Hello,
It has been a long time since posting here. It’s been a busy time for Sally and I.
Sally and I have moved to Oakland Ca.
I moved to the Bay Area in July of 2017 to join Openwater, a start-up in San Francisco, researching medical imaging using ultrasound and holography.
Meanwhile, Sally produced a solo exhibition for the Butler Institute of Art, shown from January through July, 2018, (www.sallyweber.com), and she anticipates completing a public art commission in 2019. From February 2018 on, Sally began the delightful tasks of prepping the house and studio for sale and decommissioning half of our worldly goods to other needy souls by way of a massive moving sale (thank you Carl) – Bless their acquiring hearts.
In late 2017 I landed in a section of Oakland called Jingletown, bordering the estuary between Oakland and Alameda. Sally and Koko, our dog, joined me in July via our car and trailer trek across the country. We knew we had really returned to California when we were surrounded by the rolling hills with scattered live oak trees and a ruby sunset over the Bay.
With most of our stuff in storage, the process began to find studio space in earnest. A harrowing task here. In Jingletown, Sally met the community though its dogs (and their owners). One evening Sally and Koko met a gleeful woman and her dog. The woman had just retired and planned to move to Portugal. She was preparing to put her live/work space of 20 years, on the market. OMG!! Angels sang – and the race was on.
We made a deal on the building and moved all our stuff from storage units. We now have a big workspace with a corner of it dedicated to my shop. Ahh! Someday we will have everything unpacked.
I’ve started work on a new project for Maker Faire in San Mateo which I will describe in the next post.
Cheers!
Craig