A Garden of Art Revealed

So, I did make it down to the basement after all today.

I moved my paintings and found

Two Self Portraits,

Three Hibiscus Paintings done in 1991,

one dark and mysterious drawing done out the window 

of my family dining room,

Two watercolors on rice paper of the view

from the IDS tower

done so long ago.

I would sell them cheap.

Meaningful work,

like a drawing of my friends altar in her kitchen

long ago.

and a wonderfully colorful painting of me 

as a child

that my brilliant husband suggested I 

use on a business card.

just so much.

and yet just a few pieces I would really want to keep.

the rest

Sell!!!

$36  $50  $77

Buyers choice,

Buyers Price!

I started moving my brother's

Wonderful artwork into place.

and so it goes.

some progress.

some courage.

some more Treasures found.

Avoiding and Resuming the Task

avoiding and resuming

It's really a nice day outside. I hope to dwell in the sunshine 

of my Vine Hut amid the pines soon.

In the meantime I avoid, have  SUCCESSFULLY avoided going down to clean

the basement, or at least look at it.

For about 12 days now.

I decided I would not post photos of the disarray and Challenges I have faced

until it is all cleaned up at the end of March.

A deadline for now: March 31.

But yes today I will resume the task.

If only to clean the kitty litter,

take some photos

and move something, 

some things around.

Perhaps throw something away.

Oh why is it so hard to deal with the past????

and oh the way it manifests with physical clutter...

Just a short while ago

I moved a lovely wooden feminine buddha figure on loan to me

into a central corner of my dining room.

where I can see her all the time

as I pass by.

She resides 

In 

 Simplicity

Reminding me

that it is possible.

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I resume the task.

I resume writing about it.

Evening January 13, 2015

Well, I did publish this Blog on Face Book.  Hmmmmm will see if anyone will follow me down the basement steps and encourage me in my quest to make order, retrieve memories and find my treasures amid all that I discard and throw out.

As the beer signs in England in 1972 said: 

'TAKE COURAGE!'

ANOTHER ARCHIVE:
Treasure and Dismay   January 13, 2015

I went down to the basement and carefully opened a box that held a series of drawings from our special place out in the country where I once spent a lot of time.
Drawings of people from the past, the land, unchanged through the seasons.
and many more moments and memories.
and dismay....dismay

the box had sat on the floor and each drawing has a small 1/2 inch of musty mildew or mold.

Perhaps this has happened to you?
So..what to do??
I will have to cut off the edge and carefully rub some bleach over the moldy part.

Oy va voy.

So discouraging.

The drawings will need to be attended to.

Oh dear.

Has this ever happened to you??

And yet Beauty and Memory remain...Here in parting is an image of a Trillium that I carved out there years ago..and that I still print from...A lovely spring trilluim that grew at the edge of the woods.

I will stay with the image of this beauty from the woods and gather up my courage to deal with the moldy drawings in the basement and so much more...so much more