That’s right! You can buy my Pacific Crest Trail oil paintings through Adelman Fine Art in San Diego. They currently have three favorites of mine at their gallery, and are also selling more work on their website! Check it out and spread the word! #artyouenjoy
The nero in Stehekin was blissful and I certainly could have stayed longer. Bought my ticket back to NYC from Vancouver for the 3rd of October. Had lunch w G Wiz. Shower. Laundry.
9/26 Nero Stehekin 2572.9-2577.9 (5 miles). Hiked with Nemo and talked about our fears in returning back to civilization. Camped with Hey Girl, Nemo, vortex, holiday, and papa Oates. Holiday told me that the night before a mouse tried to nest in his head while sleeping.
9/27 2577.9-2601.9 (24 miles). mixed emotions. Long 23 mile slog up. Camp with tons of other hikers. Mouse trying to get at my food.
9/28 2601.9-2627.4 (25.5 miles) night hike. Tummy over active.
9/29 (2627.4-2647.4) (20 miles). The storm a week past has consolidated a few different trail families.
9/30 2647.4-2653.6 (6.2+8 miles in Canada to Manning Park Resort!) A huge mass of thru-hikers celebrating together. I write in the monument’s trail journal, “Thank you trail for giving me a sense of belonging again.”
There is no hierarchy in the animal kingdom with fliesto rest on this trail as the foes are everywhere and when you stop, they consume you. Ther
Cut out a chunk of my foot. Bad idea? Hurts to walk from all the bigger miles and new blisters. Soaked at drakesbad. Rain storm. 18 miles. Fire near Quincy. smokey.
9/22 I wake up on the top bunk in the Mountaineer’s Lodge and hobble downstairs for coffee. My balloon version of feet are so swollen and cracked. I eat what is left of the breakfast – oatmeal and bacon – while chatting with Sam. I finally disengage with my phone and go downstairs to pack up. Twenty or so other hikers are also packing. We are all anxious to get back out there now that the storm has passed. We have a window of good weather for eight days.
I hike 22.5 miles, and pitch my tent in the dark, right off of the trail.
9/23 I wake to lovely and weird nature noises. In the morning, as I drink coffee, grouses come to visit me at my tent. I Slept well. I hike 26 miles through mossy, damp and dense forests that open up to blueberrry and scree fields. I enter Glacier Peak Wilderness, a magnificent area with beautiful views. I grow nastalgic for the footprints I leave behind here.
9/24 25 mile
Hawk two feet from me on trail .Glacier. Beautiful views all along the way. Hold out to eat lunch and dinner on the peaks, after some seriously tough and long climbs. Feel a nostalgia for the one step behind me. Nearing the end of the trail! Run into Triple F, Taylor and the Swiss two miles before camp. The whole crew is camping there tonight. Eat a lot today: tortillas with sausage, cheese and mayo, two belvitas, jelly beans with trail mix, dried mango, pad thai, chips, and two hot cocoas.
9/25
26.3 miles
Wake at the junction for the old pct route and decide to take it. It is overgrown and wild. Vibrant green moss covers everything. Taylor and the Swiss catch up to me and we climb over fallen logs and ford the river together. After a 8 mile and 6,000 foot climb, I eat lunch. Onward! I want to make the 9:15 am shuttle bus to Stehekin tomorrow. On the decent, I see a big ass porcupine on the trail! He was slow and waddled his shy body off the trail and went up a tree to avoid me. I hike into the night, setting myself up for making the shuttle in the am. Feet itchy and sore. Saw porcupine on trail and climb tree. Hike w Taylor and the Swiss. Bakery tomorrow! Hungry
Yesterday, my mom anc dad drove me to Connecticut to catch my flight. I was happy that TSA let me board w my gossamer gear trekking poles. Alladin and Lt Dan surprised me by picking me up in a rental car at the Tucson airport. It was soooo nice to see them, and their presence has helped settle my pre-start nerves. We ran around doing typical hiker trash errands (REI, food stuff) and then went to the Airbnb rental. Now we are on the greyhound bus, going to Lordsburg, NM. Tonight we’ll stay at a hotel there, waking early to take the CDTC shuttle to the southern terminus.
It’s been a 24 hour whirlwind of resupply activity in New England as I hang up my painting smock and prepare for my thru hike on the Continental Divide Trail. I bought 800 dollars worth of resupply food, which will give me over 100 days of food on the trail. The rest I will buy in towns along the way. Trying to resupply for the CDT is much harder than prepping for the Pacific Crest Trail. In fact, it drove me a bit bonkers. I should have listened to all those #cdt2018 hikers from the @halfwayanywhere survey and packed LESS boxes. Or listened to my fellow #cdt2019 hikers who are only prepping the first three boxes. Now I know they are wiser than me. I don’t even know if I addressed the boxes to the right locations. UPS took 20 minutes at the counter trying to over ride the computer’s refusal to acknowledge the address ANNIE VARNOT, CDT Hiker ETA: [FILL IN DATE], c/o The Toaster House, Hwy 60 South at Mile Marker 56, Pie Town, NM, 87827 as a real one. And I have a feeling I’ll have to do a lot of flip flopping too, as the snow levels in the San Juan Mountains, CO, are off the charts. So then these resupply boxes and their etas remain on my friend’s shelf staring back even more confused. “Where and when do I get to go?” say the 5 days of food and wet wipes. Sometimes I stare blankly at myself, too, as if I am also an inanimate object, totally incapable of comprehending my decision to hike 3000 miles. My boxes are my way of trying to make me understand the magnitude of the hike. I finally sent three NM resupply boxes off. I told the USPS worker that these were my first resupply boxes for my hike. All of a sudden I noticed everyone in the USPS was listening and braving to ask questions. And it started to feel more real. And I teared up behind my glasses and drove away. Ok, this is something big. And I can’t wait to touch the sand in the desert so it will feel real. #cdt #continentaldividetrail #hike #optoutside #girlswhohike
Site:Brooklyn Gallery
Artwork by Annie Varnot, “Pacific Crest Trail: Washington Sun Flares and Fire“ oil on panel, 36″x48″ 2018
Landscape: Real and Imagined
Juried by Eileen Jeng Lynch Friday, November 16th – Saturday, December 15th
Site:Brooklyn Gallery is pleased to present Landscape: Real and Imagined juried by Eileen Jeng Lynch.
Eileen Jeng Lynch is the Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill New York Public Garden and Culture Center. She curates the Sunroom Project Space for emerging artists and is involved in all aspects of visual arts programming, including exhibitions in Glyndor Gallery, publications, and the annual Winter Workspace program. As an independent curator, Jeng Lynch organized exhibitions that featured emerging and established contemporary artists in galleries and nonprofit institutions, including Sperone Westwater, Lesley Heller Gallery, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, and Radiator Gallery and worked at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has contributed to Two Coats of Paint and On-Verge.
Artists: Aaliyah Gupta, Aaron Asis, Andrew Arend, Ann Cofta, Ann Marie Auricchio, Annie Varnot, Athena Atocha, Beth Ganz, Bill Burgess, Christine Aaron, Claudine Metrick, Elizabeth Gargas, Françoise Soulé Zinsou Duressé, Hannah U, Jen Noone, Jessie Novik, Jolene Powell, Joomi Chung, Katie Westmoreland, Kayo Albert, Marcelyn Bennett Carpenter, Maria Ossandon Recart, Marianne Barcellona, Mark Granlund, Matthew Arnold, Meridith McNeal, Nathan Taves, Patty Cateura, Rebecca Schultz, Rosalyn Bodycomb, Rosalyn Carlino, Russell Horton, Ruth Jeyaveeran, Scott Bae, Scott Groeniger, Seungkyung Oh, Sophia Lee, Soulaf Abas, Stefan Hagen, Timothy Clifford, Whitney Sage, Yasemin Kackar-Demirel, Zachary Skinner
Gallery Info: Address: 165 7th St Brooklyn, NY Opening Reception: Friday, November 16th 6-9PM Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 1-6PM
I have four new drinking straw sculptures made out of repurposed drinking straws on view at NYPOP Gallery, Chelsea, NYC. See details below! I hope you can swing by to see the work 🙂
curated by Amanda Tiller
UMass NYPOP Gallery is proud to present de/Constructing Worlds, an exhibition of the work of five UMass Amherst alumni artists based in New York City.
The meaning of the word “world-building” has evolved in the 200 years since it was first introduced. Today, the term most often refers to entire fictional worlds complete with their own histories, languages, ecologies, and even laws of physics. Popular culture is so inundated with these fictional worlds that we have almost come to expect them as an integral component of our literature, film, television, and games.
But in the 19th century, world-building described the imaginative realm of artists and poets. This realm was a personal one, an individual mental state entered into by the artist. Hamilton Wright Mabie wrote, “To this world-building all the great poetic minds are driven; within this invisible empire alone can they reconcile the life that surrounds them with the life that floats like a dream before them.”
Hi hikers! So I finally updated my gear list from my PCT through hike! There are still changes that I would https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YqtKBYXxzDvVKZlA6JmpZJhgz6OS3fJe4NbLoz1mF08make, but overall, this worked for me!
Annie Varnot: Artist and Adventurer 