Artful & Literary Excavations of Imagination

With less than two months away from the opening for House of Scratch presents: Mind Field 2009 Group Exhibition, it was time to sit down and work out which direction my work needed to take to fulfill my sense of joy in making art, explore the fundamental nature of Surrealism, and create artwork  in a more timely fashion.

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This post is a bit late being published, but House of Scratch’s inaugural physical group show is still underway. If you like to look at art and invest in art, there is still time. Below is our official press release. Drop by the Hang Man Gallery and leave a message in our guest book or see it online at House of Scratch and leave a comment. Your feedback is welcome!

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Living Introverted: Learning to Embrace the Quiet Life Without Guilt

by Lee Ann Lambert
ISBN: 978-1441464057, $13.95US

A Book Review by Cathrene Gehue

Understanding introversion probably seems like an impossible task for most people, including introverts who haven’t fully embraced their way of being. Media does its best to perpetuate negative myths and misconceptions regarding introversion, and it doesn’t help that extroverts make up a majority of the world population.

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Pulling down the first draft of Ule the Unfurled from this blog doesn’t mean I won’t be talking about Ule and the book. Oh contraire! Even though most of my time for the next month will be spent on creating art and advertising for the upcoming art show, House of Scratch presents: MIND FIELD 2009, my muse and I still discuss what is yet to happen and what has already happened in the story.

We continually think about Ule and her journey in the world she has created, and how she must find a way back to her true self despite her amnesia.  What other misadventures will this girl experience and how will she surmount them in the end?

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