The Weight

It’s been an intense few weeks and, although I’ve got a lot on my plate, I decided I needed a day to properly disconnect, which led to a drive out to Emeryville to visit The Compound Gallery and my good pal Tim’s show, The Weight of a Blessing which was closing today. I ran into Tim earlier this week while at CCA to see Martin Venezky speak, so this was the perfect was to connect those particular creative dots. As a former student of Martin, Tim’s latest collection clearly inherits sensibilities from Martin’s process which revolves deliberately around instinct and chance. And as a good (and proud) friend, I couldn’t leave empty handed. The piece in the first image (above) will be coming home as soon as I have a chance to get back to the gallery to pick it up. Although I have a few other things that need to wrap up before I can properly get back to working on the full version of The Tower That Ate People, this week has certainly added some fuel to that particular fire and how I’m…