Isolation Residency : Day 5 : Visual Journal : Hens Picking My Routine For The Day

I honestly don’t really have a routine everyday right now. Which might be whats driving me crazy! But I do try to exercise everyday, work on artwork, do my shipping of sold artworks, water the plants, take care of the animals, etc. So today I thought I would let the chickens pick my routine! I thought it was funny. The last one they picked didn’t really happen today, but there have been other days where this has happened!

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MurzeMagazine Residency : Day 4 : Self : In Tune With Your Body

Remembering today how lucky I am to be in tune with my female body. The female reproductive organs are a magnificent thing. Certain hormones heighten our sense of smell. Our skin changes during ovulation. Sometimes our female bodies release two eggs at once or split into two making potential twins. There are endless amazing things that our bodies can do, but not everyone has access or the knowledge to learn these things in certain countries. Above is a very simplified version of our female reproductive organs made out of glass. Let’s celebrate our bodies and keep listening to what it’s telling you.

Isolation Residency : Day 3 : Lets Get Real

This fun residency that I’m doing right now has got me thinking about how telling my story helps people to understand my artwork. Why am I so obsessed with mountains and tree lines?! Well let me tell you. For me there is this very special time of day, DUSK. It took me having several moments of calm, mindfulness and magic at this time of day to realize I needed to crawl out of my hole that I had built for myself and start living again. Depression sneaks up on you. I had never really experienced it before until I lost several things at once. Feelings of alienation, not being understood, underestimated and regret were taking a hold of me and eating me from the inside out. Looking at the Cascade mountains here in the Columbia River Gorge was slowly bringing me back to life. It was almost like a slap in the face looking at those evening highlighted lights hitting those crispy mountains and tree lines. The experience helped me to pull myself up and start realizing the things I have and the new community I am apart of. Art has always been therapeutic for me and what pleases me the most is when people who have my work share with me the feelings that it brings them. That to me is success. Sending love out to you all from Rachel Escoe Glass.

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Isolation Residency : Day 2 : Clarity : Through The Looking Glass

Made myself a little magnifying glass with some glass stringer and a tea-light flame. Used that and a sphere of glass to show you how I'm seeing things these days. It is clear to me that I am not seeing things clearly right now. I miss human interaction. The non-virtual kind. I feel like when I have the chance to talk to people from a distance now, there is this ever encompassing feeling of something missing. Everyones reflections are over shadowing me. It is only when I decide to go outside do I see the connections we can all still have with each other even at a distance. It feels better then ever to talk to strangers. Way more then I ever liked to before!

Starting an Online Residency about Isolation during Covid-19 w Murze Magazine

Going to be blogging for the next 7 days about my online residency that I was accepted into this week at

Murze Magazine . Super excited to dive into this! So here it is…….take it away!

Day 1 : Isolation Two : Day to Day

Getting a feel for all of my art supplies in my home studio. These pictures paint a story of me going through the flow of brainstorming my thought process of this weeks residency. What mediums I want to use and how I can use the bits of glass work that I have at home without being able to be in the glassblowing shop. My creative mind is excited to have a project to do that involves other people around the world and to be apart of a community. Even if it is virtual! To reflect on my frustrations, deppression and embracement of new exciting opportunities will be whats in store this week. Stay Tuned!

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