dam:1 MONTH

At night it looks like there’s an upside-down city in the canals.  Everything is rigid and built vertically but all the buildings lean.   The reflections are periscopic: angled and strange.  You can see the inside of peoples’ houses from the street, the boat coming down a perpendicular canal, the tram two stops down. 

DONE 1 MONTH: Apartment, tramcard, bike, markets, friends, home-cooked meals, yoga, getting all the right paperwork to apply for a visa, museums, 25K bike ride, seeing tiny tiny horses, works on paper, Mom visit(!), application to print studio...

TO DO: GET A G'DAM STUDIO IN A'DAM

Saw one place half an hour away in Zaandam...lots of light, could settle for it.  Fingers crossed for Monday when I see a space in the port. 

 Zaandamm, downtown
Until I find a space I've been making cut paper collages from a pretty great assortment of papers here.  Below are 3 deemed worthy of posting:

The collages (tentatively titled Widescreen Windows) feel more like proposals for paintings, less than final products.  I really. miss. painting.

THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO:  

Berlin, Bonn, Cologne & Dusseldorf: October 27- Nov...something, AMY BEECHER coming to visit (!), trip to Aichstetten, Germany for a special seminar in luminosity in oil paint @ Kremer Pigment's Color Mill (!!)