I’m going to be traveling off to teach a couple workshops soon. When I’m away from home I also drop out of the cyber world, so don’t expect much to be happening in the blog for a little bit. Still, before I leave I wanted to cover one other winter themed item. My wildly optimistic hope is that by the time I’ve returned March will have made its shift to spring like weather! Yeah, I know, we’ll probably all be laughing about this under several feet of snow at the end of the month, but a guy can dream.
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Snow Shoveling Made Easier
It was a dark and stormy night, or so the proverbial first line of a story goes. This particular dark and stormy night must have been punctuated with a tremendous “whump” as one of only two massive oak trees on my property came crashing down. I was quite depressed the next morning to see that beauty laid out in the drainage ditch and up onto the road. Still I wasn’t that shocked as it was half dead by that point after the road crew which dug that ditch a few years earlier took out a major root of the tree in the process.
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In the last post I mentioned the three Es. I really need to write more about these soon, but that is something of a conceptual post. Mind you I have nothing against conceptual writings. I expect to engaging in a fair amount of that here with this blog project. In fact, as an artist my personal experience has been that the written word is probably the best avenue to try and convey complex concepts. Maybe it’s just me, but conceptual art trying to communicate its ideas through visuals alone often seems lacking, usually requiring a written statement to go with it that actually explains the concepts.
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