scenes from a train

Posted on by sheri

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a few weeks ago, i took the train from home to the bay area (i went to see tina fey with m in sf!). because i needed to squeeze in some work, i opted not to drive and to work on the train. but then (gasp!) there was no wifi on the train. and for the first time in a long time (because they had no wifi on the train!), i got completely lost in the landscapes outside the window as well as in the landscapes in my own mind.

it was such a lovely ride that i pretty much never want to drive that drive again. the snapshots from the trip make me so happy, not only for their sheer springtime captures but because, in most of them, you can see the reflections from the train windows across the aisle. it makes you wonder if you’re seeing forward or seeing backward. and how many views can a woman take in one afternoon? a lot, i tell you, a lot.

art

Posted on by sheri

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(top image: before winter’s blue cold by christopher brown)

taking kids to an art museum sure isn’t the same as going it on our own. our local museum is newly remodeled and gorgeous, but with the boys in tow, it felt more like running room to pretty room. it was still nice somehow. especially when clyde kept pointing out his favorite paintings. thank god for artists who paint superheroes, sculptors who build robots with teapot heads, and stephen kaltenbach’s portrait of my father, whose brilliant light is made up of a million tiny arabesques, which even an 8-year-old can appreciate.

a few of my favorites: group of houses by elmer nelson bischoff, flowers by richard diebenkorn, still life with “”femme au coq””#2 by paul wonner, and every thiebaud in the place. ha! a landscape, a few still life paintings, and loads of desserts. am i really that predictable? apparently so. that and my favorite paintings by women and abstracts are not shown on the website.

have you seen any good art lately?