Work in process during 'stay at home'

Sounds like a paradox; ‘work in process during stay at home’

Where am I, what am I doing, and how am I doing it?

The first week in March was productive; the quiet and confinement dedicated to stitching and writing. The next weeks were more difficult. I missed my creative place and materials. Weighing risks and benefits carefully, for the past two weeks I’ve ventured to the studio for a few intense days and accomplished enough printing and preparation to work-at-home the rest of each week.

The creative work continues to evolve—in form and content—as I explore the intertextual process of listening, transcribing, and translating the audible into a visual object. The words are hand-written and screen-printed as pages and tapes. The text is de-emphasized, and sometimes obscured, in order to focus the how conversations tie the past to the present, and people to each other.

I'm enjoying the stitching at home, more than at the studio, where I feel like I must move to produce. This is a time for reflection on the many influences on my work; I’m recalling exhibitions visited, reading about writing and expressive text. I’m also doing more of what I want to do, working, having time with family, and being outside every day, and less of what I think I should do.