Post #9 the benefits of googling yourself

So, as many of you are aware, I've offered my older series of swimming paintings to people as a permanant loan.  One of the places where I have a listing is the Fine Art Adoption Network.  What's really funny about this site is that I have gotten many many responses, and lots of people relaying some type of swimming story or memory, but the works have yet to be adopted.  

So, bored as I am this evening, and yes, admittedly watching dancing with the stars while writing emails, looking at sales at speedo's online site, and in general flaking around, I decided to google myself.  

For those of you who haven't done this, its quite interesting what turns up.  

I was pleasantly surprised to see my work was chosen as a representative for the interview FAAN founder Adam Simon gave to Time Out.  

You can read the article by following the link below:

Post #8 Living with less

So, here we are, and everywhere you look people are talking about our economy and the idea of "living with less"

This is an area I've been exploring for quite some time - so really I am way ahead of the whole curve.  See, there is a first time for everything!

Here's the Jenna Lucente "living with less" thought process and application of thought process:

In the art:

I've been playing around with the question of "how much visual information do i really need?".  I am always trying to distill down my imagery, my landscape, so that only the basic elements are shown.  I am being concise about what is portrayed and in what way.  Its amazing what only a few key elements can do.  They can dictate focus, narrative, and leave the viewer asking for more and only wondering why less can be more (as one reviewer put it)

In life:

As an artist who is still in the beginning of her career, as an artist who has chosen to make art above many other things, living with less has been a theme for quite some time.  So maybe that means instant oatmeal made in the studio for breakfast, maybe it means quitting coffee just to save $1 a day.  Spending money on only what is absolutely necessary so that the money you do have can go toward studio rent, art supplies, and maybe working less, so you have more time to make art.    If you ask me, or many other artists, you'll find that they have been living this way for a long long time, and guess what? we've all survived somehow or other.  Granted, maybe not the most ideal circumstances, but getting by nonetheless.  Now that the general population is doing the same you can remember that its usually the artists who start these trends in fashion, housing, neighborhoods, lifestyle, living with less or whatever may be.  SO hopefully, many others will do the same, and in that action, save some money, some water, some natural resources, etc.