Yes we have all had more time to slow down and observe it but its been exceptional in a part of the world that has exceptional spring glory. The perfect clear blue skies have been a reminder of what our environment should be like, not the hazy that’s become the norm. How many of us have rededicated ourselves to living gently on the earth. To refusing to bring any more plastic into our homes, into our lives. To reassessing every automobile trip and realizing most of them are unnecessary. To living with less stuff, less busy, is no hardship.
So nice to see posters grouped in unexpected ways
Love getting these pictures
From purchasers of my artwork who so thoughtfully send photos of it installed in their homes :-) Really brightens some of these dark days. Wishing hope and light to all, gratitude, Barbara
Consider tipping - click on Buy Now and see Options for Donations in increments of of $100s and $10s. Thank you so much
Virus-related total dropoff in sales (galleries and markets are closed for the foreseeable future, orders cancelled) and commissions is bad news for those of us who make our living through our art. UPDATE: I am floored that unemployment is available. If I dedicate every penny of it maybe I can pay our health insurance. Please donate through the Online Store - or consider a home portrait to brighten these dark days - we’re all certainly spending a lot of time there!
If joy is cherry blossoms and polka dots
As per designer Ingrid Fetell Lee’s TEd talk (and I think she’s right) we are living in a Yayoi Kusama installation right now
Joy
see 2/26 blog post referencing Youtube talk by a person who researched what gives us joy - cherry blossoms AND polka dots appeared this dark morning in this dark time. Be well.
Going Down Fighting
Play it LOUD
Come on, you’re the one that brought us here, I can’t believe what you say, tell me you’re kidding
Hell no, you’re not gonna leave us stranded here, no way, you’ve ruined everything
Can’t you see we’re lost without you, though we hate to say
There's so much at cost; you know it’s true, and you can only take
Oh, we’ve heard it all before, and now we’ll hear it once again
Take your cut and go, leave us out in the cold, you can never get away, not this time
Going down fighting
If you never want us to return again that’s fine with me, not gonna stand for thievery
I know, you probably think that you’re gonna get away with your little game, but rules are made for breaking
Can’t you see we’re lost
There's so much at cost
Oh we’ve heard it all before, and now we’ll hear it once again
Stop this lying to yourself
You’re crying to an empty floor, and we are not to blame
Stop denying
by Unleash the Archers, 2017
Bright spot in this dark time
Cultivate your garden whether metaphorical or the real deal. Nurture kindness. We are all in this together.
Statue for the common man, that's all of us (mostly all)
More about this proposed statue here if you are interested
Joy!
Is cherry blossoms and bubbles and polka dots. It’s been researched - and here is a delightful Ted talk about it - about delight.
Was known for my polka dotted minivan back in the day
Mind mending history
Have to stop the audio every other sentence to digest the information.
932 pages. I listen to these bigass books as I work. Bad as things are things are better than they were - ? Gottta fight for your right!
Amy Berman Jackson
Repost of this contemporary federal judge, a she-hero who I created a poster of many months ago. She is in the news as our fascist-in-chief denounces her for doing the job she is entrusted to do -telling the truth- which he finds is not in favor of his crimey friends. Wah wah wah. Of course a female is his preferred target for abuse. Really worrying times and though I usually avoid politics on this blog and prefer to limit it it to WorldProgressAssociation.org this stuff needs to be said in polite company.
Catskills
This one got forgotten until this morning when I came across it. This is a beautiful spot in the Shawangunks area of New York’s Catskill Mountains. I miss New York.
Yellow Sky
Improbable though sometimes this happens, doesn’t matter: it captures the way the light bounces around in the water caught in the air. This has the feel of country roads in the area. Winter fields yellowed, makes the mountains even more startlingly blue by comparison.
Sometimes its nice just to make a landscape, no words.
2020 will be a year of exhibiting my work
Starting in February with Bloom
North Gallery
Bloom: In Honor of the Centennial Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage
Home portrait - my fave so far
Granted I had a lot to work with here - a stunning photo of a lovely house and a happy client - - -
Virginia History
Coming back from Morocco it hit me with a perfumed chorus of crickets - Virginia is a limpid verdant paradise. The air is sweet and crackling with water. Virginia is so alive. Virginia is green.
Morocco
A feast for the eyes.
More to come, but first, major props to the graphic designer who has the name of this product in Latin alphabet (left to right, in red) and in Arabic script (right to left, in blue), simultaneously, intertwined. Surely this artist is intimately acquainted with the brilliant Arabic calligraphy tradition. Not only an ancient art.
New Poster
Based on the old postrer
