Glass in Color

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As promised, here are my favorite “not black and white” artworks from the Corning Museum of Glass. The combination of technique and brilliant colors in these pieces mezmerized me. This was probably my favorite piece, a flock of abstract boats made by a Venetian while living in Seattle. These pieces float in the air, moving ever so slightly in unseen slight winds. No idea why the title “Blood Sugar” but the chaotic and yet somewhat organized display of bottles, vases, and glasses is just so appealing to me. When this artist hears music, she sees colors. Once I learned that,…

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Sunday Special: Glassworks

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I’m an hour from Corning, New York, this week, and visiting the Museum of Glass there has been on my bucket list for years. Today was the day! And it was even more amazing than I had hoped. There was so much that I’m going to do two posts, one today focusing on form and the other on Tuesday, focusing on color. The shapes made out of glass by newer artists were breathtaking. Both the one above and the one below were exquisite. The one above has a video that goes along with it, showing that the artist took the…

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Weekly Update: Sep 20, 2017

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It’s been a busy week, from Salisbury, MA and an almost-beachfront camping spot, to Worcester for a weekend, and then on the Finger Lakes region of New York. Whew, kind of tires me out just writing that! Met up with one of my running buds (she runs, I’m on hiatus) and we had a wonderful visit with a seafood lunch and then a wander down the boardwalk. After 10 days at Salisbury, it was time to move on, but as every RVer knows, the last step of breaking camp is to pay a visit to the dump station. How big…

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A Sense of Place

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People see my car and trailer plates and say “Oh, you’re from Washington!” which is true but not really true in the sense that it’s my home, or my home base. It’s gotten me to thinking about “a sense of place” in my life, where I belong, and where I feel at home. Before I became a full-time vagabond, I was a traveler and a wanderer, never settling into one place with the idea I’d stay there forever. I grew up in LA, lived in the Hudson Valley, Boston, then Santa Cruz, and finally Seattle. All of those have one…

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Oregon Lighthouse

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Three years ago, I visited Cape Disappointment, where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean in a roil of sandbanks, heavy tides, and ever-present fog that were responsible for many a sunken ship in the last few centuries (see photo at top of this page). The southern side of the river belongs to Oregon, and it’s where John Jacob Astor funded the first white settlement, which became known as Astoria. The northern side belongs to Washington State, and it’s where two lighthouses reside: Cape Disappointment Light and North Head Light. The latter has been the primary navigation for the channel…

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