...failed painter

 
We--the collective, not the royal--are taking a break. I'll be back in January sometime. Have a lovely time wherever you are and know that I will also be having--to quote Ted "an excellent adventure".Lots of pictures when I get back. 
Meanwhile here are a couple of old favourites.

I've been collecting cheap--10-50 cents--books for a very long time, intending to use them somehow?
My studio and every available bit of storage is given over to these potential masterpieces.
Some are destined to become the covers of my journals.


Some will be cannibalized and regurgitated as artworks.
The paperbacks are only 50 or so years old; but seem as obsolete as novels from the 18th century.
Time seems to be moving faster, spiraling inwards on itself.
What will happen when it's impossibly compressed, tangled and rendered indecipherable.
Will it implode; will we--those that survive--simply start again, drawing in the dirt, carving tablets?
Are we doomed to the Cartesian space time.
How long IS a piece of string?

 

I had a lovely day today.
This is the inside of the Birthday card Nic made for me.
                                  

© L.M.Noonan 2008 

Pinky is another  strange little person I met  on Saturday.
By the way,
Yi has posted  a live recording of a new song called 'Like first time lovers".
                                

© L.M.Noonan 2008 

My studio is a mess...again.  The floor is strewn with oversize red sausage bags and backpacks.  In various piles there are stacks of thermal underwear, raincapes, mittens,gloves, beanies, sunhats and too many other sorts of clothing to describe. I write and rewrite lists of  'to do', 'to buy', 'to bring'--even in my sleep. No matter how many times I go over it SOMETHING important will be left behind. One day it will be too simple to pack for the two old farts going on holiday--I hope. Until then I must gird my loins against the inevitable wrath that will be directed towards me. How could I leave behind his ipod cable and so on.

Yesterday I goofed off and accompanied Beloved to yet another collectibles fair. He is still looking for the bib and bobs he needs for his defunct technology series. I whiled away the time taking happy snaps of some lovely --if elderly;  lovely ladies.