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In the clouds

This time tomorrow I'll be in the skies heading towards Idaho. A connecting flight in Oakland midway... then I'm on my way to the potato state! I'll be putting up a sky/cloud mural in the home of a friend I've been Facebook friends with for over ten years it seems...and we've been discussing this mural for a loooooong time! So strange that it's finally happening.
As with any big project - my mind is trying to make mountains out of molehills and telling me I can't do it...Im going to fall...get whiplash...drown in paint and all manner of negative things. My brain does this to me ALL THE TIME. I then have to walk my brain through all the things we've already done and done well and none of those things happened EVER.
Like working on a wall by myself in the recesses of a hotel where the lights were off and the fire alarm kept going off multiple times a day in a strange city and dudes kept stealing my ladder. We did that.
Put up a wall mural in the middle of a Miami hurricane- we did that too.
And we've gold leafed a ceiling so we know that it's uncomfortable but doable and definitely something to live through.
And these are little puffy clouds for goodness sake not an architecturally accurate replica of the Sistine Chapel. You're gonna do it BRAIN and you're gonna have FUN!
                
But yeah it's gonna hurt- so the first thing Im even packing is my "first aid kit"- a bunch of pain patches, Ibuprofen and my TENS unit to give me electrotherapy after a long day of neck breaking work. But we're gonna have FUN because making boring blank things into colorful magic things is a gift. Arting has never been a cushy gig- you're on ladders, on your knees, covered in mediums, hot glue burns, abused by staple guns...you name it. Add a permanent back injury into it and sometimes the simple act of just standing -just plain sucks.
So photos like this make me laugh. She might as well be filing her nails its so not indicative of any artist I know. White shirt in the studio? ROLL MY EYES. 😂😂😂
Excited about Idaho and painting clouds though! But also wanted to let everyone know that I'm putting my Out Of Office Auto Reply on this week. I'll get back to everything week of April 8. Also when I do get back I'm booked on a million leaf and pin project and 3 other hotel pieces so no commissions- no records- no going out until I land back on planet Earth.
Work work work but I'm definitely taking lots of moments to take pictures of the beautiful things and enjoy the moments as they come. This is the life I signed up for-creating beautiful things while I'm here.

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