Because of the interest some of you have expressed, you can see a few photos of my “True Colors” paintings hanging at Té House of Tea by following this link to my Flickr set. After February, I’ll have a link in my sidebar to a better view of the canvases. Of course, if you’re interested in purchasing one or more of the paintings, I’ll e-mail you clearer photos RIGHT NOW! =)
Like all paintings, they’re more vivid in person than in photos–so you Houston folks need to go to Té! It’s on the corner of Woodhead and Fairview in Montrose, and you couldn’t ask for a better place to chat with friends, write, knit, play on the Internet, eat, and drink tea. I’ll be spending a lot of time there this month, and if you want to hang out, let me know and we can arrange it.
The photos include shots of Tom, Tim, Lindsey, and Rhonda doing all the work. They, along with Lynne and Kathy S, have been the best cheering squad ever. Thanks, y’all!
From my artist’s statement, this explains what I was doing with the series:
Though the other seventeen sections are different, they’re connected by repeated colors and patterns. In this way, the paintings remind me of human diversity: We’re different, but we’re all connected.
I chose the name “True Colors” because I believe those of us living during the decades beginning in the 1980s will be judged by posterity not for our technology, our wealth, our art, or our governments. We will be judged by how we responded to first sufferers and fatalities in the AIDS epidemic: those people marginalized by poverty, color, and sexual orientation. It’s through either the manifestation or absence of our compassion that we show our true colors.
We are different, but we are all connected.
They are all lovely.
I enjoyed looking at your Flickr pictures.
Thanks for the link.
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Thank you for all your encouraging comments. You’re so good to me!
Beautiful!
I’d love to hang out there with you! What day works?
Hey–any day you show up from Iowa, I’ll be there. Just give me advance notice so I can fill the hospitality basket in the Lisa Suite.
…And I’m loving your banner. It looks so nice and springy to me.
Shamrocks! I guess I’ve just skipped February holidays and gone directly to March’s.
Februrary holidays are overrated. =0) Or maybe I’m just bitter that we don’t get off school for President’s Day.
Looks great! Wish I could be there.
Thanks! I think you should pop over! 😉
I love the pics taken from outside. It looks like a movie set! Your paintings look great hanging in there.
I think those are my favorites, too, David.
Thank you, David. If my life were a movie, I wonder what it would be titled.
LiveJournal is acting crazy today!
No, that’s not the title. Just an observation. Although come to think of it…
They are all beautiful, Becky. I’m especially drawn to Gray, for some reason.
Thanks, Gary! Gray was an early hit and could have started a bidding war–except my potential buyers are not Trumps and Rockefellers.
Those are great. I’ll have to head over there to see them in person.
Please do! And please write what you think in the book on the shelves just inside the door.