how do you do it all?

A drawing from Tuesday nights class, I played along for about 30 minutes… it’s a pelvis/spine!

Several times this week (on the phone) friends have remarked, “I just don’t know how you do it all!”. If I were less embarrassed and more honest I would post a picture of my kitchen right now, every dish we own is dirty, and even though the dishwasher (is now) is full of unwashed dishes my counters are still covered with dirty stuff… but I’m too embarrassed to post a picture, you can imagine the mess for yourself. My living room floor is littered with papers, books, magazines and the remnants of a package I just received from my Mum (thanks Mum) in England. The coffee table is disappearing under a sea of college mail for my son (he got his class ranking this week, 49th, in a class of about 400, so OK, but of course as his Mum I know he could have improved on that…), and bills that are (thankfully) paid, but not filed. Basically I am telling the world that my secret is that except for the weekends I am a terrible housekeeper! The laundry in the basement is clean, folded, but still in the laundry baskets… and I think it is possible that there is a table under the pile of art supplies and the sewing stuff that is in the dining room. I am seriously considering a dumpster! By now I’m sure that it is pretty obvious that not much art has been happening around here this week. I am feeling a little under the weather, thanks I imagine to all my students/kids who have all been sick (except my son who almost never is) and the problem with housekeeping I find is that as soon as you let just a little dust gather, pretty quickly it multiplies like rabbits and you are lost beneath a mountain of undone chores. Oh well, the week is almost over so the house will reappear again Saturday morning, in the meantime the mess makes me frazzled and cross! The only thing I have actually done art-wise this week is for my classes, a sample project for my 2-D class on spatial depth and I drew along with my drawing class for about 30 minutes Tuesday night as they were all working so productively, I wish I had taken my camera, because they produced some really great work!. What I hate most about the end of term is that just as the class is finding it’s feet and beginning to have a useful relationship with each other, the term ends and we have to begin all over again, gaining trust and getting to work. So for what it’s worth all I have to post are those images… the drawing’s up top, and here’s that sample project (surprise it’s a Victorian wallpaper design from Morris!)