Today was not a Studio day. I started off with a workshop, sponsored by Akimbo, to set up the Claude ai as a Co-Worker which is a higher level of working with the app. It’s more efficient since you are setting up the preferences and other settings to work within your style of presentation and workflow. What we learn at the end of the two sessions is the beginning of using Claude, not just to answer questions like you’d find on Wikipedia or elsewhere, it can set, with the right input, set up scheduling and repeatable tasks to make for more efficiency. Following that workshop, I spent the next 5 hours editing the videos I’d taken at the Ceres Gallery Opening Reception. They’re not online yet but I’ll post a link once they are available. I’m beginning to get the hang of CapCut and it far exceeds the capability of iMovie which I’ve used for years. Hey Apple, you better catch up.

I began this daily journal in February, 2026 as I prepared for my solo exhibition, “Portraits From My Garden” at Locust Grove in Poughkeepsie, NY, from June 5 – September 15, 2026, my work for the group show, “Hearing Women’s Voices” at the Ceres Gallery in from June 23. to July 18, 2026, and my upcoming November 2026, solo exhibition titled, “Centering in the Midst of Chaos” in Chelsea, New York City