Carol Starr wrote:
> princess petal seems to have deserted us, i wonder what she is up to?
princess petal has not deserted you. She is merely "soggy" (a good descriptive
adjective), having undergone her yearly holiday "dumping." This second
descriptively sordid noun describes the holiday non significant other quit I have
been the recipient of for the past 3 years. Since this is becoming a performance
piece in itself, this year I reached out for sympathy from a few people via email.
I received, in return:
cheering up words; including the appropriated adjective above - "soggy" - which I
like a lot;
advice to bake a pie;
a small animated cat that sleeps with tiny zzzzz's emanating from its forehead;
a scan of Dr. Murray Banks' album cover, called "The Drama of Sex;" (very yin
yang);
a great piece of advice, to wit: "When the intolerable outweighs the wonderful
all you can do is mourn and hide."
So I did that for a while, becoming soggy.
In fact, if anyone else would like to send sympathy, monetary sustenance, art
work, animations, really great shoes, mail art or general psychic hugs, or if you
would like to visit and do laundry, or dishes, or have a talent with vacuums, your
name and contributions will receive official documentation online.
On the positive side, once I get through handcoloring 4 prints which have to be
framed and delivered tomorrow (yeah, right), I will have more time to get back to
the Timepiece Project and getting it online.
What else have I been doing? Ummm, last weekend did San Francisco galleries,
(before getting dumped, which made it more enjoyable). Show at Scott Nichols
Gallery celebrating Ruth Bernhard's 95th birthday - now there is a lady that is
pure talent, joy, inspiration and spunk. I'm so glad they included her portrait
(with a scooter) on the invitation. I will treasure it.
Cheryl Haines had land art, forget who, a huge sand pile wiggled down the middle
of the gallery, constructed without any type of melding implement. Scary to walk
by, holding one's breath. They also have Alan Rath's work, mechanical
constructions that are impossible to describe..., so...
http://www.hainesgallery.com/ARWork.html
The Anderson Collection (the print collection) at the Palace of Legion of
Honor....good for Hunk Anderson for his major support of the arts over the years,
and what a visual history of various types of printmaking that is, with a
chronology of all the different houses, Gemini GEL, Crown Point Press, and on. I
had the good fortune to meet the Andersons and view their collection in my gallery
working days. They also had a great show of artists' books there.
http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/1aa/1aa348.htm
Modernism had a U.K. artist's Glen Baxter's work - really great humour,
cartoonlike, beautifully done in crayon and ink; they are all captioned - one of
my favorites shows a gent, sans clothes with the exception of antlers, a diver's
mask, socks and fins - candelabra on the dining table, standing facing his
computer. Caption: " At 6.18 every day, Robert went online to visit his
favourite erotic site."
That's about it from butterfly town. Drinkwise, I myself favor sake or wine over
grappa, Alan. I once had dinner in Firenze and the waiter left us next to a huge
table of bottles and completely ignored our requests for the check. Well, we had
to kill time, didn't we, so we sampled everything. It was the first and last time
I will ever drink grappa. I think I'll go have some sake, now.
Here's looking at you, babes.
PK
