#83 - Treasure

One of the side effects of the pandemic is that I, no doubt like a number of folks, have become unaccustomed to visitors. I have a memory of my home being much neater, but I don't trust that recollection. I can attest that I used to go places and do things out in the world more often. These days I am home most of the time.

With the stuff.

I like stuff, but it does get cluttered. It's a small house.

I am pleased to say I did have a visitor recently and she liked my stuff. So now although I know it is crowded, it's crowded with appreciably cool stuff. Which might be okay for the house.

But still, clutter is a thing.

So, while I like my wide ranging approach to life, and making art, I realize that my website is probably just too complicated and eclectic.

So I have decided to make a new website. I have decided to dedicate it to the art of the business of art.

Annheideman.com can remain as it is, while the new site, (not live yet) newtonststudios.com, will be focused on showing off the ceramics for sale. At least that is the plan.

And speaking of stuff, there is a lot of treasure here in the house and the yard. Below, my brother has made me quite a few beautiful bowls over time. The drawing is one of my mom's. I polished rocks, and the Chinese ceramics were made in to lamps by a fore-bearer who was, I am told, a sea captain. I think my grandmother said he had brought them from China on a sailing ship long before she was born at the tail end of the nineteenth century. I am not quite sure because I wasn't listening enough just before the end of the twentieth century - and I can't ask her, or my parents, now in the twenty-first. But the treasure lives on.