text • chris rusak

02-23-10

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Tonight, laid across the floor, are fifteen! completed works. I’m in shock. Organized for cataloging, naming, and to be accounted by chronology, it is a rather proud, daunting moment to look at them all at once.

I stood there, in a rather ecstatic stare, trying to remember which works were finished in 2009 when it occurred to me that none of them were. Talk about a continuance of shock. What a waste of a year of my life. I know I’ve said that before but it’s worth repeating. To think how hard I worked in 2008 to start off this body of work, ten of the pieces are really from that period, and then I just stopped for almost a whole year. It makes one quickly focus on forgiveness.