Baren Digest Saturday, 6 July 2002 Volume 20 : Number 1888 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G Wohlken Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 09:59:05 -0400 Subject: [Baren 18644] Re: Baren Digest V20 #1887 Hi Baren. Josephine is able to send Horacio's missing print for the Sacred Trees/Endangered Species show. Thank you, Josephine. Gayle owner-baren@ml.asahi-net.or.jp wrote: > My Sacred Trees package by accident did not >include Horacio's print... > ------------------------------ From: "george jarvis" Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 03:50:33 +0900 Subject: [Baren 18645] reedit of list 14a from: "marilynn smih" > Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 09:48:25 -0700 > Subject: [Baren 18641] Re: Baren Digest V20 #1886 > > This is a hard decision as I know the disapointment if you sign up for an > exchange and than are told, you are not really in, even though I said yes we > still have room for you. 14a surprised me with so many wanting to join. Not to worry. Fair is fair. I'll go ahead and do the print anyway and see what happens. G.Jarvis ------------------------------ From: Charles Morgan Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 16:55:23 -0700 Subject: [Baren 18646] Poe For all those who are interested .... Poe is a crow I rescued in the local cemetery when he was very young. I had to take him to bootcamp with me because he required feeding several times a day. All participants could tell when he was hungry, because he made quite a racket when I left him too long. Anyway, Poe took his first freedom flight today. I set his cage up on the back deck, arranged so the cats would not be a problem, and I left the door open. After an hour or so of indecision, he made a wide, booming flight up, around a tall cedar tree, and onto the peak of a neighboring roof where there were several crows. The crows did not take kindly to the little new comer and harassed him across several roof tops and chimneys. He finally flew out of sight. While I was sad he was not immediately accepted, I was encouraged by a number of factors. First, his flying ability was first rate. He had no trouble taking off from any surface and was quite acrobatic in his flight. Second, he did recognize his own kind readily. He does not seem to be bonded to humans at all. I will leave his open cage with food and water out for several days. He knows it as a safe haven. We all wish him well. And I want to thank the bootcamp participants for their patience with Poe and with me. Cheers ......... Charles ------------------------------ From: "Jean Womack" Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:47:05 -0700 Subject: [Baren 18647] Re: Baren Digest V20 #1887 Hi Marilyn, No problem about getting bumped from the 14a list. I am glad someone gets to be in that exchange who wants in. I was just thinking about how much work it was going to be to print two more editions, plus another big print edition before the October due date. Thoughts like, maybe I should create a black and white print instead of a multiple color block print--something that would not take so much time. However, I was able to print 14 prints in one day and part of another, at bootcamp, with several blocks. I'm getting some substitute work this summer, although not full time. Still, it's better than nothing at all, and it does keep me off the dole (unemployment insurance). I have been wanting to paint watercolors too, especially after the great teachers and the free classes at Yosemite National Park, so that would give me a couple of days to paint. I am missing a watercolor postcard of the Royal Arches that I took with me to bootcamp as a proof of my original work for a block print that I was planning. It's probably somewhere in the bunch of papers I bought home with me, although I looked through them, but maybe someone accidentally put it in with their stuff, if so, please mail it to me at 43 Crest Avenue, Richmond, CA 94801. We were all very tired there at the end, so it's the kind of thing that might have happened unintentionally. I have a scan of it, so it is not the end of the world, but I'd like to get the original back. Maybe I didn't sign it, just noted on the back it was the Royal Arches, so someone might not even have known it was mine, if they picked it up. I'll put the scan on my web site pretty soon. I have just finished making a screen saver of the Yosemite sketches, but it's too big to put on my web site for free downloading. I have to figure out how to make the images smaller, I guess. Well, I am digressing from printmaking, so I'd better quit while I'm ahead. Jean Eger Womack ------------------------------ From: "Jean Womack" Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 23:04:46 -0700 Subject: [Baren 18648] Re: Baren Digest V20 #1887 Hi Gayle, Regarding your print show, yes, censorship of art images is a problem and it seems like the universities and museums are the last holdout against censorship. Think how difficult it would be for doctors to learn medicine if they were not allowed to view the nude body. Someone must protect the great statues of the Renaissance. Some people hang nude pictures up higher than the eyes of a child. Then there are the liquor stores, like one in our area, that make sure they put girly magazines right down on the bottom shelf, where children will be sure to see them. What's a mother to do? I guess the Parks and Rec department have the right to decide what is appropriate for their audience. I think I'd agree with them. Jean Eger Womack ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V20 #1888 *****************************