Dirt

Hello! Sending out a brief note/reminder/invite about my two upcoming events, “Soils of Sisterhood” and “A Blue Door in Mud Season”. Come out and celebrate dirt with me! Here are the details:

“Soils of Sisterhood” is happening tomorrow, 4/7 6:30-8:00 at Risen Division in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Watch the video and read the previous post for more info!

RSVP for this free event via the Eventbrite link (RSVPs appreciated so we know how much dirt to bring…)

Next Thursday is the opening of “A Blue Door in Mud Season,” a symbiosis of works by Cecil Howell, Krista Dragomer and Erin Treacy at Basin Gallery in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

When you step through a blue door in mud season, you’ll find yourself in a strange, yet strangely familiar place. Landscapes tangle around you and fall away, revealing and rearranging depth and distance. Forms emerge through a symbiosis of color, shape, shared resources and shared threat. Bodies fruit, spore, and decay, moving in circles and cycles. Timelines collapse like stars, past, present, and future touch, becoming new, becoming other, becoming ghost. The ghosts of earthly time are each a new door, a new way to imagine what might live in the atmosphere we create in the present.

—Krista Dragomer

For those of you working with the Drawing on the Senses exercises, over the next two weeks I invite you to revisit the exercises using a different medium. If you have, for example, been working primarily in pencil, trying working with pen. Take note of the properties of the materials you are comfortable with and see how you can expand that comfort to include something new. Consider not just the kinds of marks these materials make, but the speed of them, how you hold them, the sound they make, perhaps the smell — all of these choices inform how we draw. You may also want to try switching hands, or working from a different body position. Notice what you have a resistance to and just breathe with that resistance.

Thank you and hope to see you all soon!