The White Truck

I haven't posted in a while so thought I'd return with a little personal tale...after all, it tis the season.



It can be an emotional season. Memories of 'Christmas past' filter into our thoughts stirring our hearts with magical wonder of childhood days. I remember the Christmas of the 'White Truck' as though it was yesterday. It was the year I asked St. Nicholas for a truck, my sister, a doll with a bed.

It was later in life that I found out it was my father who forged through the streets of New York looking for the largest truck he could find. It was the year of a huge snow storm as well making train travel difficult. It was days before Christmas too and mother wasn't sure if he'd make it home in time. But he did! And Christmas morning my eyes lit up like stars finding this huge white truck under the tree. I still have this truck too! I should pull it out of the attic someday and take a few photos. By today's safety standards, it would never pass the test - sharp corners, rubber wheels without brakes....but a tomboy's dream toy!

Time Lapse

Sunday In The Woods

It was an overcast day and I went out purposely to take some 'gloomy' shots, but all that changed. The sun broke through and it turned from cold to humidy warm...not what I was prepared for. Then once again, the sky filled with clouds, rain began to spit and cool temps descended. The weather didn't know what to do, much like how my spirit's been feeling these past few days.

I managed to shoot some photos regardless of the changing conditions. I was afforded a good chunk of quality time to read some Thoreau too_____outside, which is always a nice feeling.

Night set in quickly. Darkness arrived. I knew it was time to leave.

Side Satin Ribbon

 

Ms. Prada’s plans for a New Art Foundation in Milan

Original Post April 30, 2015

Who is Miuccia Prada?

Fashion Designer

Mime Artist

Communist Party Activist

Catholic

PhD (political science)

We should be packing our bags for Milan right now!

Last week Miuccia Prada, the 58-year-old designer announced plans for a new headquarters for her 15-year-old Prada Foundation, in a former spirits distillery in Milan. The project will restore most of the distillery’s original buildings as well as providing three new structures. They will house the 500-piece collection of contemporary art that has been put together by Prada and her husband Patrizio Bertelli over the past couple of decades.
Ms. Prada has already shown that fashion – quick-moving, dynamic, ferociously embracing globalisation – can outsmart more ponderous forms of expression. But the problem, which she recognises as surely as anyone, is this: as art learns those lessons and becomes more approachable and, arguably, more facile, will it lose its sense of gravitas?
Miuccia Prada started the foundation 15 years ago, she says, when it was hard for contemporary artists to find patrons. She was fuelled by her “obsessive” concern with thinking and ideas, “probably because I am a ’68 (person).” She uses the term to summarise a background that must be among the least orthodox ever for a fashion designer: trained as a mime artist, active in the communist party, and holding a PhD in political science.

“I thought it was important to find ways of reading the world and to understand what is happening.” She immersed herself in the contemporary art world, spending five years travelling the world, visiting artists, in search of ideas and illumination. “Artists are some of the best people I know, in terms of thinking, passion, understanding,” she says.

PRADA briefcase, perfect for the office!

I would have to agree with Ms. Prada, artists are some of the "best" people that I know as well, filled with passion and a complex understanding of what is, what was and what will be. Those who have come close to knowing an artist in a more intimate way would probably agree with me. They have an ever present vision in contrast to those who lack creative optics. Beautiful creative minds!

Read more HERE.

Photo Credit: HERE.

Wing

 

 

2016

 

Broken wings fly again

Year renewed

Air filled with promise

Mend. Fly. Soar!