Borghese Garden Blair Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 22 x 28" 56 x 71cm
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Big Boar Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/newspaper 17 x 25" 43 x 63cm
Running Boar Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/newspaper 17 x 25" 43 x 63cm
Baby Boar Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/newspaper 17 x 25" 43 x 63cm
Every morning this week we have heard gunshots while on our
walk. It’s a bit disconcerting, but part
of living in the country. Men are out
hunting boar. There are numerous boar
(and boors) all over Italy, and they are not endangered. Still, the idea of killing them is always a
bit difficult.
When we get back home, I sort through the generous
contribution of several hundred books for the American Library from a scholar
who lives in Florence. There is a book
by the famous physicist Feynman called “Six Not-So-Easy Pieces”. As I finished the chapter on Vectors, I
thought this could be interesting. It made me think about Cubism and Abstract
Art.
One of my 2018 resolutions is to “grow” my art. There are a few ways to do that, and changing
the way I think and see things could be one solution. I have also been watching Feynman’s lectures
at Cornell University from the 1960s. I am
working on the law of Gravitation, the first physical law. It will take a while before I amalgamate
Physics and Art, but I am hoping it all mixes together with the help of my
Muse.
I am probably going to move most of my library from Rocca
Malatina to Stimigliano. Our studio has
an ideal wall for a bookcase, and I can receive borrowers there. There should be more borrowers in that
region near Rome. The library will serve
as our art studio as well, encouraging borrowers to buy paintings.
On one of our walks, we encountered a man in hunting
garb. “Are you a cacciatore?” Blair asked him.
Yes, was the reply and he went on to talk about a boar he shot that day
that weighed more than 100 kilos. Harika
was growling slightly. The man spoke a
very little English, and together we learned about one another. His son lives in Chicago where he works as a
physicist for NASA. We went by the
fellows house and yard where he dressed the boar, and now Harika barks when she
sees him.
We went to the flea market today
looking for a sofa for the new house.
Instead, we bought a collection of ten antique hand puppets. I am not quite sure how to explain that,
either.
