A friend recently told me that all the trouble starts when you stop learning stuff ... so, I'm making it part of my blog in a "Things I learned ..." kinda way. Hell, maybe you'll learn something too!
What I learned today:
Girl Down the Hall (GDH) and I took a little stroll downtown. Stopped in at Blue Spiral 1, a gallery I never thought to enter (though everybody who's everybody stops by). I guess I don't often think to saunter through galleries. I'm not an "educated" art admirer ... I know what I like and what I don't like and what I don't get, but I couldn't tell you if a piece achieved any sort of standard. Hell, lots of times I like to just walk up really close and try to figure out how someone had such incredible patience as to paint hundreds (thousands?) of individual leaves on a tree. One tree that's a part of one painting in a room of dozens. Blows my mind.
GDH, however, is a gallery-girl ... likes to paint, used to manage, wants to own kind of lady. And so we walked through these absolutely amazing, unbelievable paintings that looked so real they might as well have been photos. GDH said it's called, trompe l'oeil ... a visual illusion that makes things look 3D when they're 2D. Ran a little wiki wiki on it, read up and now I know! GDH knows art but not Photoshop ... maybe she and I can exchange knowledge.
In other news:
Went to see my back doc today (mom calls her my "voodoo doc") and ran into a youth leader from a friend's church back in our high school days. I remember going to a "lock in" at her house and singing Indigo Girls songs with my friends and staying up too late wondering if I'd ever feel normal. I still remember it like it was yesterday though I guess it was almost 1/2 my life ago or more. That concerns me (scares me), though I guess it's good I do remember some stuff like it just happened.
adieu
1 comment:
Great Scott! I remember that, too. The singing, the absence of normality, the hedgehog. She had a hedgehog, for crying out loud! We ARE normal, and that scares ME.
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