Successful, fully-realized artists are essentially very optimistic folk. This is because to make art that is truly your own vision is an affirmation of life and talent and beauty.
Suzy Ultman sent me this email with the subject line, “happy friday”. She attaches this art and this quote. I rest my case.

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank

The fab cabinet by the front desk.

Susan Farrington by the odd, slightly freakish taxidermy birds at the front desk area. Susan felt she was home. She is a major collector of ephemera and old odd things. Broomfield is her second home.

Here it is, 8AM in the morning, but the hotel is perpetually 2AM. That is marble mosiac on the floor.

No kidding; these are the room snacks that you can buy.

Stuff in the fridge.

The shower. Really. A work of art.

Friday: Suzy Ultman, optimist

Wow! When I took Carolyn on, my plan, among other things, was to get her the coolest scrapbooking gig possible. And here we have it. Thank you, ladies, at K & Company! And we recently got her a fabric collection which we’ll blog soon. It’s amazing! She gets selvage credit. Now we can sew stuff with her art. The ladies in the studio went nuts when we saw the strike-offs.
So rush out and buy Carolyn’s scrapbooking stuff at Michael’s and send a message that we want more cool art on our products! Thanks!

Wednesday: We stayed at the Ace Hotel, NYC, when we went to Surtex.