I am delighted to have made the acquaintance of Neeti Ray, astrologer extraordinaire (albeit virtually). She posts fun meme in her blog that I'll enjoy taking part in and, in the off-chance someone actually reads this, feel free to participate.

If you want to play, you have to ask the person whose post you’re reading to interview you. Then you get five unique questions that you answer by posting them on your own blog.

Then...

1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by emailing you five questions. (I get to pick the questions).
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

1. Which aspects or placements in your chart are revealed in the art you create? Inevitably the Venus- Uranus conjunction with the Midheaven comes through as an urge to make stuff - and I suppose a lot of what comes out is sort of dark, chthonic - perfect for this conjunction ocurring in good ole Scorpio. The other thing about this question which is interesting comes re sthg I read in Dawn's Astrology blog, actually - that of the 4th house planets denoting that place where our psychology happens. Well, Mercury's my only planet in the 4th house - and what do you know... I've been an obsessive-compulsive journaler since age 13. In fact, most times I can't even string 2 thoughts together, much less act, unless I spend about an hour ranting into the little ole notebook beforehand
   
2. If you could pick any sign for your sun which one would you pick? I think Sag's fine, but at times I think I would be better off having been born 4 hours later - Capricorn would agree better with that pesky Virgo moon and would have added that oh-so-necessary Real World energy
   
3. Which aspect or placement do you find challenging in your chart? The fact that every blessed planet is below the horizon - I have NOTHING save random Chiron anywhere above the Asc-Desc line. I very much feel like some sort of Emily Dickinson at times - not due to any hopes of posthumous glory but due to a sense of living in an entirely private world communing with ghosts and random insects instead of actual people - save a special handful
   
4. Which has been a joyous synastry aspect that you enjoy with any one person in your life? For some reason, my favorite people on earth have all been Geminis (I married a Gemini)- though I've not been able to account for it synastrically, aside from a Sag sun and a lot of Mercury energy
   
5. Why astrology? hmmm... hard to say... because it's beautiful?
   

update on forever drawing

still not finished though much changed

began in March - suffered a break and restructure, then have just been adding

who knows where we will end up...

"Pia"

Another goop painting. I call it Pia bc it somehow reminds me of my aunt

House Portrait

began in May, completed in November - a first plein air experiment, now a gift

oil on canvas

process - Stravinsky Ideation

this frightening piece emerges as a pre-Halloween, Stravinsky- induced hallucination ("The Rite of Spring", for all you musical folks) and actually had the privilege of spending two weeks in October in a haunted art gallery (DeFoor Centre, Howell Mill Rd, Atlanta GA). I found that appropriate.

pictures of process are interesting, and something I strive to keep up most of the time

two for eyedrum benefit

sort of an interesting backstory to these 2 (and other 2) works that I may or may not go into here

can i just say that EnviroTex is the best stuff ever? Makes tempera on gypsum look like a million bucks (or at least tons better than without it)'

a fairly typical nightscape

something interesting might come of this

mao

this is very old - 2004. Food coloring on bristol board. Colours have actually held up OK

rose

Advent of Spring and newest work

after graduating, I took a sabbatical from creating any sort of art. i guess I just needed to decompress for a while.

I've been working on the following drawing for a week or so, and am planning on working it to the point of utter saturation, an idea I got from a very helpful and talented instructor at GSU, who taught a class on what I would call 'the forever drawing', which I did not get to take.