Tuesday greetings my collector friends! I apologize in advance if my ramblings seem at all fantastical. I've been woozy all weekend (and then some!) with a low grade, yet vexingly persistent cold-flu thing. All this is rather inconveniently timed, I must say. With the deadline for Hey, Hot Shot! tonight (tonight!) at 8 p.m., preparations underway for a photo shoot tomorrow morning and editions to introduce to you, my lovelies, I really would prefer to be in top form. Alas, I am cotton-headed and perhaps not capable of producing my best prose ever. Apologies in advance if my lead is hard to follow.

It's a good thing today's editions are such lookers! Who needs coherence when you have such gorgeous shapes and colors to gaze upon? In One Ear and Out the Other and Cascade come to us from the talented Bay Area painter Jessica Snow. Jessica and I met briefly in person when we had our collectors' gathering at Crown Point back in July, but I'm still looking forward to visiting her sure to be colorful South San Francisco studio on a future visit.

As you might imagine, my job requires a whole lot of looking at art, in person, online, in original and reproduced forms. I'm on aesthetic overload a lot of the time, but there are always a handful of images that percolate at the top. Right now my A-list mental image playlist has a very West Coast flavor. In One Ear and Out the Other and Cascade are in heavy rotation alongside Chris Johanson's out of this world This is a Picture of Space from Paulson Press.

Also in the mix is Todd Hido's stunning Untitled 6426, which you can see in SF at Wirtz Gallery right now. A Road Divided opened recently, is on view through December 20th, and oh my God, you'd be crrrrazy to miss that show if there's any chance at all of seeing it.

Other top hits of the moment? Basically anything drawn by the fabulous Mr. Tucker Nichols and Tauba Auerbach's mesmerizing Yes and No and/or Yes or No, also printed at Paulson Press. (I kind of hate Jamie at Park Life for making me aware of its existence, but I suppose I'll thank him in the end.)

In case it's not obvious, it's awfully crowded up here in this noggin of mine, making the aforementioned cotton-headedness most unwelcome. As for Jessica's pieces, I encourage them to settle in and stay awhile. The saturated, multi-hued palette, always a draw for me, is taken a step further by Jessica's ever-so-slightly offbeat color combinations. The bestest, freshest part of these particular prints? They were done full bleed — printed right to the very edge, that is — making the impression that these colors and curves continue on through eternity.

Apparently they're not the only things going on for an eternity right now. How'd this email get so long? I blame the Nyquil. I'm going to continue with my rest while catching up on some reading (and seeing.) Hey, Hot Shot! entries are arriving at a fast and furious clip in these final hours before the deadline, meaning that a feast for the eyes awaits me.

I'll spend the afternoon perusing the contenders posted on the HHS! blog whilst downing hot liquids. I'm back tomorrow with this week's photography offering, another colorful double edition by someone who happens to be a Hot Shot herself. See you then!

*Requiring no small amount of effort on the part of our fabulous printers.