weekends fly

lacma @night
Originally uploaded by bluepupae.

what a weekend--moving into a more spacious storage space, bowling match, composting workshop, screening of handmade nation at silent movie theater, visiting lacma at night to see chris burden's urban light installation, walking for miles at the long beach antiques market, barely enough time for the farmer's market.

SPACE i like our new storage space. you can actually walk inside it without having to remove anything. sometimes i think storage spaces seem like such a waste of money. every month, you pay for space just to keep your stuff. there is an invisible cost of having stuff--what you paid for it was only a down payment. if we moved into a larger home, we'd be paying more rent instead--again, the cost of owning stuff. i can whittle down my ownership of stuff, and we desperately need to do that, but some stuff, i can't get rid of. i keep making art, and right now, it's not going into anyone's collection but mine. then there are all the things that could potentially become "art"--my excuse lately for being a packrat. i realize that i have the power to get rid of it all, yet somehow, i can't. in the meantime, i've got to look into making ephemeral art.

of course, we celebrated our new space by going to the lb antiques market. i found a permanent sewing table for my sewing machine piece. i'm hoping to incorporate the piece into the table and use the actual treadle to activate the piece, but that second goal is more of a nice to have. primary is making the table a part of the piece and vice versa.

my knitting machine arrived, but i've had no time to do anything but open it up.