What Are You Waiting For?
52-year-old gnaws through the cocoon.Archive for March, 2008
Marian Shapiro’s Field of Dreams
Steely cold in Charlotte, forecasts for five days of rat-wet rain in Miami, newly-planted palms shriveling on the porches, bikinis in iminent danger of being tossed from suitcases to allow room for more smalti and perhaps the far more practical Gryphon Grinder, where can I find even the tiniest hint of spring on this 30th day of March, wholly bereft of bunny clouds and beckoning starflowers? Read the rest of this entry »
Open Heart Mosaic
Ta Da! Just finished this one in time to pack up for Mosaic Wonderland in Miami. I didn’t enter a piece for Mosaic Arts International this year, but I did manage to complete a small work for the Mini Salon, where members and guests will have the opportunity to peruse and purchase each other’s art. Read the rest of this entry »
Three-Hour-Mural with Josef Norris
I am not a speed artist. I don’t do anything in three hours, let alone a 9′x12′ wall. The great joy of this class for me was learning to work against my grain, with no time for obsessing, Read the rest of this entry »
Eden at Edisto
Love or hate The South, it just doesn’t get much lovelier (or haunting, haunted, seductive, or psychically altering) than this. I took the above photograph along a back road on Edisto Island. There’s no resort around the bend; in fact, Edisto Beach doesn’t boast a single hotel. Rent a cottage, a cabin in the woods, or snare a beachfront campsite and stare into these trees for an hour or a day, and tell me your soul hasn’t been abducted, pinned and wriggling to the wall.
