's a raw live/work space I landed a few years back, after my last troubled relocation, it's a C2 also (meaning commercial​ zoned) so I could technically open up to the public...

I do not own the place and got weary of patching things up to near perfection (I know, no such thing exists) and so decided to make do with what I have, which is a lot.
Basically, I am setting up a comfortable booth space with all my tarp and display cases and lights (still have to pull those out) and they are many.

I still have a few things to relocate (what am I going to do with that fence?), but definitely building and playing around with my electrical conduit bits and pieces, and using my famous trash cans for display allure and actual storage. 
Not sure what the 'tower' on the right in the picture above will actually be...
For now it has a gong hanging on it, a memory of child fun at my grandparents house, the stick is missing the top part, but I know I have it somewhere and it will be fixed.

I am planning of starting my studio visits weekends sometime this month, I just need a few more touches in place before I can turn to the fine tuning...
Whether you live in town or visiting, I look forward to welcoming you to my showroom soon, sign up below for an official invitation!

it was an intense weekend this past one, the jewelry closeout sale came with much anticipation and hit with great impact and cleared out the display table, set up in my studio for visual support!

and then it was time for packaging everything, pile it by the door and pass the safety check by a vigilant assistant...

a batch ready to go. thank you to all who virtually stopped by....thank you for the support!

wondering how everybody is doing deep into this augus...just 3 days to close.
among all the turmoil outside, i have been finding refuge (literally) upstairs in my studio, under a very low ceiling at a desk under a bright skylight...
scored 18 of these little ones this month, and for now piling them up to ready them for future endeavors.

see you there!

as this summer progresses in unprecedented ways, the un-focus is everywhere to be found.
cannot say this whole pandemic thing is not effecting me...despite my sought out solitude and blissful isolation, the energy flow is subtle and always pulsating, even if in stuffed away into recycled ice cream containers (ahh...those times!) to be re-discovered just at the right moment.

just like these old paper samples and cutouts for the free form squiggles, another project for that day coming.

there has been progress happening too, albeit scattered in all possible directions, testing the winds of change..
and all along, keeping things steady in the studio, updating my online store, envisioning a closeout sale in the works...stay tuned!

...in preparation. always in preparation-mode.
​here below more idle time spent in playing with dots recently, and blank paper and the small scissors, somewhere.

this is another something that could be.
​visual notes, one to touch all around, feel how it could feel...
wishful thinking?

january is the month that always gets away with nothing.
among the picking up of things left hanging from the old year gone, the good resolutions to start afresh, the dwindling of time, there is that peek into all that can be, luring ideas into unknown territories with all the 'what-ifs'...

i have no idea what to do with these.
a roll of brass strip given to me ages ago by someone i don't remember, it has been tucked away and preciously preserved for whenever.
​cut out a piece, annealed it, cut it up again, rolled it through the rolling mill...a simple excercise in futility, but it felt so good!