Horizon 2010 by Elizabeth Osborne as seen at Michener Museum

Horizon 2010 by Elizabeth Osborne as seen at Michener Museum

 

 

Several days of gray skies has me celebrating one of the most vibrant exhibits I can remember. Elizabeth Osborne's art remains in Doylestown till mid November. Check out all their current exhibits.

seven questions : Peter Lundberg "Where is Geometry" 1999 Stainless Steel Concrete

Peter Lundberg "Where is Geometry" 1999 Stainless Steel Concrete

 

 

1.  Who taught the sculpture geometry?
2.  Where is the geometry? 
3. Where is it lacking? 
4. Will you look for it? 
5. Does it want to be found?
6. When found is geometry really there?
7. Why place the geometry over there?

Wordless Wednesday ~ The Doubter by Yves Tanguy, 1937

The Doubter by Yves Tanguy, 1937
photo by Wayne Stratz

Vasily Kandinsky Pink (Rose) 1928

Vasily Kandinsky Pink (Rose) 1928
Philadelphia Museum of Art
photo by Wayne Stratz

The Lyrical Chef Surprises Red and Creates Hope

   you will create this, because of this...



You come home and on the porch is a book.  There is no note.  Feel free to wonder why "Sean Scully: Works on Paper" is now in your house.

Go ahead, assume a phone call or e-mail will explain.  But you are left living a mystery.

Then one day, The Lyrical Chef shows up, unexpected as you expect.

He has something to say to you.

"I want a gift for Red.  This is all I ask.  I left a book here.  I want you to be inspired by Sean Scully.  I want something between x$ and y$.  I want it by Christmas.  I want to give it to Red."

You are one who believes that your brain works while you sleep, so you take the book to your bed and you look though it... night after night.  You are trusted to create something.  You are blessed.

Eventually images like this begin to become part of your daily thoughts

 
But your favorite number is 21, so you imagine this:

7 columns times 3 horizontal boxes

and

3 horizontal boxes times 7 pieces in each box.

You love Youghiogheny glass and you love your friends... the columns.

For diversity you turn to amber... the boxes.

Now it is Christmas Eve.  You have gotten all other commissions into the hands of the givers, but where is the Lyrical Chef?

The daughter e-mails.  A time is set.  And 20 minutes after the exchange of cash and unexpected sticky buns, you head off to worship with Red, who knows much, but not about this...

  


and thus there were 14 shades of amber glass sitting on my drafting table which cried out to be something special... 

7 for the weekend--- The letter N

1. Nevelson's Sky Cathedral and we saw it in DC.



2. Nebraska: The place our U-Haul broke down as we moved from Oregon to Illinois, but also the land of Sand Hill Cranes:

photo by James and Deb

3. New Thought: as light replaces bitterness I had a great idea to get lots of students involved in the garden this summer, even if my schedule will not allow me to be with them as much as I would like.

4. Norah's Nearness:






5. Northern Lights--- Something that I have never seen which I think would bring me joy:

photo by Keith Marshall

6. Northern Flicker: Something I have seen many a time and always brings me joy:

photo by Pazzani

7. a man a bit like you and a bit like me:

Wordless Wednesday, a trio

Celtic Cross in Green and Amber by Margaret Almon

Youghiogheny Stained Glass--- Nothing but the best for Bert..

I made this for my father-in-law. It gets shipped on Saturday...

Youghiogheny is a word I know from studying about my home state. It is a river out by Fallingwater. But it is also home of a company which makes some of the finest stained glass in the world, in the style of Tiffany.

ending avoidance, avoiding distraction

It is finished....

after weeks and weeks of avoiding, I finished the project without a hitch on the 9th, delivered it to the purchaser on the 16th. It was nice having it about for a week. Here are two views (click to see larger).





So what are the props to get them up to window level, you ask? On the right is my New Jerusalem Bible, on the left is The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. Not a professional photo shoot, but the only place in the house I could get shots of them side by side.





Speaking of avoiding, it looks like we are avoiding the Olympics this week so we can get back to our normal routine which does not include TV. Thus there is more sleep, more reading, more art, and even more time for silent reflection.

Last night I was taken to the parable about taking the log out of your eye before you take the speck out of your neighbors. At school, it is much easier to see the results of a student and staff power struggle, when I am not the staff and when I have admitted to doing the same. So when I see one and want to make comment, it is best to add in that I too have dug in my heels when it was just a matter of thinking I SHOULD have control over the situation.

Well, I have two weeks to relax and do some log removal from my eyes.

preparing for Har Zion #2

for me (mosaic woman would agree) the fun part of preparing for a craft show, is crafting...



A colleague of mine commissioned two 11x17 inch panels and I worked up three designs. She liked two, so I decided to do smaller versions for her to see in glass. She liked both but preferred the top and asked for two larger like that, and then bought the one below. First thought in my head was... "No, you can't buy it, I need it for the Har Zion craft show in Penn Valley this weekend." Some thoughts just need to float in and float and out.






Below is the third version of this design. No darkness here. I will try to sell this and the one I judged poorly at the craft show. Hopefully someone like this guy shows up and sees the beauty in it.





and then there is the design I came up with on retreat at Wernersville and then worked on the day and night I prepped for a my colonoscopy. Catching the blue greens by camera was quite difficult.