November Goals - Structures #2
Structures #2 ©2003 36"x37"
We had beautiful fall weather this weekend. Today was sunny and warm and the kind of weather where I had no motivation to remain in my studio, knowing we are headed into winter soon. Although I have to admit I have really been struggling with studio time this month. I thought I was back on track and put in 20 hours in my studio a few weeks ago but then the ridiculous mess with the day job (working late, then losing all my work) has messed with my motivation.
I need to find it again because between today and the end of Thanksgiving weekend (Nov 25) this is my list of goals:
- Complete 6-9 small pieces for the Arvada Center Holiday Art show - I have 2 finished and 3 in progress.
- Deal with paperwork for several upcoming shows, including preparing some images for catalogs.
- Start a blog for the group show I’m curating next spring.
- Make 10 quillows and help my daughter make 10+ pillows. She has a to start a business and is getting a business loan from the city of Denver to help out for a class project. She will have a booth at the December 7th first friday art walk on Santa Fe driver here in Denver to sell her wares along with her classmates. The kids are studying capitalism this year.
- Buy christmas presents as we are celebrating christmas on thanksgiving because my kids will be in Spain with their father on Christmas day. Step 1 of this goal - figure out what to buy my kids.
- Write and review requirement documents for 3 projects. This would have been 1 1/2 projects had the server not crashed last week.
- Attend another memorial service for my father next weekend.
- Sleep
Now that I’ve written all of this down the reality of the situation is a bit daunting. Or maybe a lot daunting. With 0 more weekend days available I’m going to have to really focus to make it through this list. I’m not sure it’s possible but other than the group blog I don’t see too much that I can skip.
I knew all of these things prior to this weekend but I wasn’t ready to kick into gear, I needed the lull before the storm, or something like that. I spent yesterday at a friend’s sitting and talking and stitching beads onto a small piece I’ve been working on for over a year. It was a nice change of pace to not rush around doing stuff all day. I spent today hanging out with my kids and watching movies.
We finally watched An Inconvenient Truth in honor of our gorgeous weather in November. I had to force my son to sit and watch it but it was worth it since his previous source of information on this topic was our wonderful media here in the US. He was happy he sat through it as it opened his eyes as to the importance of thinking about where one gets one’s data. I hope now he’ll stop telling me we’re in the middle of a mini ice age. But more importantly I hope he stops complaining my house is too cold/hot.
We also watched Evan Almighty, which according to wikipedia, became NBC Universal’s first film to offset the production’s carbon emissions:
We worked closely with The Conservation Fund to calculate our carbon emissions from what we used on the movie—whether from vehicles used or any of the construction equipment. Once our carbon emissions were calculated, we planted trees that will effectively zero out our climate-changing footprint left behind from the movie.
The piece above, Structures #2, was made during my 2 weeks at Ghost Ranch in October 2000, and was inspired by the beautiful fall weather in Northern New Mexico. The blue blue sky, the yellow and green cottonwood tree leaves and the brown trunks.
Posted by Lisa in: Goals
Tagged: global warming, goals, movies, Structures Series
Diane Clancy said,
November 12, 2007 @ 12:37 pm
Hi Lisa,
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this piece!! Just gorgeous!!
You may want to watch Planet in Peril on CNN too - very good. It is also available for renting …
Good luck with all your goals! They are a mouthful!
Hugs to you!
~ Diane Clancy
http://www.dianeclancy.com/blog
San said,
November 12, 2007 @ 4:56 pm
As you would imagine, Lisa, I really love your Ghost-Ranch inspired piece. The warm color is indeed fall-like. Your to-do list tires me out, mainly because it reminds me of the one I haven’t written out yet–too terrorized to do that just now.
I empathized much with your earlier post about the frustration of the workaday world. Yesterday I had a completely maddening day at the gallery. Some days it seems there’s a steady stream of time-wasters and posers. Today is much better though.
Best of luck with accomplishing those goals…
And oh yes, speaking of An Inconvenient Truth, we are having temps in the 70s here. Nice but scary.
Schnoobie said,
November 12, 2007 @ 9:23 pm
Ahhhh Sleep!!!!
I guess I just assumed you didn’t due to your many accomplished goals ( not to mention the full-time job and kids) and blog presence! ( keeping us all so inspired!!) good luck!!!
unseasonably warm here in NW IN.. yeah, scary weird……
Lisa Flowers Ross said,
November 12, 2007 @ 10:49 pm
You are so organized and disciplined, but I think it is o.k. to take time to enjoy a nice day once in a while. You deserve a break.
Lisa Call said,
November 13, 2007 @ 8:20 pm
San - I had one of those time waster days today. I tried to hide from them but it’s hard to hide in a cube. Probably about the same as in a gallery.
Lisa - thanks. Some times I have to remind myself it’s okay to just do nothing if I get too wound up.
Schnoobie - I think this week sleep will be in short supply.
Thanks for the pointer Diane - I’ll check it out when I get some free time.
david mcmahon said,
November 15, 2007 @ 5:16 pm
Came here from San Meredith’s blog. I don’t sketch and paint as much as I used to. Now I write novels and take photographs - but like you I set myself goals.
They keep us focused, don’t they.
And everyone needs focus. Especially photograhers!!
Tanya said,
November 27, 2007 @ 10:51 am
Hello I am a year 11 student. In art textiles we have studied you art and i was very inspired by it as it is really creative and effective. I really enjoyed working with your work and making samples of your work. Thank you. Tanya. Ps. Could possibly reply back to me to my school email
Lisa Call said,
December 2, 2007 @ 8:33 am
Tanya - welcome to my blog!