...and I'm thinking some Willy-Nilly thoughts about it.
This weekend the 11th Annual Art
Show of the Massasoit Art Guild is being held at the Spencer, Massachusetts,
Town Hall. If you are around and have
some time, the show goes on from 10am to 4pm on Saturday and Sunday. I’m pushing this because I am a member of the
Guild and have three photos in the show.
I don’t expect to win anything, because I have seen the work of others
who are going to enter the show, but I’m going for it anyhow.
The thing about preparing
for a show like this for me is that I have to go through and evaluate my own
work. I find that incredibly
difficult. You see, I know what I like
but I don’t have a clue what might or might not appeal to others. In the end, after long and hard
consideration, I sort of closed my eyes and picked three of my photos and had
them framed. Of course, now I am wondering
if I shouldn’t have picked something else.
Here are the ones I am entering:
I
have a photo that I really like and spent some time on trying to make it work
for the show, but no matter how much I messed with it or how I cropped it, I just couldn’t get it
right. That’s frustrating. Wondering what you think. I like it but can’t put my finger on
what's wrong with it. It’s this one:
This
morning I took the time to adhere the identification stickers to the backs of the
photos. The IDs ask for the artist’s
name, the name of the picture, what category it belongs in and what the price
is. I could remember my name and what I
decided to name the photos, but I’ll be damned if I could remember the number
of the category they belong in or the price I put on the entry form I sent in a
few weeks ago. I was not happy. I usually agree with Rita Mae Brown’s quote,
but not this morning.
I
want to acknowledge an old friend of ours, Newton Frost. Newton was a true Renaissance man and a member
of the Massasoit Art Guild. Sadly, he
passed away in March of 2012, but three of his paintings are hanging on the
walls of this house. Whenever I look at
one, I remember him and know that he lives on through his art and that’s a
wonderful legacy.
Linking to Tanya's Willy-Nilly Friday 5!
