The journey has begun. Friday we left Richmond, Virginia for Ox-Bow, a residency in Michigan that Jennida and I have been accepted into for one week. Thus commences what will become the first of four residencies that we will enter into over the next six or seven months. It’s a big step to take. A big risk to make. I guess that’s how adventures are. In total our trip to Michigan will take about 15 hours to travel so we are making a stop over in Columbus, Ohio to see some old friends. I spent a little over seven years in Ohio between my junior in high school and the couple of years after graduation from Denison University before I moved over to Pennsylvania to get my BFA. It is safe to say that the friends I have in Ohio are some of my oldest and dearest. It seems rather fitting that I should see them before this long stretch in art residency land. It’s been only a year after receiving my MFA from VCU. A short year in some sense. Crazy, mixed up and ill defined in another. But, I guess I‘m gonna still make art. I never really thought otherwise, however it has been more of a question of what that was going to mean to me and how it affects my day-to-day life. So here it begins. After spending the better part of two seasons trying to make as much money as humanly possible without selling limbs, organs or self respect I find myself staring out ahead.... in fear.... and in wonder. “I’m not dead yet.” I think that is as good a way to face all of this. I can’t say I have everything sorted out and settled yet, for that will have to work itself out as we go. This will probably be the hardest test I’ve faced so far but I think its necessary. A leap of faith.
