So today my thoughts travel through the seasons an ideal metaphor for humanity. Winter outside I’m older. The observation is more back, weighing events and roads taken. The image today is Summer, Assholes Garage Central Avenue Albuquerque. Summer where each new step is the beginning of an adventure. Summer I am younger and the vision is forward like a bee in a field of flowers awestruck by all the pollination options. So much to do, too many creative avenues to take, every block provides three new choices. In the summer we would listen to Tom Rush sing Joni Mitchell’s “The Circle Game” a band of gypsies following a meandering straight line that would never end and certainly not in winter. But winter comes and the rejuvenating of dark, cold, short days stretch out beyond the sight of the Forsythia’s first Yellow Light and the short solos of the Purple Crocus taunting winters last cool breezes bursting out in sunny spaces while snow retreats to the shade.
For today and the next few posts I will visit summer mostly through the blossoms of New Mexico artists and their public exhibits. Four days in Albuquerque provided a myriad of paths to art some by local artists some pollinated by my vision.
In summer people tent to speak more so pretend it is summer offer a metaphor, story or just a hello and if anyone knows who painted the Garage [all four sides] please ring in with a name. I searched for a signature and knocked on the door without an answer.
Warm summer thoughts to all don’t forget the sun screen. enjoy pjc
Keeping the Child
In March of 2001 I moved to ArtSpace Norwich shortly after I met Berta and her two boys. I’ve watched them grow and shot them numerous times. Kids make a great Metaphor for the times. From skateboards to video games and soon the army I’ve observed these two keeping the child in themselves and me.
The problem with keeping the child is selfishness. The I in child is always upper case, as we grow a longing for the I to become we! Why? All the usual answers apply, romance, procreation, religion, hormones. That is the way it has always been! As the world shrinks and technology creates convenience and lack of discipline [stick to it] the we becomes a feeble effort to possess, love takes on the roll of conquest. A lasting relationship with a significant other [if you do not understand it give it a new name] Simplicity is the most difficult concept to grasp. It requires you know yourself and there are so many other things to possess. Is it all just hormones? Do we just intellectualize because evolution ended with us. We are the deity so we must have values [or pretend to] above animals. We possess and possess and conquer and possess. Greed it is I.
Winter light flashes on Snow. 2009 comes slipping in.
Bitter cold, snow and gusting winds blew in 2009! Yet it was warm and quiet in my world. New year, new plan, perhaps I’ll enter the new millennium? Not one to make snap decisions I’ll ponder a little longer. Pondering is a lost art I still practice, considering different viewpoints asking Why? There was a party [not New Years] for the holidaze a small gathering of friends who came together for M+Ms and Mexican food but mostly to share some love for a friend home for the Holidaze from Iraq. Why? Why are we there again? or what is this nano seconds explanation/spin?
There was also booze, fireworks cookies real and genuine imitation Ginger Bread. Just rambling here, a couple new late 2008 images and attempts to figure out what comes next. Peace would be different but don’t bet the refinanced home on it. enjoy pjc
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