The Paper Crane

Hel­l­l­l­loooo from Berlin!

It has been awhile, I apol­o­gize.  I was away for the hol­i­days — Jena, Ger­many for Christ­mas with my boyfriend and his fam­ily; Hid­densee (Cas­par David Friedrich coun­try) for New Years + a few days, and then I was back a week only to leave again this time to Vienna to see my good friend Ai Kijima’s first solo show in Europe.  And also I have been work­ing a lot in the stu­dio.  I have a new stu­dio as part of this pri­vate grant and have been busy busy. Orig­i­nally I was sup­posed to just have the space from Novem­ber 1st to mid-January but now it is extended to the end of March.

As I think I men­tioned before it can be hard to find stu­dio space here, espe­cially rea­son­ably priced. Though rent for liv­ing space is rel­a­tively low. I have tried work­ing at home in a room des­ig­nated just for a stu­dio and it just didn’t work out for me. Espe­cially now that I have this — the first real stu­dio since grad school and I grad­u­ated in ’05! — I real­ize the impor­tance of  a *real* stu­dio. And it seemed Dee Clements’ (of Paper­Crane, as you know) noticed this with her prac­tice. Any­way, now that I am mak­ing much more work than I have in a Long time I am more aware of the changes in my work. I can see that it is tak­ing a turn. I think the expe­ri­ence of liv­ing here for over a year now has def­i­nitely shaped my work. Not nec­es­sar­ily from look­ing more at Ger­man art. But really from leav­ing my com­fort zone, adapt­ing to a new city, cul­ture, lan­guage.  Any kind of rut I was stuck in was destroyed to say it dramatically.

When I fin­ish this set of 8, I am work­ing on now — I will post the whole group. Attached is one piece I feel ready to share. I say it is 95 — 100% done.  Not sure what the title is yet. Size is 2 x 3 feet.  Egg tem­pera with oil.  And then a stu­dio shot as well.  And just added another piece called Ice which I have started exper­i­ment­ing with col­lage.  All the best! more soon! — Sarah

Posted by Sarah Nesbit on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 5:13 am. You can follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.