It's all about your Viewpoint

So. That bigs news I've been sitting on the past 2 months? It turns out the phone call from Ellen at Viewpoint wasn't just a dream - the rumors are true and the cat is out of the bag. I am having a solo show at Viewpoint's Step Up Gallery next year!!

//takes several deep breaths

Solo.

Show.

Either in August or October of 2012. That gives me half a year to get everything done. No sweat. ha! And if you just don't want to have to wait that long, I just found out yesterday that I had one of my submissions accepted in Viewpoint's annual juried show Twelve: Parallels. So you'll be able to see two of my new images in December!

Oh! And as if that isn't enough, I was the 'New Member' interviewee in the latest Viewpoint newsletter. Why yes, I am a bit overwhelmed right now. Overwhelmed, extremely happy, and damn proud.

Excited, busy, out of printer ink

I am sitting on some potentially HUGE news. I'm just waiting on some sort of formal notice before I say anything. But it's big, and I'm already loosing sleep over it.

In the meantime, the fall semester has started and I've taken 3 classes so I'm kinda busy. Add to the normal busy the fact that my son is playing club volleyball and you get one highly organized wife/mother/student/artist! I hope. I have redundant calendars all over the house!

So today I'm just working through my to-do and while waiting for a couple contact sheets to print, I've added a CV to this site. Oh wait, I'm out of ink. Adding a trip to Staples to my list and I am outta here.

And now I make books

I recently finished a series of photographs that became the book "The Price of Enlightenment". The images were shot with Ilford Delta 100 film with a Hasselblad 500c. The small book "She Dreamed of Fame and Fortune" is composed of digital images from an off-shoot of one of the photo sessions for the main book. Both books are hand-made; The Price of Enlightment is 11x14" and bound by the Japanese Stab Binding technique, while She Dreamed is an accordian style book and 4x6".

To best showcase these new images, I decided to finally update my website. Decluttered and with proper galleries, I couldn't be happier with the new layout.