So how can I have two lives?

I got involved in Second Life after reading an article about an artist in the Boston area who used it as a marketing tool for his work. What I discovered was a world of opportunity for visual artists to share their art with the world. Unlike a website or blog, which are both great but static, this virtual world allows me to meet you, talk with you, personally take you to my galleries.... and allows you to get to know me and what I have been trying to accomplish through my painting.

It is at times hilarious, it is at times bizarre (EVERYTHING you see in SL is straight out of someone's imagination) but it is ALWAYS intriguing. Most importantly, it is the future.

I have 2 galleries (The Aries Gallery SG and The Aries Gallery STNY). I also exhibit my paintings at special exhibitions around the world. I will be teaching a real life painting workshop in February as well. All this to the global market from the comfort of my mountaintop studio. My work has always been about connections, so it only follows that the connections I am able to make through this virtual world is in complete keeping with my vision.

Life is good.

What am I doing?

Well, it only took about a week before the novelty of writing a blog every day wore off. Why do people do this blog stuff? Why do people (including me) think that the rest of the world cares what they think or had for breakfast for that matter? I mean, I thought I should do it because it's another way for me to get images of my paintings up on the web. But after a few days I realized that I couldn't think of anything to write about! So maybe I should just post a picture of a painting every day and call it good.

Hurricane Relief

Omar be gone! We made it through the storm unscathed thanks to a last minute shift in direction of Hurricane Omar. Like threading a needle, the center of the storm passed between the islands here in the northeast Caribbean and we all came through with little damage. Yahoo!

This was actually a good dry run for me. Usually I'm little Miss Civil Defense, starting my initial hurricane preparedness at the very beginning of each season. The last couple of years I've gotten lazy though and when I went to do things to prepare for Omar, I discovered issues like stuck and loose hurricane panels. Ack! If this had been a serious storm I would have been seriously screwed!!! So I'm grateful for the warning.

I'm a firm believer in signs. We get them all the time. We just don't read them. Omar was a sign. Lemmee go get my glasses.

Oh Happy Day!

Yesterday's rainbow truly was a portent of good things to come. I had an exhibition last night and sold 15 paintings. Joy! Joy! Joy! I'm happy. My bank's happy. It's a happy kind of day!