Visual Artist
The collagologist topic this week – Things I’m Afraid Of ….
Getting lost in the woods.
Clowns and Mr. Bill, to some extent.
Headless dolls and untended ones.
The small hands and feet on my Bustamante chair, and the nubby things on this vase. Attractive and creepy all at the same time.
Strange fruits. Again, attractive, but creepy.
I have been commissioned to create a piece of art for a client. Here’s a small detail from the canvas, and another from the attendant documentation. The piece is called And I Fall Asleep, Lulled by the Noise of Paris
I’m in a loose collection of artists called the Collagologists. We do collages of photos on a random topic. The last one we did, B is for… can be found here.
Today’s topic is Things That Make Me Smile. I have been in quite a crabby mood lately, so I was more challenged than usual to find things that make me smile. Of course, my kids and those sorts of things bring me joy, but I wanted to do collages that really make me zing inside that are atypical.
Here’s my favorite. The entire set of eight pages can be found here.
I finally met Alton Brown! Here we are at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Cooking for Solutions event last night. He is so funny! Irreverent! And boyishly handsome too.
Some art photos:
This beautiful and strangely round artichoke was on one of the presenter’s tables. There was so much food and wine and all of it was extremely good. I ran into two people I know, besides Alton! Well ok, I don’t really know Alton, but having watched him for years on Good Eats!, I feel like I know him.
He was very nice and a real person. Thanks to Kati for getting this shot of us for me to treasure forever!
We went around to all the booths and ate ourselves silly, then checked out the fishies and jellies. It did seem strange they were presenting all this cooked fish in front of all the live fish. Does it scare them to see people out there on the floor eating “them”? We wondered…
Here are sardines in one of the circular tanks. The new camera is taking much nicer pictures of these displays than my former ones.
We stood for a long time at the shark tank, watching the sunfish, bonito and tuna circling around amicably with the hammer head and pacific sharks.
They show us that in our diversity, we can still get along and play nice.
Alton will be giving a speech from this tank on Sunday. Swimming with the sharks, his wit will be in top form, I’m sure. I will miss it because I’m off to Napa to consult with a client on a commissioned art piece. This is a first for me.
