1.10.2013

catching dreams

There was sun in my living room this morning.  Sun!  And the sky is blue today, and when I stepped outside to take the dog out, it was so not-freezing that I thought it was warm.  I woke up with some sort of headache that isn't retreating (and it's been hours), but nevertheless, today is a good day.  Sun!

Garret's out of town.  Well, upstate (VT, that is. 'Upstate' used to mean I was in Brooklyn and he was in Albany or something).  He's off meeting a new potential documentary subject, and then he's seeing our dear friend Evan afterwards.  So, I'm on my own for the day (well, Murgy's with me).  Days like this I tend to think I have *oh so much time* and then I end up using up all of it rather quickly.  As in: can you believe it's 3pm already?

On a whim I started designing a new writing/design portfolio website for myself.  Since I finally had an excuse to do so, I took to my favorite clip art resource, The Ink Nest, where I at long last purchased something I've been wanting for a while: the feather clip art bundle.  I may have a terrible fear of birds (still. I know. I need to grow up.) but I've been really in love with feather art lately.

I wanted to use the feathers on their own but I also wanted to incorporate a dreamcatcher because I've also been in love with them, lately.  My grandmother gave me one for Christmas last year, and I hung it in the window by my office.  I know they're meant to hang where one sleeps, but enough dreaming goes on in my office, so it felt appropriate.  I recently moved my desk to be right under that window, so now when I look up from my work to think, I'm looking through that dreamcatcher, out the window, to the woods.  It's become a big part of my work life.

Anyway, I'm working on the site (and will be for a while), but I created this dreamcatcher as art for it, so I figured I'd share it.