Weeknotes '26 - February 15-21

Okay, rounding the corner of this February experiment that actually began the last week of January, this makes week four. This week, I decided to lay out each day into a comics-style grid one one sketchbook page, painting and writing directly.

As opposed to week 1 where I collaged into a composition painted cards and text, week 2 where I painted and wrote my days in a more haphazard weekly spread, and week 3 where I collected a week’s worth of 5X7 paintings, written text over-layed on Procreate.

I am going to wrap up the experiment this next week with a final review of this month-long project, so I won’t get into what worked best or worst or what I learned, but I will say, for this week…the grid is okay. It does kind of tell the story of my week. Kind of. I don’t know.

I get a sense that I will get more out of this week’s work (and maybe the whole project) after some time has passed. I’m finding it hard to tell its value to me right now. Except I will say, I do like how the two faces turned out (Oliver and me).

Text reads left to right:

[SATURDAY]

“Congregation,” Jacob asked us in his one-man show at Berkeley Rep ([How] Shakespeare Saved My Life), “What would you choose - safety or freedom?” What a terrible choice.

[MONDAY]

Why is it so satisfying to make color copies on cardstock and slice them down edge by edge using a rotary cutter?

[TUESDAY]

We convince ourselves the rain has stopped, but as we drive down our street it pours again. We turn around and go home.

[WEDNESDAY]

After a busy, grey-skies morning, I settle into the purple hair to read, Oliver climbs into my lap, and suddenly the sun comes out, sunshine finding us through the windows. We both close our eyes.

[THURSDAY]

As Sherry and I walked in the sunshine pas the roaring creek below the street, I didn’t at first realize the water hitting my face wasn’t creek mist kicked up by the wind.

[FRIDAY]

Archie do it! he said, asking to be picked up. So i did and one by one, his little fingers switched on the electric candles on the mantel.