France Tales

Thursday, September 13th, Jean-Jacques and I were packing, arranging, preparing for our move/garage sale. I got a call from Armelle LeRoux, I thought of her in terms of being in CA. She and Misty were on a road trip to bring Misty to her 8 month ceramics residency. Armelle went along for the 2 week trip. They were in Baltimore and wondered if we were still in Philadelphia. We were ecstatic. Friday afternoon they came to Philadelphia. We met them in Old City, looked in a few galleries, had some wine at Red Sky, and then went to Bump for dinner. It was a wonderful trip both down memory lane but down futurisitc boulevard as well. We were all full of our plans for the future. It was so pleasant hearing how we were all coming into our own and had fulfilling plans for the future.

Armelle just completed a massive project, view it here.
http://www.interfaith-presidio.org/mcdonald/

Misty recently showed her life size sculptures, view them here
http://mistygamble.com/photopage1.html

I write this on the morning of the 30th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas. I heard on NPR this morning a segment devoted to her. It got me thinking of art and culture and how art and culture can transcend time and place. Many artists can make things, but do those things exist on another level apart from the material, do they create force , force that impacts, that won’t let you forget?