http://pcnielsen.com Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:12:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On the way down to Nashville we stopped at the St. Louis Art Museum to look at a small showing of prints and drawings done by sculptors. A few of them were quite nice, but a watercolor by Eva Hesse really stuck with me. [caption id="attachment_3987" align="alignright" width="225" caption="Cameraphone image of ... http://pcnielsen.com/?p=348 Sometimes I wonder why I'm so drawn to clay when my inspiration is so ethereal. It's more difficult to represent — either realistically or abstractly — such wispy notions with a substance that turns to rock after you're done with it. Painting allows you to create transparencies on a surface ... http://pcnielsen.com/?p=346 Last month, May of 2010, I heard that old familiar whooshing sound as a self-imposed deadline skittered by. I had hoped to have put together what I considered an MFA ready body of work finished by that time, even though at this point I don't plan on applying to any ... http://pcnielsen.com/?p=344 Cameraphone image of the new clay studio space in the basement of our little house. A new work surface on the right scrapped together with some wooden cubes and mdf (salvaged from a treadmill). The cabinets behind it I picked up at a garage sale; they'll function as a little ... http://pcnielsen.com/?p=341 Yesterday I spent a lot of time doing what I do after moving into a new space, organizing. I tried to repair some of the lousiest attempts at building shelving I've ever seen, screwed some cabinets I bought at a garage sale for next to nothing to the wall and ... http://pcnielsen.com/?p=339