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Series of paintings

My ITP went kaboom last Tues. and landed me in the hospital, again.  As we try to get a handle on the malady, I am trying to understand it through paintings.  There are three elements that I’m going to focus on.   Platelets (that may or may not look like pickles), Antibodies, and my Immune Response ( IR).   Short explanation of the problem is that my IR detects antibodies on my platelets, and throws out everything!  Normal platelet level is 300,000.  Last Wed. mine were down to 6,000.  Bleeding is a big concern!    This is not a medical illustration, but a learning journey.

Platelets
Platelets
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New series

Lots of reasons that I have not posted in a long time.  I am doing a series which have facial elements.  There are a lot of things that I’m wondering about.   Here is WTF #33.

WTF
WTF
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Eyes, portals

For more than a year I have been working with eyes, especially women’s eyes.   This painting on panel has a lot of pastels drawn into it.  Looking forward, inward, outward and with a nod to what came before.

Nova-Brown
Nova-Brown
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Studio five year anniversary

Five years ago Gregg showed me this classroom in the Fines Creek Gym.  It was a mess, but we’ve done a lot of rehabbing.  He made it a great studio for me.  Thanks, Mr. Livingopod!

studio in Fines Creek Gym
studio in Fines Creek Gym

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What is real?

We are surrounded by images, many of them electronic.  Do you stop and think about the story that a picture is telling?  Take time to ask what is real.

Early version
Early version
Seeing White Flowers
Seeing White Flowers
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Senses

What happens when you ignore your senses?  Instead of watching an electronic device, use your sense of sight to look around you.  What is going on in nature around you?  More trees, or less?  Other senses.  Is your environment quieter and peaceful, or noisier and more stressful.   Can you affect anything?Oculus-4

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Reason women make lousy artists?

I pulled this quote off of an article about education.  The author is named at the end.  Damn, if I’d known this, I could have gone into voc-ed, saved myself a lot of time and money.

 

“No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world’s great philosophical traditions,” he wrote. “Women have produced a smaller number of important visual artists, and none that is clearly in the first rank. No female composer is even close to the first rank. Social restrictions undoubtedly damped down women’s contributions in all of the arts, but the pattern of accomplishment that did break through is strikingly consistent with what we know about the respective strengths of male and female cognitive repertoires.”

Murray’s 2008 book that Abbott cites, Real Education, argues that students with lower IQ’s are not as educable as smarter children