Potato chips

That's right, my favorite food group after scrapple. I am currently eating some delicious potato chips, generously donated to the cause by one Kevin C., for dinner. Yes I was too lazy to microwave a nutrisystem meal for dinner, why do you ask? Anyway, I had a great night in the studio. Melissa Craig, one of the AIR at WSW right now let me hang out with her and showed me how she pours sheets of paper, with this funny little contraption called a deckle box, aka my new best friend. So I did some of that, using over beaten flax and abaca. I am not sure of the proportions since we were playing with leftover pulps and mixing them willy nilly. Anyway, the paper should be pretty awesome. She had some tests that she had done and they are so much like skin it is a little creepy. I of course plan on using this to my advantage, and have some projects in mind already.

In the meantime I started today my first real project for while I am here. So far the only thing I have really decided on is to write a letter to my Mom every day for the next month. I have some ideas about where I want to take it, but no definite final plan. The only thing I know other than that I will write to her, is that while the letter will be part of a project, they will not be readable. This kind of project is tricky, but also something I need to do. While it needs to be done, and I need to be able to have all kinds of sloppy feelings about it, I want it to be executed well, I want it to be relatable and evocative without being confrontational and exhibitionistic.

I have also been thinking a lot about peonies recently. My sister mentioned that they were one of my Mom's favorites. She even had them in her garden. I never knew, or noticed. It is amazing the things that we are totally oblivious to, I must have walked by them every day for years and never noticed how awesome they were.

Ugh, spell check does NOT recognize scrapple, what is that!