June

I haven't been feeling the need to share very much lately and with this heat I'm too tired to even sit at my desk and draw which leaves me a little depressed with an over-analytical taste in my mouth. Lots of sitting outdoors with cats and books trying to suss out what comes next.

Despite the doldrums happening at home, today I had  Amalia Mesa-Bains sitting around my work table. We had an in depth discussion about her upcoming exhibit at the FAM. She is in her late 60's and is an amazing creative force. Her installations are immense, detailed and just extremely gorgeous. I'm so honored to be working with her this Summer. Some of the topics were how she gets mass quantities of lavender blossoms, how to keep people from touching everything, how to put together her glass blown cacti and a really funny story about her trying to dye one of her accordion books with tea in her hotel room only to discover that tea just made the pages all wilty. 
We had lunch at whole foods and she shared her perspective on the art/museum world and the difficulties of sending her installations around the world. It was totally a dose of something that never happens in Fresno parts and sparked a little bit of envy in me.