Opening Reception of generation whY

This past weekend was a great time in Edmonton. On Saturday I met up with some fabulous friends who came out to support me. Finally my expensive education put to good use. I saw my creations up on pedestals, with bright lights shining down on them.

I submitted 10 different vikings and what the jury of the Alberta Craft Council choose was fascinating. Without knowing it, they choose the first two vikings I ever made, Old Man Viking and Lady Viking. Here at home they hang on my walls and I walk past them everyday, several times a day. Sometimes I stop and look at them, touch them, reposition them on the wall. It is interesting to see the oldest creations among the newer creations and see how far and how so much better they have gotten. How my skills have improved, how my ideas have changed. And then to look at the originals and know they were my beginning.

Thank you to Dianna, Danielle, Jen, Justine, my parents and Electra, Niels, Mike, Bernie, Melody and daughter, and  especially John,  for being there for me and allowing the madness grow and fester.