We are curled up at home
this weekend. I’m puttering about. No, the living room isn’t going blue so very
soon after the latest color change, but I liked seeing these two pieces this
morning. The big piece needs a new frame and glass, but
I love its color and passion. Artist:
Milaka Hawkins. Don’t all mothers save
their children’s artwork in giant frames?
The smaller painting is one of
Don’t DeLlamas’s Horizon Line pieces.
Most of these are more hard edged, but we all were drawn to the softness
of this one. G and I bought it after Don’s
way too early death.
G’s helping me this
morning by downloading my 2014 and 2015’s journals to discs. I have firm doubts about this being the
permanent way of keeping my journals.
Years ago, I thought floppies would be with us forever. Then there was ZIP discs. Now CDs.
But I keep the ephemera from each year in archival boxes, and I want a
record of the written word kept with them.
I’ve been having
nightmares about what I could do with them.
It would be wonderful if SDSU would take them, but I have trouble
visualizing State accepting my 50 fifty plus moldy crumbling journals. I really don’t want to leave them for the
kids or G to deal with them, but they constitute my only 40 year on going art
and recording project. It’s a “hey-I’m
dead-and-here’s-my-legacy” sort of thing.
No, I don’t want to burn
any of them just find a home for them.
Such good news, Mage. Bask in the normal things in life now that you have a new lease on it.
ReplyDeleteAdd my gratitude for your good news. Great pictures. I'm still trying to figure out where mine fit in the condo. Going on two years, about half are hung up. ;-)
ReplyDeleteWould memory sticks (flash drives) not be more convenient than CDs? More expensive, I suppose, but less bother, I think.
ReplyDeleteI like that larger image.. the colours are so appealing. I agree with Anvilcloud.. a stick would hold a great deal of words and has already outlived much of what a CD can offer.
ReplyDeleteHooray for good news.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you received good news about your health.
ReplyDeleteI really like both of those pictures.
I've been following your blog for quite some time now. As a native San Diegan, transplanted to Austin, Texas, I love your insight to our fair city. I lived at the beach during most of the 80's (4127 Everts) and enjoy your references. Thanks for blogging. - Patti
ReplyDeleteDear Patti....and how can I find you?
ReplyDeleteWhen I did my blog on the house building I printed out every post and then deleted that blog. As for this more personal journal I am thinking of printing some posts...but how could I download the blog itself? Not possible I am guessing with all the proprietary software. My husband received an email from a historian that was researching my husbands grandfather's photography, which was well known in the small town where he lived. Hubby explained that they had given all the photos to the library for their historic section and now we learn they kept only a few dozen!!! The rest were tossed. I have photos "in the cloud" on DVDs and on several hard drives with no real hope that any will be saved or useful.
ReplyDeleteI'm Patti Schumacher on FB
ReplyDeleteI like those paintings a lot. The colors appeal to me.
ReplyDeleteI love the two paintings. Saw what I recall was a Mark Rothko this week...giant blocks of blue and yellow.
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