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Well, despite my hopes, I haven’t really gotten much of anything done the past couple of weeks apart from a mildly indifferent pastel (that I’m not gonna post). This is less due to lingering illness (I feel a lot better, even if I’ll likely have this cough until May or whenever) than to a set of annoying infrastructural issues that have all come to roost in the past week. I’m starting to think March might be a write-off, but hopefully that’ll bode well for April. I was able to update the painting and graphic work on my website (sketches’ll have to wait) and purge most of the paintings I had in storage for the season, so it hasn’t been a total loss.

Doing a little low-effort “housekeeping” by winnowing down my digital photos this morning in advance of some obnoxious looming errands, and so today’s header image is Peaceful Hour (oil on board, 1925), by early twentieth-century Texas artist Edward Gustav Eisenlohr (1872-1961). It’s one of a number of photos I took on my trip to New Orleans last May; Eisenlohr’s painting is in the collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, one of the highlights of my visit. I only got back into visual art over a decade after I emigrated from Louisiana, and the wealth of regional talent (both past and present) was a fine inspirational bookend to the Midwestern equivalent you can see at, say, the Flint Institute of Art in Michigan (I’m hoping to visit in the next couple of weeks to see the Mario Moore exhibit).

How’s your work going?