All That Quiet
Hello, folks. Alan says he misses me, and I see that it’s been a pretty long while since I’ve been here.
I’m still painting, almost every day. Doing fun things with clay, too, when I don’t feel like painting. Thanks to the BLP, I have a pottery studio with TWO kilns- one is a gas-fired raku kiln outside the studio, the other is an old analog manual electric kiln inside. I can’t throw on my wheel for shit, so I am just working on hand-building stuff instead. I even took a class with an expert and goddammit I was the WORST one in the class. A huge blow to my ego but I am recovering.
Anyway this painting depicts a wall of mufflers/catalytic converters on the outside of a local repair shop. I’ve been looking at it for over a decade and finally got around to rendering it in paint.
I’m still teaching at the local college and running an art gallery in Bremerton.
I thought being 67 would slow me down. Not so far, though I sure feel it sometimes.
09/29/2022 @ 12:13 pm
Welcome back. It’s nice to see you here. I am becoming more and more disaffected from Facebook myself but I don’t want to leave so many old friends behind. Maybe we could nag a few more old friends over here. I am working on improving the site to make it easier to use. Feedback would be much appreciated.
09/29/2022 @ 5:16 pm
Hi Alan,
That would be nice, but I don’t hold out much hope for other ex opensaloners coming back to write. FB is pretty awful.
09/29/2022 @ 5:21 pm
Feedback: Bindle is definitely easier to use than it used to be. Thank you for that. I will mention it to the few I see on FB.
10/01/2022 @ 3:57 pm
Mr Sage Milner: (speaking of our fathers’ magic carperts made of steel) I am wonderin’ if you are safe and sound there in Miami? My own ticket to ride remains on game delay. Although I did score a step of walking around moola focused (in and out day-tripping) with the crude oil what’s it? ETF: UCO like pop goes the OIL day before last. You know: feast or famine and that proverbial heart of glass. Also our digital acuity up here in blue badger land is weird as while watching the Texas Governer’s debate [Beto v Abbot] every screen froze a quarter hour into the nickle-LO;}-dean. My goodness how very many IAN victims are cold and tired and all alone? Hey Al! Thank you for your time. Right now our deep forest greens are already magnificently orange-glistened the color of these sunflowers!
09/29/2022 @ 4:54 pm
I always thought of your paintings as beautiful.
This is a switch.
Gald you posted.
09/29/2022 @ 4:55 pm
Glad.
I do not know what gald means.
09/29/2022 @ 5:18 pm
I figured that’s what you meant.
I take it you don’t like this piece and I’m fine with that, of course. It IS a departure for me!
09/29/2022 @ 5:03 pm
Galding is what you do to a laly.
Hi Rose. Good to see you. Mufflers is definitely a change. Not a subject I thought could look or feel like that.
09/29/2022 @ 5:19 pm
Hiya KS. Thanks! Good to see you, too. I was hoping you were still around.
09/29/2022 @ 6:34 pm
ROSE POEM
Rose,
We didn’t start the fire NOW did we. Cat Ballou! Are we beyond 1962? And then those cancelled tickets to Epcot. IAN: hell and high water, as I woebegone Beach Radio drive time rescue focused such a day in our life. Flat screen of intrepid JOURNALISTS sea to shining sea where we are not supposed to be: shoulder height water and forgotten manatee summersalted upon the land of the free. Kelp bubbles and those invisible polyfluorenated byfhenyls. And how’s our Cape Canaveral, that Labor Weekend show without Jerry Lewis’ Telethon, as it never rains in California. Check mate! Indigo dayglow BINGO! Though San Diego Women surfed through sunset as I raptured insync so aware I ought not have opted-opened with Sky Pilot and plinked how magically fast with Billy Joels’ WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE that renown ebony and ivory fast & true, too: I love you.
09/29/2022 @ 7:10 pm
Nah…just caught me by surprise.
10/01/2022 @ 3:26 pm
Hey Rosie glad to know that you’re back in the mix…
You still need an East Coast agent..
You’re getting better at what you do best…
Whether you are aware of it or not, in many ways, at 67, you are just getting started…
10/01/2022 @ 4:42 pm
Yes, that’s exactly what it feels like. Just getting started.
I hope I keep feeling that for a good long time! So much more to learn and do. Just need to rest more than I used to. It’s a small price to pay.
10/04/2022 @ 2:43 pm
Unique illustration … initially I thought the image was a coterie of cuddlesome baby pandas playing king of the hill. And oh yeah what’s that sound … for sure heavy metal thunder … artifacts of mobility glinting in the morning sun. Hundreds of ratchet cranks now silent vroooooooms at high noon. If ifs and ans were pots and pans, there’s be no need for planned obolescence.
10/04/2022 @ 6:40 pm
Yes, unique for me…in a related genre, I have painted a bunch of rusty old cars and trucks, mostly relics from the ’40s. That’s my favorite era for automobile design. Probably haven’t posted them where bindlers or saloners would have see them, though.
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01/28/2023 @ 5:34 pm
[…] success, and the show itself is very good. I actually got in this year, too! (The muffler painting “All That Quiet”) As jurying is always a blind process, there is no identifying info that the juror sees on any of […]