Dust the cobwebs off please

It took me 2 hours to go 3 miles the other day while stuck in traffic on I75. Apparently some knuckle head semi-truck driver took a chunk out of an overpass around Gainesville. I was headed north for another 10 day stint in the Osceola National Forest. Another 10 days away from the studio. So as I’m sitting here in the hotel room, I thought I might dust the cobwebs off this blog and fill folks in on what is shaking at Rudolph Clay Studios.

Well, what’s shaking is we are working our butts off in an economic climate that is not particularly advantageous to folks like us. Lyrics from a Patty Griffin song come to mind and give comfort to some degree, “There’s nothing like poverty to get you into Heaven…” I’m comfortable enough in my masculinity to say that is what I was singing at the top of my lungs while stuck in traffic the other day. So in the very short four day breaks I get between 10 stints up in Osceola, I’ve been in the studio almost every minute getting new work made for the NCECA Conference coming up in Tampa. No rest for the weary. I’m sure Patty Griffin has a brilliant song about that too somewhere. Cheyenne is of course making incredible work in studio. She always does. She’s been super busy getting new work made for NCECA as well. She is the curator of the Queens of Confection Exhibition at The Singing Stone Gallery in Ybor City (more info to come on that). We both be will be in The Art of Function Exhibition at the Craftsman House Gallery. Both will be great shows. I’ll also be featured in the Artist in Residence Exhibition at the St. Pete Clay Co.

So yes we are very busy both in studio and in life. We are pushing on through this adverse economy. I’m very happy to be working right now because I know many folks who are not. I’m happy to have a wonderful life with a wonderful and supportive wife. It does at times feel like we take one step forward, two steps back…but we want to make art for a living…what did we expect?