Category Archives: Art in the world

Take Home Quote of the Day

To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
? Elliott Erwitt Continue reading

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Happy Mailbox

I’m sending out daily haiku for the annual World Peace Poetry Postcard Festival and had received two cards followed by a pause. Got a fabulous card Saturday and today hit the jackpot with four more! Continue reading

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Gathering encouragement and inspiration

We all need some encouragement and ideas on how to proceed… so when people, artists you admire, talk about their work and lives, take a moment and listen. And like Ted Kooser says – throw a lot of horseshoes. Continue reading

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Using Technology to Communicate and Connect

One of the best things to come out of the pandemic was the embracing of things like Zoom, YouTube, Facebook live etc for communicating. We got to be live with people far away and spread out and sometimes who we might never had had the chance to spend time with. Some community grew up around that. Places like museums and bookshops that embraced online gatherings kept the interest of their followers and gathered new ones. During the early months of covid I had a daily and weekly schedule of these which really helped a lot. Continue reading

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Do You Hobby?

Had a doctor appointment today and the paper-paperwork was mostly a repeat of the fill-this-out-every-time-you-have-an-appointment-digital history except it asked about work history AND

“Do you have any hobbies?”

Now, this was looking for potentially health-threatening exposures, I get it, but I am rather put off by lumping my painting/printing/etc into something called “hobbies”, so I put it down under work stuff – Artist (painting/printing/fiber). Then the doc and I had a chat about that – what kind, no solvents, etc, etc.

It does have me wondering though, “do you have any hobbies?”
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