Fifty degrees tomorrow, just about right for mid December in upside down world. We plan to pick the remainder of our lettuce and arugula and then pull the stakes out of the garden in preparation for the new year. We turned our outside faucets off for the winter and bring in some more firewood. The elephant ears are tucked away for the winter but I would like to cover the ceramic pots some they don’t collect water, freeze and crack. I’m making this list here so I don’t forget anything. The combination of perception and age is accelerating the pace as days and whole weeks fly by.
I particularly liked this Judy Gohringer painting in Rochester Contemporary’s Members show. My pick for best of show if anyone is asking. I love the construction. Its fun. It makes me feel like I’m riding in the car, in the front seat, not driving. The road is right in front of me and I’m just spacing out as we wind our way through the Adirondacks. And it makes the painting I entered look stuffy and formal.
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Wow! Thanks Paul for this surprise write up! I am sorry to say I didn’t know you wrote (composed?) this blog, which I enjoy & will now follow.
As a fellow artist once said to me, “never use the work ‘fun’ to describe your painting”, but this painting did have fun in it; it wasn’t all a struggle as some can be. There’s a tiny bit of collage in it as well & a bit of stencil work too – all things that a retired art teacher like me still love. I’ve been painting since I retired from teaching in the RCSD.
I go back to the natural environment because that’s my religion and it’s universal . Love it, spent many years canoe camping, good memories in Canada.
Thank you again for your powers of observation & your interpretation.