 | Pqw Dec 31 |
Theme: "Just live." ++ Spring: BMA had a Joan Mitchell exhibit. Spouse took me, in both May and June, which was awesome. Ms. Mitchell — a fellow emotion-color synesthete — said things with colors I didn't know you could say. Hoping to figure out how to do similar things with my own works. ++ EMOTION-COLORWAYS - 'Elements': spring green, shades of pink, delicious oranges, greenygold, sky/cerulean, green & grey, ochers, browns & greys, midnight …
- 'Phrases': complex greens, earth greens, sage & celery, canyons?, Blue & Orange (and variants: sky & clementine), Earth Tones?, Fire & Earth, *glory*, …
- Glyphs | Wyxzi: ~amelia~, -glas·aoa, heart·greens, hazel·woods, YG/BG/RO, citrus, …
- Certain hues that occur in the color gamut of the d-d—RW—O project, only occur in specific combinations. For instance, purple only occurs with soft greens and/or yellow-greens (but not blues, pinks, or browns).
- (Possibly related to my long fascination with Delft blue, and majolica, pottery) I spent long years wearing a ton of garments in shades of medium-to-dark blues + optic white, but neither of those hues appear in the color gamut of the d-d—RW—O project.
- I can only tolerate red in tiny increments at the moment. And just one shade: scarlet.
- CB's color gamut includes blues, red, brown, YG/G, O/YO, pinks, but for right now, I have to keep away from almost all blues and reds, as they clash horribly with earthier shades.
- Even though I have a great many favorite shades of green, I've been realizing that some of them are no longer compatible with the directions I'm moving in. For instance, lime green no longer works.
+ =V= NDER:ZBUKU - Nov: Reorganized my closet, grouping garments and accessories by emotion—colorways: ~amelia~, -glas·aoa,, earth greens, Earth Tones, hazel·woods, complex greens,, delicious oranges, greenygold, sky/cerulean,, amber|golden & silver, …
- Gear ~ 8 items added. 6 bought new: eyeglasses case (wool, twill); backpack (hemp); sketchbag (linen); 3 sets winingas (wool, twill, handwoven); 1 thrifted: hooded cape (wool); 1 upcycled: hat (cashmere (felted), pieced).
- Looking to 2023 … Gear ~ I still need sitting mat for plein air art. Garb ~ perhaps constructing vests/gilets/tabards, likely from thrifted wools that I felt, and/or pin loom squares of wool that I sew together.
+ overlaps with WARDROBE - By fiber, Out: 25 garments, cotton (18), linen (7). Reds/rust, vivid coral, blues+optic white, ivory.
- By fiber, In: 20 garments, linen (10), wool (8), cotton (2); and 8 woven wool bands.
- By function, In: 7 tunics, 8 juostos*, 6 skirts, 7 items of outerwear.
- *By country of origin, In: Finland (1), Lithuania (3); Norway (4).
++ FIBER ARTS - Nov-Dec: Wove 27 pin loom squares of wool; most with plant-dyed yarn
- 3 wool plaits I made myself
- Braided 18 fringes of wool juosto
++ PHOTO PROJECT - Spouse found me 3 different ways to print photos from my phone, which I've been doing.
- Nov: Spouse located the old hard drives containing my digital photos from 2005–2013.
- Dec: Spouse got me a printer specifically for those (now on) laptop photos; I've been printing them.
++ PAINTING, Watercolor ++ Artistic influences this year, by country of residence: - ancient world mosaics.
- Aotearoa – Sally Tennent-Brown [Jewellery].
- Australia – @catinawitchhat, Mads Colvin, Jane Milburn [Attire]; Sally Blake [Fiber]; Tara Axford [Painting].
- Belgium -- @hemelbreker [Attire].
- Canada – Dawn Candy [Ceramics]; Arounna Khounnoraj [Fiber].
- Czech Republic – Alice Stonová [Jewellery].
- Denmark – Anton Bruusgaard [Attire]; Mette Mehlsen [Fiber].
- England – Terry Macey, Sigrid Verschraeghen, @ed_1eye, @rosablue [Attire]; Caroline Egleston [Ceramics]; Shelley Rhodes [Collage]; Clare Ramsall, Tor Falcon [Drawing & Illustration]; Bridget Bailey, Julia Crook, Archana Pathak [Fiber]; Karen Howarth, Carin Lindberg, Charlotte Whitmore [Jewellery]; Tansy Hargan, Christine Pocock, J.R.R. Tolkien [Painting]; Bex Simon [Sculpture~metal]; Liz Chester [Weaving~tapestry].
- Finland – Mervi Pasanen [Fiber].
- France – Sylvie Facon [Attire]; Julie Bergeron [Ceramics]; Max Ernst, Joan Mitchell, Paul Signac, Suzanna Valadon [Painting].
- Germany – Felipe Pelaez [Attire]; Jutta Becker [Ceramics]; Anniette Beaucamp [Weaving~tapestry].
- Iceland – Elsa Sólblóm [Attire].
- Ireland – Ann Mechelinck, Marion Weymes [Fiber]; Harry Kernoff [Painting]; Muriel Beckett [Weaving~tapestry].
- Japan – Misao Jo, Miya Chiyoshiko [Weaving~saori].
- Latvia -- Ieva Krūmiņa, Inese Liepina [Fiber].
- Lithuania -- Raminta Beržanskytė [Fiber].
- Norway -- Lucia Andalova [Weaving~tablets].
- Ottoman Empire embroidery.
- Poland -- Magdalena Abakanowicz [Fiber & Sculpture]; Natalia Miedziak-Skoniecza [Photography].
- Russia – Inna Aistova [Jewellery].
- Scotland – Judith Rosalind [Attire]; Bernat Klein [Fiber], Michele Daykin [Jewellery]; Bessie MacNicol, Liz Myhill [Painting]; Louise Oppenheimer [Weaving~tapestry].
- Spain=Ibiza – San De Wilde [Fiber].
- Sweden – Claire Caudwell [Collage]; Märta Måås-Fjetterström & Barbro Nilsson [Fiber].
- Switzerland – Sophie Taeuber-Arp [multi-disciplinary].
- Ukraine – Oksana Trukhan [Jewellery].
- USA – Nancy Davis, Karolina Lewandowska, Isa Segalovich [Art History]; Christian Jallaire, Paul Shelton, Kate Weiss, @_donnyq, @historically_approximate, @sewnthoughtfully, @shokotara, @stanclothing [Attire]; Donna Stiller [Collage]; Lynda Barry, Melanie Reim [Drawing & Illustration]; Karen Barbé, Natalie Ciccoricco, Imogene Grey, Jude Hill, Christi Johnson [Fiber]; Theodore Ellison, Michael Weiss [Glass]; Blair LaBella, Eileen O'Shea, Elizabeth Scott, Amy Wyckoff [Jewellery]; Hannah Bullen-Ryner [Nature~ephemeral]; @daughtersandsuns, Richard Diebenkorn, Jane Frank, Natalie Hinahara, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Virginia Spiegel, Mickalene Thomas, Patti Vincent, Jennifer Wang, Gunnar Mauritz Widforss, Richard Yarde, Purvis Young, Mitford Zornes [Painting]; Jeff Greer, Bill Kutilek [Photography]; Katie Baldwin [Quilting]; Rashid Johnson, Mary Nohl [Sculpture]; Megan Adgate, Ruth Collier Manning, Darcie Shively [Weaving].
- Wales – Martin Truefitt-Baker [Drawing & Illustration]; Jeanette Grey [Weaving~basketry].
++ READING - Read 140 books all the way through. (1.7x as many as 2021.)
+ FANFIC – Harry Potter, on AO3 - Read 1,050 fics, 31.1 million words
++ POETRY ~Reading~ - Still in Aniibi'a 6: Added 38 poems by 23 poets in 2022. 15 women, 7 men, 1 person of unknown gender. A. E. Stallings (Jan) – Jacqueline Saphra (Dec). Old favorites, 6; new-to-me, 17.
- [2021 was also in Aniibi'a 6: Added 31 poems by 29 poets. 21 women, 8 men. Amanda Gorman (Jan) – Tahereh Saffarzadeh (Dec). Old favorites, 9; new-to-me, 20.]
- [[1991–current, Aniibi'a, volumes 1–6, contains 1200+ poems, by 760 poets*.]]
- [[*The vast majority of poets, I have 1 or 2 poems from. But there's > 30 that I have 5+ from. My very favorite poet is also the one I have the most poems from, and she's the only poet whose work appears in all 6 volumes: Lucille Clifton, 21 poems.]]
+ ~Writing~ None. ++ RIVER TIME 3/15, 5/15, (6/1), 10/15. ++ PLANT COMPANIONS & FRIENDS - Feb: Repotted Slyvs & Imippe.
- late Mar: rescued a poinsettia, if only to give it a nice home to die in. Apr–Nov, Pō was doing great (including a red leaf in Nov), but began ailing in December.
- Slyvori still doing well. (Coming up on 6 years together.) Nov: a 2nd baby Slyv.
- Ziggl still doing well. So far, no winter flowers, but 2 buds. (3 years in November.)
- Imi & their oxalis pot-mates doing well. (35 months.)
- Spouse's succulents and peace lily are doing well. [mid-to-late 2019]
- Windowboxes: Calibrachoa; oxalis and 1 unknown. (self-seeded?)
- 2 free-standing pots of flowers in garden; 1 was still blooming in Nov [all garden plants brought inside in October because frost].
+ PAINTING, Watercolor + Took 2 online classes from English multimedia artist Tansy Hargan, including "Finding Your Colour Voice" [watercolor]. Neither class was my cup of tea, and I didn't finish either one. I did realize that taking an in-person class would've been an even-worse 'fit' for how I prefer to learn things these days. ++ HUMAN-SOCIAL: Self-isolating for entire year. Still masking whenever around people. + SCHEDULING: 7 intervals - Pandemic 8: 1 fallow week
- Pandemic 9: 3 properly-eudaimonic + 3 'mixed' + 4 fallow weeks
- Pandemic 10: 4 properly-eudaimonic + 3 'mixed' + 3 fallow weeks
- Pandemic 11: 10 properly-eudaimonic weeks //summer//
- Pandemic 12: 7 properly-eudaimonic + 3 'mixed' weeks
- Pandemic 13: 6 properly-eudaimonic + 2 'mixed' + 2 fallow weeks
- Pandemic 14: 1 properly-eudaimonic week
++ PHYSICAL HEALTH - Spouse and I keep current on boosters for covid.
- Spouse received shingles vaccine.
- early June: Spouse bit by 3 deer ticks, within 2 weeks.
- Oct: Began wearing retainers at night. (Had originally hoped that in 2023, or 2024, I might be able to start doing Invisalign, but… I doubt I could tolerate that.) I wake up with headaches every night I wear them; and now teeth/gums/inside mouth, sometimes even my tongue, hurt all the time; so I'm having to s-p-a-c-e out which nights I wear them, and for how long.
- Nov: Periodontist showed me a "better" way of brushing my teeth & gums. Except that that not only do my gums bleed (more often than before), but my teeth & gums are more sensitive than they already were, and I'm now in pain all the time. Ironically, I visited the ortho, then perio, people in the spring because intermittent pain was concerning & bothersome.
- Oct–Nov: 2 medical-trauma occurrences, 8 wks apart, same body region (but for different reasons). During the first one, I literally thought I was going to die, right then, 10 miles away from Spouse; the 2nd one was worse.
- Nov: unexplained incident of "food poisoning"(?) => 3 days of utter misery.
- early Dec: Via Reddit's AITA, became aware of an eating disorder now known as ARFID, which is clearly the type I have. (Before covid, I was managing it well enough that it wasn't much of a concern day-to-day. Alas, it's back to being A Big Issue.)
- also Dec: ear pain/vestibular weirdness/dizzy/headache, even when I'm sedentary. Sub-clinical ear infection? Sinus infection? I don't know or care, please, just Go Away!
- 1 Fever blister/cold sores in 2022: 7/26-31
- [3 FB/CS in 2021]
- 6 Migraines in 2022: 3/11 (visual), 4/20, 6/4-5, 8/25 (visual), 8/30, 10/4-5,
- [5 Migraines in 2021]
- 10 so-called ½ Migraines: 2/5, 2/20, 3/6-7, 3/31, 7/14-15, 7/30-31, 8/27, 10/30, 11/24-25, 12/22
- [3 so-called ½ Migraines in 2021]
- 0 Styes [1 each in 2020, 2021]
- "Standing & Walking" ~ [12.30.22] 1392.7 hours total. Range (raw): 0.4 to 8.4 hours per day. Daily average, 3.82 hours.
- B: 12 (51), 15.8 // P: 5 (5)
++ TRAVEL – None. ++ EPISTOLARY – None. +++ |
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