{"id":1165,"date":"2021-01-01T19:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T03:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2021-02-15T11:46:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T19:46:41","slug":"life-printmaking-socially-distanced-as-always","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2021\/01\/01\/life-printmaking-socially-distanced-as-always\/","title":{"rendered":"Life: Printmaking (socially distanced, as always)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I wasn’t as artistically productive as I wanted to be in 2020. While the pandemic kept me working from home for 10+ months, my job expanded to fill the time I’d reclaimed from my evening commute, and colleagues would ask for assistance regularly on nights and weekends. While there is plenty of work (my department has been notoriously understaffed),<\/em> I suspect my colleagues also preferred to work constantly rather than read the same kind of pandemic news I’m reading too much of. Perhaps work was a shield against 2020’s damning news cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Doomscrolling” was my preferred method of coping – I like to keep informed AND look for patterns and solutions that may be useful – and my eyes tired from taking a break from one screen just to stare at another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, angst about the election kept me from making the happy art I like to make. I can manage to find things I want to photography in just about any mood, but painting and printing require a lot more of my attitude and something closer to bravery, and I just haven’t had as much of that as I would like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So: it’s nice<\/strong> to have made some acrylic monotype prints<\/strong> today, to have tried a new paper for this purpose, to have obtained interesting results, and to have learned something I can apply in the future. It brought me joy.<\/span> We can all use more joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wasn’t as artistically productive as I wanted to be in 2020. While the pandemic kept me working from home for 10+ months, my job expanded to fill the time I’d reclaimed from my evening commute, and colleagues would ask for assistance regularly on nights and weekends. While there is plenty of work (my department … <\/p>\n

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