I sold two pieces!

This is quite exciting & makes me very happy. I have a little bit of seperation anxiety about my "thought babies" going out into the world, even though it was in my very design for them. Hm. Performance work is quite different, you make something to do, it goes out as you do it and that's that. There are objects made in the documentation of it, photos, recordings, but those objects are made to be reproduced. Aside from my nearly useless vague anxiety though, I just feel I need to make more. Yes, and I will. I have so much here in my apartment unframed! It's the mixed media work that's calling to me at the moment though. I've started (just started, don't get too excited) a portfolio page of sorts - something cleaner, less complicated & messy than what I do here. Just the images! It's here:

https://sites.google.com/site/artworksbypenelopeatreat/

Oh, & guess what? I made more soap. Meet Devorah (left) and Leah (right).

Not cut yet, don't know where I'll put them when they are.

Also some sad news; my beautiful little rat Shoshi, though she'd had two & 1/2 tumors removed, died from the third one - the 1/2 removed tumor returned in a rage. The stitches from the other two had barely healed. Here she is, from a few days before & also a video link of her& her former cage mate, Chaya. http://youtu.be/EMQTZkJem94

Good bye, sweetie. Hope to see you again when the time comes for no more death or bad stuff. See you then. ❤️🐹