Scrambling in an evolving chaotic sea of interests...
It was my parents who began for me some practices that have served me well, eating a wide range of natural foods and reading everything in sight. However, I’ve never conquered liver with or without onions and I’m not a big fan of tripe and reading Heidegger is more like torture than reading.
As I sat on the arm of our old faintly patterned easy chair with my dad reading aloud it became obvious to me that reading was the door to everywhere. My dad wasn’t the most social person in a group but he was great one on one with anyone he met and I never heard him say an unkind word about anyone… well maybe there was a kinda benign exception or two. He lined the words with his index finger as he read and I learned to read by picturing the words.
As time went by it was visual experience I was attracted to, a world that linked the natural world of butterflies, birds, water buffalo and plants to painting and sculpture.
Fortunately I’ve never had to give up my love of the wild world for my love of art. This site is devoted to fine art photography. For my ongoing involvement with wildlife there is http://www.flutterbys.net.
Franca and I were informed this last week that we have work to be included in the “Fourth LaGrange Southeast Regional” art show. We have been fortunate in the past to be in this show and that experience has confirmed for us that Georgia’s art world extends well beyond Atlanta. The pieces “Deadline Gone” and “Donna’s Backyard” are in the LaGrange show and “Winter” is in the Atlanta Photography Group show here in Atlanta. Good way to start the year.
By the way the photograph of the “circle” in the woods is of the remains of Mason Mill. Mason Mill was a flour mill built by Ezekiel Mason before the Civil War in the 1850s, and located east of Atlanta on the bank of Burnt Fork Creek close to its merger with the south fork of Peachtree Creek near Decatur.
Mason Mill Road meets Clairmont Road near this point. Built by slaves, the sluice or flume for the mill ran back to Clairmont Lake.
In 1906 the property was sold to the City of Decatur, and Mason Mill became a part of the Decatur Waterworks, a complex system supplying drinking water to the City until 1947.