Thank you @yrroche for having this new piece of ours in your beautiful show.
We are very grateful to be included đź’«
Opening May 3rd
Galerie Lulla
620 Imperial Street
Los Angeles
To be honest I’m still a little in shock at the amount of love and encouragement offered to me in these last few months, and Saturday night especially. My head is still working through all of the kind words, the questions of how and when, all of the hugs. It wasn’t easy, and it’s still not, and it still feels like theres so so much to do. Between having small children, Covid, and two cross country moves I spent years and years learning and working and failing and starting over. So many times it seemed silly to keep going. I didn’t even talk about it much because often I felt sure I would give up.
But it’s sort of incredible what a few people who really see you can do.
And that’s something Valentina is so good at, and I am forever the luckiest to be one of the ones she sees. (And also luckily there are very many many many of us)
I am overcome with gratitude for everyone who came last night to support @dibenedettosteve@greenriverprojectllc and I at our opening at @galeriesardine . And to the entire Bradley Family whom I love so much, thank you for trusting me and believing in me, and for your unyielding support and friendship.
I know it’s a small show with only a few paintings - it’s really almost nothing. But as a mother with two small children, all of your time and heart and life usurped by their smallness - the caring, the wonder, the absolute joy of their smallness, you can also understand how much weight small can really hold. And these two small shows hold so much weight for me.
And so please know that whatever you may have shared about my paintings or Sam and I’s ceramics these past few weeks - even though it’s just a small little moment and it probably felt small and inconsequential to you - it has felt huge to me. And to all the women and especially the moms feeling invisible, stressed, confused but taking literal baby steps - I’m right there with you and I see you. And I’m very impressed.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SAM !!!!
Where would we be without you ? You make it all go round. Here’s to another decade moving through space together.
We love you so!
@samfalls
I’m not going to spam you with photos of this trip until the end, but in an effort to accurately document my 8 year old I am going to post these few statements he has said to me recently that have made me feel like on some micro subconscious level I am succeeding as a parent :
- How come every time I look at you you’re just eating a huge stack of vegetables ? Just a gigantic plate full of vegetables.
- We can only play this song if mom’s sitting down or else she’ll go crazy with her dancing.
- I don’t want to go to the beach today because the water is too tempting and I just don’t want to get wet. But I’ll have to go in because it’s just so tempting!
- Do you know what the Millenium Problems are? You have to learn about them and do them.
🙌🏽 on all accounts.
Sometimes you can’t plan for something more perfect than what happens naturally. What I mean is, you know you’re existing within a magical moment in time when one of your forever best friends appears on a remote island next to where you’re vacationing. If you would have tried to vacation or even lunch together, with your children and your parents and extended families, you would have started organizing a year ago - emailing, scheduling, prepping. And then the weeks before and the day of you would be running around making lunch and settling kids and setting up tables and chairs, worrying you hadn’t showered or found something to wear. Worried about food and beds and expenses. And everyone would be stressed and fussy, instead of what did take place which is that we did nothing and everything happened and it was wonderful. Maine, Pt.1
Best smile, fiesty funny boy with incredible timing, sweetest heart, kindest person who laughs so easily. We love you to the moon and stars and back again a million trillion times. And now you are 5! đź’«
So much literal blood, sweat, tears, rain, fog, mist, mud, grass, seaweed and ocean water, fur and sweat, headlamps and headphones - cant even count the many headphones - went into the 7 years of making this show. The work is so beautiful sometimes even I forget what real gut wrenching and difficult and at times lonely work it is to make. Hours and weeks and months alone in the woods, mostly. But Sam is maybe the most hard working and determined person I know, and so, he always makes it seem normal. It’s what he does, and not that I forgot, but wow - this was an incredible reminder that he does it really really really well. Congratulations @samfalls . Nice job. We are very proud.
