Jona8than Green Art and Other Things

I have finished all my researching for my new project... well, maybe finished is the wrong phrase. I have stopped researching for my new body of work at the moment, and will just start making stuff. Especially in the lithography room. If I don't use that room, I lose it in a way. It has just taken so long to get everything kind of situated for to start working at something. So glad I got an extension here in a way because if I hadn't, I'd just have two months to make everything.

Shit son! Been a while. Log while. A lot has happened. Wouldn't even know when to start.

I leave for Banff soon. A week to this day. That's a starting point. My time is divided into a matter of days here. Like all the hours are accounted for. Hardly enough time really. There was at one time, a few weeks ago. That never goes as planned though. Was never great at keeping in touch, dissuaded by even the most trivial of matters. I have been busy as people who I have encountered the past few months would attest to.

And now I am going to Banff, Alberta. For a Visual Arts Work Study position at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Basically across the continent. Ocean for the mountains. It never really hit me till today. The shortness of time, and the distance that will be traveled. Like shit. Least I will have one of my best friends there when I get there. For a week and a few. Show me around. Take the edge off it. Then alone.

Working, making art, becoming a better artist. That are the tasks at hand for me. And to do it with style. Not worth doing without.
That is the goal and purpose of the work study. What I have to dedicate myself to. Seek out oportunities. Just do everything. And I want this. I want this so bad. This is what my life needs. New energy, new ideas, a change, a shift in everything. Just there is always, a feeling of nostalgia as in the meaning "the pain a sick person feels because he wishes to return to his native home, and fears never to see it again". There is this feeling of loss. Like I am losing something by going away. Something I may never get back to.

I'm gone for six months. Back in November. At the least. Could be extended...will probably be extended till March, so twelve months. I suppose I would return for Christmas if I can. Always a pricey and tricky proposition with the way air flights are round the holidays.
That's the other part that gets me. The openess of it in a way. Kinda planned ahead for a year - in a sense- just not sure what that year will contain. Apply for residencies after it, gallery shows, masters, etc?

This is a disjointed piece of writing. My horoscope is interesting at the moment.

So my belief that my interview with the Banff Centre was horrible, may have been a little unfounded; or perhaps it was horrible but the other candidates were worse, for I got the position. Yes, I will be the next Visual Arts Studio Work Study person this coming April till November. Very jacked about that. I found out Saturday morning, finally checking my email since Tuesday while at my friends house in Port Au Port. Turns out they had been trying to call me, but having phone problems. So yeah, going to Banff.

I was out on the West Coast of Newfoundland for the West Coast Craft Fair. I went to assist with the St. Michael's Printshop Booth. We were there from Wednesday [after the 8 hour drive of course] and drove back yesterday. I had a rad time bumping in to people, and hanging with the best friends. There was some drinks, and pizza, and just great relaxing moments. Talked about grad school with some of my professors, and was positive, but Banff will come first now.

Just had a really good time, and showed some people my new prints. Even had a little talk with a class. Showed them my work, and told them about what I have been doing. Mentioned the Don Wright Scholarship a lot as well, hopefully it will inspire some more applicants this year.

Aimed at using some of the time over in Corner Brook as some sketching time for my art, but that didn't come about. Which is fine, I did other wonderful things. Just got to work on some new pieces. I got a litho stone there just waiting for a drawing, and a lot of plates to edition. Just got to get to work.

Figured since I have mentioned putting up work before, and showed some work in Corner Brook, then perhaps it is about time I put some up now. [Notice that my photography skills are horrible.] The works have titles and all that, but they're written down somewhere and not in the mood to type them. They're all aquatint, drypoint, etching combinations. Zinc plates.










I have a lot more. And want more for my show in April. April is looking to be a good month, with having my art show and then off to Banff for the work study. I am still worried about surviving to April. The winter months are hard. Was hard getting back at my work today as well, been away a week from it, or more, because of new job. Been thinking on typography lately, and incorporating text and word into works. Most of my work is drawn from that, but it isn't acknowledged so much.