Baghdad Bound

By: skiprohde Mood: other Date: 08/10/2008 21:35:29 Music: None

Yes, that's right.  I'm going to Baghdad.  I'll be there for the next year, working for the State Department as a program manager.  I'm really excited about this opportunity.  Lots of people think I'm nuts even for thinking of it as an "opportunity", and maybe I am.  But I'll be doing something important for Iraq and our country and not just bitching about it, which is what I've been doing in paint for the past four years.  This job actually came about because of my art.  I was working on war-related themes.  I was trying to arrange a combat artist stint with one of the services and getting nowhere.  So I started looking into other possibilities, which led to this.  So while in Iraq, I will still be doing artwork, just not nearly as much of it.  And I'll keep posting it here.  When I come home next year, I should have a lot of ideas and experiences to draw on.  Meanwhile, you can keep track of what I'm doing at my blog, storypaintings.blogspot.com.