Shown above is a detailed portion of "Know" by Leigh Pawling and Richard AstonOctober First Friday will be a celebration of the collaboration Artist for Art and The Mulberry Poet, Writers Association. Twelve Artists an twelve writers were paired at random and asked to be completely open to the imaginative process that arises during collaboration. I was paired with Richard Aston - an accomplished poet who works with words and letters in a visual manner. We met several times and settled on working together on a 'visual poem' called KNOW. The collaboration resulted in a colorful, dimensional, frenetic, transition from his original version.
"A Dozen Assorted" will be on exhibition through October 30th. An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 1st from 6-9. There will be a second reception and reading on Friday, October 15th at 7PM at the AFA Gallery 514 Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Friday night was a joy filled evening with a large attendence to the Collective Vision Exhibition at the Shulman Gallery at LCCC. Shown above is me with artist Allison Maslow in front of my series "Variations on a Theme". The group shot is from left to right: curator Kelly Olszyk, Jim Lennox, me, Maria Livrone, President of the college Thomas Leary, and Roxanne Shulman. Bottom Row: Barbro Jernberg, Nina Davidowitz, Allison Maslow, and Art Miller. The show is up till October 16th.
Weez was a little put off having to spend the day at the groomers - it cramps her normal active lifestyle. The whole event proves to be a bit of a nuisance for her but she looks even prettier then ususal. She's giving me a look like "ok, Mom, that's enough with the camera!"
As appreciation to Joe Amato and Andrea Donten for hosting the United Way fundraising event in September, I've been commissioned to make a scarf for Andrea. A different Andrea suggested I twist the two scarves together to make a cool belt which is shown above..
Twins Dawn and Donna gave their mom a special birthday surprise by taking her for the day. The neat thing Trish didn't know where she was going and lucky for me... the first stop was a two hour art fest where they worked on collage pieces. Afterwards they were taking her to see Eat, Pray, Love and then probably after seeing that movie a feast of Italian food!
Dawn recently had a book published I Know When to Stay Quiet due in October. Donna did the photograph for the book cover. Needless to say, Trish is one proud Mom. : )
