It's unfathomable how we could be nearing closer and closer towards the end of 2013.
My showing season is pretty much finished. I have one more show in December, which I will announce shortly, but other than that, I am just enjoying my time to breathe and focus on creating instead of deadlines and dates.
This season my interest has been in Georgia O'Keeffe and the southwest. I have been so drawn and so inspired by New Mexico. I just want to go back. Those who have not been out there will probably not understand, but never have I been to a place of such native culture and natural beauty. I hope I am able to make a trip out in a year or two.There's just something about O'Keeffe's sense of adventure. It riles up something within to make you want to strap on a travel easel and head out to no man's land to find greatness and hidden treasures. I read where O'Keeffe spent hours and hours of her time outdoors in the baking summer New Mexico heat. I believe she remarked about when the sun would be at it's peak and it would be so scorching hot that she would have to lay under her parked car in order to escape the sun, because there was nowhere else to go.
Many years ago the Columbus Museum of Art had a Georgia O'Keeffe exhibit that my parents took me to for extra credit for an art class. The exhibit focused primarily on her southwestern paintings completed at her Ghost Ranch studio. The exhibit did not have any of her flowers, but I wasn't disappointed... In fact, I enjoyed her southwestern pictures. She has such an interesting point of view and plays with the perspective and shapes of her horse skulls. Her landscapes dazzled and still managed to capture the rainbow-esque beauty of the south west that a lot of people fail to see.Georgia O'Keeffe's 126th birthday would have been last week. This post is dedicated to her.
"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage." -Georgia O'keefe
