My fall semester is over, and after a brief stint in illinois, im back in grinnell, painting and living like a hermit. My show is in early february, and I hope to get some work done before that here. But I'm taking a bit of a break as well. Im trying to read, exercise, and do things I nromally never have time to do. I decided that solitary breaks like this are the perfect time for russian novels! I read Crime and Punishment for the first time. Right now I'm working on Upton Sinclair's Oil!, spurred by the new movie There Will Be Blood. I'm listening to new music, cooking, and of course painting. One of my great finds over my break in Rockford was a homemade compilation of The New York Times Week in Pictorials from 1914 through 1917, containing nothing but pictures of the first world war.
The result has been my first project of the break, a painting that just started days ago:
Excuse the low quality photograph. It is of course just beginning, don't judge too harshly! Another reason to come back to Iowa was of course the caucuses last Thursday. I came back specifically to caucus for Obama. It certainly started the rest of my break off on a high note, hard to top.
New Music, movies, etc. for a lonely winter break:
Soft Pow'r by Little Wings
Zopilote Machine by The Mountain Goats
I'm So Glad Skip James (Make sure you have SOMEONE to talk to that day, though)
Death Hunt 1981 classic action movie, Lee Marvin and Carl Weathers as bad-ass mounties!
Ingmar Bergman movies, i suppose.
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