Blogs: August

Monday, August 10, 2009

My how time flies...

I find it hard to believe that last year at this time I was busy photographing woman after woman for my Holding Pattern series. I had not yet created the patterns, busy obsessing about my soon-to-come trip to Beijing, China.

At this point I have shown the work and spent a lot of my time promoting it by sending out books to select curators and gallerists. I'm also spending a lot of time in the studio working on new work and generally organizing my life. Why you may ask am I spending so much time in the studio when the studio was supposed to have been sold? Well, because at the last moment the people interested in buying my building had trouble with financing. So, once again the place is now an active listing and I remain.

Out of place

Perhads one of my most unsetteling and uncomfortable circumstances to be in is a prolonged state of flux. I enjoy things pretty well defined with little to no gray area in sight. Well, imagine being told to get packing because the closing is in a week. Then, a day before the supposed financials were to be worked out, being told to stop packing. Especially when that packing is about 100 framed pieces of art, paintings, furniture and the likes. The whole studio! I was a wreck. My house was out of order, had to put my new work on hold, everything. A very uncomfortable situation to be in. One moment, looking for a new place to open the next incarnation of the Bryce Hudson Studio, the next, unpacking and switching gears ;-(

But, now, I've spent about the past week and a half getting everything back in order, only the books are packed now, many things rearranged. It's finally - only as of last night - back to a level of comfort where I can stand to get back to the job of living like a somewhat normal human being and continuing to create my latest work. Although, much like the recent series, wherein I feel very comfortable working in digital print format, most of the new works are files on my computer simply because it costs an arm and a leg to have work framed at the size I want it.

But, until the next time when life sends me for a loop... I'm back!