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Thursday, June 09, 2005
I'm around amazingly creative kids this week. They are drawing and painting and being teenagers and I am working and playing and missing my husband and preparing for seeing the remains of what was my studio. So today, I talked with the students about meaning and had grabbed Ben Shahn's The Shape of Content out of the library. I read them a little bit from it, and without planning to, the talk became about the imagery of flame. Without knowing my story the students reacted to the power of flames as destructive imagery and went on to create powerful drawing and watercolors. I'm energized and excited if still shellshocked.
Thanks, Ben.
take good care,
Rachael
Posted at 05:17 pm by balduffington
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005
oh I don't know what to call this (honest rachael talk today)
Thanks everyone for the support and just so you know my visit to Atlanta is still (given circumstances) going great. The open studio is still on for Saturday night June 11th at Art Exchange Gallery, 750 Kalb Ave, Atlanta GA (6-9pm). My friends are amazing hosts, the teaching gig is a treat, and this city mercifully let me slip back in like I never left. My wonderful husband is putting back the pieces as I work down here.
And you know, I've been thinking about it ... if anything could turn me into a potter from a painter it's knowing that my studio is gone, much of my work may be gone, and clay is supposed to be fired. The art we make won't be around forever, yeah, I know that. The people we are and know won't be around forever. There's a truth to the passing of time and people and stuff but when I stand in the room that used to be my studio and see wet smoky mush that was paintings begun, half-done, nowhere's near, and complete...I might not want to paint again just yet. Clay is ok by me.
Yet, my husband reports that the sketchbooks survived, so I guess I don't have to change my routine too much...well, we'll see.
Have I thanked you for all the wonderful calls and emails and hugs?
Thank you, and please get homeowners or renters insurance and learn those fire exits,
take care,
Rachael
Posted at 07:55 am by balduffington
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005
OK, don't worry about us but while I was away on vacation there was a fire at our house. No one was injured. Cat is OK. I have only some of the story of what's gone and only some sense of reality. Better I guess that we are both not coming home to a shell of what was but nothing clarifies perspective than a loss. I'm a lucky kid with a wonderful husband, great friends, and a charmed life. I simply don't know what survived and what didn't, but that's just stuff.
Atlanta is the same fabulous city I left, and while happy to be here, I'm just a bit anxious to go back to give my husband a hug and start to rebuild.
Take good care and learn your fire exits right now,
Rachael
Posted at 01:56 pm by balduffington
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Thursday, June 02, 2005
I'm off to Atlanta tomorrow to slip back into the comfort of friends, familiar sights and smells, and the treat of teaching drawing. I escaped yesterday into Marjane Strapani's Persepolis (magic reading, sad and honest, funny and strong), and will escape tomorrow into my sketchbook. Drawing on planes is one of my favorite things.
Here's hoping that the show invite is viewable on your screen but if not, the story is: Lisa Alembik & Rachael Baldanza call Show & Tell (an art party, an open studio, a show & tell really) Saturday June 11, Art Exchange Gallery Atlanta, from 6 to 9. Will be plenty of fun and you oughtta bring your friends.
Gotta go pack those bags...
take good care,
Rachael
Posted at 09:06 pm by balduffington
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Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Show and Tell (Atlanta June 11)
 Email me and I'll send you the directions. This will be fun. take care, Rachael
Posted at 10:43 pm by balduffington
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