Artnotes: The Lost Paragraph

 

The Model (I've been painting a model online with a friend from Alaska -- she paints at 9PM and I paint at 7AM)   9 x 12"  23 x 30cm  Acrylic on Paper   90.00   A couple of weeks ago, I lost a paragraph from Artnotes:  Wild Water.  I found it and liked it and thought I would include it:  On our morning walk with Berlino (7 am) I watch an Italian man tending his grapes.  He is older, sinewy, skin the color of polished wood to match his brimmed straw hat.  Baggy grey green trousers and an oft-washed short sleeve shirt make him look like the “grubby old men” I refer to at the café.  He inspects his vines holding the bud in a surprisingly tender gesture.  It is as if he is one with his plants, his land, his scorching sun.  I have never really experienced that feeling, except sometimes in the water.  I lived most of my life near asphalt, concrete and painfully cut grass (who thought of that anyway?).    At least in wild water (not pools) I am one with something real, touching me all over.  I love that.   The Firefly   Blair Pessemier  Acrylic/canvas panel 12 x 9.5  30 x 23cm   390.00 It is so hot here in Italy, Blair and I have taken to sleeping downstairs.  The ground floor of our house is “on grade” and maintains a pretty cool temperature.   It is where the horse(s) lived, but now has terra cotta paving.   On Thursday morning, 4 AM, a firefly passed through, blinking his yellow green beacon.   As if on cue, the nightingale burst into song.  It was a magical endorsement of our new summer digs, and both of us were present.  Berlino has not made the move downstairs, but I think he will.   The Eight Immortals It is, for me, too hot to do much of anything.  I construct cold meals.  Gazpacho, cold duck salad, veal tonnato – and I make potato salad with pickles; celeriac remoulade.  I’m thinking cherry jam, but it’s just too hot out.    I finished my Eight Immortals painting on cheesecloth.  Blair has started on some Chinese Zodiac pictures/sculptures.  We might make a show in July at our gallery.  As far as I can tell, about 200 people looked through our window wall at the “Go Fish” exhibit.  I have the location on Google maps, and it records who got directions.   I am going to push the Eight Immortals Exhibit a little harder, looking for a more frequented gallery…it will be easy to ship worldwide, as the gauze is super light.  Any ideas gladly accepted.   Chinese Monkey  Blair Pessemier  Acrylic/canvas 13 x 9.5"  33 x 23 cm  390.00 I’ve been seeking cooler venues for Summer Vacation.  Austria (Vienna area) seems possible, but I have an uncommunicative Airbnb host – not a good sign in case of a leak.  I’d really like to go to Poland:  there’s a show of posters at the Warsaw museum and also a Jozef Czapski exhibit.  It’s a 12+ hour drive, however.   Really, any romantic cottage on any swimmable lake seems ideal – the cooler and closer the better.  Oh, yeah, throw in a few fireflies.

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