Wednesday

I'm secretly working on a new PRISMA website to make up for all the projects I had to postpone due to some of our artists going into inactive mode and me having to look for replacements. We're planning to send a Moleskine sketchbook from artist to artist (huge trip around the world) and have each of us fill a couple of pages, then return the book to me once it's full and auction it off for charity. The problem is just that the Moleskine's already been sitting on my desk for months now ready to be shipped off, but there've been so many changes in our line-up that I wasn't able to include a final address list with the package. Now I'm still looking for one new artist to join us and make us 30 again but ach, it's taking forever. And I've got some more things planned that had to be postponed too, so I thought I'd do something nice for the group to keep everyone in a good mood.

The website's starting to look real lovely—I've totally fucked up the code at some point but Tom Bagshaw was there to save the day (as usual), and JAW Cooper's designing a kick-ass crystal logo for us, so besides the huge amount of content I've still got to add to the site, I'm really loving it.

Another highlight this week was that I sold my new painting "They took from me the white flame" to what seems like an interesting client from Canada. I've probably been on the internet for too long to still get excited about surprise offers (as an artist, you have SO many people contact you about sales or commissions or other kinds of opportunities, and a lot of these people you will never hear from again) but this particular buyer is working as a successful photographer and likes to promote and showcase artists in his large studio space. He's particularly interested in PRISMA and works with influential clients that may want to help promote us. I'm really intrigued and excited to see if this turns into a proper collaboration at some point.

On the downside, my terrible jaw and trigeminal nerve pains are back. I have an excellent physical therapist specialised in CMD who made my burning tooth ache and nerve pains go away but now I'm waiting for a new prescription from my dentist, and in the meantime, all the problems have come back. My jaw joint is damaged and I'm worried I'll be having these cruel chronic face pains forever. Can't eat properly and I'm way too tense to draw, trying to distract myself with html code and thumbnail images and the question of "Who will I be inviting to PRISMA next?"