Jan 8
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Yesterday’s, a little late because the paint had to dry. There is something very reassuring about goofing around with 4″ square of paint – you just can’t mess up that badly, and whatever works looks great. I really like the way the pinky-orangey clouds came out. They really looked like that too.

I rode the red mare today, and we had circus class today, and realized I hardly talk about that anymore.

Jan 7
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ice storm today

I should have separated the rain lines, the zig zags are not quite doing it right.

Jan 6
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A front hovered over us all day, the north edge clear the south horizon clouded with the sun making a single brilliant spot. The moon came up in the afternoon – one quarter full.

Jan 5
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Looking at the sky this morning.

Ice covered everything, and gave us a 2 hour delay for school. The clouds were low and gray and blowing past quickly, it warmed up fast, and the ice had melted by lunch time.

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Dec TIF done
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If November is all about Gratitude, then December is all about Generosity, which seems like a good flip side to me.

I was enchanted by these cookies, but taken aback at the amount of effort they required to produce something that was inherently ephemeral. So I thought to make them from fabric. I am obliged to the cookies' maker for giving permission to use her photo for inspiration. My plans for the end results are to give them to teachers from the past year; Circus teachers, riding instructors and yoga teachers, all have substantially improved my year and I should thank them.

Kronasaur at Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, by Aerin
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it is all Aerin’s work.

Admire.

Sol Lewitt Wall Pieces at Mass MoCA
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The Artist Support Group (4 out of 5 or 6 of us) Travelled west to North Adams to see the Sol Lewitt wall pieces retrospective at Mass MoCA. It was interesting, and frustrating, and illuminating, and partly quite funny.

The building itself is the fabulous late-19th/early 20th century industrial design, all bricks and giant trees for trusses and turnbuckles on iron bars the size of my thumb holding it all together (plus about 28 coats of paint coming off in verry scenic worn ways). The Lewitt exhibit was on three floors arranged chronologically. We started in the middle. The colors were muted, the shapes large and interesting, the pieces huge. One of the great things about MassMoCA is that it has these HUGE spaces for display that are still inside.

Up one floor, the colors got so intense I couldn’t look at some for too long, they made my eyes buzz. My favorite there was a long black wall matte black on top,shiny black on the bottom. When photographed the shiny black reflects and looks anything but black.

Down to the earlier work we got the giggles. One official piece was a huge existing wall, with doors and fire alarms and beams at intervals on which people had gone silly with a chalk line. There were some very detailed instructions on the wall about how to create the particular piece on the wall which made it feel very recursive. We had the most fun in one that did not photograph at all well, but made each of us think of something different; a set of lines and arcs across a square, in pairs. The entire piece was all the possible combinations without replacement (the mathematical formula for it is a factorial, with an exclamation point, which used to make happy every time I used it in math. I mean; 20! How is that not good?) we stood there for a long time pointing out particular runs of combinations we liked, and arguing over whether a lapse in the pattern was play or rigorous adherence to the pattern. (rigorous adherence)

Then we flew through the rest of the place because we had left later than we meant to and someone (sorry) was starving and couldn’t go on without food.

To quote the message as delivered to me:

I'm so pleased. I've been waiting for this for a long time. Which startles me.

Halloween 2008
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strictly for my mom- (Hi Mum!) – here are Piratica, terror of the seven seas and a young Narbon, evil mad genius inpsired by Narbonic.