Never know what will happen day to day.  The van, aka van gogh, is still dead… I don’t know what to do.  Transmission is dead.

We talk at night over beers. People are all so strange in the way the see the world and the way they mix. Interesting minds.

Plants are going in the ground today. Gardens being prepared. No one day of such work seems so important, but it adds up over time. Seeing a baby walnut tree 8 inches tall makes a nice feeling in me.  Chilino tells me that there are more rare birds coming here now. I notice it too. I saw one I have never seen before while I was standing in a forest grove and trying to see the future of the space. Wondering where to plant trees. Wondering thinking imagining. I don’t have to do things perfectly, but I have to work all day every day in generally good directions.

Yesterday I painted in the studio while chatting with a nice muse…. not revolutionary work, but progress on some paintings which have taken a long time.I don’t know how to talk about the compositional relations I am playing with. I have no language to say it, but I guess it doesn’t matter. The painting will have its own life and it will be removed from mine.

Painting is the hardest and easiest thing. It is one of the few things I enjoy.

I wish I had some cheesecake. I would eat half a cheesecake and give you one piece. Maybe two if you really want it.

Nice little note in the mail:

Hi Brian
Saw your facebook photo album of some of your seattle paintings.  Thought I’d send you a picture of Holy Fire in case you’d like to add it.  I still love love love the painting!  People always compliment it when they come over.  I can still stare at it forever.
Hugs,
Anna

I wrote back:

I felt very happy when I was painting it and am very pleased with the composition. Now I am making some more complex things which interest me too… but the balance in Holy Fire is really what I like the most. There are many artistic adventures to have… but Holy Fire is what I would want to live with.

It is time to awaken the art monster!

I made a promise some years back to those who bought my art that I would keep painting.  I would continue to produce and develop my vision…. improving the value of the work they purchased as well.  Though mostly people buy my art simply because they enjoy it, I would like to make sure that their art investment grows over time.  I have not forgotten that promise to my clients and friends…. but I have not been painting enough to fulfill me or the promise.

The three years I lived alone here in the forest were hard…. I did not paint much… The other worlds were far away…    I still kept thinking and have sketchbooks with new designs. Recently as I have been painting I am finding that I can do some things which were difficult for me compositionally. Combining blobular with relation and symbol.

I have built the nice space to live in, I have food and cutie muses…  time to paint.

So painting is good. More painting. I have a backlog of thought. I will try to write about it, but I find it difficult to write about what I am doing compositionally.  Hmmm…. We shall see.

Well…. for the first time in 5 months I am caught up on posting photos. Wow.

The lake region where I live: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianfey/sets/72157600056595493/

Shots from the rancho where I live:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianfey/tags/ranchotour/

And more faces of Brian than you wanted to see:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianfey/tags/briangood/

Amazing… I have posted 12,111 photos on flickr.
Am I omnipresent yet? No.

Was playing with stone circles and rock balancing.

Now I have three spots where adults can play with rock balancing… and I will make one with smaller rocks for kiddos. Yay!

Not done yet.

I have made two stone circles of balanced rocks. I plan to make another but the rocks are in a harder place to get.
Rock balancing gets easier pretty quick. I think I will leave the circles up as a place for people to try rock balancing. I had one of my workers try it and he got good very quick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_balancing

I also want to make a big stone circle
I think I would do it to magnetic north though as this is likely the one which actually affects human behavior along with the moon. The stars do not control me. I like to see the stars, maybe we will go to them someday,… but astrology often approaches a kind of fetishism with some folks.

Nonetheless,… this whatever retrograde thing if it is occurring is is quite a bitch.

So my stone circle will reject the stars in favor of the earth. Maybe the sun and moon would be good. Would be nice to have a stone circle which serves as a local sundial.

This is Geoff. He is making a tiki totem dude.

He is largely to blame for me taking too many photos that I can harly deal with them! Yay! good problem to have.

The other day I found this very cool looking caterpillar!

He was happily muching away on an oak leaf when I found him.

I checked his with a blacklight and he flouscesces!

I took a series of photos of him:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianfey/tags/flourescent/

The bioluminescent ones are still in camera.

I got one guy I have carve things… he seems to like it. I started him with a book with many pictures of one way to carve… like this photo…
Now he is using a dover clip art book of mythological creatures from cultures around the world which I like.

More photos here showing this guys style developing…. I give him little direction in hopes he will find his own ways.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianfey/tags/totem/

I think maybe sometime he will be able to make some strange totem poles.