Never mind the upgraded site improvements that are not... this book is worth reading, even having. Modern Art and these 5 women (the et al meant Joan Mitchell, Grace Hardigan and Helen Frankenthaller) were great inspirations and still mostly unsung. Here is Frankenthaller's 1951
Jugglers.... I was 6 years old and never really wanted to move to NYC anyway. My friend Pat, the godess rest her soul, did wish to a. move to NYC and b. be part of that illustrious past.
Pat also keep trying to get me away from doing figurative work. I only managed that a few years before Pat died. She did her bit with me, I guess. But I am still doing figures.
The real work though is the inner work. So many moments wake up a memory of when I was a shit to somone out of ignorance or arrogance or just plain stupidity and it is my job now, as the memories pop up, to say - oh yeah...I'm sorry about that; please forgive me. If my job won't be done until I ask forgiveness from all the people I was not lovely towards as I attempted to "grow up" then I am likely to live to be 120 years old, which is an actual hope of mine.
I may have mentioned I am painting canvas messenger bags. Liberty's torch has been a favorite image lately.
Did I tell you about the panel discussion of the street artists who didn't want to be just thought of as criminal vandals and yet want to keep the title and street creds as such?? Well, I also would like my cake and to eat it, too. Alas.
No matter what, keep doing your art. Keep loving being alive. Keep meeting up with friends and have a bite to eat and something nice to drink. (don't drive impaired, please and that includes looking at "smart" phones.)
More later, me hardies. Love from the fringes of respectability. Leslie
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