Jun 25 2008
What I have launched is now launching me
On the drive back, something happened that was the perfect cap to the weekend. We stopped by my mom’s place for lunch and naps and delicious showers before finishing the journey. My mom knew what we were up to at the con and is also a co-conspirator in planning the collaborative project.
She showed us some things she had found in her studio one day when she went in to work on her own art pieces. We passed them around, oohing in awe over what we held in our hands and the serendipitous perfection of the finishing touches. I touched (and now own a piece of) imported artifacts from a world that doesn’t exist yet. Talk about time-travelling. How can we not succeed? The proof sits in front of me as I type.
I got a good couple rounds of goosebumps and a few happy tears over this. This is going to be So. Much. Fun.
I think I was a bit too tired right then to really appreciate anything more than the pure aesthetic beauty of the art. The meta level missed me, evidently. But it’s catching up, in spades.
I wish I could contact your mom’s mysterious trade contact and get some nifty art of my own. I wonder if they do jewelry for export? Oh, or if they’d like to import some of my art! That would be way neat.
My brain’s still a but mushy from the trip and convention. But it’s rapidly re-gelling.
Yay!