I have fallen in Love...and his name is Charlie Lucas

While his words are simple his sentiment expresses my artistic frame of mind perfectly right now.
























Charlie Lucas
'Mask'
1988

"My career is at the point that I want it to be. I don't care if my name is in lights. My art is my family and friends. Through the Kind Spirit the pieces that I don't sell talk to me and teach me."
(Charlie Lucas from Miriam Fowler interview in 1991)

Gratitudes

Gratitudes list:

1. This amazing little girl, who on my down time during my trip was a ray of sun shine that made feel like kid again. I received so much love from her and her family that I felt like I was home.

2. I-phone wireless access

3. The kind, outgoing and open nature of the Southern people

4. Beautiful and vast landscapes stretched out in front of my eyes

5. Pecan Pie, Boiled Peanuts, Corn Bread

6. How the City of Birmingham itself smells of BBQ

7. BBC Radio 1 on the Sirius satellite radio that I had in my rental car. Without Sarah Cox and Chris Moyles... I may have gone out of my mind listening to vast amount of country music that seems to be the only thing that I heard on local radio. It was also a great trip down memory lane to my college days back in Glasgow.

8. New Franz Ferdinand album...AMAZING!
9. Sitting around the table reminesing with relatives about family stories and the old days

10. Finally after all these weeks of stressing how to get my photos done for this show, and all the mis-steps that occurred, I have finally finished my images for the show

In Honor of Olafur Eliasson's Waterfalls here in NYC....

....I bring you my own Waterfalls

We Are Shaped by What We Come From....

In Celebration of my mother's birthday afew days ago, I thought I'd post the pictures of her that I finally scanned and got around to retouching.


























They need alittle more work but I wanted to post them because I felt like as I am restarting my blog, I felt they were perfect little pieces of family history that so greatly shaped my artistic vision.

A Start to New Things

Since the East Coast had been in the middle of a heat wave until Tuesday night's much needed Rain Shower, this image seemed to sum up how I felt standing in the with such joy.









It also felt like a very suiting image to re-start my blog with. I just love how the rain seems to wash away the old and bring with it a new start.