Thursday, June 25, 2009
Autumn Vermont
Vermont Studio Center is a great place and I was there last October.
As Wallace Stevens says, "Vermont throws itself together"
Florida
I painted around Florida in 1994. I avoided Miami and the Condo Coast. A beautiful State Park Bahia Honda has always broken my heart to think how or if it has survived the onslaught of people. Most beautiful little beach in America.
I had a want to find the Roseate Spoonbills. It became a quest for that almost absurd looking bird.I found them at Ding Darling. I was bitten into Hamburger meat at Echo Pond at the end of the Everglades, but made some terriffic paintings there.
They call the State Parks the other Florida, and it certainly is almost empty compared to the coast.
Deep Springs College
I was asked to teach at Deep Springs College in 1995. It is a ranch were the students read Nietzsche and Melville in the desert. They birth cattle in the winter night and we painted the surroundings.
Death Valley
We tried to do the same for the Death Valley Nat Monument but the Bush years had stolen any funding and I only stayed a short time to my own detriment. Maybe it's just the severe heat I didn't want to admit to my minding it .
Joshua Tree
The comet Haley Bopp was in the sky when I was there each evening it would appear over the prehistoric looking Joshua Trees.
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