From Kemble Mountain Forest to you

September 28, 2012 by keirartworks Leave a comment

Happy Friday all. Big full moon tomorrow – I plan to hang on firmly to my sense of the ridiculous, & keep it light & good.

In the meantime, wherever you are, I hope you can get outside and roll around in Autumn.

Glorious.

taken September 27th, 5pm.

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#Selfie (Summer 2014 solo show): Round II: Surrender. 24″ Work in progress

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inheritance from two families on my mother’s side: A proud sign from Kennedy Foundry of Owen Sound, hanging on the wall of Circle Bar Ladies’ Hosiery factory, also in Owen Sound, owned and operated by my mom & aunt’s grandparents, Walter and Catherine Keebler.

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By tomorrow morning these two will be in the hall, and the next two up & talking. Stay with me, folks….

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Cello Spine, from What Makes Us, 2004. Acrylic and vine charcoal on Linen, 6’x 28″, sold.

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taken September 27th, 5pm.

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