Weekend and Vacation in the Studio

Looking forward to working in my art studio this weekend and much of next week because I have the whole week off. I’m going to finish the left painting and work on some new ones. 

Work in Progress: Dates in a Life Walking Project 2025

This is the month of October in my Dates in a Life Walking Project 2025 painting, a year-long painting documenting the number of steps I walked each day. I have documented my steps in paintings since 2016.

The green dots represent my foot injury from the end of September, when I thought it was a sprain, to show my limited walking.

At the end of October, a month after I injured it, I had a MRI and found out that I actually fractured some bones in my foot, and it wasn’t a sprain. After meeting with a podiatrist, I was told to limit my walking to under 2 miles a day for at least the next month, and to wear hiking boots for support. 

To mark an increased walking limitation, I am using the same green paint as the dots, but to mostly cover the black icon design.

Below is my walking in 2025 so far, with room for the rest of the year. The gold background paint represents days off from work, including weekends, holidays and vacations. The red represents walking 10,000 steps or more, and the yellow icon represents over 20,000 steps.

New Work in Progress

I’m always happy when the sun is shining, but wish for a moment it isn’t because I want to photograph my monthly progress on my 2025 walking painting this morning. I’ll try to do it in a few hours.

On Exhibit: The Fence As Lace #14

 

In 2013, I was commissioned to create The Fence As Lace #14, a wider variation of The Fence As Lace #6, which I made it in 2011 while at a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, because the collector wanted a wider version that would work well in her home on the wall behind a beautiful wooden art desk, in a room full of other art.

I have learned that The Fence As Lace #14 is now on exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton MA, in the Fiber Forward: The Judith Stern Weisman Collection. 

 

I am looking forward to going to see it hanging there and invite others nearby to go visit this gem of a museum.

 

The Fence As Lace #14 is mixed media on stiffened fabric that measures 62" x 95".

New Work in Progress: Dates in a Life Walking Project 2026

I decided to pause working on my Vintage Table Linens Revisited series when I realized that after I get a MRI of my injured right foot in a few weeks, that there is the possibility of my needing to immobilize it for a certain amount of time while it heals. Seeing that we’re 2.5 months until the end of the year, and I am planning on documenting my daily walking for the 10th year in 2026, I thought it would be a good idea to get the fabric ready now instead of waiting until mid-December, just in case. If, and I mean IF, I can’t use my right foot to drive, that would also mean I wouldn’t be able to use it to sew on my sewing machine. 

The background for next year's painting is black. After the fabric is dry, and as I have time over the next few weeks, I’ll start sewing the gridded lines of the construction fence while wearing my hiking boots, which are reasonably stable supporting of my foot. Hopefully I’ll have it all sewn before the MRI results come in.

The picture above shows the 2026 fabric drying on my work table. On the wall, on right side, is my 2025 walking painting in progress through mid-October, and on the left is my completed 2024 painting.

More New Work in Progress

Today is the last day of my week off from my day job. I’m going to finish collaging this second painting in my Vintage Table Linens Reimagined series. Since we’re in the middle of a rainy Nor’easter and it's an inside day, I can hopefully start my third painting, or at least start planning it, while I wait for the matt medium to dry on this one. Or maybe not. We'll see how the day goes.

New Work in Progress

 

I’ve had a productive week off from my day job working on new paintings in my Vintage Table Linens Reimagined series. I am more than halfway through piece number 2 and because we’re expecting a Nor’easter this holiday weekend, I expect to have extra time to finish this one and hopefully start my third while we get 2”+ of rain.