That is the question.

For whatever reason (indulge me) Autumn often infers great change. The return to school, turning time backwards, the bright harvest foliage and leaves strewn everywhere. Natural change is self-evident, but this year change is more something self-referential. Encapsulated in this spur of newness are relationships, health issues, studio focus and employment. And as fate would have it, after my position at OHSU was eliminated earlier this month, a wave of change has certainly fallen.

But change makes way for planting new seeds to root elsewhere. For instance…I have already moved my residence (now living atop a large hill nearly in the center of the city) and become partnered with someone I am attempting a ‘life garden’ (we will sow, grow, and who knows…). This was in the form of unexpected, welcome change. As Paul and I further meld together, find our common interests and independent differences, this will be a time to refine the center of my personal life while kicking my studio practice up a notch.

Then, it’s out of town, on-and-off for a few months, showing my creative wares outside of my region (Boston and Boise). This, too, is very much positive change that will shake my tree and provide a leap from my normal cocooning tendencies.

Oh, ‘trick or treat’.

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