Field Notes | The blurring of art, text + life

for me the most effective way to proof my writing is to read it out loud. i usually don’t. despite what appears to be exhibitionism on my fb status updates and my documentation of my art practice, my life habits...

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holiday break has lead to decisions, decisions

24 Dec 2014

art, cottage, hermitage, process, renovations, she restores

kathy wash 2012

hermitage

This summer I replaced the hermitage, micro-forest and my mini-meadow that sat at the edge of the Sam Houston National Forest for PhD studies, a 1929 cottage and lots of renovations. I am trying to take it back to at...

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Sold. On to the next adventure!

Soulful puppy making the transition from dog heaven freely chasing rabbits, deer, cows and horses to the life of leashed leisure out in Lubbock. She will adjust (I hope). Goodbye my sweet, sweet hermitage, microforest and minimeadow!0

Up, down, sold (ok, well, under serious contract)

I I suppose it is just bragging, butttt my realtor first showed the hermitage at 11 am, by one I had a viable offer, by three a contract was being drafted up. Bam! I feel fabulously giddy (til I think...

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The hermitage, officially listed for sale

Contact Markham Realtors to see the hermitage and microforest. The listing0

Last add to the hermitage

Originally there was a view blocking picket rail between the two levels. I ripped the eye sore out within the first five days of owning. When I bought it I always had this idea in mind, shelving in the dead...

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the hermitage draws close to being market ready and my floors are rocking!

admittedly i’ve been showing her anyway because the micro forest and mini meadow and she built deck can sell themselves…the finishing of all the reno projects on the hermitage just make her totally smittenable. one more layer to be laid...

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hermitage flooring coming along

13 May 2014

hermitage, plywood floors, spacers

kathy wash 2012

hermitage

pro floor finisher comes next week as i have finished with cutting, fitting and securing the floors in the bedrooms, den, living, dining and stairwell. yay. I cut and laid 8″ planks in the bedrooms which contrasted nicely from the adjoining...

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hermitage, microforest, minimeadow going on the market

I have loved on this space I call home, I call gift. But I will be going to do my PhD in Lubbock and don’t know where I will land at its end so the hermitage in the woods must...

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if I avoid the unsightly, the inappropriate, that negates the bulk of my living and leaves me straining in falsetto. damn the unseemly.

31 Mar 2014

hermitage, hormonal humor, mundane ramble, poems which aren't really poems just thinkings

kathy wash 2012

hermitage

I get stuck. the only way i know to unstick is to approach the very moment in which i reside. so i do. i drag myself down the aisle. pulling one more box from the shelf, the smallest yet, i...

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new adventure that will require proofing and capitalization. dang

14 Mar 2014

hermitage, mundane ramblings, phd ponderings, Texas Tech

kathy wash 2012

hermitage

my intent to which they’ve agreed is to drive my bum, belongings, and my big ass art footprint out to the dust driven plains of academia in lubbock, tx to pursue my Fine Art Ph.D. in Critical Studies and Artistic...

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without residual unruly regret.

29 Jan 2014

hermitage, mundane ramblings, phd ponderings

kathy wash 2012

hermitage

at the periphery of perception, i extend my hand gropingly feeling for my dreams of future casting. i must have them, mustn’t i? i facilitate workshops in which i guide the group into the gaps of peripheral space in hopes...

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killin, I am comfy with that, it's that dang maiming the tree weedbeasts may precure i fear

25 Jan 2014

hermitage, mundane ramblings

kathy wash 2012

hermitage

hermitage hunker down (commonly called cabin fever) is slowly relinquishing its hold as the out of door warms. the chill proves problematic when my studio is wholly structurally decloaked from the elements. for as long as I can remember, which...

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foot plod atop forested leaf fodder

25 Jan 2014

hermitage, microforest, mundane ramblings, peace

kathy wash 2012

hermitage

tuesday i took the pup and plunged into the near woods. chilly, but not totally debilitating if properly bundled. it’s not just a pedestrian passing with leaf fodder under foot that i need. i need the slow wheeled roll of...

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if I avoid the unsightly, the inappropriate, that negates the bulk ofmy living and leaves me straining in falsetto. damn the unseemly, but iwrite.

22 Dec 2013

hermitage, hormonal humor, mundane ramblings

kathy wash 2012

hermitage

i get stuck. the only way i know to unstick is to approach the very moment in which i reside. i do. george is here, sitting with me in my mom’s chair. i rock wedged between the big open windows...

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hermit plus some digging my way out of my belly button [perhaps]

19 Oct 2013

hermitage, mundane ramblings

kathy wash 2012

hermitage

sure there is the tug to go here or there, to do what i “should.” i love the hermitage and my microforest. if i could just figure out how to navigate sanely and joyfully the periods of unpeopled days, to...

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falling off the curb into the woods

17 Oct 2013

hermitage, mundane ramblings

kathy wash 2012

hermitage

why it happens, its frequency, i don’t necessarily get. i don’t get my teetering plunge as an able bodied semi intelligent relatively conscious entity. but it happens. typically i skirt my writing around it. avoid it. shove it away. pretend...

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day 6 | i am unequipped to befriend only the here, the now, in aseemingly nakedless contextless masked present

15 Jun 2013

artist residency, hermitage, June 2013, VSC

kathy wash 2012

hermitage, Vermont Studio Center

i stand to move to the studio. YOU ISOLATE the voice says. well i do live in the woods, my microforest, my hermitage. ok. instead, i stand, move with the gentle meal herd whom appeal. meander to the thrift. watch...

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not that I actually spend time indoors

but I've moved my grown up furniture from storage a plopped it down in the hermitage. a little large for the space.0

find the closest green space and go there now!

I happen to be so fortunate as to live embedded in it. ummm. though, when the insurance company called to do a wildfire evaluation of the hermitage in the woods, I felt my pocket book groan knowing that living in...

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hermitage

breaching this space aloud

holiday break has lead to decisions, decisions

Sold. On to the next adventure!

Up, down, sold (ok, well, under serious contract)

The hermitage, officially listed for sale

Last add to the hermitage

the hermitage draws close to being market ready and my floors are rocking!

hermitage flooring coming along

hermitage, microforest, minimeadow going on the market

if I avoid the unsightly, the inappropriate, that negates the bulk of my living and leaves me straining in falsetto. damn the unseemly.

new adventure that will require proofing and capitalization. dang

without residual unruly regret.

killin, I am comfy with that, it's that dang maiming the tree weedbeasts may precure i fear

foot plod atop forested leaf fodder

if I avoid the unsightly, the inappropriate, that negates the bulk ofmy living and leaves me straining in falsetto. damn the unseemly, but iwrite.

hermit plus some digging my way out of my belly button [perhaps]

falling off the curb into the woods

day 6 | i am unequipped to befriend only the here, the now, in aseemingly nakedless contextless masked present

not that I actually spend time indoors

find the closest green space and go there now!

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