Changing Lanes

This is difficult to admit, but I can't figure out how to embed a widget into my WordPress blog. Shaming. Utterly. I read all the instructions from DailyPaintWorks and copied/pasted etc. It was like reading Kant, or Kierkegaard. I went all fuzzy and had peanut butter for brains.  It's crazy stupid of me. I know. Nothing in WP seemed to have the answers. All in knowing what questions to ask. I know. I know. Then, I had this bright idea to check DPW Galleries and see who is actually blogging via WordPress and has installed the DPW widget and I'll suck up to them, admire their paintings and pounce: how did you do that? I found one artist out of a huge bunch, and that one did not have the widget installed! Furthermore, in all honesty, I couldn't have admired their work if you held my right hand to the fire. As Dog is my witness, I gave up.Everybody is using Blogger and has the DPW widget embedded.

So, I guess Changing Lanes is all about choices...and new beginnings. And utterly plumps down on the side of a Journey. The artist's life is a journey and change is endemic.Just completed Nick Nearly Forty this week. And my pieces submitted to International Ceramics Festival, Mino, Japan -- a triennial which I proudly attended in 2011 -- were juried out. Got that letter this week.  Gutted. Well, if truth will out, a bit stung, but who wouldn't be as the process of compiling materials for a submission takes days! Glad not to have to potentially shell out $500 to have piece(s) professionally packed and mailed. And at the end of the day donate piece to a business. To save return fees.  No, not too upset. Anymore.

Hamlet's Notes seen below. Some of you who are up on Japanese symbolism and traditions may spot what I've done here. If not, well, the little white shapes are inspired by folded paper poems. Samurai tradition, I believe. The text which I mish-mashed up reads: As t'were to hold a mirror up to nature. Notes, to you who tread the boards is a term directors/actors use to follow-up on a run-through or performance in order to help the actor realize the director's concept of the role more clearly. (You Lovies remember this next time the director tears a strip off you for missing your cue.) And, as Hamlet is managing this Play Within a Play in order to out -- spoiler alert -- Claudius, I tried to get clever. Well, it is. If you really think about it and not click onto the next cat meme.

 The other pieces are on http://www.facebook.com/DinahSnipesSteveni. Today I finally developed a FB Page for Pots and Painting. I did mention changes, didn't I? And I invited everybody. Why not? You too.Join the party!

Hamlet's Notes, ^6, 18" x 3.5"

Nick Nearly Forty, 12" x 12", oil