Still processing.

	In January I did a few practice murals but have not yet mounted them.
	Meanwhile, I've been setting up small installations. This is my 80 year old tap dance teacher, Miss Jean, considering the room as an art gallery
	While I was busily cutting out pictures of friends from various photos I had on hand Madeline asked me how the mural was coming. I told her, "I'm not sure what's going on here, but, something's coming out and I'm just going to follow it for a while." Friends have played with the room and this is the latest installation. It's a dance party. The cats seem to be watching the festivities as if the people are mice? Not sure. I did notice that the walls are a bit too stark and white and will be FINALLY making the wall mural because the installation doesn't look the greatest with pure white walls. I'm thinking something along the lines of a Minoan fresco or something from Catylhuyok.
	How about the Caves of Lascaux in iridescent gold and copper? Hope is over here tonight chatting as I create this page and she said that if I would remove the angel and the stone cat no one would know that this photo isn't real. I'm not so sure that someone wouldn't have an angel and a stone cat sculpture in their bedroom, but, they probably are a bit of a give away and I will have to try another shoot.
	To be complete, the mural room needed furniture but when I started to work on making a sofa, another room developed. This is the start of A Dog's Dream. I immediately contacted my contractors and they set to work on it. I placed a sky mural at the start so room wouldn't end up waiting like the first construction. My close friend Dorothea passed away and then my father passed. The small grey haired man to the left is a miniature doll I purchased with Dorothea at a show she loved going to. The Santa Claus was made by my father. In some respects, this photo can be seen as symbolic of those two people who were close to me standing in the sky with a couch ready for them to sit down on in heaven.
	I wanted windows and set about designing them.
	Having no plans or designs to use but my own invention I set the two characters up in a discussion about the how to assemble the windows.
	This is a posed shot on the order of a trophy shot that is taken on a safari except instead of a rhinoceros, there's windows. And, instead of a gun, there's a paint brush and a jug of paint. "Artist as Big Game Hunter making windows."
	The windows are installed. They're mounted on wires that run from top to bottom and secured in the walls. In the view below you can see that they open outwards. Many times when I'm working on this kind of project I'll talk with my friends on the telephone. Debbie and I make jokes about our "Visa-Phone". We've been doing that for years and, of all things, last year I saw an add for vis-a-phones. They're actually making them now. I thought it would be fun to take a picture of Debbie saying "Cheese" on the speaker phone. I told her what I was doing and she laughed at the idea, but did participate. While I snapped this photo, she was saying "Cheese."
	I haven't gotten used to the parallax view in my new camera (Larry's head got cut off a bit). For consultation about curtains I brought in a seamstress figurine.
	Adding Rick outside the window.
	The title of this construction is "A Dog's Dream" The dog sits in the room all day waiting for its owners to come home. The couch and chair turn into trees and flowers. The walls turn into the sky and the dog's spirit takes flight in the imagined out of doors. The picture of Rick outside the window is supposed to symbolize the dog's spirit.
	Spring is starting now and I've been spending my time lately painting the cherry blossoms in Golden Gate Park and will be at that for a while. This house building is really a winter type project so I expect it will be a while before more gets done. But, you never know about these things. Stay tuned. I've been photographing roller skaters in the park as well as contact improve dancers and people laying in the grass. I don't know what will happen with these images yet. It'll come. Also, Halina has suggested making a bedroom scene using Van Gogh's "Starry, Starry Night". I'm considering something along those lines. But first, it's Cherry Blossom time and that's what I'm working on now.