Lin: What are you doing?

Orb: Working.

Lin: I don’t see any work going on.

Orb. Look closer.

And…

Orb: This is going to be an assemblage piece. Collage with other stuff added.

Lin: You’ve gone from art…

Orb: Digital realism.

Lin: …to crafts.

Orb: Tell Duchamp that! Tell Picasso that!

Lin: You can’t compare yourself to them!

Orb: Yes I can. I kick their butts!

Moral of the story? It’s very difficult being an artist and living in a household with someone who doesn’t really “get” art unless it is photographic realism. Though he did look at the initial scribblings on my canvas and say “That’s one of your shapes. I’ve seen that before in your art.” That means I am on the right track, and really, that’s all I needed to hear from him.

He also said that women make better abstract artists, which would be great if I was doing an abstract work, which I am not. Methinks he needs to enroll in an art appreciation class.

Back to work! The canvas is calling!