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May 9, 2024
Media: acrylic on paper
Size: 22x15 in
My birthday is next month, which means I am a Gemini, which means that I have (at least) two sides to my personality. As expressed yesterday, I have the sedate librarian fantasy...and then I have the 'visceral response' to color situation. Certain colors actually make my mouth water! So yesterday, after writing about the subdued, librarian life, I went out to my studio and painted this wongo bongo bright landscape/still-life. And I named it, "Ginger Jar Beach". I imagined that you would be beach combing on a lush tropical island, and you would come upon washed up old Chinese ginger jars (you know like those amazing glass fishing floats people find!) And really, it's not SO far fetched, because sea captains used to use those jars for ballast (basically rocks!) in the hold of their ships. How fun for treasure hunters to vacation at "Ginger Jar Beach"! And then we could go mudlarking in the Thames... My birthday is next month, which means I am a Gemini, which means that I have (at least) two sides to my personality. As expressed yesterday, I have the sedate librarian fantasy...and then I have the 'visceral response' to color situation. Certain colors actually make my mouth water! So yesterday, after writing about the subdued, librarian life, I went out to my studio and painted this wongo bongo bright landscape/still-life. And I named it, "Ginger Jar Beach". I imagined that you would be beach combing on a lush tropical island, and you would come upon washed up old Chinese ginger jars (you know like those amazing glass fishing floats people find!) And really, it's not SO far fetched, because sea captains used to use those jars for ballast (basically rocks!) in the hold of their ships. How fun for treasure hunters to vacation at "Ginger Jar Beach"! And then we could go mudlarking in the Thames... |
Available Paintings by Pamela Hoffmeister
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