Very soon after my last blog post, the world closed down around each of us. The COVID-19 virus changed the way we did everything. My plans to meet my new art community here in San Antonio face-to-face evaporated. For a lot longer than I expected. With everything going on during 2020, I found it very hard to get work done.
I did start a series of large canvases related to origins and identity, a personal response to the just and crucial Black Lives Matter protests last summer. I’m not ready to share those here yet.
As the (literally) darkest days of the year approached around the holidays, I found myself doing a lot of music arranging and composing. This instrumental piece is one of many examples, including a three-movement Sinfonietta.
And I’ve made a number or smaller works on paper. The most recent of them are inspired by architecture and unusual window shapes, especially those featuring segments of circles. They almost feel like cartoons or maquettes for some type of larger fabrication. Perhaps art glass, or tapestries. Whatever they are, I’m glad to be making things again. I have plans for larger scale works, but those are best kept to myself right now.
