Nancy sent me this lovely hand-made birthday card that is an image for our times (thank you Nancy!)… But to back track…we went to the beach Saturday for my birthday, and to clean out the pantry and retrieve some toilet paper (who is it that HAS all the toilet paper I wonder?). In spite of […]
We are literally “all in the same boat.” (and here’s a boat my Dad made for “the boys”) (and two boats from Mr. May…still missed here on “the Island”) How many times over my long life have I heard the phrase “we’re all in the same boat”…but “all” really meant all people of a certain […]
These days are odd aren’t they? It’s so serious. It’s scary. Will we get sick? Will you? Yet in these days, these ahead-of-the-wave days, we’re treading water. Will our toilet paper run out? Will our money run out? Hard to know anything at all. This girl showed up in a message…and delighted us… Zoom exercise […]
Before we got to the drawing part of the day though, we did an early run to the Safeway and discovered all we had been reading was true…there is NO toilet paper…c’mon people! There was also NO flour or prepackaged dinners but plenty of most anything else and LOTS of fruits and vegetables…we were shopping […]
It’s nice isn’t it…all this checking in with friends and family…”Are you all right?” So far so good. One friend wrote that she was looking forward to the week ahead without distractions and this caused me to think of my typical life…FULL of distractions. It sometimes seems hard to get stuff done there are so […]
Here’s a drawing I made this week at the Annex at Salem Art Associations Bush Barn Art Center, where I was Artist in Residence for the last three weeks. My residency was to continue until March 31st but with “social distancing” now in play, and being in the at-risk age group, I packed up today… […]
Last weekend we dashed to Oakland with Jennifer and George to see Fanny…their daughter and our niece. Fanny has lived in the east bay area for about 5 years but R and I haven’t been to visit..so we had a long sunny weekend of good fun, good food and lots of art. Fanny made all […]
We headed north today to drop off a piece of mine as donation to the silent auction at Disjecta (November 16th)… and to see the current Biennial on view at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (8371 N. Interstate). From 1949 to 2010 the Biennial was at the Portland Art Museum, but more recently has been on […]
These last few weeks I’ve been dropping in. Sometimes I was delivering dishes from my “transfer ware give-away,” or checking in to see how the dishes look in place, maybe seeing an art exhibit or looking at beautiful Japanese fabric…various. This has meant some pleasant conversation and lots of great visuals. Instead of a tight […]
Two exhibits open this weekend at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. We got to preview the fantastic George Rodriguez show during installation the other day and really…this shouldn’t be missed. The scale is huge and the work is gorgeous… Here are a few of the “Georges” Rodriguez was born in El Paso of immigrant […]
