Artnotes: Shhhhh

 

Stimigliano View from House     Laurie Fox Pessemier    Acrylic/canvas   12 x 18 "  30 x 45cm  475.00

“Carlo’s making a movie at the church,” Gianfranco said on Monday morning.  We walked by to check it out.  Carl asked if we wanted to be extras, and perhaps imprudently, we said “YES”.   Carl says filming is just all about being quiet and waiting.   The rest of the morning was spent sitting in the church at the “funeral” of an Italian guy… The deceased comes back from the dead to deliver a soliloquy.   We ask him if seeing himself dead is troubling.   Oh, no, Italo tells us, in fact if you dream of your own funeral, it means you will live a long life.

Small Altar   Laurie Pessemier  Acrylic/wood  13  x 5.5"  33 X  14cm  190.00

Carl has a film school in Rome, and he and his wife, Carmen, just bought a house here in Stimigliano.  His students are up here making a movie, much simpler than filming in Rome.  They are the most delightful group of people we’ve run across in a long time – from three continents, to boot.

San Bernadino   Laurie Fox Pessemier    Acrylic/cardboard      11 x 9"  . 27.5 x 22cm   150.00

It was a tough role for me – we were in the front row of the church, and we were supposed to look grief-stricken.  I hope I never have a reason to really look grief-stricken, because I am too much of a Pollyanna.   I almost always see the bright side. Both Blair and I hadn’t spent this much time in a church for a while, and we examined all the details.   There are different saints here, like San  Bernadino (all I can think of is Route 66), Cosmos and Damien;  some the labels were too far away to identify.  I painted San Bernadino in here one cold day a couple of years ago.

Photo in the Church

We have a guest from Seattle, who fortunately chose that day to sleep in – when we finished up, we dashed to Farfa, and the Trattoria da Lupi, where I had the best bean and pasta dish EVER.  We also found a table in our antique merchant’s workshop, which might allow us a mini remodel here in Stimigliano.

Waiting for a Fish   Laurie Fox Pessemier  Acrylic/canvas  10 x 20"   25 x 50cm  475.00

We finished up our roles, outside of the church on Wednesday.  Our guest took the opportunity to make her own movie of the process.  Everything worked out.  Shhhh.

Matchboxes for our winter fair on 1 December.

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