hohum

 

Hohum. It could stand for hot and humid, the weather these last few days. It could stand for the way I've been feeling with the rise in cases due to a. people not getting vaccinated and b. the rise of the delta variant. 

It could be how I felt going to the Revolution sidewalk sale, actually held inside an old five and dime store that has been empty for years, and has been used for quirky pop-ups now and again. 

I was uncertain as to whether I could attend the sidewalk sale, and in the end I did, mostly because my studio is just down the street (it's air conditioned and I've been sewing there while watching an endless Australian telenovella). 

I showed up to the sale about fifteen minutes after it had opened its doors, and, much to my surprise, it was already packed. People had lined up outside before it opened, and I assumed that people wouldn't, with COVID and all that. But people did. Being there alone, without friends or my daughters changed the experience for me. I ended up searching for jeans for one of my partner's sons, it was quiet on the jeans table, after having looked through what was left in the women's section. 

I did buy a dressy dress, which will be adorned with more of the plastic flowers I'm making out of orange newspaper delivery bags. That project is very time consuming, which is a good thing right now, to take my mind off of the stress of waiting out more scary statistics. (will post photos from sewing project at a later date). 

Another activity that keeps me focused entails going back to the drawing of the "Daily Shit Show." Essentially it's taking the news headlines verbatim, and just letting them speak volumes for the times we're living in. 

Below is just one more example.