Krewe De Vieux 2008

Krewe De Vieux 2008, originally uploaded by Often Absurd in the Humid City.

 

Krewe De Vieux 2008

Krewe De Vieux 2008, originally uploaded by Often Absurd in the Humid City.

new year peas

this is an easy one: start kimberly's no-knead bread, and soak 32 oz dry black eyes in the crock pot (not on) for 6 hours in water a couple of inches over the level of the peas; at the same time, render the christmas turkey in a stock pot with a quartered onion (with skin) bay leaves, and whatever old veggies are left in the fridge, chiefly celery here. after 6 hours, drain the peas and put them back in the crockpot along with the holy trinity (an onion, a stalk of celery, and a green bell pepper, chopped) and transfer the potliquor cup by cup until it is just visible between the peas (season each cup of broth with tony's:) if meat is desired, push some smoked neck bones or such down into the mixture (the pot will be heaped FULL!) then cover and cook on low setting for 12 hours. yum! serve with rice and fresh bread, freeze half of it for later, freeze remaining potliquor, if any, and enjoy the year!

you can cut the recipe in half by using a 16 oz package of peas and have more liquor left over, but why?

peas

she returned to tampa

young percy's harpstrings/jack o'hearts

kimberly tomatoes after

kimberly tomatoes before

still not getting

still not getting a lot of work done; getting a lot of thought about it. so what else is new. i've been reading--no, i've been acquiring a lot of artists' sources and looking at them cursorily. i have three projects in various stages: a painting on total hold for half a year, i think, a soft sculpture, and an online class project in epoxy that i haven't done anything but get supplies for yet. meanwhile, i spend all my time when i'm not at work sleeping, knitting and vegging, an activity which i've found over the years to be the most productive of all. i spend some amount of energy stressing over the chaos of this house, which hasn't been cleaned an can't be cleaned because it is also a studio and it's all a mess and amungle.

something is about to happen. i always know this and here it is again. i need to get back to work on the sculptures--i have gone almost entirely 3d in my interests lately, i don't know what's happened to painting, but it's not happening even in interesting me to look at. meawhile, i knit.

the chief problem i'm mulling over these days is that i like what i see, but i don't. i like that all this smaller art is around and i even like some of it, but i can't shake the sense that somehow it all looks alike. even when it looks different, it all looks alike and that's not what i'm after.

and i can't throw out anything (ANYTHING!) until i figure out what it is that i'm after. so that's the way it is, the way it continues to be.

molly's open studio is today. gee, i wish for a road trip, but cannot. or maybe i don't, maybe i just tease myself.