http://www.lynneyamaguchi.com/wordpress A weblog about woodturning, artmaking, and more Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:45:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My studio is almost together, but I had to stop working on it to focus on the house itself, so that we can move in by the end of the month. It’s a satisfying but exhausting experience. Everything I do is for the long term: no throwing on paint to ... http://www.lynneyamaguchi.com/wordpress/2008/06/12/brief-update/ My partner and I close on the purchase of our first house in less than a week. This means I will have my own studio for the first time! I’ve been having fun shopping for new equipment and planning my new space, which will be in the garage. The electricity ... http://www.lynneyamaguchi.com/wordpress/2008/04/22/big-changes-ahead/ As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, last month I prepared (and gave) a talk for the docents of the Tucson Museum of Art, on woodturning as an artform. Besides giving a brief history of artistic turning, I described the basic anatomy of trees and discussed some of the characteristics ... http://www.lynneyamaguchi.com/wordpress/2008/04/10/heartwood/ During my last show, I sat a lot with the piece called “Offering,” and I want to share some of how I feel about it. The vessel was born of green wood, wet, as we are. My labor was long. The hollowing took two sessions, and to keep the wood from shrinking ... http://www.lynneyamaguchi.com/wordpress/2008/03/21/%e2%80%9coffering%e2%80%9d/ I’m wondering if the universe just wants me to shut up for a while. I’m so crazy busy that I barely have time to breathe! I leave for a show in Casa Grande in a couple of hours, then I come back to prepare a talk for the docents of the ... http://www.lynneyamaguchi.com/wordpress/2008/03/14/crazy-busy/ After being glued to the computer for 10 days or so, I have finally finished updating my work-for-sale pages. “Finished” is, of course, a relative term. There are about a dozen pieces I need to rephotograph before I can post them, but for now, I’m declaring I’m caught up, so ... http://www.lynneyamaguchi.com/wordpress/2008/03/03/done-for-now/ I had no idea it had been so long since I last posted. I was busy preparing for and then enduring the Tubac Festival of the Arts. It was five long days (two days longer than justified by the traffic it attracts, I think), and now that it’s over, I ... http://www.lynneyamaguchi.com/wordpress/2008/02/14/catching-up-2/