Well, it’s
been an interesting few days and weeks for that matter since our last update.
Martha and I
were out of the country for part of that time were we explored and the rain
forest of Costa Rica and I photographed a number of tropical creatures on land
and under the sea.
Since returning
from our trip, art production has slowed but not stopped all together. Martha at
her end is in Texas where she has utilized her unique artistic teaching ability
to help a young savant to break through his mental blocks to creativity. Helping
young and old alike to transcend their self imposed artistic limitations therby
opening up whole new worlds of creative expression and fulfillment is a special
talent and Martha has it in spades.
And, while Martha has been working her magic in Texas, I
have begun some experimentation with sheet metal using my new power sheers to
cut out an eagle’s wing. This effort was part of my preparation for eventually
building my all metal eagle sculpture. I
may try this again with a lighter gage of sheet metal.
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And speaking of my eagle, I was pleasantly surprised to see
that the blog I wrote all the way back in May on the building of the original ‘Steel
Eagle’ for the ‘Paradise of Birds and Flowers’ parade float and the recycled
art show in Leavenworth has in the last month just taken off as far as views go
to the point of having surpassed all other blogs going back nearly two years. The video for this on Gowedia.
My only conclusion is that perhaps a number of folks around the globe looking
to build floats and birds or recycled art in general have discovered the piece
and are sharing it with each other. I dunno. But it is interesting to see this
renewed interest in a blog I wrote so long ago.
This past week was different in that I attended an opening
reception in Wenatchee, WA for an avant garde feminist artist Linda Stein from
New York who came out for the event. I had a chance to meet her and took a
number of pictures and wrote a review of the show in my blog in the Wenatchee
World Online. Linda liked the blog and Martha and I are committed to stopping
in for a visit with her at her gallery when next we are in New York.
Over the weekend, I submitted an image of my “Time: is on my
side” painting of Mick Jagger for the upcoming ‘Time’ themed show at the IcicleArts Gallery in Leavenworth, WA. For the submission I wrote the following:
‘‘’Time (is on my
side)': is a
commemorative piece inspired by the recent 50th anniversary of the
Rolling Stones first paid performance.
For anyone
of a certain age this band and their music exemplifies, represents and embodies
the time, the age, the fire and the power of our youth.
And, for
this artist and perhaps a whole generation of aging baby boomers (the
generation that was to never grow old) - as long as Mick Jagger, (depicted in this 16”
x 20” acrylic on paper painting by Rod Daut) and the Rolling Stones are still
playing, and dancing (with the “moves like Jagger”) we are not old… we are
still young."
Well, we
shall see how it does, but so far the reception on the Upper Valley Arts Facebook
page has been good. So; wish me luck on that. Martha, while in Texas till the
end of the week is already contemplating what her submission will be for this
show. I can’t wait to see what she comes up with.
So; enough for now and in keeping with the theme of 'Time' think on these words by William Faulkner, "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."
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