Sunday, January 20, 2013

next...


After completing a whole year of weekly art gestures
I needed a small time out
to reflect and recharge

but heat and lurking fires have made rest and reflection (not to mention gardening) damn difficult

but on we go and I'm here to talk about the year ahead...

 



2013 is going to be busy busy busy
and for the next few months I'm not going to be as active either here 
or in visiting/ interacting in other forums -- I hope everyone understands 
that I'm hunkering down to complete my MFA exegesis 
and the accompanying artwork for my examination exhibition 
(draft exegesis is due around May and the exhibition is scheduled for August -- double eek!)

BUT

I'm still going to be making and sharing small gestures of artiness


every second Tuesday throughout 2013


(yes I'm halving my workload and moving the art gesture post to another day)


AND

I've got a few other projects waiting in the wings

Very soon I'll share with you my two completed BAO editions (these were posted out around the globe this week and I just have to get the word that they have been received before I do the reveal) AND I've got a handful of other arty endeavours waiting in the wings PLUS I'm working on a special something -- hint: I'm hoping to share a lot more about my region later in the year including some visions of loveliness and introductions to some of this area's creative thinkers and doers (but that's a bit further into the future)....

RIGHT NOW - has everyone noticed that I've made a slideshow of 2012 art gesture pics and given them a blog page to live on? ... and I've made a change to how my blog comments work - now they are embedded (so I can reply to each and every comment you leave - right there on the blog - I do so appreciate the time you all take to drop a line)

final thought for the week - damn I hope it rains soon....





13 comments:

  1. Ronnie, all the best for the very important work for you MFA. I will look forward to every second Tuesday.

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    1. thanks carol - you've always been such a supportive friend

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  2. What a busy - and exciting - year you have ahead of you! I love the slideshow format/'index' for last year's art gestures...such an impressive & appealing body of work. Good luck with 2013's projects & plans, and I look forward to seeing the continuation of your art gestures.

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    1. I don't expect to be undertaking any grand gestures -- so this first part of the year will be all about the smallest movements I think..... but who knows what may arise...

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  3. may you get good long-soaking kind of rain. congratulations on having the end in sight (you know it is...you just nave to make it through august!) for your mfa. that's huge.

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    1. so looking forward to the end of the High Degree of difficulty... only a few intense months and I will be released wheeeeeeeeee!

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  4. Should be a great but busy year for your ronnie with the main focus August.
    Love the slideshow and thanks for telling what 'embedded' means!

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    1. I'm feeling better about august than I am about may (eeek)

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  5. Good luck with everything Ronnie! And I'm so happy for you that you've finished your BAO books. Yeay! And, yes, some rain down your way would be a very nice thing...

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    1. one BAO edition still to go --- and I've lost a bit of steam on it --- it might be a bit of a wait to get that one finished....

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  6. feeling something big with this change into another year myself .. dream your dream and work hard i think.
    good luck! [ which i just then mistyped as gods luck ..so that too ! ]

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  7. Hey Ronnie - I am now going to try and work out how i get a sense of my year on a fortnightly Tuesday basis - your weekly Sunday gestures were ever so helpful in keeping me on track! Laugh. Best to you as you focus head down, bum up and still manage a heap of other exciting things. Hope it rains soon - we of course are getting a cyclone up on the Cape now, but still no rain here either.

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  8. All of this sounds like a wonderful plan, ronnie, and I don't mind the tiniest bit which day of the week ~ or which weeks ~ you art-ify us, I'll be here waiting to see what unfolds. Best wishes for all your studious art-making & MFA'ing...and many, many wishes for the wet stuff to fall from the sky.

    Received my little mailed goodie....so much thanx!

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thanks for all your lovely comments - your words are greatly appreciated xx