After spending the first few months here in Spain in relative...

After spending the first few months here in Spain in relative isolation while I began work on the paintings for RETURN, I decided it was time to get out of the house a bit when we relocated to Granada. So I found a co-working space downtown - an experiment to see what it would be like to work again around others. And I figured, if nothing else, I’d learn some Spanish. What I didn’t count on was that I’d also meet some really AMAZING people, including my friend Antonio who put together this fabulous video chronicling a day-in-the-life of my work on the last chapter in the Journey trilogy. The space I work in, as you’ll see, is right by a window, along a narrow street in downtown Granada, in a neighborhood that seems to be surprising the whole city with its creative energy. Hair salons for hipsters, quaint shops selling artsy paraphernalia, and our own little co-working space filled with videographers, journalists, and animators make me feel like I’ve moved to the Mission District in San Francisco some twenty years ago as it began to emerge from its ashes. I feel fortunate to have landed here and even with the easy-going pace of life (read: morning coffee break(s), afternoon siesta) I find that I’m able to focus on my work like never before. I’ll have to see about starting up something like this when I get back to Amherst!