Erica's Lemonade Stand

Who would have guessed that this blog should lie dormant for months before its spontaneous revival on a January afternoon? So, some catching up to do. Mostly catching up on a semester of making and planning, if only to document the lack of documentation of any such making and planning. Hence, my decision to add a ‘portfolio’ page to the site. Stick around to see whether or not it becomes populated in the coming months.

Some studio space. Some finished pieces: map, map. Typesetting and lockups — my meditation. Some in progress. Some images of a book. I fell in love with the french link stitch.

Summer was supposed to go on much longer. Lots of ideas and ambition to MAKE ART gave way and instead the time was spent reading and eating, and trying to be outside at every moment possible. Some making did persist. Sourdough bread, focaccia bread, other, less-successful breads… Lots of amateur photography — trying in vain to capture that fleeting summer feeling when it seems like past and present are colliding all at once and the seconds tick by slowly, like hours, but it still feels all too fast — but obviously the camera on an iPhone 11 doesn’t quite cut it. Of course, there was the working and re-working of what was intended to be a Grand Mapping Project, but at the end of the day more work was put into creating the apparatus which would securely hold the mapping paper to the bottom of a shoe (photo 8/20) than was ever spent on walking around and making the maps themselves. At least it worked! Now the 5 finished maps are in a box inside a box, there’s no such thing as store-bought bread in this house anymore, and all of the projects that were supposed to happen this summer still live in the notes app of the iPhone 11 that takes such ordinary pictures.

Themes: childhood / memories and remembering / time (passing and gone and not yet here) / mapping / waste / the ephemeral / bread / rest / womanhood and motherhood / war / recording / existence through experience / the sun / beauty / reading / health / longevity / complicity / mundane.