Working in my studio today as the snow is falling I thought I'd show you some pictures of the space. I have been here one year now. I have had one show here so far: a birthday art opening last September. I showed the 10 quilted landscapes that I was photographing yesterday. (Unfortunately iphoto quit while I was importing them and I had said delete originals off the camera. I manage to find the files on my computer but they seem to be corrupted and I'm afraid I have to re-shoot them.) I was going to tell you how good it feels to be doing
that last step of the art making process myself. Before, I used to have my work professionally photographed because there really is a lot of technical know-how involved. Especially when actual film was involved. But now, with digital, the learning curve is less expensive. (It doesn't matter if I get the lighting wrong 8 times as long as I can get it right once, I can erase the rest.) It is still pretty exciting to think that I can photograph my work in my own studio and transfer the images to my computer and publish them on the web shortly after. A funny thing about this series is that they are inspired by photographs that I took of beautiful landscapes in the Finger Lakes. I had to laugh as I stood in front of my framed, quilted, landscapes lining up the shot and saw how the information that first came through the lens of the camera had been transformed by my hand into an object which I was now photographing.

My studio is on the upper level. When I come in in the morning my slippers are waiting for me.
The walls are treated with an earthen plaster which I

later painted with a clay paint that I made. The plaster is made of clay, sand and straw and was a wonderful sculpting material. I added relief spirals to the surface of the walls, and even sculpted a face that overlooks the stairs. All along the east side are pine hanging doors that I use as gallery space and a place to tack my works in progress. They slide back to reveal the storage space where the angle of the ceiling makes it impossible to walk. I am so grateful to work here! It really nourishes my creativity.