David Licata | March 20, 2012
There’s a saying I’m fond of: Don’t do the math. What math? The bad math that tells you how much time and money you spend on your art in relation to how much money you earn from your art. The math that reveals your acceptance to rejection ratio and the hours of suffering to hours [...]
David Licata | March 9, 2012
I leave Playa today. It has been a remarkable experience. The environment has opened up a creative vein, the people have stimulated, inspired, and nourished. As a writer, I have been more productive here these last two months than I have been in the last three years combined. Spending two months in a place like [...]
David Licata | March 5, 2012
Here are some photos I took of a piece by fellow Playa resident, sculptor Rob Licht. It’s called True North, and he was out on the Playa many nights, using his stride to measure distances and using a laser point to line up the stones. It’s impossible to get the scale of this in these [...]
David Licata | March 3, 2012
Inspired by the last Ask the Filmmaker post, I started thinking about the things I do at residencies that I don’t do in my real life, and vice-a-versa. Here are some lists for your perusal, because who doesn’t like lists? Things I do at residencies that I don’t do at home: Wake up at dawn. [...]
David Licata | February 24, 2012
Dear Filmmaker, I’ve been reading your artist colony posts. What’s your average day like at one of these places? KG Dear KG, Thanks for the question. My life is really quite boring when I’m at a residency. The days are all pretty much the same. I lose track of the date and what day of [...]
David Licata | February 15, 2012
The Filmmaker looked at the lake through the kitchen window and said, “Jesus, how many photographs can I take of this lake?” The Poet stopped making his lunch and gazed out the window. “Look at it though,” he said, “it hasn’t done that before.” The Filmmaker went outside and took more photographs. Here then, 18 [...]
David Licata | February 10, 2012
Every one leaves Playa today. Everyone but me. I’m here for another month. They are heading to their homes. To their wives, husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends, parents, friends, to their real worlds. I will miss them all, but I will savor the moments we shared. Sitting around the table at snack time, listening to everyone answer [...]
David Licata | February 7, 2012
I’m an artist residency whore. My friends know this and I am not ashamed. I hope to continue my whoring ways until the day I die, that’s how fond of the residency experience I am. Residencies come in all shapes and sizes. Some limit whom they accept (Hedgebrook is for women writers, for example) but [...]
David Licata | January 31, 2012
Here are some photos of my surroundings these days. Hope you enjoy them.
David Licata | January 24, 2012
I’m one of eight artists here—four poets, a playwright-poet, a composer, a visual artist, and me. They are all fine, smart, talented and kind people. I like them all. We each have our own cabin with a studio, kitchen (you can cook in your cabin or in the main building), and living room. The cabins [...]
