Which we came to on a sunny September Sunday, diving immediately into preparations for
photos of sculptures [and, after lunch, paintings] on Tuesday with Kirk…meanwhile
the leash-averse puppies, as soon as they understood the logic, became Instant Leash Enthusiasts although this led to Entanglements, which continue. It also didn’t take them long
to discover the fountain. Wednesday, after two unsuccessful Monday attempts, I was able to get a haircut and score a replacement camera, though without a memory card, and as mine seemed to be somewhere out on I-70 near the Utah-Colorado border I scrambled to discover
one in the backup camera which turned out to still have some Venezia on it from a year ago,
soon supplanted by contemporaneous Benicia night
and morning, early morning, of Thursday, when we left the dogs, ever restless,
so L. could have surgery in Vacaville…
All went well, we were home by lunch, and the life aquatic resumed.
Meanwhile while researching the life and work of Agnes Pelton she or her imagery began to make itself manifest on the garden fence, mysterious but appropriate.
Another morning away, Friday…
but another afternoon along the Straits of Summer
and Saturday, out again for the Benicia Crap, er, Crafts, Fair
which did not, however, include any ’41 Dodge panel trucks though now that we’re back in California we can’t entirely avoid shards from a news cycle which only makes me want to scream…TRUCK FUMP! All the moreso realizing that those on the other end of the propaganda spectrum couldn’t be happier with our great leadership’s ongoing insults to former friends, allies and the environment…America Strong! Oh, yeah; America!
*Dave Alvin, 2001… Ashgrove**, which isn’t on the album but is surely about California and if anybody recognizes the venue, well, there’s a whole other buncha layers there…as well as, well, some serious Cali history. Diggit…
**A particularly excellent album in its own right.
Those “puppies” have turned into long legged large creatures.it looks like you all made it home safely and it is good to hear Linda’s operation went well. I went to a lecture at the Center for Photographic Art by a woman named Valda Bailey. Check her out; she uses her digital camera in an interesting and effective way that might intrigue you, just as Agnes Pelton has.
Ah, well…so yes, we’re back, with giant puppies and except for the day Kirk was here [before breakfast] I’ve had to be out in the car every day for most if not all of the morning…including Sunday…and Monday, tomorrow, early, for a physical at Kaiser. Not the sort of setting to get anything going again after being out of town four months [and, by the way, did you see what happens when you click on that highlighted “creatures.it”?
Agnes, whom I’d wondered about for years, is interesting on a lot of levels, particularly her long and sola life but my favorite tale [a cautionary one to those all of us of a certain age] is how OMCA came by their one painting as after her death the work dispersed, erratically. It seems years later George Neubert came upon it in a thrift store in Santa Monica and bought it for the collection. My source for that is the well-illustrated “Agnes Pelton, Desert Transcendentalist” from the Phoenix Art Museum….between her and Jaime de Angulo I’ve been having quite a little California trip these past months.
Great to see you, L and the pups!
Thanks for the shout out to my site.
Looks like your new Lumix is working out just fine.
And thanks for the link to Alvin’s “Ashgrove”…tasty.
Agnes Pelton’s work is amazing, but many thanks to Janet for her suggestion of Valda Bailey.
Her in-camera blends are stunning.
Well, well, cataracts, I had mine replaced ages ago, did she get both done with new silicon lenses?
hope it’s all fine
I think they said they were murano glass…one’s done, the other will be in a couple of weeks.