An exciting morning
Scott Mutz and his team at Advanced Concrete Design started pouring the final concrete slab at 7 sharp this morning. Three inches of concrete in the entire casita (except the bathroom) and when they were done they about a half wheel barrow of mud left! Always exciting to see a large team work on a […]
A lot of stuff happening
So much is happening and I hardly have time to update the blog. Now stucco is being applied by Oscar, Daniel and Rodrigo. It is a joy to see them in action. It won’t take them long to wrap around the house and then they will do it once more with the final colored coat. That […]
Slow, but still moving forward
Back in Santa Fe, checking the progress and being involved in the process. Now more visible things will happen – yesterday the big window was mounted and the plaster team is prepping the walls. The outside is 99% done, soon there will be changes!
Kerry James Marshall, incredible painter
On our way to Santa Fe we stopped for a few days in Chicago. Very cool city! While there we went to The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and saw an incredibly good retrospective show with Kerry James Marshall. I had never heard of him, but now he is certainly one of my heroes! Fantastic […]
The last painting almost done
Painting number 11 in the new Family Suite is nearly done. Will let them all sit for a few days…
Searching for the perfect brush stroke
The other night, as I was brushing my teeth, I realized why I paint! I am searching for the perfect brush stroke! It is mine… nobody else’s. And no-one can say that it is wrong. If I find it, I want to try to get it again. Now I have only one part of the […]
Seven almost done, four more to go
I am slowly making progress on the family suite No. 2.
The joy of falling!
A couple of posts ago I wrote about the art of falling. Now I can talk of the joy of falling… or painting. I guess one of my “advantages” is that that I am not schooled or trained to paint in a certain way and I always have to struggle and try taking unsteady steps […]
A roof!
Our dear neighbor Rolf Wallengren sent a few pictures. Now we have vigas in place and a roof with parapets coming up!
The art of falling
Creating art is like jumping of a cliff. I keep forgetting how difficult it is and how important it is to have faith. In the end something will come out of it all, it is just important to keep pressing on. I have taken up a challenge – to create eleven paintings in a different […]