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Entries from July 1, 2013 - July 31, 2013
ku # 1250 ~ 1 thing I saw over the past week (more to come) / idyll with still life

Idyll with still life ~ Taylor Pond Wild Forest, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenA 4 mile paddle to the end of Taylor Pond - 8 miles from our house - brings one to a rather idyllic section of wild forest where a primitive campsite can be found where upon one can idle away, say, 3 nights and 4 days within earshot of laughing loons, hooting owls, screeching eagles, water-slapping beaver, and croaking frogs (to name just a few melodious delights). So the wife and I + some family and a friend made the paddle, set our motors on idle, and set about idling away.
pictures + words ~ pictures 1-4, words a-d

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# 4 • click to embiggenAs previously noted, the pictures + words project was introduced to the gallery-going public on Saturday last. The work from this nascent project, a collaboration between myself and a writer, Cynthia Hecht, was exhibited in a group show at a gallery in Phoenica, NY. At this early stage of the game, we were grateful for the opportunity to exhibit the work and garner some feedback - a kinda "taking the show on the road" in order to polish the act sorta thing.
Our work, which was exhibited alongside a broad range of artwork, genre wise, was most definitely the most demanding work in exhibit. That is to write, if one were to "get it" or even just try to "get it", it required a concentrated effort in assimilating both the writings and the pictures (diptychs) and addressing the notion of how there are related. Add to that endeavor the thought involved in determining how the individual pictures in each diptych are also related* ... it takes a fair amount more than a glancing look to get into the work.
That written, a reasonable number of attendees did take the time to get into the work (favorite comment = "This is serious work."), especially so considering the fact that there was prodigious amount of cheap wine swilling, homemade finger food munching, and socializing afoot.
In any event, Cynthia and I came away from the event feeling good about the work and energized to "keep on truckin'", project wise. (FYI, that last phrase was influenced by the fact that, with Phoenica's very close proximity to Woodstock, the gallery audience was heavy weighted toward the well-age 60s counterculture - aka, hippy - crowd).
FYI, the pictures in the exhibit are exhibited as a grouping which is separate from the grouping of the writings. As previously noted, the writings and pictures are not related to one another, as in, specific writings are not caption-wise related to specific diptychs. It is our intent to let the writings and pictures stand as independent thought invoking entities. Although, it is our hope that observers of the ADjoined / COjoined works will make the connection between the two seemingly different works.
*As a kinda visual helper, I did include one diptych in the exhibit in which the individual pictures were quite obviously connected - a diptych which provoked some laughing-out-loud reactions. Don't know if the diptych will remain as a permanent part of the project.
civilized ku # 2552-60 ~ some things I saw this past weekend + the pubic debut of pictures + words

pictures + words ~ Phoenica, NY - in the Catskill Park Park • click to embiggen
Recycling ~ Phoenica, NY - in the Catskill Park Park • click to embiggen
Produce / fruit ~ Phoenica, NY - in the Catskill Park Park • click to embiggen
Screen door / kitchen ~ Phoenica, NY - in the Catskill Park Park • click to embiggen
Bathroom stuff ~ Phoenica, NY - in the Catskill Park Park • click to embiggen
Magic House ~ Phoenica, NY - in the Catskill Park Park • click to embiggen
Pool drama ~ Phoenica, NY - in the Catskill Park Park • click to embiggen
Bicycle ~ Phoenica, NY - in the Catskill Park Park • click to embiggen
Old railroad car ~ Phoenica, NY - in the Catskill Park Park • click to embiggenLast Friday, the wife, Cindy, Hugo and I went to Phoenica, NY (in the Catskill Park) at 85-90mph to visit family and attend the opening of the group show in which 5 pieces of the pictures + words project were exhibited. Some people got it while others didn't seem to try to get it. There was wine and food and a big crowd. It was enjoyable and it was hot. We had ice cream cones to cool off. It was all good.
While hanging out with the wife's brother and family + friends, we drank some spirits, 7 naked women took a night swim, the kids played, food was cooked and consumed, showers were taken, and there was a good bit of just sitting around watching the world go by.
Even though I had to get up off my ass, I did make some pictures of the world as it was passing by.

Featured Comment: John Linn wrote: "Wow, they did not give you much wall space ...."
my response: Even though the gallery is rather large - 2 main rooms + 2 smaller rooms - space was quite tight due the number of exhibitors + their artworks. However, we were very delighted to see that our work was the only work to have an entire wall (in one of the small rooms) devoted to a single exhibitor's work.
That was very good thing inasmuch as our work did not have to compete visually with surrounding work on the same wall.
civilized ku 2547-51 / ku # 1249 ~ some things I saw over the past week

Hugo's penalty shot ~ US Military Academy / West Point, NY • click to embiggen
Porch thru screen ~ Phoenica, NY - in the Catskill Mountains • click to embiggen
Dining thru screen ~ Phoenica, NY - in the Catskill Mountains • click to embiggen
View from our porch ~ The Haus / Lake Placid, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
On the deck ~ High Peaks Resort / Lake Placid, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
On the roof ~ High Peaks Resort / Lake Placid, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Large and small tree with shade and wild growth ~ Plattsburg, NY • click to embiggenWent to West Point last week to watch Hugo's final game at hockey camp and then went to Phoenica with Cindy to present our picture + words project to a gallery where we were immediately offered the opportunity to exhibit 5 pieces in a group show with an opening this Saturday. Upon my return home, the wife and I went to Lake Placid for 4 days/3 nights where we had my birthday dinner and she attended a conference. After that little trip, I went to Plattsburg to run a few errands and I saw a tree and then I made a picture of it.
More about the exhibit in tomorrow's entry.
civilized ku # 2540-46 / ku # 1248 ~ what I saw on the 4th of July (Independence Day)

American Bald Eagle ~ Fern Lake, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Boat parade ~ Fern Lake, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Boat parade ~ Fern Lake, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
4th of July cake ~ Fern Lake, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Waiting ~ Lake Placid, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Waiting ~ Lake Placid, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Waiting ~ Lake Placid, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenNo more waiting - fireworks ~ Lake Placid, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenLate yesterday afternoon, the rain stopped, the sun came out, an American Bald Eagle landed close by in a tree, boats festooned with 4th of July paraphernalia paraded by, the wife baked a 4th of July flag cake, went to Lake Placid and passed time with a beer while waiting for fireworks, and then climbed in our canoe and paddled out to position ourselves at a spot on the water where the fireworks would explode over our heads. After which the fireworks exploded over our heads.
rain # 67-69 ~ more of the same

Moisture covered window ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Flood stage river ~ East Branch Au Sable River / Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Flood stage river ~ East Branch Au Sable River / Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenRain just keeps on coming - roads closed / washed out, mainline trains stopped dead in their tracks (pun) with 300 passengers transferred to buses, evacuations, and lakes and rivers well past flood stage. And guess what? - more rain is on the way for the next 3 days.
And, during those short intervals when the rain stops and the sun peeks out, it is so humid it feels like a rain forest - windows fog up, porcelain toilet tanks sweat like a 350lb person sitting in sauna, and heaven help you if you boil a small pot of water for rice - BTW, speaking of toilets, thanks to the rain that's where my golf game is currently located.
Enough already. Anyone out there know the dance steps for an anti-rain dance?
Mark Hobson - Physically, Emotionally and Intellectually Engaged Since 1947