I’m making small, incremental touch-ups to the details of this dahlia painting. That means that the end is near.

In the meantime, our quiet little street has been turned into a construction site with many trucks coming and going all day long. This is the 2^nd day in a row they’re installing an additional drainage system to address some flooding down the block from us. We didn’t know if they would be digging up our whole driveway since they’d marked our gas lines along the entire edge of our property, the driveway, and yellow flags right up to the side of our house. No one would answer us. It was so frustrating, but I believe it’s that each of the workers only did one job, and none of them knew the entire scope of the project. It turns out that the only work done on our property was lots of spray paint. It would have been nice to know.

These daily studio notes lead toward my 2026 solo exhibitions in New York City and  Poughkeepsie, NY.