Art in Texas

                                                   Flowers by the Sink-Acrylic on media board

It has been a whole month now since having moved to San Antonio and at times, seems like a blur and that I am living on another planet. San Antonio is HUGE and surprisingly the seventh largest city in the US. Everything I have to do seems like a struggle though; losing my way on these crazy highways, learning where to go to get what, meeting new people and trying to remember names, places and how to get there...The fact that I am completely directionally challenged doesn't help a bit. I have met some lovely people and everyone is just so darned NICE and Friendly! Still, the hot weather is an adjustment and I keep hearing, "Just wait til' August!". Yup.
The Lighthouse for the Blind event at the Witte Museum was such fun. People were everywhere, the food was great and I met a number of folks who said some very nice things about my painting. The couple that ended  up with it was particularly nice, so I'm glad my child has a nice home.
The opening at the Mercury Project on Roosevelt Avenue on Friday night featuring Lars Hundere's work and was lively and full of his fantastic assemblages and paintings. I talked with Lars several times and his true and complete focus on exploring this current work is inspiring and fascinating. In much of his work, one thinks that the "script" written is some kind of verbiage that would enlighten the direction of the painting. But surprisingly, on closer examination, one finds that there is not ONE single, identifiable, real word. Lars told me that if he "accidentally" creates a real word while working, then he messed up and then has to start all over again. So these assembled pieces with their graphic, calligraphic look are not actual words or true symbols as we have come to think of them. They are Lars' words and only he knows their meaning. There are other words stamped out in reverse, some foreign words coupled with music as well as often an accompanying large, graphic, eastern looking symbol(s). Hard to explain it all, so I will insert a piece of his work here and as I always like to say, Let it speak for itself. He sold a number of pieces on Friday night and people were thrilled with being able to acquire some of his work. If I had an inch to spare in our tiny apartment, I would have bought something as well.

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