Sunday – August 18, 2012 – Omward Bound
The title of the photo above is Omward Bound – if you look closely,
you’ll see the word “om” on my exercise
top. Actually, I wasn’t on my way
to an early morning yoga class. In fact, I
was bound for a quick workout at Lifetime, followed by stops at Walgreen’s and
Trader Joe’s on my way om, I mean, home. I had
to get out and get back early since my friend Eleanor was picking me up at noon
for our day at the theater in DC.
I’d invited Elliott to be my date to Menopause: The Musical, but he turned me down. You missed a great show, Elliott, although I have to admit
you wouldn’t have appreciated it the way Eleanor and I did. It was funny, energizing, uplifting,
and immensely entertaining. I even
got to join the very talented 4-woman cast on stage at the Warner Theater for
the final number.
When I came back from the theater, I found a drawing propped
up on the piano. I immediately
knew what Elliott had in mind, and it just confirmed my suspicions that our
artistic approaches are fundamentally different. Where he envisions crisply delineated planes of color, even
in the background, I’ve been seeing organic movement of color. Thinking back to the days when I did a
lot of work in pastel, I think I must be constitutionally incapable of leaving
an area of flat color. I once set
myself the task of creating a pastel painting where there were areas of solid
color without the slightest hint of texture or volume. Try as I might, I couldn’t resist
adding some shading, dabbling in color modulation, or experimenting with
texture. Looking forward to the
weeks ahead, I can see that it’s going to be quite a challenge to work on this
new series of paintings with Elliott.
I hope we can avoid all-out war.
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