"From the Same Place"

Robyn Winston
"Untitled 30 (Vampire Series)"
2010
Acrylic, charcoal and gesso on paper
28 x 22 inches

"You have to learn to love all your artworks and accept them because ultimately they were all made from the same hands and come from the same place."

- Robyn Winston

Robyn wrote the above in a recent letter to me. I think the quotation worthy of inclusion in a future collection of Letters To A Young Artist. The sentiment is simple and too often forgotten...like so many noble truths.

Image credit: courtesy Robyn Winston, 2010

A California Hello and a New York Hyena

Robyn Winston's spotted hyena cake in progress
This past Thursday, Elizabeth and I safely completed our cross country drive, and with negligible damage to any of the art, furniture, books, tchotchkes, or other objects we loaded into the back of Cheryl, our Penske rental truck. Now that I'm a San Francisco resident, however, I must settle in, find a part-time job, and land happily on my art-making feet in a new and exciting environment. In other words, please understand if HH posts are irregular.

In the coming weeks, I hope to sort through the many drive-by snapshots Elizabeth took from the shotgun seat, including tremendous storms brewing over Kansas, vast wind farms in Colorado, and the stunning salt flats of Utah. In the meantime, I'm posting several photographs of the amazing spotted hyena cake that my friend and talented artist Robyn Winston made for my NYC send-off. I'm delighted to think that I may be one of a very few people who has been presented with a hyena shaped cake! Thank you, Robyn!


Robyn's finished cake

My happy mug with the hyena maw
Photo credits: Robyn Winston, 2010