14.9.18

road riding

Managed to get a ride in after work and before the BMOCA cocktail reception, for those of us artists donating a piece of work to their annual auction. Unfortunately we do not get a percentage of sales, which kind of irks me a bit. As an artist I do not make much money so it is nice when the organization you donate to at least gives you 20% back to cover your cost of making the work. Whatever, I suppose I donated to support the arts and get more exposure. It's all about exposing yourself. William and I decided to save fossil fuels and avoid making carbon footprints by road riding yesterday. A good 50 miles of up in the hills with a loop out on the flats. Was a bit chilly up in the canyons. While on the ride I started thinking about future art projects. I really want to do more with my inflatable pieces. One idea is to make some forms that I could then place along 36 towards Lyons. The wind get real good out there, I mean real fierce. As we road along the hwy. I notices the remnants of old plastic shopping bags blown into the fences and shrubs, just mere shreds of plastic remain blowing in the wind. Would be cool to install a bunch of inflatables with open backs along the roadside and photograph them. Okay, guess it's just another item to add on the to do list.

5.9.18

setting sun

Thanks to the Eldora Escape race a couple weekends ago, I was able to ride through private land legally and head down Marysville (cleaned it this time after my bad crash). Headed up roots to do a few mini supercircle dizzy laps and on up to Tennessee. Hit Setting Sun as the sun was setting, how appropriate. Decided to head down Marysville which can either be stellar or quite painful. Then on to 505 to head back down into Ned. Couldn't ask for a better way to finish off a day of work. Looks like it might be snowing soon up high, it's in the air.