Studio Notes - November 2020
Want to get away? I know the feeling. Taking flight is certainly attractive these days. And as it happens, Flight is the name of a show I curated with the work of eight Maine artists at Cove Street Arts in Portland, Maine.
A two-minute look at Flight.
Video by Dylan Gillis, MainerMedia
To see: Seeing starlings in flight, a murmuration, is nothing short of a miracle. Watch this and you will be amazed and lifted, as well.
To do: Some flight-related fun. My brother and I used to make paper airplanes. His were experimental and actually flew. Mine tended to be more…shall we say…decorative. You can make the Basic, the King Bee, the Soaring Eagle, even a UFO, among others.
To read: By Robert Graves, about a species of moth that doesn’t fly straight for those of us who seem to have the flying-crooked gift.
The butterfly, the cabbage white,
(His honest idiocy of flight)
Will never now, it is too late,
Master the art of flying straight,
Yet has — who knows so well as I? —
A just sense of how not to fly:
He lurches here and here by guess
And God and hope and hopelessness.
Even the aerobatic swift
Has not his flying-crooked gift.
Coming up:
A new website! Many thanks to Sarah Sawtelle, illustrator and designer extraordinaire for the new look and easy to navigate site. Information has been updated and the old stuff is still there. History is history, after all.
Installing Flight
We now move into the quiet time of the year, the time we go inside to gather together, to celebrate and to be warm. This year will certainly be different. Please stay strong, wear a mask, keep your distance, wash your hands and stay in touch with friends and loved ones in safe ways.
Best,
Lissa