This is another picture I have up. Tag sale find I think it was a whopping three bucks, might have been two-fiddy I don’t recall. The old scene just caught my eye and everything you bought the money was going to a charitable cause so we picked up some items to support them.
anyway cool idea for a thread and it’s interesting to see people who have acquired “real art”. I bought some pieces off an art student when I was visiting China and a couple years later he became a bit popular in China. I have those put away I’m going to give them to my wife’s family in China. Funny they laughed at me when I bought his art on the street and then called me two years later to say the guy made good. Not Banksy good but I guess good enough where my wife’s family could hang or make a few bob notes.
My state is pretty crappy, taxes and energy prices along with ridiculous regulation etc ran out a lot of businesses so we aren’t known for museums etc but we have a couple that have a Van Gogh and will get Monet etc on loan. I make a point (pre virus) to visit a couple times a year and sometimes you will find that painting you can sit in front of for hours. I kind of get lost in them. I’ve been to several exhibits in NYC, Toronto, Beijing and Shanghai and it is amazing taking in the works of art. One of my wife’s friend is a very talented artists, we were looking at some sculptures and I asked her how, as an artist herself, does she think a dude (or dudette) can create such perfection from a block of marble. To give a little background she grew up in China and is a devout atheists as her parents taught her all religion is bad supreme power rests in the party Her reply was “it must be some greater universal power how could man alone create something like David etc” interesting answer from an atheists. I was listening to the Beatles on the way home today and I realize I got lost in the song. It was just so good it wiped away all the BS I had running through my mind.
sorry I know this is a too long didn't read post but many times I’ve heard interviews with musicians, writers, painters etc and often they will say they can’t explain where their best stuff comes from. It’s a craft, they say they can always sit down and write a song to fill a contract but the best stuff just flows through them.
perhaps when we take our last breathes, it won’t be an omega or seiko we think of but a certain song, piece of art or line from a book or a scene from a film that moved us. I like watches and what not but they don’t allow me to transcend the BS in my head, it’s usually art, music, books or a movie like gone with the wind (along with meditation) that allow me to do that. Ok enough now, I’m writing a book here, I gotta see if anyone is talking about real shit like that hot hodinkee travel clock.
