Yesterday, my dad and I went up to Beverly and painted the longest wall that was left to do. We still have touch ups and a short wall to do but painting is almost done. Then I can finally start decorating and seeing things come together!
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In/Finite Earth Exhibition on Hold because Shutdown
Who would’ve thunked that one of your most important exhibitions of your career would be on hold because your government couldn’t cooperate with itself?
“Government is closed, because of the irrationality of what is going on on the other side of the Capitol,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said on the floor of the Senate Tuesday morning. “They’d rather see the government shut down than do anything to protect the American people from the consequences of Obamacare,” countered Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
With the parts of the federal government officially closed for business today – and no path out of the political gridlock in sight – lawmakers are trying to assign blame for the first government shutdown in 17 years.
President Obama in particular laid the blame on thick in an afternoon news conference where he said a small group of lawmakers were responsible for an ideologically-driven “Republican shutdown.”
“One faction of one party in one house of Congress in one branch of government shut down major parts of the government all because they didn’t like one law,” Mr. Obama said. “This Republican shut down did not have to happen, but I want every American to understand why it did happen. Republicans in the House of Representatives refused to fund the government unless we defunded or dismantled the Affordable Care Act. They’ve shut down the government over an ideological crusade to deny affordable health insurance to millions of Americans. In other words, they demanded ransom just for doing their job.”
The House and Senate spent the better part of Monday and the early hours of Tuesday morning passing back and forth a short-term spending bill with no agreement. Even after midnight, when funding to keep the government open had run out, the House still voted to send the bill back to the Senate. That legislation, in addition to funding the government, also included an amendment to delay the individual mandate in Obamacare for one year and eliminate subsidies for Congressional staffers buying healthcare in the new exchanges. It also appointed eight Republican members to participate in a budget conference with the Senate, something Democrats in the upper chamber had been requesting for months to no avail.
But Reid had already sent the Senate home for the night after vowing that he and his colleagues “will not go to conference with a gun to our head.” When he opened the chamber at 9:30 Tuesday morning, the Senate voted along party lines to strip out the amendments and send it back to the House.
- Government shutdown: What’s the cost?
- Government shutdown begins: Congress fails to agree on spending bill
During the night, lawmakers traded barbs on Twitter using hashtags like #GOPShutdown (the Democrats) and #HarryReidsShutdown (Republicans). This morning – as an expected 800,000 federal workers headed to their offices to officially put their work on hold – the back and forth continued on cable news. Words like “extremists” and “anarchists” have been thrown around (by Democrats).
“What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world’s greatest economic power, the economy that basically stabilizes the entire world economic system, and that is a very risky proposition,” White House Spokesman Jay Carney said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Dems’ “extreme” positions shut down the gov’t, McConnell charges
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., a constant thorn in the side of the administration, insisted on CNN’s New Day that the GOP had not shut down the government. “If the Senate at 9:30 this morning opens up and rejects the offer to have a conference, which is an offer to go to compromise, then they’re rejecting the constitutional process,” he said.
Unfortunately for Republicans, early polling on the government shutdown does not favor their strategy. A Quinnipiac University National Poll released Tuesday morning shows that by a margin of 72 percent to 22 percent, American voters oppose a government shutdown over attempts to block the Affordable Care Act. And though voters are divided on the law itself, with 45 percent in favor and 47 percent opposed, 58 percent of those surveyed said they opposed cutting off funding a way to stop it from being implemented.
A CBS News/New York Times poll released last week revealed that Republicans may take more blame for the shutdown: 44 percent of Americans would blame Republicans in Congress more for a shutdown, 35 percent would blame Mr. Obama and congressional Democrats more.
My mid-morning on Tuesday, the path out of the shutdown seemed no clearer than it had been Monday afternoon. Mr. Obama is expected to address the nation at 12:25 p.m., but he seems unlikely to agree to any spending bill that touches the healthcare law.
“I shouldn’t have to offer anything,” Mr. Obama told NPR’s Steve Inskeep in an interview that aired Wednesday morning, after Inskeep asked what he could offer. “They’re not doing me a favor by paying for things that they have already approved for the government to do. That’s part of their basic function of government; that’s not doing me a favor. That’s doing what the American people sent them here to do, carrying out their responsibilities.”
Studio Updates
My dad and I went up to Beverly today and did some painting. We managed to get a decent coat of paint on the gallery wall. But we’ll have to do a second coat of paint on the wood work. So. Much. Wall. I am going to have a textured wall on the opposite side of the gallery (the hallway wall) but unfortunately it looks like that part will have to be after the opening. That’s okay.
Letter!!
While going through today’s mail, I found a smaller than average creme envelope with “House of Representatives” it could only be one thing! A letter from Joe Kennedy! I prefer not to state what it says on the blog, but you may be able to make some of it out on the letter. I’m tempted to invite him to my opening. 😛
In/Finite Earth Photos
Photos from my In/Finite Earth reception in Rayburn Foyer at Capitol Hill.
It Just Happened to Be – California Photos
Photos from my spiritual retreat to California.
Washington DC Reflections
My trip to Washington DC has 
been amazing! Tuesday, I woke up quarter to 7 am and left to go to the airport around 8 am. I left Boston at 10 am and arrived in DC by 11 am – I entertained myself on the plane by reading some material that AMORC sent me the week before. I was in my hotel room by 12:30 pm. After I arrived I went to a french organic cafe called Le Pain Quotiden! Really good food for the price. In the late afternoon, I walked around National Mall and saw the Washington Monument which was cool, but unfortunately the earthquake that happened a few years ago in 2011, damaged it and its’ going to take at least 3 years to finish. So there was a big scaffold around the monument and the park area was closed. But I could still walk around it and take pictures. I intended to walk to the White House but somehow went the opposite direction and ended up at the Lincoln Memorial. But it took so long to get there since it was so bloody hot and humid that by the time I got there, I didn’t have the energy or time to walk up to the monument. I really needed to get back to the hotel to get ready for the reception. So walked around the monument and called a cab to the hotel.
Reception: It was so much fun!! People really had no problem coming up to me and asking me about my artwork which was really nice! I even got to sign my autograph again which is always fun. Then right before I was handed my check, someone who was working the reception came up to me and said that Joe Kennedy whose the congressman for the 4th district of Massachusetts wanted to meet me and see my artwork! The reception photographer was right there and snapped a few photos of us standing next to my work. He was so sweet! He asked me about my process, and I was busy explaining my process to him when they called me up to the podium I was not prepared to be the first one called up, should’ve known, but so not prepared! lol Some of my favorite moments besides the Joe Kennedy one; the mother of the grand prize winner came up to me and said that she really liked it and thought how similar they looked and said she’d buy it.
Wednesday Morning: I had brunch with the jurors at the Kennedy Center of Performing Arts. The food was good and the conversation was great. Nothing too new came out of the conversation in terms of information, but it was nice to meet the judges and hear about their background and process with choosing the artwork. I had one of my fellow artists come up to me interested in a psychic reading, but unfortunately we couldn’t do it this trip. I told her to feel free to call me whenever she was ready.
Then we headed over to Flashpoint Gallery and had an interesting conversation with one of the curators of the gallery. I think that information was more beneficial to me. Gave me a new perspective on some things, one of the things I really liked that came out of that talk was if the opportunity isn’t there, make it happen! I’ve thought about doing talks and speeches and haven’t really thought of using my studio space or some other venue or use my studio space more than just a studio space. I have started to think differently about it with my opening, but that’s to be expected.
After, before I headed to my duck tour, I went to a souvenir shop near by and bought a frame, a Washington Monument sharpener and a pair of sunglasses. I had been meaning to buy a new pair and saw them for $6. Compared to department store prices that’s a bargain! lol They are also an ultra cool orange that goes with a lot of my summer outfits 🙂
Then I headed over to Union Station and boarded my duck tour. It was nice and relaxing and was able to see more of DC. I had never been on a duck tour which is why I decided to go on one here. For lunch I had a Starbucks coffee and slice of pound cake at Union Station before the tour. After a nap, I went and had a panini for dinner at Amorini Panini which was right next store to the hotel.
Tomorrow, I plan on hitting the Lincoln Memorial and maybe skipping the White House since you can’t get up close and personal with it anyway and head to the National Archives and see the Declaration of Independence.
Thursday:
Thursday morning, I went to the National Archives and saw the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, etc. Then I went up to the Lincoln Memorial and from there back to my hotel. My check out was at noon so I figured it was easiest to just go to the airport and hang out until my flight. As I was about to leave the hotel, I realized I had forgot my reception dress – so I ran back to the room and got it. My cab driver’s credit card machine got screwed up so he let me go for free. I managed to get to the gate OK and waited to 4 pm. Then the shit storm happened. My 1 hr flight was delayed 6 hours because of weather and equipment issues. By the time I got up to the counter to board the plane, my transfer ticket wasn’t in their system for whatever reason. By that time I was so worried that I wouldn’t make it on that flight I was literally balling my eyes out. The attendant made me WAIT until I was the last person in line to fix my ticket. I had arrived home by 1 am and was in my bed by 3 am. I woke up the next morning and packed my bags for California.
So there you have it! I’ll be doing a big photo dump when I will get the photos from the VSA people, which will be a few weeks. Ugh – the wait!
Opening Reception for Cabot Street Studios
Check out the photos from the reception from Cabot Street Studios!
In/Finite Earth Postcard
To Love Someone You Can’t Have
I lay in my bed
my head on tear stained pillows
Trying to make sense of this never ending pain
Why must it be like this?
Why can’t I have the one that I love?
To love someone you can’t have…
must be one of the greatest pains in this world.
I understand now.
What it must feel like
to have your love overseas
to have your love pass away
to have your love unable to see the light of day
Yet I see couples
Bitchin’ about working all the time
and not being able to spend a whole day
together, like its’ nothing
I feel like saying,
“Try loving someone you can’t have. Just try.”
I lay in my bed
my head on tear stained pillows
Trying to make sense of this never ending pain
Why must it be like this?
Why can’t I have the one that I love?
To love someone you can’t have…
must be one of the greatest pains in this world.
I understand now.
What it must feel like
to love someone from the bottom
of your heart and soul, but yet
you can’t be with them.
Yet I see couples
Bitchin’ about something insignificant
Through anger, I think to myself,
“Try loving someone you can’t have. Just try.”
I understand now.
What love feels like…
to see past the anger,
frustration and hurt
and see the love that lies there
underneath it all
I lay in my bed
my head on tear stained pillows
Trying to make sense of this never ending pain
Why must it be like this?
Why can’t I have the one that I love?
To love someone you can’t have…
must be one of the greatest pains in this world.
I understand now.
What it feels like
to wholly love and truly respect someone.
To only want to better them
to better their lives
and to just see them happy,
their smiling face.
I lay in my bed
my head on tear stained pillows
Trying to make sense of this never ending pain
Why must it be like this?
Why can’t I have the one that I love?
To love someone you can’t have…
must be one of the greatest pains in this world.
I understand now.
What it means
when someone says,
“It was the little things”
It was the little things
that filled the cockles of my heart
Yet I see couples
Bitchin’ about things
others yearn that their
Significant Other
would do for them.
I feel like saying,
“Try loving someone you can’t have. Just try.”
I lay in my bed
my head on tear stained pillows
Trying to make sense of this never ending pain
Why must it be like this?
Why can’t I have the one that I love?
To love someone you can’t have…
must be one of the greatest pains in this world.
Press Release: Opening Party
OPENING PARTY
For North Shore Artist
Kristi Beisecker is the North Shore’s newest member of the artist community – she is a graphic designer by trade but specializes in Kirlian Photography – photograms made with electricity. This photographic process is originally used as a scientific process, seeing its’ potential Kristi reinvigorated the process to make it compatible with traditional darkroom processing. She graduated from a small liberal arts school in Pennsylvania in May 2012 and has been working on her art and design career for the past year. Since March of this year, she has been exhibiting her work throughout the region, nationally and internationally. As she gains exposure and a general appreciation for her artwork from the art and photography community, she has sought out studio space to pursue her art and design. In June of this year she signed onto a new artist community project in Beverly. This project is called, Cabot Street Studios and will provide a creative classroom for the Northshore – the artist studios that are located there will be teaching their craft to the community. Kristi has been exhibiting her work in Boston, Ma; New York City, NY; Montreal, Ca; Pomfret, Ct; Washington, DC; Naperville, IL; and Beverly, Ma.
In honor of her success thus far, Kristi is putting on an ‘Opening Party’ for her art and design studio. The party will be Tuesday, November 12 7-10pm – located in Studio #19 at 222 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA. During the event, black and white cocktails will be served as well as food, lounge music will be playing, an art demonstration and a chance to socialize and ask questions. Cocktail dress is preferred – but not necessary. We look forward to seeing you there!
You can find Kristi’s artwork on the following social media sites:
Search Facebook “K Glyphics”
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kglyphics
WWW: http://www.kglyphics.com
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If you’d like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Kristi Beisecker, please call her at 339-225-5885 or email her at info@kglyphics.com
Fall Exhibitions
As summer comes to a close, check out my fall exhibitions!
