Rachel Perry

Using Twitter as a performance space in an attempt to capture the daily life of an artist in one hundred forty characters exactly since 2009

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I am the last to leave the party. It was so much fun until it wasn’t. Find me @rachelperrystudio on Bluesky or @rachelperrystudio on Threads

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Am disgusted by what Twitter has become under X. Leaving now for Threads. My 15+ years daily performance continues with or without followers

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Got my Payt Bradbury jeans today and wow, a work of art they are. Bell bottomed, with many different denim colors. My old Luckys transformed

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First yoga together in many weeks. Choral concert in Newburyport tonight—we decided it’s a pretty pretty town, especially this time of year.

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Prints made and delivered to NY today for my solo show opening January 11, 2024 at Yancey Richardson in Chelsea. I’ll be there, please come!

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Highlight of the day was watching A. teach his social studies (we need a new term for this) class after a dining hall lunch—not bad, so fun!

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Early morning. Head down in the studio with the big needlepoint. Happy day homecoming. Tomorrow I’ll get back on track organizing, planning.

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A day of highs and lows. Struggled to get framer to commit to dates I thought were set. Lovely call with Streeter. Then took CP in. Waiting.

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Happy for a Boston Globe review of “Creative Spaces: The Photographer’s Studio as Inspiration” @MFABoston here: https://t.co/mNC9HGgxaL

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Quintessential rainy Sunday. After making a batch of the English Almond Toffee I updated website, made soup, needlepointed by the warm fire.

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Balls in the air, managing and breathing better now. All good—just…if the possibility to get more done is ever present, how do we not do it?

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Got the second half of my show to the framer today. Visit with Ben on Brattle St for tea and a fire. And needlepoint. HHs dinner at The Quin

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We went to MFABoston today with Mom and Dad to see Sargent show and my work in photography show. Lunch at Gardner Museum. Such fun with them

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Walls for storage went up today. Trim installed for doors. Met with contractors on site. Kitchen plans. Even the carpenters say we are close

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Scrambling here to get more needlepoint canvases blocked, trimmed, and prepared for framing before deadline for Yancey solo show in January.

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I have holes, many holes, in the fingers of my left hand from inadvertently poking with the tapestry needle. Intense progress being made now

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Washing sheets and towels, divvying food, skimming stock, a quick vacuum, drop cloths over furniture and the family house is now put to bed.

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We brought in cherry wood from dead tree. Youngers took down screens on ocean side. More tomorrow to prepare and close the house for winter.

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Turkey sandwich today with cranberry sauce and horseradish (a poor man’s Mother Stamberg relish) was the most delicious part of Thanksgiving

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Big love in the big house today as many family gathered for Thanksgiving feast though missed absent members. Two turkeys for ten: leftovers.