Friday, February 20, 2009

Soul Survivor

Never mind all this crappy economic theorizing about art being a luxury: art is a necessity - especially if you make it. We need art for our souls, not for investment, and when I stay out of the studio for a week, I can feel my soul shriveling.

This past week has been filled with things keeping me out of the studio from work to pet emergency to visiting my elderly mother to laziness, avoidance and postponement - you know, the usual. Every time I stay away like this, there are physical, emotional and spiritual consequences - not to mention my becoming impossible to be around. And now I have another consequence to add to the list - no blog topics. Oh, God, the guilt! Just what I needed - more guilt!

So, the best I can do is to promise to go to the studio tomorrow...OK, run to the studio tomorrow, and meanwhile, post some cheery photos of my world.



That darkish spot center right is the head of Bobby Budha, a statue that sits beside a walkway to the upper part of the yard.


I posted the garden in spring the other day - lush, green and verdant. Now it's a soggy mess of spring snow overlaying a thick crust of ice and underlaid by mud. These photos were from this morning after an overnight wet snow of 3" or so.



Raised beds as they look now - buried beds under a mound. Poor man's fertilizer? We can only hope.


Kirby's pool and forlorn chairs amid the drooping hemlock branches.


Kirby's pool in happier weather with Mr. K in his favorite spot and Mr. H doing the heavy looking on. (He doesn't indulge.)


Da Boyz with Chippie (stuffed, not dead)
So there you have it. Snow, garden and dogs - where the hell's the art?

1 comment:

Leslie Avon Miller said...

Art, interrupted. That's life sometimes.