Tuesday, February 9, 2010

It's Shake n' Bake, and Matilda Helped!

Freudian Nebula in the Ringstrasse Galaxy

Actually, it was bubble wrap, but Matilda did help. Today I packaged up twenty of my drawings of my new series Tiny Travels for delivery to a gallery in Dayton, Ohio (I'm waiting for the twenty-first to dry).

Many of my readers will remember Sara Cogswell, who worked for the Weatherspoon Museum, and then for Gallery 115, and you will also remember that she and her husband Will South moved to Dayton so that Will could begin his new job as a curator for the Dayton Art Institute.

Sara now works for another gallery with a numerical name, Gallery 510, and that is where my series is headed. The drawings will be on exhibition beginning March 5. Above is an image of the penultimate drawing. As I began drawing, I discovered the creatures that now inhabit it. As I continued to flesh them out, I wondered how it would fit into the series. They seemed to bubble up out of my subconscious, with no particular relation to the trip I took, until I remembered that Vienna was the birthplace of Sigmund Freud, and so the drawing became the "Freudian Nebula," birthplace of cosmic psychoanalysis.

Speaking of bubbles, I ran out of bubble wrap mid-way through the packaging process so I headed out to the office supply store to pick up some more. When I brought it home, Matilda the Pembroke Welsh Corgi told me she could help me open the package. And so she did.