Yes, I've been slowly plugging away at the painting, although reality caught up and I became very busy in the shop and out. I am working on an exhibit of Transcendentalist Books for the Cantor Gallery at Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA. The collection has come from the
Sant Bani School in
Sanbornton, NH.
Here is a PDF from their site discussing some of the books and the thinking of the transcendentalists. The exhibit follows an interesting
meandering brook that leads from Thoreau's dictionary to
Elvis Presley's copy of
Kahil Gibran's The Prophet. I went out there to measure and handle the books for custom Plexiglas mounts fabricated to hold them safely open to specific pages.
I've also been working a piece for
Jane Lund's annual invitational exhibit at the
Northampton Center for the Arts. This years theme is
Let's Play, Artist's Look at Toys. I went through three iterations before settling into re-working a clock from the past I was never too satisfied with.
The yellow feather is the second hand and as such moves fairly quickly. The minute hand is the maple seed and the hour hand is a sable paint brush. The airplane is made of old
barn board. When I was a kid, we used to take apart the old buildings of an abandoned farm behind my neighborhood. We'd spend all day straightening bent nails with a rock and then build things with the wood. Besides building forts, we made a few fairly large airplanes, some with 10 foot wingspans that we would then throw off a 3o foot cliff in the woods..... great fun.
Behind the second hand it says
Tempus Fugit (written backwards of course) and behind the shell is a penny.
