pixels, light and hot wax

Some of you may remember the “Water Sale” I had a few years back after a plumbing leak did bad bad things to my studio, including offing a number of framed pieces. I found a much better place (I thought) to store my framed work after that.

Out water heater, however, had other ideas; also the difficult to discern and yet far from level slope of the storage room, resulting in my neat-and-dry location getting splashed and soggy.

I *might* be selling salvaged prints at a discount (frames are definitely toast, mats are suspicious, prints should be fine as long as I remove them ASAP), but I’ve not yet decided; at a certain point it just becomes One More Thing To Do on an already too long list.

And, unfortunately, I cannot just decree “No More Framed Work” because I’ve got honest to goodness SHOWS this year of the type where you don’t just hang a bagged, matted print on pegboard. Metal Prints are looking better all the time, despite the hideous price tag.

Just one darn thing after another, you know?

My beloved computer has been acting … strangely. Fine for ages, then stuttering and crashing at widely spaced intervals that lull me into complacency.

This morning, I launched my e-mail program, and it asked me to set up my e-mail account(s) anew.

I do not yet know how much has been lost, or where else data has been lost; I do have a good backup protocol in place for the last few months (via Backblaze), but the tricky bit is going to be figuring out what, amongst a terabyte of data, needs to be restored. This also means dredged through the scraps of data to find current addresses to contact clients if they are affected, after I figure out if they are affected. While it is not the worst possible time for this to happen, it’s not far from it.

I will probably be even less communicative than usual for the next few weeks as this gets sorted out.

(well, final shot from Monday morning’s encounter. There is a lot to explore in this flower.)

Gerbera #34 (010410). Photograph. 2010.

I thought that perhaps you might like to see the whole bloom, after seeing so many little parts.

I went and met the lovely Lisa who runs Fremont Jewelry Design in person today, so I can now actually announce that I will be showing there in May. I am really excited about the possibilities of the space, and the potential to show some things that are actually BIG. (Spending all these years showing on 4×6 panels at cons has really skewed my sense of scale.) I will be showing the more abtract flower photography; I’m fairly certain at least one, maybe two pieces from the ones I’ve posted this week will be included.

And if you are going to be in Fremont soonish, the December show of acrylics by Aegae Barclay was still up, and stunning; really engrossing in its layering and color. And there are yummy grinders and gelato just around the corner, too.

My sweethearts went out the other day, and I asked them to bring me home a flower.

Today, in between laundry folding, I spent a little quality time with it, and this is the first obvious keeper (pretty much straight from raw, no fine printing yet.)