In my former top floor studio at 619 Western Avenue, Seattle

I've not posted for a while. I'm busy with my 3/2015 show in Seattle for the Lisa Harris Gallery.  I've experienced many changes since I last showed and I'm anxious and excited as I work. I've also updated my website to a new format: www.victoriajohnson.net. Today, I found this image of myself in my Seattle studio I leased for 18 years. The photo is precious to me, since its about a time gone: You don't know what you've got till its gone - Joni Mitchell- Big Yellow Taxi.

Photo: Drake Deknatel 2007

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,
With a pink hotel, a boutique,
And a swinging hot spot.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Hey, farmer, farmer, put away that D.D.T., now!
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees, please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Late last night I heard the screen door slam.
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

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Victoria XOXOX