Ok, Day Ten...beginning to feel the strain of making time for a drawing everyday although I enjoyed sketching this little guy very much. I was doing a residency at Rensing Center in Pickens, SC in 2015. This little mouse was in my studio. He saw me and I saw him and we both EEEK-ed and quickly came to an understanding. He kindly got into a trashcan so I could relocate him back into his natural habitat which was a field just beyond the studio that housed not only mice but baby dang goats.
Sidenote: I am realizing that many of these photos have come from residencies. Now don't think I just galavant around traipsing from one residency to the next. I've done several over the last seven years and for every one I've been accepted to there are four or five that gave me the ole "Thanks for submitting but..." letter. To this day it still blows my mind that artist residency programs even exist. They have gifted me with time to quiet down enough to focus on making work which includes having a field mouse photo shoot. And that experience is still providing fuel for me today.
Sidenote: I am realizing that many of these photos have come from residencies. Now don't think I just galavant around traipsing from one residency to the next. I've done several over the last seven years and for every one I've been accepted to there are four or five that gave me the ole "Thanks for submitting but..." letter. To this day it still blows my mind that artist residency programs even exist. They have gifted me with time to quiet down enough to focus on making work which includes having a field mouse photo shoot. And that experience is still providing fuel for me today.
Comments
Post a Comment