civilized ku # 1031 ~ a spill

Chery tomatoes on the kitchen floor ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenToday was primarily devoted to processing a batch (not all) of pictures made over the past 10 days while I was away on vacation. Consequently, today I have posted a number of pictures made just before that time - pictures I intended to post while on vacation but never got around to doing so.

Tomorrow I'll post some of the recent pictures and some commentary on making pictures that matter.

Update on Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 11:20AM by gravitas et nugalis

Featured Comment: John Linn asked/wrote: "How much time did you spend arranging the tomatoes? Or is is the spill true? ...I spent some time connecting the dots to see if there was a secret message."

my response: The tomato "arrangement" is the result of a spontaneous accident. The wife opened the frig door and out they came and spilled. And, no, there is no secret message although the lunatic academic art fringe would surely like it if there were. Hmmmm......

civilized ku # 1030 ~ waiting for the wedding couple

A man and his car ~ Au Sable Forks, NY = in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenThe car is a 1914 Ford Depot - made for picking up passengers at a train depot. I don't know the man's name even though the first time I met him he gave me, the wife, and Hugo a ride in the car.

At this meeting, he was waiting outside a church to drive a family friend (my family) and his new wife around the town and to their wedding reception.

civilized ku # 1029 ~ not down the drain

Kitchen sink ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen

civilized ku # 1028 ~ lots of stuff

A neighbor's garage ~ Au Sable Forks - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenRepresentative of a lot of flapdoodle and green paint (I'll explain later).

civilized ku # 1027 ~ summer alpine ski jumping

Summer ski jumping ~ Olympic Ski Jumping Complex / Lake Placid, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenAs mentioned in civilized ku # 1026, we attended an alpine ski jumping exhibition while we were in Lake Placid.

civilized ku # 1026 ~ on the road again

From the chairlift down from the Olympic Ski Jumps ~ Lake Placid, NY • click to embiggenAfter a single night in our own bed on Saturday evening, the wife and I headed in to Lake Placid early Sunday for a 3day/2night get-away - the wife for a conference, me for some golf, good food, and hanging out. The conference closed (last evening) with a ski jump (alpine and aerial) exhibition and Bar-B-Q at the Olympic Jumping Complex.

Today, I'm off to Long Lake for a Mapping the Future of the Adirondack Park conference. Tomorrow, I may actually be able to reacquaint myself with my house and be able to process some of the pictures made over the last 10 days.

civilized ku # 1025 ~ basking in the glow

Porch and rockers ~ Long Lake, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenAfter returning home early Saturday afternoon from our week in Onchiota. the wife and I headed out to Blue Mountain Lake for the life without the APA closing reception.

The event was well attended and quite a few attendees, including a retired commissioner of the APA, wanted to talk to me about the pictures. The work was very well received and many attendees actually thanked me for making the pictures. According to the gallery director, the exhibit was (in her 3 year tenure) by far the most viewer-involved exhibit the Arts Center had displayed. Viewers spent time reading the Artist Statement, looking at the book, closely examining each picture, and asking all kinds of questions about the work.

Needless to say, I was pleased as punch.

After the reception and taking the work down, the wife and I moved on to Long Lake to have dinner at the Lodge formerly known as The Long View Lodge, the place where the wife and I tied the knot. After dinner we had dessert and apéritifs on the porch overlooking the lake.

Overall, it was a very pleasing day.

Today, I'm off to Plattsburgh to deliver the life without the APA and the ART: conveys / transports / reflects prints to the North County Center for the Arts for my next exhibit.

civilized ku # 1024 ~ a diamond in the rough

Six Nations Indian Museum ~ Onchiota, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenEarlier today, the wife, Hugo, and I bicycled down the road a piece to visit the Six Nations Indian Museum.

As is most often the case when I experience firsthand things Native American, I left the museum feeling rather melancholy. It is impossible for me to experience such things without being overwhelmed by thoughts of the fate that befell the Native Indian Nations all across the Americas as Euroman swept across the land like a plague. The word "genocide" barely begins to describe that particular episode in the history of America and the Americas.

In any event, I'll have some additional pictures of the Six Nation Indian Museum - over 3,000 artifacts crammed into a verymodest 4 room building - and a few bits of Native Indian life and culture as soon as I'm back in the saddle (cowboy and indian speak wise).