A place amongst the winners

I had this email in my in box yesterday:

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Hi
You’ve won a place in our Seascapes Winner’s Video – well done!
I shall be in touch to let you know when the video has been made.
Congratulations!

Kindest Regards
Jean
http://www.artistsinfo.co.uk – Global Artist Guide

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Here are the images I submitted.  One of the nice things about this type of competition is that I can submit pieces that are in their forever homes – which is useful when there’s a theme that I don’t have much current work that fits it.

“Sailing Home”

“Wavecrest”. That little wave on the right was actually a happy mistake

“Movement, stillness”. This was born from leftover pieces from a commission.

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Climate change is emptying the desert of birds — Anthropocene

Wildfires north of the Arctic Circle, a “fire tornado” in California, and heat records busted across wide swaths of the globe: the extremes of 2018 have given rise to headlines proclaiming that climate change has arrived. But for birds living in the Mojave Desert of southern California and Nevada, climate change has already been here…

via Climate change is emptying the desert of birds — Anthropocene

Sonnet Challenge #27

I realized that I had not posted this sonnet, despite the fact that it was inspired by the experience of a fellow blogger.  Rhi had gone for a very important interview and had asked for some accommodations to help with the difficulties with environment unfamiliarity due to autism.  They guessed at how they needed to overcome her difficulties and did not succeed too much.  Perhaps as a consequence, neither did she at securing the job.  I recommend you read her blog entry before you read the sonnet.

A day in your moccasins

We able-bodied try to understand
the difficulties of the body bent
into a chair, or missing foot or hand
by hobbling ourselves, with the intent
of walking in your shoes – or wheels – or world
of silence. We can don masks, hold a cane,
experience the perspective of hands curled
to uselessnes by age’s creeping pain.
This path we walked can help us build a bridge
across the chasms that hold back those not whole;
and yet one group we still leave on the edge
unable to feel how you’re untypical.
We can’t take steps inside a spectrum mind.
Only see footprints in the sand you left behind.

San Bernardino Art Association Show

On Friday afternoon I went to the SBAA Membership show reception.  This is at the National Orange Show gallery in San Bernardino.  As it is a small venue, we were only encouraged to bring one guest.  (One of my gallerists usually encourages us to bring our hundred closest friends to all receptions in the hope that there is more likelihood of a sale or six. 🙂 )

I didn’t win any ribbons but did have some interesting conversations and made a couple new friends.

I  took the pictures after the crowd had somewhat wandered outside for the tacos.

Recognize anything?

Something looks familiar in here too…..

The painting with the yellow ribbon took best of show.

Anniversary at the Vanguard

My strong association with the Vanguard Gallery in Moreno Valley – I teach there, curate about a third of the year’s shows and sit on the advisory committee – goes back pretty much to its inception 7 years ago.  For August Rick didn’t have a theme he wanted to work on and I couldn’t find another artist so I had to fill the walls myself.  I had lost track of the years, but the reception is going to be the 7th Anniversary of the Vanguard.  A few special items will be scheduled, including a mini petting zoo with some rabbits and birds, and probably Rick will come up with some other things between now and then – then being August 11th 5-7pm.  In the mean time, here’s the show wall of the gallery.

Monthly newsletter

I seem to be competing so much these days!!….. Here’s my monthly newsletter.

CAS newsletter

I always enjoy reading and passing along the Cloud Appreciation Society newsletter.  I especially liked the article about harvesting for.  It is unusually humid in the desert this month – usually the humidity doesn’t start until August, but we’ve already had a month when the A/C has been harvesting humidity in the house and pumping it outside to a dish from which the local rabbits enjoy drinking.