An adventure

With a combination of being on African time and being too excited to sleep, I awoke today at 6:00am in Los Angeles to begin my first day of a new adventure. I spent the past two weeks traveling, first a stopover in NYC, then the trip of a lifetime with a dear friend to South Africa. I had hoped to post more tales and photos from our adventure here on the blog while I was gone, but Internet was scarce and so was down-time. On a trip like that, you hesitate to stop for even a moment as you might miss out on something. Safe to say, I have a plethora of pictures, videos and stories saved up, which I plan to share in the coming weeks through a series of posts called "Howzit" (a South African slang greeting much like our "what's up"). But for now, which is to say in South African, "Now, now" (meaning right away, as opposed to when they say "just now", what they actually mean is anytime in the future ;) , I write to you having returned stateside, to the sunny city of Los Angeles for another adventure which will go something like this: My studio for the next two weeks will be the treehouse-like display window in the front of the Anthropologie store at The Grove. Working aquarium-style, for shoppers and passersby to see, I will attempt to make a mini-collection of new paintings. The project will culminate in an open-to-the-public reception at the store on June 8, from 6:00-9:00pm. This store is celebrating their newly remodeled digs by hosting me as a living installation. Over the next two weeks I will blog, tweet, Facebook, and Instagram my journey in the splendid detail made possible by domestic 4G! (you really appreciate the little things after traveling to a developing country: ice, text messages, drinkable tap water). I invite you to follow along as I share memories from South Africa, and moments in the studio. I hope my travel-stories and traveling-studio serve as inspiration to you in your daily life, wherever you may be... now now and just now. ;)

From an iPad office,
Rebecca