Irene’s Story Continues
Life continues to get in the way of doing somethings like blogging. I’ve been pretty busy with kids, family, holidays and business details. It’s all good, just kind of crazy some days. Allergies have run amuck in our household and everyone has been stuffed up. A chaos of toys, clothes, papers, and pet hair has taken over the house and I really don’t want to deal with it. I am dealing with it, but I don’t want to. I went to an art retreat with my art group a few weeks ago and I have yet to unpack. All the above mentioned things have left me with little motivation to clean and settle my art supplies back into their homes, hence no art has progressed. But I have managed to shop for some really cool items. One of them was a board like this one. Nope, not from QVC though. I knew Costco had them a few months ago and I really wanted one but we didn’t have funds for anything extra at the time. So this last week I managed to get over to the store and went straight to the shelves that housed the boards and found one, the floor model. I didn’t care. I grabbed it and pulled the tag off the shelf that had the price on it, for the cashier. Then I got over to our local bead shop on Saturday and fed the bead monster inside me. It was needed.
But with all that I have been visiting my in-laws once a week to photograph paintings. Irene’s story continues to unfold for me and I am loving it. Her story would make a great novel. Maybe someday it will. Her self portrait was pulled out of a second ‘Paintings Closet’ and I could stare at this for hours and still not see all the symbolism. Silent Shrine was in memory of the bombing of Hiroshima and it is an amazing piece of work. The Mystic creeped me out, but so far that is the only one.
I head back this week again with both the boys in tow. The older one is off for the week. So they get to have some quality fun time with Grandpa which will probably involve some water balloons and/or water guns. I’ll be sure to pack a change of clothes for them.
At some point this week, I hope to reassemble my work area and get back to work on something creative.
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That’s one of my biggest “issues” – unpacking after retreats when you get sucked back into routines. Love the little ironing board and thanks so much for continuing to share the paintings, I’m really enjoying seeing them.