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Mary Starts a Newsletter!Remember FIZZ? That was the paid subscription newsletter I once snail-mailed to many of you. This website followed, then my Etsy store, and a page on facebook. It’s getting too much for me to maintain all that while trying to write books and make art. So instead, I am making most of my work available on Etsy, and offering a free, “mostly monthly” newsletter. So check out my new comic strip newsletter for November. Please fill out the Opt In Form—I'm not allowed to just send it to everyone on my email list—so I can keep you up on my latest work.
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A Month in Costa Rica!
So why haven't I checked in here for the last six weeks? I've been in Costa Rica, that's why! I needed a break, and boy, did I get one!
Triple Merge 1
Triple Merge 2
Eleven months after my breast cancer diagnosis,five after my last radiation treatment, and three months since my last Arimidex, I was ready for a change! I came back feeling like myself again for the first time in a year. They said it would take six months after my last radiation treatment, and it did, almost to the day!
I was on an art residency at the lovely Julia and David White Artist Colony in Ciudad Colon, where I stayed in a gorgeous studio with 13 windows on three sides of my large studio apartment. I kept a watercolor/writing journal--120 pages with 30 to go (I'll do them from photos), took over 500 digital photos, and (bonus bonus) lost the five pounds I've tried so hard to lose in the past year by walking back and forth up the steep steep hills to town and back.
I did so much art that I will have to do a Costa Rica page for the best of it. Meanwhile, here's the pair of "real paintings" (acrylic) I did. They are called "Triple Merge 1 and 2", signifying the presence of water, earth and sky together, a theme that has grown out of my fish pictures. The lonely fish out of water has apparently expanded to a new wholeness.
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