Friday. As I said, got in contact with an old friend from the corps. Forty years or so. 1969-1970. Randy Barnes! The Randy I remember was a musician and poet. Now I learn that he has been making his living as a visual artist. Visual art has been the world I have been in for a long time. Teaching, producing work, marketing, etc. We are always losing things... finding them again and re-losing them. Relationships with and to people and things, your artwork. You establish a bond and then drift along and find that the bond has become strained or evaporated. Every day in the studio the work comes into focus and then out of focus. The constant push pull, now close maybe too close, we need some distance to see it more clearly. I hope as I get older I am learning more about this balance.
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