PHOTOS OF SHOW:
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We had a great party and a great turnout. I would really like to thank everyone who made this night a great success. Here are some more photos of the show.. all of the artists work is here until December 19th!
The artists… sans Barry… he was downstairs.
Add comment December 9th, 2009
Ok.. so here we go again.. We are thinking about a teepee display for the Javitz center - something eye catching y’know… and once again - like the phoenix (in this blog) - a sign just happens. There is Barry eating lunch, the same day I asked him to help me build a teepee structure for my display. The wood just falls over,for no apparent reason! from a flat position on the horses and into this teepee structure… here they are . Look at them compared to the teepee structures that I found for referenece… WOW! Guess we gotta make them now!
Add comment November 21st, 2008
Do what you love, take care of those you love.. SAVE THE WORLD!
A year ago last christmas, my daughter and some friends decorated cookies for christmas. After decorating all of the cookies, there was a lot of frosting left over. I just could not bear to throw away so much PRODUCT! I had some canvases in my studio that I was struggling to make sense of. So I painted these canvases with the frosting.
The paintings got hung here and there, talked about, hung again, looked at, got a little moldy over the year… Then stored in the studio warehouse building. Eventually, this past spring, a lot of ants found themselves drunk on all that sugar, so it was time to cut the paintings out of the frames, and toss them away.
One morning, before I left for work, I tried to cut the paintings out of the stretchers, my knife blade snapped. So I left them outside and went to work. Well, the frosting melted and was attracting all kinds of happy insects. Early this morning, as I was driving Barry home, he noticed honey bees swarming the painting. We have not seen many honey bees this year, as they are in crisis, dying all over the place and not returning to their hives. We think the colorful paintings, attracted the bees - thinking they could be flowers - and found happiness in the sugar!
So… being a good Civilian, and taking care of your family first, before going out into the world and offering up your services there - is here proving to help save the honey bees - helping to feed the world, (okay, that’s a little dramatic, but you get my drift.)
Do what you love, take care of those you love - & save the world.
2 comments July 5th, 2008
So.. Say goodbye. He (or she) still don’t know what it was, died sometime today or yesterday - or it could’ve been the day before. For those of you who do not know the story of my froggie - well…. 7 years ago, my sister-in-law gave my son, who I think was 10 at the time, (maybe he was 11 and it was 6 years ago - well whatever), these 2 tiny little water frogs from Target that were supposed to live in a bio-balance environment forever. Well they kept getting bigger. and I had to keep getting larger tanks, and then eventually a filter. I gained custody of these frogs in the divorce, by force I might add, and took them with me to the north side of the bridge. One day, one of these now HUGE frogs, was missing!!! There was only ONE FROG LEFT! Where the other one went, remains a mystery still to be solved. he (or she) just disappeared. I kept thinking, he must’ve been staring at the dog’s water bowl, thinking - not unlike NEMO - in finding nemo - “I could get a running start, kick off the edge of this tank, and jump into the bowl, and I could jump from the bowl into a puddle - I will make sure it’s raining that day, and then I will make it to the river - I HAVE SEEN THE RIVER!! I know it’s there.. it was REALLY close to me once, IT WAS IN THE KITCHEN!!! The river was IN the kitchen, so it can’t be that far away now!”Anyway - this is just how I imagined his escape. So it’s brother (or sister), continued to live all alone for the next 2 years, moving with me upriver. And now it’s dead. Barry buried my frog, Jack’s Frog, Ripley’s Frog, near my little baby trees from the arbor foundation. We will make a memorial froggie headstone. Farewell my most precious web-footed friend.
Add comment May 10th, 2008
I’m getting kinda convinced that these spirits are everywhere just waiting to become visible through some natural/elemental occurance… This was an ice formation on my car captured before my defroster took it from sight.
1 comment January 16th, 2008
BUT…I was struggling with the image of the Phoenix.. y’know the myth of the large eagle-like bird the was born from ashes, and then was consumed by fire and then again was reborn from the egg containing the ashes of its former self. So, it’s been used all over history, not that it diffuses the power of the myth, but actually, it reinforces it, I think. I have been committed to get back to painting every week, and this idea of being consumed by fire and then being reborn of the stuff, the remains, of the stuff that destroyed the life, is very fascinating. But anyway, in my most frustrated moment, I realized that my pallette was really tired and needed to be refreshed - y’know when everything looks vaguely purpley-brown - it’s time. When I place my dirty brush into the dirty bowl, the phoenix was born in the bowl - like an egg filled with ashes from the work of the day. OK… those of you who know me know that I am relatively pragmatic. This kind of thing does not usually make me all feeling connected to the ooey-gooey cosmic stuff of the universe when other people talk about it.. but man… you should been there. IT WAS AWESOME! Then - to top off the whole darn thing.. a Bald Eagle flew over my studio. In the 20 years I have been living here, I have not seen an eale with my own eyes.. so I thought that was , as Meg Ryan says .. “It was a Sign…”
2 comments January 16th, 2008
