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| "Young Widow II" - Alastair |
As most of you who've been reading this blog probably know, my personal creative outlet is painting and drawing, and I've let my artwork languish for a number of years. Writing here and for the zines, blogs, and websites who've generously granted me space to share my thoughts has been a tremendous experience and it's helped me keep my analytical and academic brain-parts sharp and engaged. I'm so grateful to have that kind of outlet for my assorted ideas, opinions, and observations!
One of the hard parts about being a fan of late-60s/early-70s cinema and music is that it can feel like there's a constant death parade of artists, directors, musicians and performers that I admire. If there can be said to be any up-side to the loss of so many talented individuals, it's that I've got an increased sense of urgency surrounding the Making Of Stuff. It's not as if all the gifted people on Earth are dead or no longer producing good work--there's a ton of interesting new material out there yet to be realized.
In that spirit, I'm knocking the rust off some long-term work that I've back-burnered, and I hope to be able to share the fruits of my labor with you guys at some future date. I suspect I won't be able to stay away from writing about the assortment of strange material I share on here for too terribly long, but I wanted to offer an explanation for the Severely Decreased Output over the past several weeks.
Thanks for reading what I put out there, for bearing with what may seem to be mad tonal shifts and for tolerating occasional forays into crap about which you do not care. You are ladies and gentlemen of distinction, and I appreciate every one of you.
13 comments:
Good luck and thanks for all the great stuff over the last several years.
C
Ditto.
Kate, thanks for everything you've done and everything you will do creatively in the future. You're doing the right thing to pursue your muse, and I hope you catch her. I leave the rest to our imaginations.
Good luck... and hey, don't disappear.
Damn...you shall be missed (indefinitely).
Kate, I feel like we kind of grew up together in the horror blogosphere, and that makes me deeply saddened to know that I won't be seeing your unique, witty, insightful, and often cutting takes on the wild and weird of world cinema...at least for a while. However, knowing as I do your incredible talent for visual art (I am, after all, the proud owner of several Tenebrous Originals--a few of which even now make my cubicle a weirder and more fabulous place ;) ), I can only rejoice that you are turning your attention that way. I wait in breathless anticipation for what you'll do next.
Thank you for everything you've done, here at the Empire, in your forays over to the Vicarage, and all across the Weird Wide Web. And thank you for what you've meant to us all, and to me especially.
With love and best wishes for the future, to one of my favorite and most admired people in the world.
S
Go forth and be awesome. Which, based on the evidence you've been presenting here, will not be difficult.
i do hope you return someday.
I'm watching you lady! Waiting for day the dragons return--I mean, you return. Sorry, been reading too much Game of Thrones lately. My point being, lots of luck, keep us updated on where else we can follow you (other than stalking) and when you return, we shall be here.
Oh man! How am I'm going to get my regular dose of European sleaze, dark metal, and righteous fashion tips?
Please be sure to share your lively art with us all in the future. Can't wait 'til then! Take care and we'll be in touch.
love ya...
I do hope you'll hurry back sometime, batteries recharged, to regale us with more fun and funny and scary and sexy stuff. Your voice is valued!
Bummer. But ya gotta do what ya gotta do. If you ever wanna do some artwork for bands hit me up! I dig that "young widow" there too.
Well here's hoping you get everything you want done.
Thanks for being such an awesome blogger, and the main inspiration for me in starting up my own blog.
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