My Reinvention Map…

One morning while I was sipping my first cup of Earl Grey I was sitting in the pressed-concrete, modern studio in the backyard of my small house — I was overwhelmed by the feeling that I wanted to do something completely different. I wanted to change.. My clothes, my hair, my body shape, my singleness, and most of all my art. I wanted to shake things up, challenge myself in ways I hadn’t done before and find out what I am made of. It slowly dawned on me that I wanted to REINVENT my life.

So I did!

I figured out how to get rid of most of my stuff, consolidate what was important, change my diet, loose weight, get new clothes, find perfect containers and bags that would hold only the essentials, tune up my Volvo and attach a Thule box on top.

I had a huge estate sale and sold everything I owned including all of my art books and most of my supplies. And many, many paintings. My little red Eames chair, Noguchi lamp and Corbusier chaise. My carefully curated ‘things’.

I wanted some kind of talisman to carry with me to remind me of who I am and that I am okay no matter where I am in the world. So I painted an 8” x 10” Madonna and called her Madonna of the Highways. She would live in the back seat propped up on my big red bag so I could see her in the rearview mirror.

After a few months of tying up loose ends, helping my beloved mother pass on and saying goodbye to my family, friends and collectors I loaded up the Volvo with as little as possible, made a plan for one month out and left Boulder, Colorado for unknown territories. I was sent off by my best friends into the white, hot, Colorado heat of that June day and headed north…

more to come…