Artnotes: An Old Friend

 

The Blue Horse    Laurie Fox Pessemier   Acrylic/paper  17 x 23.5"   43 x 60cm  275.00 I have been writing poems lately.   It feels more comfortable than painting right now.  Painting can make me feel exhausted.  It’s not holding the brush, but the feeling of moving what I am seeing from my brain onto the paper or canvas. Is it good enough?   With the poetry, it flows, and as it does, more flows.  It’s not good enough, but I don’t care. On the way to Bologna today, I explained this all to Blair, who is a much more fluid person than me, and does what comes naturally.   I think this is the difference between type A and type B people.  I am compelled to paint or write poetry or cook food for 14 people like a madwoman.   I am not abandoning painting, just rethinking it until I can see through. at the museum Raccolte di Cardinale Giacopo Lercaro At 9AM, we were on our way to the “Raccolte di Cardinale Giacomo Lecaro”, an art museum attached to an art residence.  When we got there, the woman at the desk told us Cardinal Lercaro (d. 1976 at 84 years) was a most unusual man, and she hoped we would enjoy the museum.  We did.    There were many unusual items from fossils, to work by Picasso, to Renaissance madonnas, and very contemporary sculpture.  We were the only visitors, and the museum was free (donations accepted). Of course, when I got home I had to look up Lercaro, and he was a very unusual man.  He was nearly elected pope, and would have been a pope very much like the current Francesco.  Lercaro’s motto, which he had inscribed upon the altar of the Cathedral of San Pietro in Bologna, was, “If we share the bread of heaven, how can we not share our bread here on earth?”   He had 70 underprivileged students living with him, and he was an outspoken liberal, a bit like Bernie Sanders.  His undoing was his opposition to the Vietnam War, when he was asked to step down by the pope.  You can just imagine how good it felt to know about all this, and visit the museum, and think you found an old friend.   Wildflowers   Laurie Fox Pessemier   Acrylic/paper  17 x 23.5"   43 x 60cm  275.00 I wished hard for something to do not just today but always  A river of words started to build Filling with ideas, expressions Until it spilled over the edge And splashed Into this great pool of Poetry   The Pool    Laurie Pessemier  acrylic/canvas16 x 18"  40 x 46cm    550.00   Sign up for Artnotes by contacting me at lfpessemier@gmail.com INVITING All Artists to present their Work:   Paint, Literature, Crafts, Food.... Pessemier's Sunday Salon Weekly on Sunday  No Reservation Necessary   How it works: Bring a piece of your ART: that could be visual, like painting or printmaking; or literary, as in poetry or prose; or crafts, like metalwork or knitting; or food, or music.  Something you made, or feel particularly inspired by.  You have about 5 minutes to present, and we'll ooh, ahh, or answer questions you have.  You can also come and see how we work before diving in.  Just show up on Zoom at a minute or two before the hour.    No selling, no networking until after everyone has presented. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88093708954?pwd=M04zNHB4dFZkREp3bThweUd1YnVDZz09 Meeting ID: 880 9370 8954 Passcode: 886402 Rome 8PM; NY 2 PM; LosAngeles 11AM