Everywhere I go, I keep my eyes open for beautiful scenes and interesting things. When I’m close to home or in “ordinary” places, I try to find the beauty that might be overlooked because of familiarity, and when I’m in more popularly acclaimed places, I try to look for unique details or less common perspectives. Yesterday I hung a solo show called “Around the World,” featuring twenty-five pieces depicting buildings, animals, scenes, and other details from ten states and eight countries. The pieces represent things that appealed to me on my travels, so they are both personal records of my own treasured journeys and universal celebrations of iconic places around the world. Each image is an invitation to visitors to the show to reminisce on their own travels, imagine new destinations, and notice and appreciate anew the places they visit every day.
Today I started putting up my display for this weekend’s Mother Brook Open Studies. I’ll have to finish setting up tomorrow morning because I’m working down to the wire completing my preparations this time. It should be a great event, though, with a wide variety of really interesting work, and demonstrations and activities, all in a single convenient location, a former school building in Dedham, MA.
If you stop by the Wellesley Free Library, be sure to leave me a comment in the visitor’s book, and if you can make it to
Mother Brook Open Studios, be sure to say hello. I’m in room 8 on the first floor.
[Pictures: Wellesley Free Library Lobby Gallery, 2017.]
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