I spent this afternoon at Brooklyn Artists Gym, a shared studio space that’s usually empty - and I have 4000 sq ft to myself (there were two other woman painting today).

The picture I took of my large acrylic sketch/painting is “My Segmented Life” and is about 4 feet x 2.5 feet - my 1.3 mega-pixel camara is not able to get much better than this- I did the work in about 4 hours.   It’s a self portait but I decided not to focus too much on detail.

I have been thinking of merging my web analytics work with painting (or maybe it’s a bad idea - I don’t know).  My idea was to take traffic segmentation to pages of a web site as it shown in packages like ClickTracks and do the same thing in my painting - except the segmentation is the parts of my life (I did not represent all the parts of my life - I just painted in a couple of segments as an after thought).

Was thinking of this idea for a couple of weeks - right after the artist Olan drew a map of me, describing my life (while we were talking about life) - decided to see if I could paint my life as visitor segmentation map - yet still hold it together as a painting (and avoid being too illustrative).

I don’t take any of these works that seriously, but I do find that I’m liking my work more, the less I try to “finish” it.  I used to spend so much effort trying to finish paintings and lately I don’t have time - it has to work the first time - I don’t know what my mood will be next time I come in to paint on something - don’t want to mix moods - would rather just do the painting in one sitting if I can.

So, incase you can’t make it out, I painted the words “web analytics” in red in the lower left, “work” in the mid, upper left, “blogging” in the mid-upper right and “Seo” in the bottom right.