RE: Studio Visit, Mt. Hood Tile Mural
Quite beautiful and in a way a nice tribute to your old stomping grounds!
I must confess I had no idea you had moved from the left coast till you showed up on my blog earlier today... I hope your new surroundings on the East Coast will suit you well! Anyway, it's nice to "see" you again!
I guess I am one of the ones still trying to "keep the old flame burning" here; lots of changing faces as I am sure you have noticed. My own presence here became "thinner" for a while, as well... again, nothing to do with crumbling crypto markets and everything to do with personal circumstances, including the fact that 2018 was a particularly difficult year for our gallery; we may end up turning it into purely a show space for my wife's and my own creative dabblings, as well as a spiritual workshop space... time will tell.
There are some very good people in the community, trying very hard to encourage and stimulate engagement; overcoming all the "automation" that seems to have taken root here. Not sure about the recent Steemit, Inc. shenanigans, but hopefully we're heading in a better direction now that the cards have been laid a little more openly on the table...
Thanks @denmarkguy, it did feel like an appropriate painting to make after arriving in CT and gave my homesickness something to focus on! I really like it here in the east, but the NW is really a hard act to follow for any place in the US!
I hear you with all you say about Steemit. I too had a very very "thin" presence here for a good 6 months also due to personal reasons rather than anything going on in the crypto or steemit worlds, and was really surprised how much everything had changed when I returned recently. And yes lots of Steemit Inc bizarreness that makes no sense to me but there are some really amazing people trying hard to make this place good and using their influence in very altruistic ways. And all in all I am also keeping the faith. I like being here for so many reasons that the lack of monetary rewards while unfortunate, have never been a deal-breaker for me and have never been very capable of doing anything to help on a programming level. So here I am once again and focused on content, curation and relationships!