tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40499084430542455362024-03-13T05:04:11.708-07:00Ginger's Art JournalGinger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-76480891172116329742023-09-11T19:08:00.000-07:002023-09-11T19:08:26.969-07:00But, Can you HANDLE ART?
That is likely to be an interview question when one applies for a job, right?
Well, in that case, allow me to explain, that at the heart of this question
lies a true artist, bound and determined to handle the fragility of art, with
the care and respect it deserves, particularly if they are an art handler.
In order to celebrate the talent that comes with a blend of art warrior
and art mover, one company in Los Angeles, allows it's artistic crew and staff
to shine on the walls and enjoy the attention by sponsoring an art exhibition
of its own artists/handlers. Please meet and welcome these dedicated artists and handlers with whom
you will enjoy the uniqueness of their work and at the end of the day, you'll
have confidence that they will treat your art piece like it was one of their's.
Strong yet Fragile the spirit of creativity lives on the walls of Broadway and 134th.
The curator, one of the leaders of this unique collective group of artists is none other than
Hely Omar Gonzales who last year Exhibited in Los Angeles with paintings of
unique toyota trucks in the Sahara desert.(Check out the Fine Art Trekkin Blog for his show in 2022)
Hely Omar Gonzales Exhibits in Los Angeles at 6150 Wilshire May 07
https://finearttrekkinmidwilshirela.blogspot.com/2022/08/hely-omar-gonzales-exhibits-in-los.html
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Caitlin Canchola, explained that this piece with the Red Rino Horn was created during the pandemic of 2020 and she wanted to express her environmental concerns in a creative way.
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...And yes, this one is indeed the infamous Luke Van Hook a unique artist exploring and working in recycled materials.
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And the best part of the Exhibition was the live entertainment brought to you on the stage of the loading dock...a singer songwriter, guitarist, playing such beautiful
melodies we believe we may have a viral phenomenon in the making, artist named Canaan. (Currently I'm trying to get this video loaded but Blogger tells me
it is exceeding the limits so I'll find a work around and add the excellent performance later this week. Ginger)
A delightful exhibition of both art, artists and showcased talent, September the first, kicked off the SEASON OF ART with suprises and soulful experiences.
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~Ginger Van Hook, Photojournalist, artist, curator, and new talent scout...Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-40065170427970086542023-04-03T09:54:00.000-07:002023-04-03T09:54:57.610-07:00Hung Viet Nguyen "Sacred Matter" Matter Studio Gallery Los Angeles, California
A stunning display of intricate landscapes reveal paintings
that take on a life of their own, as Hung Viet Nguyen stands at the
doorway to his solo exhibition at Matter Studio Gallery inviting you
into his realm of colorful reality.
Having first seen an exhibit of Nguyen's work in 2008, I have documented
some of his exhibits on the Fine Art Trekking Series of blogs
http://finearttrekkintorrance.blogspot.com/2010/12/studio-visit-with-hung-viet-nguyen.html
and have witnessed his career blossom into a specatucular array of colorful expressions
depicting not only the love and respect of the painting profession but
clearly demonstrating the love and honor of his family through his portraits
as well. <a href="http://finearttrekkintorrance.blogspot.com/2010/12/studio-visit-with-hung-viet-nguyen.html" target="_blank"></a>Now, seeing his new work, I find there are detailed hidden messages
revealed within the painting themselves.
Words can be seen secretly weaved into his sacred landscapes such as
the passing of a beloved, and always, his own distinctive
signature weaved into discreet corners of his canvas.
Hung Vient Nguyen's love of painting is indeed Sacred, as it exudes a
meditative practive of constantly making marks on the canvas as intricate
detail, yet keeping an eye on the bigger picture that emerges of the landscape.
Of my favorite details within his paintings, I have taken note that there
are now flowers filling his marvelous canvases, both large and small.
Whereas the original works had dry landscapes, while California suffered
years of drought, there now appear new flowers, blossoms and blooms
that cascade against the backdrop of creeks, valley waterfulls and wondrous
caverns that appear like active volcanos if not yet ready to erupt, certainly
ominous in the colorful layers of oil paint he uses to portray his subjects.
Hung Viet Nguyen is a talented painter to keep an eye on because his own
career has begun to bloom. Hung Viet Nguyen lives in Torrance, California
and originated from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. His artwork my be accessed
through hung4art.com
Contact: ~Gallery Director::
Karla Funderburk
MATTER STUDIO GALLERY
5080 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
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Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-32426887032149567522023-02-12T11:05:00.000-08:002023-02-12T11:05:19.645-08:00Shizuko Greenblatt Artist and DesignerBorn in Japan to an ancient samurai family, Shizuko Greenblatt was raised in an environment that emphasized and honored the arts.She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, then came to the United States to continue her education at UCLA. Later she became a certified interior designer and worked in the field for more than 20 years. Recognized with multiple awards, many articles and publication from the press, Greenblatt's art is held in both private and public collections around the world.
It has been my privilege and honor to follow Shizuko Greenblatt's art career since 2009 . Shizuko explores numerous design elements in her work
to create amazing installations, sculptures, photographic prints and a serious collection of paintings within which she includes her Japanese heritage. Shizuko Greenblatt is February's Featured Artist for the Van Hook Foundation.
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SHIZUKO GREENBLATT
Exhibition:
Intersect Palm Springs Art and Design Fair
Palm Springs Convention Center, bG Gallery, #502
http://www.santamonica.bgartdealings.com
February 9 – February 12, 2023
“Conglomeration of Photos and Paintings”
Through the lens of creating paintings, I have taken a variety of photos over the last ten years and have accumulated thousands of images. By combining my own paintings with these photos, I am pleased to discover that these two types of images work together synergistically, creating complex compositions which convey messages well with multiple symbolisms. http://www.shizukogreenblatt.com
Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-74559428657146708192022-11-22T09:04:00.000-08:002022-11-22T09:04:24.766-08:00Dos Tres Renaissance Man. Artist, Musician, SculptorDos Tres has exhibited talents in a number of fields of art
including jamming with the band to making mobile installations
to painting and photography. As featured artist in
THANKFUL, we are grateful for these works of art::.
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In our world of uncertainty and peril I express thanks for the healing power of art.
The artist journey is reflection.. a moment, an arrival, a survival..
An old family painting is serenity… a situation, a memory, a loss..
A mobile teaches balance, yet on the way poses affront, an attack.. collapsing into a chaotic dangling tangle of despair.. then sorrow somehow morphs into rising newfound purpose..
Entering Getty’s Rotunda I’m drawn into a magnificent artist’s trap: One small perfect pencil line begs another, then another even better, then an arc greater still.. until they fill.. ten tablets?!!
Growth.. art is expansion beyond toxic illness.. paralyzed fingers grateful for the healing power of art medicine and the medicine bringers.. Dylan’s prescription is vision, perception, honesty.. depth of character..
The art student learns perspective.. a quiet chapel on a hill.. a distant tree horizon..
Art’s salve is a taste, a feeling, a color.. the scent of a vanishing moment
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Dos Tres _ Dylan's Dream _ H: 37" X W: 41" _ 3D Multimedia: oil, acrylic, enamel/ hemp hair, guitar strings, frets, bone nut, ring, cufflink, glitter _ $23.000
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Dos Tres _ Floral Blaze _ 16" X 20" _ acrylic on art board, natural leaf applique _ $5,000
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Dos Tres _ Medicine Bringer _ 20" X 24" _ acrylic on art board _ nfs
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Dos Tres _ The Moment _ photograph
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We at the Van Hook Foundation are pleased that Dos Tres is participating in our show "THANKFUL"
during this season of gratitude. This is a resident of Inglewood and thus also represents
our selection of featured artists for the Inglewood Open Studios which happens every year,
just before the Thanksgiving Holidays.
Dos Tres is an artist we met in Inglewood and have followed the course of his career since
2008.
Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-2848513576697454342022-11-13T08:27:00.000-08:002022-11-13T08:27:00.566-08:00Meet Featured Artist for THANKFUL Dos Tres, Don Oliver Scott III an Inglewood Artist Artist Bio Dos Tres 2022
Dos Tres (b. Don Oliver Scott III, Oakland, CA, 1948) was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. A child of the 60’s he was greatly influenced by the art and expressive music of the San Francisco psychedelic scene. In high school he enjoyed painting lessons from S. F. artist/mentor Jim Scott, and his retail village concept/model earned first place at the California Industrial Arts Exposition in Sacramento.
Architecture studies at U.C. Berkeley (’69 -’70) opened his eyes to the historic relationship between humans and the natural environment. His model of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon was prominently displayed in the lobby of Wurster Hall, home of Berkeley’s Department of Architecture. Attending a lecture seminar and discussions with architect Richard Neutra convinced him that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Work for NorCal architects and engineers followed.
In 1978 Dos Tres came to Los Angeles where he drafted Hilton and Hyatt Regency interiors for Hirsch Bedner Associates, now the largest hospitality design firm in the world. Around this time Dos was invited to the home of Muhammad Ali, who autographed his airbrushed oil painting of Ali fighting in the ring. A stimulating ’85 –‘86 stint at Walt Disney Imagineering doing set design for Disneyland LA also provided the opportunity to flex his musical side and venture into audio design for the Life-Health Pavilion’s ‘Journey Through the Body’ at EPCOT Center. Exposure to Disney’s elite force of artists encouraged him to up his game and absorb new techniques.
Living in LA Dos Tres has painted murals in restaurants, music studios, professional offices and private homes. He created super-graphics, redesigned the cafeteria and served as a facility planner for Allied Signal Corporation in Torrance.
In 2007 Dos began work for the J. Paul Getty Trust at both the Villa and Getty Center Museums, immersing him in the great artistic milieus from the ancients to the modern masters. In 2010 his ‘Ubersketch’, a fantastical color pencil rendering of Tim Hawkinson’s Uberorgan installation, was displayed at the Getty’s bi-annual Underground exhibit. He gave a lecture on its creation at the Getty Research Institute with Getty curatorial staff and guests in attendance.
Recently retired from the Getty, Dos Tres is now free to explore his insatiable passions for writing, music, painting and video production.
Testimonials
“That’s a million dollar painting..” - Muhammad Ali, 1980, referring to G.O.A.T., painting now in the collection of Dr. David Schwartz
“Your wonderful sketch of Uberorgan is quite beautiful and whimsical and makes me very nostalgic for the Getty!” - Peggy Fogelman, Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
“..It’s a very beautiful work in its own right but also a fantastic reminder of how wonderful the installation was. I envy you for having spent so much time with it.” - Michael Brand, renowned art historian and former Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum
“Thanks so much for letting us see the terrific drawing of the Uberorgan installation! Bravo & all the best,” - John Walsh, Founding Director, the J. Paul Getty Museum
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GROUP SHOW: “THANKFUL” EXHIBITION
Looks for artwork that revels in the gratitude of life and its unique blessings.
Artwork that expresses appreciation and celebration of life’s many seasons.
What are you thankful for?
Submission deadline: October 30, 2022.
The "Thankful" exhibition is scheduled to run in Gallery 1820
and on-line, November 13 to December 20, 2022.
TO SUBMIT TO THIS SHOW PLEASE SEND YOUR JPG IMAGES and details
with dimensions, media, title, artist, price, & city to the email below
and make a donation on the website for your entry fee.
Your contributions are tax deductible.
Please be sure to title your images ArtistName_WorkTitle and
coordinate the artist name & details on the subject line with your submission
so we match your donation to your images.
Emailed JPG images must be 1MB or under.
Email to: images.vanhookfoundation@gmail.com
Detailsfor submissions are on the website
vanhookfoundation.org under News and Events
Miniature artworks welcome.
Any small sculpture requires your own pedestal.
For questions you may contact Curator Ginger Van Hook
gingervanhook@vanhookfoundation.org
Entry fees for submitting works are the following:
Two images Donation of $50. Four images $100. When you make a donation
the subject line should identify you as the artist and medium:
For example: Artist: Ginger Van Hook, Medium: Photography
or Artist Luke Van Hook, Medium: Painting
To Email images, send them to : images.vanhookfoundation@gmail.com
For additional questions you may contact
Curator, Ginger Van Hook, gingervanhook@vanhookfoundation.org
Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-83938832712609719322022-08-29T07:35:00.001-07:002022-08-29T07:35:31.398-07:00THE VAN HOOK FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES RE-OPENING: FLORA KAO, PERSISTENT GARDEN
The Van Hook Foundation is proud to announce artist Flora Kao
to exhibit at the Re-Opening of the Fine Art Exhibition Space at
Gallery 1820 in Duarte, California.
1820 Evergreen Street, Duarte, CA 91010
www.vanhookfoundation.org
FLORA KAO artist exhibition:
Persistent Garden Curated by Ginger Van Hook
opens October 1, 2022 and runs through November 02nd, 2022
Reception and Artist talk dates:
ARTIST RECEPTION: SUNDAY OCTOBER 09, 2022
ARTIST TALK: SUNDAY OCTOBER 23, 2022
Artists Flora Kao and Ginger Van Hook explore
the resiliency of the persistent garden.
Photography and Installation depict the
nature and ecostructure of growth despite obstacles.
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Artist Hely Omar Gonzales appeared at Artistic Edge Gallery in Long Beach </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to Exhibit his latest crop of </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">fantastical flowers on July 27th, 2018</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the Opening Night of the LA Art Show 2017, the first artist to capture my eye with his painting was Si Bowen. This was not easy to do as I was carried away by the crowd at the entrance and was led through a throng of art lovers all but covering the paintings and artworks with their own presence of appreciation. The fact that we are about a week from the inauguration of a new President, it seemed fit to come across a painter with an outside perspective of our election process. Si Bowen, an artist born in Beijing, China who studied art not only in Beijing, but in France and New York, described to me that his rendering of the television debate versions of Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton were painted to describe the passage of time. Viewed as duplicate and triplicate images of Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton side by side on their podiums with hand gestures superimposed one over the other, yielded an out of focus picture of the debate postures from last year. That the image captured my eye because it looked politically vaguely amusing or satirical yet timely or that it expressed a unique and clever perspective was something that made me stop and want to meet the artist. The American People might agree that our process is somewhat murky when we transition from one administration to another, so the artist Si Bowen, might have captured in his painting, the unclarity of our union in mid-gesture. Nonetheless, his portfolio of non-political images was of even further interest as one of his favorites was the wonderful painterly expression and focus on his grandmother's hand. Si Bowen stated that he had studied in France as well as spent time in the arts in New York and that he started drawing at the age of three. When his father observed his talents, he enrolled him in the art schools at an early age. Some of the works that Si Bowen showed me in his catalogue were even more spiritually related than<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4l_KVymUHUpTTu-gDs222GUJ1aysOTbyEcNdLfd32y7Xh50r39NfjaFYUgs7zdeTiJatQBSVAeT01OAMMxSi5Ar8Yod-XfqHQqf8k64J0Crg5i3PebhYF6MsqNgWxJsROCXAkclbW-pE/s1600/IMG_1905.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4l_KVymUHUpTTu-gDs222GUJ1aysOTbyEcNdLfd32y7Xh50r39NfjaFYUgs7zdeTiJatQBSVAeT01OAMMxSi5Ar8Yod-XfqHQqf8k64J0Crg5i3PebhYF6MsqNgWxJsROCXAkclbW-pE/s320/IMG_1905.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChmxochnKN6AoTC8HekroGXkPurxcduLd7GYNv7ZAt1A2y839UYwA4tkXNwv5VFBDjJ0-xEU2_xkcVRz_EESFN65n8vpTQjIWMk4rg0e-dtAJqmlpbp1i3McIRRFcjSsXBUhmYOMj9wc/s1600/IMG_1906.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChmxochnKN6AoTC8HekroGXkPurxcduLd7GYNv7ZAt1A2y839UYwA4tkXNwv5VFBDjJ0-xEU2_xkcVRz_EESFN65n8vpTQjIWMk4rg0e-dtAJqmlpbp1i3McIRRFcjSsXBUhmYOMj9wc/s320/IMG_1906.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqRs2THDObqS6Yho86Q3N7UjC9reij5u8OfVCpkckYdiJY2teU7daigXOL5L8aRGm3LdCtaTSo-K4gYKUWCOYzb9mULQ_SPVkZ7Fx6hgpecYMuBuhAjbmj1A_m3s5eWL24Yc7xYEZPBRU/s1600/IMG_1908.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqRs2THDObqS6Yho86Q3N7UjC9reij5u8OfVCpkckYdiJY2teU7daigXOL5L8aRGm3LdCtaTSo-K4gYKUWCOYzb9mULQ_SPVkZ7Fx6hgpecYMuBuhAjbmj1A_m3s5eWL24Yc7xYEZPBRU/s320/IMG_1908.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs8lDomprG4P96MDw-JkVLnzBRITNl0rF_7jHXUhLqOIiTIbKTK0hnwlelA7fQP9QhrRvwUtXSL8qbhlhRLkkgg6pvf03Gcokglvo4QLywZfEBkz-64wlK_5yz1VCPuE7hFTSuYfYiKxs/s1600/IMG_1901.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs8lDomprG4P96MDw-JkVLnzBRITNl0rF_7jHXUhLqOIiTIbKTK0hnwlelA7fQP9QhrRvwUtXSL8qbhlhRLkkgg6pvf03Gcokglvo4QLywZfEBkz-64wlK_5yz1VCPuE7hFTSuYfYiKxs/s320/IMG_1901.JPG" width="320" /></a> just his exploration of time and space and matters of death and spirituality. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Si Bowen is a multi-diciplinary artist creating works in sculpture, oil paint, and installation works. Si Bowen is represented by the LIAHONA ART SPACE representing the strong forces of young Chinese artists.</span></div>
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<br />Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-35529430838241681912016-10-08T19:29:00.003-07:002017-03-06T08:59:21.698-08:00Inglewood Open Studios
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LOS ANGELES, CA – Inglewood has become the fastest growing artist community in Los Angeles. It is also the fastest growing city, undergoing daily changes for and around the NFL stadium, Hollywood Park Casino, along new Metro lines and downtown Inglewood. The tenth annual <b>Inglewood Open Studios</b> tour will showcase the impressive depth and talent of this community on the weekend of November 12-13, from 12:00 to 5:00pm both days. As always, Inglewood Open Studios remains an artist run event, co-organized by local non profit Inglewood Cultural Arts (ICA).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brian Biedul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Martin Bruinsma</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kelly Brumfield-Woods</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Darel Carey</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matthew Carey</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anne Cheek La Rose</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Joyce Dallal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bibi Davidson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beth Dubber</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Martin Durazo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Renee Fox</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sue Francis</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Calida Garcia Rawles</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Michael Giancristiano</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nancy Jo Haselbacher</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shelly Heffler</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Astrelle Johnquest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Michael Massenburg</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christopher L. Mercier</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">David Newcombe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lindsey Nobel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kenneth Ober</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Toni Reinis</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Joan Robey</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alexandra Rose</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dawn Rosenquist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Karen Sikie</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ZinShu Spock, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ernie Steiner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sidney Tuggerson, Jr.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ginger Van Hook</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Luke Van Hook</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">MonaLisa Whitaker</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.180000305175781px;">Inglewood Cultural Arts, Inc. (ICA), functions as fiscal receiver and co-organizer for the Inglewood Open Studios. ICA is an independent, multidisciplinary nonprofit arts organization serving residents of Inglewood and surrounding communities. ICA's mission is to enhance the quality of life in the community by providing diverse cultural arts programs. </span><span style="color: #365f91; line-height: 15.180000305175781px;"><a href="http://www.inglewoodculturalarts.org/" style="color: #7ca19c; text-decoration: none;">www.inglewoodculturalarts.org</a></span><span style="color: #8db3e2; line-height: 15.180000305175781px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 15.180000305175781px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-30636978659971920262011-10-18T01:32:00.000-07:002011-11-15T12:43:09.877-08:00Ginger's Art Journal Features FINE ART TREKKIN in cities near you!<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">The <b>FINE ART TREKKIN</b> series of blogs represents specific communities in the Los Angeles, California Area, as well as the United States. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">We are here to represent the FACTS about the Fine Art Community as documentary records. (F.A.C.T.S) PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE NOT A POLITICAL ORGANIZATION, nor do we cover politics, news, religion or crime beats. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><b>F</b>INE <b>A</b>RT <b>C</b>OMMUNITY <b>T</b>REKKIN <b>S</b>ERIES of blogs seeks to provide a documentary slice of our culture as it exists in the new millennium, after the year 2000.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">The FINE ART COMMUNITY TREKKIN SERIES© of Blogs is licensed and copyrighted to Ginger Van Hook© as of 2008. This series of documentary works is also licensed and copyrighted on YOU TUBE as videos by EnildeVanHook©. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">THANK YOU for reading about our artworks and artists!</div><br />
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NEW YORK <a href="http://finearttrekkinnewyork.blogspot.com/">http://finearttrekkinnewyork.blogspot.com/</a>Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com0Los Angeles, CA, USA34.0522342 -118.243684933.7354072 -118.50012840000001 34.369061200000004 -117.9872414tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-92082316509232148682010-10-27T12:55:00.000-07:002010-10-27T12:55:18.918-07:00SEE THRU EXHIBITION OPENED 8.14.10 GALLERY 825 LOS ANGELES<div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.75em; position: relative; text-align: left;"><a href="http://seethroughexhibition.blogspot.com/2010/08/see-thru-exhibition-opened-81410.html" style="color: #bba021; text-decoration: none;">SEE THRU EXHIBITION OPENED 8.14.10 GALLERY 825 LOS ANGELES</a></h3><div class="post-header" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinoDGwhzWulQ3LWp6IIGboNnEClXhEPIqHTzhyVYGtLUPapztZCCr9arsE0JdMfYTPSqYu6_6lVG5H7R2JdsXK8MPQkUrYb9gehSUsxAV0qJxJ-G91XHr_PqWe7KlYJTzvNHNE7zSdWzP6/s1600/IMG_8531.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #bba021; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinoDGwhzWulQ3LWp6IIGboNnEClXhEPIqHTzhyVYGtLUPapztZCCr9arsE0JdMfYTPSqYu6_6lVG5H7R2JdsXK8MPQkUrYb9gehSUsxAV0qJxJ-G91XHr_PqWe7KlYJTzvNHNE7zSdWzP6/s400/IMG_8531.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976562) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Professor Shinsuke Shimojo of CalTech, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a world-renowned researcher and expert in field of vision, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">perception and cognitive neuroscience inspired artists from LAAA/Gallery 825 </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to create new work reflecting scientific principals </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">exploring the intersection between photography, neuroscience and the arts.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">SMALL GALLERY and MAIN GALLERY<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The work in this project plays off Shinsuke Shimojo’s studies on perception and the interplay of emotion, decision-making and consciousness.* Our eyes are constantly scanning our surroundings in rapid leaps, instantaneously accumulating information as they move several times per second, all without conscious effort or knowledge. Shimojo describes the “gaze cascade effect,” in which a subject's gaze between two objects under consideration gradually shifts to favor the object ultimately chosen. Research has indicated that these gaze cascades, also called orienting, are deeply involved in higher-level brain functions such as decision making.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In experiments asking subjects to compare two faces and label one as either attractive or unattractive, Shimojo discovered that the more that someone looks at a particular face, the more he or she </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">wants</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> to look at it, and consequently the more likely it becomes that the face will be labeled as “attractive.” This happens even before the viewer makes a conscious decision. His research also found that the participants' judgments of attractiveness versus unattractiveness could be manipulated by limiting the length of time they were allowed to look at a particular face. According to Shimojo, the unconscious, spontaneous movements of the eyes work in concert and affect what are presumed to be more deliberate cognitive tasks when making choices. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Various studies in cognitive and neuro sciences have demonstrated that images—of a face, for instance—and semantic contents such as verbal labels interact through various mechanisms in order to produce a stable and consistent interpretation of the image. In today’s modern surveillance society, labeling occurs in myriad ways, both benign and nefarious. This continual labeling has far broader scope and more serious consequences than ordinary judgments of "attractive" and "unattractive," but it is perhaps influenced by some of the same subliminal forces shown in Shimojo’s work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The lineup of "perpetrators" in this installation shows faces with labels quite contrary to the presumed task of security surveillance, which aims to identify malefactors, terrorists, criminals, dangerous subjects and other potential wrongdoers. Instead these labels, which have been loosely extrapolated from the Buddhist tenets of the ten perfections, seek to discern those with traits most useful, beneficial, lasting and constructive for society. Although these labels are essentially positive, the viewer cannot help but approach them with a consciousness of what it is to be watched and labeled specifically, and an appreciation of the complex tensions inherent in labeling in general.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Connections 1, Connections 2<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Krista Kahl<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">48”x 60" silver gelatin prints with india ink.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Price: $3200 ea.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Magnetic vinyl "Neurons" approx. 8x10" $40 each. (16 total) Can be purchased individually or in sets.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Our urban environment is a by-product of our brains, our perceptions and ultimately our imagination. In this installation I share a glimpse of how I interpret the inner and outer connections of our brain to our environment, from micro to macro. Having an avid interest in astronomy, electricity and the inner workings of the mind I found it interesting how they are all intertwined. This idea began while I was driving around the city and trying to photograph the sky. I couldn't help but notice how the wires always seemed to get in the way. I started to obsess about them. The more I looked, the more I saw, until finally, instead of fighting to get rid of them I decided to include them in my photographs. I began to contemplate what exactly was going through all those wires.... visually, they are just black lines. But inside, it was obvious there was a whole other invisible world going on - a secret little communicative world of energy, electricity, sound and life. I realized this world was parallel to the inner workings of our brain, whether it is electrical impulses being transferred to our buildings and homes or electrical impulses being transferred through the neurons and synapses in our brain - it is all basically the same, depending on how you look at it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><div style="text-align: left;">I use black and white film and chemistry to capture the images, then draw lines extending onto the paper landscape and leave it to the viewer to imagine where these lines end. In the window, whimsical Neuron Creatures float through space; each one has it's own little life and is a part of the bigger whole.</div><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Description:</div><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">ASSEMBLE</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> explores the intersection of vision and perception through an installation that mimics the way congenitally blind people process information. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Four artists have collaborated to dissect one photographic image into parts, fragments, slices, and pieces. The resulting installation of images attempts to simulate the way a blind person must confront all experiences, in a detailed piece-by-piece examination to understand an object, person or environment. ASSEMBLE also investigates the hierarchy of perception - by breaking apart one iconic photograph into bits and pieces leaving much of the final details to the mind of the viewer.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The work in this project plays off Shinsuke Shimojo’s studies on perception and the interplay of emotion, decision-making and consciousness.* Our eyes are constantly scanning our surroundings in rapid leaps, instantaneously accumulating information as they move several times per second, all without conscious effort or knowledge. Shimojo describes the “gaze cascade effect,” in which a subject's gaze between two objects under consideration gradually shifts to favor the object ultimately chosen. Research has indicated that these gaze cascades, also called orienting, are deeply involved in higher-level brain functions such as decision making.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In experiments asking subjects to compare two faces and label one as either attractive or unattractive, Shimojo discovered that the more that someone looks at a particular face, the more he or she <i>wants</i> to look at it, and consequently the more likely it becomes that the face will be labeled as “attractive.” This happens even before the viewer makes a conscious decision. His research also found that the participants' judgments of attractiveness versus unattractiveness could be manipulated by limiting the length of time they were allowed to look at a particular face. According to Shimojo, the unconscious, spontaneous movements of the eyes work in concert and affect what are presumed to be more deliberate cognitive tasks when making choices. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Various studies in cognitive and neuro sciences have demonstrated</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> that images—of a face, for instance—and semantic contents such as verbal labels</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">interact through various mechanisms in order to produce a stable and consistent interpretation of the image.<span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In today’s modern surveillance society, labeling occurs in myriad ways, both benign and nefarious. This continual labeling has far broader scope and more serious consequences than ordinary judgments of "attractive" and "unattractive," but it is perhaps influenced by some of the same subliminal forces shown in Shimojo’s work.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The lineup of "perpetrators" in this installation shows faces with labels quite contrary to the presumed task of security surveillance, which aims to identify malefactors, terrorists, criminals, dangerous subjects and other potential wrongdoers. Instead these labels, which have been loosely extrapolated from the Buddhist tenets of the ten perfections, seek to discern those with traits most useful, beneficial, lasting and constructive for society. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Although these labels are essentially positive, the viewer cannot help but approach them with a consciousness of what it is to be watched and labeled specifically, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">and an appreciation of the complex tensions inherent in labeling in general.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">BACK GALLERY – WURDEMANN ROOM<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Blue Volumetric<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yoichi Kawamura, Shana Mabari and Shinsuke Shimojo<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">42” x 42” x 42” Plexiglass Cube + Mixed Materials<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Price: $20,000<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Throughout history, art and science have had much in common.<span> </span>Both disciplines tackle a subject in depth and with great curiosity.<span> </span>One uses methodic measures and recording of results, and the other uses internal intuitive reasoning to create artwork.<span> </span>‘Blue Volumetric’ is a collaborative piece among a scientist/artist and two artists immersing themselves into the Science of Vision and using art to record that work.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The piece attempts to give color another dimension.<span> </span>By definition, color has three properties: hue, saturation and brightness.<span> </span>Even though volumetric (3D) color is everywhere in the natural environment, such as in the sky or the water, it has been neglected relative to surface (2D) color in perceptual psychology and cognitive neuroscience.<span> </span>This piece introduces volumetric, as well as temporal qualities to this unique “qualia”(a philosophical term for subjective quality) of the hue.<span> </span>Steam is enclosed to give blue light space, and at the same time, the steam is constantly changing from steam to water and back to steam.<span> </span>The piece is also meant to demonstrate sequential and simultaneous color contrast phenomena.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Brain Projector<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Luke and Ginger Van Hook<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">24” x 24” x 24” Mixed Media<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Price: $2500<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Based on the traditional Marawa Doro Japanese Rotating Lantern, this light and space installation investigates the visual cortex as a metaphor for how the brain processes information.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Optic Chasm<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mei Xian Qiu<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Dimensions Varied – Plexiglass Cube, Water, Used Motor Oil, Projector, Tempera.</span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><div style="text-align: left;">Price: $ 4,200</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Description:</span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><div style="text-align: left;">This work is about optic illusion, the difference between what we believe is in front of us and what is actually there as a physical object. I am interested in human perception as defined by light, shadow, and belief. A thick slick of black oil from a '75 Chevy on a glowing liquid cube. A video projection that appears to move in, through, and around the cube. A serious comedy of optics, and ecological and fundamental opposites.</div><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The New Zodiac<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Grid of Politicians (Untitled Politician #1-6)<b>, </b>Grid of Bunnies (Untitled Bunny #1-6)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Siri Kaur with Romann Weber and Daw-an Wu<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">13 x 19’’ Pigment Prints, 2010. Edition of 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Price: $400 each or $2000/ grid<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The images were made using eye tracking software in the Shimojo laboratory at CalTech, where each image was viewed for a total of five seconds by the three collaborators. The parts of the images that are visible represent the course of the viewers’ eye movements. It’s as if their eyes became a razor, scraping out the relevant sections of each picture, charting a course of relevancy. The portions represented by the solid color and black areas reveal the portions of the pictures the viewers’ eyes neglected. Thus the images become visible maps of the way humans see the world. In five seconds or less, eyes, mouths, breasts, and flesh are what we look at first.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">These cultural icons, both the politicians and pinups, were chosen by the artist for nostalgic reasons, because of their influence over her during her formative years, for better or for worse. The color palette of “Politicians”, borrowed from popular design palettes of 1960’s and 1970’s, displaces them from their typical flag backdrops; one of each color is arbitrarily assigned to each politician. The deep black ground of the “Bunnies” removes their fleshy bodies from the usual setting of sugary boudoirs.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Color Space</span></i></b></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><div style="text-align: left;">Ching-Ching Cheng</div><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">9"x9"x9" Urethane, Pigment</span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><div style="text-align: left;">Price: $2500</div><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Colors are inside our brain; outside is colorless because the physical environment contains only light waves. Colors that we perceive are determined not just by physical properties of light (i.e. wavelength and energy), but also physiological optics of the eye and neural processing. So any color that our eyes receive is a perception of color, as well as a psychological color. This installation aims to visualize perceptions of colors in space, which have three dimensions: color tone (first dimension), lightness (second dimension), and saturation (third dimension).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Opposite of Love<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mei Xian Qiu<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">26.5 x 36.5, Lambda print, Edition of 10</span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><div style="text-align: left;">Price: $850 ea.</div><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This work explores ambiguity and intensities of emotion and intent. How do we visually perceive love, loss, and malcontent? A woman looks longingly or in anger? Two images of the same woman, different object in hand, one flowers, the other a gun. Her expression is the same, or is it?</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">This exploration replaces incendiary primary imagery with words, challenging the viewer to create a complete visual context. I am interested with what is not in the frame as much as what is in it. There exists for the viewer a combination of a self created visual picture from the words, what something "should" look like, subliminally borne from memory and enculturation, in the same way we create a visual memory from reading a novel, with the remaining portion of photograph (where the visual information is readily divulged).</span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Can you trust what you feel?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Marcie Kaufman</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Archival Digital Print, 2010</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Price: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">$450</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Electric<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Marcie Kaufman</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">and Krista Kahl</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Archival Digital Print, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Price: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">$450</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Crossing<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Marcie Kaufman</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">and Krista Kahl</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Archival Digital Print, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Price: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">$450</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Marcie Kaufman is responding to Professor Shinsuke Shimojo's work on tactile cognition--how the brain "reads" touch on the skin. At different places and positions of the body, the brain reads touch in mirror reverse.<span> </span>She created photographs that make visible Shimojo's findings of invisible cognitive interpretation by drawing directly on the body, and developed poetic connections with the science behind the work.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">MAIN GALLERY continued<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nostalgia</span></i></b></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><div style="text-align: left;">Shinsuke Shimojo & Shana Mabari</div><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">61”H x 10.5”W x 16.5”D, Mixed media (wood, brushed aluminum, goggles, flash bulb, battery).</span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><div style="text-align: left;">Price: $12,000.</div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Where does memory exist? In the mind, the brain, or the world? We do not have a definite answer, but it should exist somewhere in our reality because otherwise, how could we sometimes be smiling or crying over a very personal mnemonic image which is years or even decades old? Memory is often tightly connected with emotional experience, as demonstrated in special phenomena such as “flash-bulb memory” phenomenon. Emotion helps to consolidate memory as well as to trigger and distort. This installation aims to “replay” such long-term dynamics of memory distortion, fading and reviving, within a frame of several seconds in flash-initiated afterimage.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Brain<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Luke and Ginger Van Hook<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">12”L x 12”W x 12” Polycarbonate, LED Diodes, batteries, mirrored plexiglass<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Price: $2500.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Transparent abstract sculpture performance that mimics the human brain. During this exhibition the “Brain” Sculpture will be born, mature, fade then die. This occurs as the LED lights burn the brightest at it’s birth, then begin to decrease in illumination as it ages, and eventually ceases to shine, culminating in its final electronic death. A birth notice is prepared in a local newspaper and an obituary notice will be recorded when it ceases its life cycle. Expected life cycle = 5 days.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ferromagnetic Fields-LIGHT and <span> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ferromagnetic Fields-DARK<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Luke and Ginger Van Hook<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">30” x<span> </span>40” Photographic Digital C-Print, framed in Plexiglass<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Price: $3000 ea.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Description:<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ferrofluid is a liquid that becomes strongly magnetized in the presence of a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field" style="color: #bba021; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri; text-decoration: none;">magnetic field</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> and is composed of nanoscaled particals of magnetite or hermatite or another compound containing iron. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Invented in the late 1960s in NASA’S Apollo Program (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) ferrofluids are well known for their use in forming liquid seals and in electronic devices for computers, audiovisual equipment, some industrial applications and in medical and scientific research.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ferrofluids appear as a black fluid. They are prepared by dissolving nanoscale ferromagnetic particles in a solvent such as water or oil and remain strongly magnetic even in a fluid condition. Abstract shapes are created by the rising of spikes under a magnetic field that is controlled by electromagnets from below the surface. During a re-creation of this experiment, photographs reveal a battery operated red colored LED diode is swallowed up by the ferrofluids to form spiked shapes in mysterious configurations.</span><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">MAIN GALLERY continued<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Electromagnetic Fields-First Steps and Electromagnetic Fields of Memory<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Luke and Ginger Van Hook<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">22” x 42” Photography Darkroom C-Print, framed in plexiglass<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">33” x 42”<b><i> </i></b>Photography Darkroom C-Print, Collage framed in plexiglass<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Price: $3000 ea<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Description:<span> </span><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The memories in our brains are invisible to the outside observer. At best, the way we have of sharing these memories is through the medium of photography. All brain activity is based on a series of electrical impulses within a neuron, which<span> </span>then communicate neurochemically beyond synapses, much like our corporate culture has erected Power Towers to carry our energy and communications throughout the world. Vague perceptions, faded remembrances and filtered consciousness runs through these collages of images examining the relationship of electromagnetism to our brains, our bodies and our environment.<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Streams of power lines, telephone cables, satellite transmission dishes, cell phone towers as well as electronics both inside and outside our homes run along our landscapes like the streams of consciousness run through our thoughts. Some images of memories are clear and poignant. Some images are obscured and reside in the outer edges of our consciousness; not revealing themselves yet providing the hint of a feeling one can never fully grasp like a dream that has evaporated upon wakening.<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Growing up in the late 1960’s, my sister Else and I lived in a home along Southern Blvd. and Dudlext Street in Southgate, California where rows and rows of High Voltage Power Line Towers dotted the landscape like dominos. These structures of omnipotent architectural beauty towering over our childhood, made me feel like wanting to climb up the triangular bars like the limbs of trees, but our parents warned us to stay away. These images reveal new layers of filters to my memories as we investigate the invisible powers of low-level frequency electromagnetic fields (EMF’s) and their alleged associations.]<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Revealing the Invisible<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Luke and Ginger Van Hook<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">15”L x 12”W x 8.5”H<b><i>, </i></b>Magnetic Viewing Film in glass, aluminum frame. Interactive with cell phones<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Price: $600<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Description:<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: -49.5pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Magnetic Viewing Film </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">is used to show stationary or slowly-changing </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_fields" style="color: #bba021; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri; text-decoration: none;">magnetic fields</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">; it reveals their location and direction. It is a dark green translucent thin flexible sheet, coated with micro-capsules containing nickel flakes suspended in oil. When the “receiver” end of a cell phone is applied to the magnetic viewing film, it reveals exactly where the magnetic field is located. During this exhibition, the gallery visitor is able to interact with the art by “drawing” with their cell phones, exposing the invisible changing magnetic fields. </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-34672229092517170992010-05-20T20:04:00.000-07:002010-05-21T08:33:15.359-07:00Inglewood Community Garden Thrives with Art, Culture & Music!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Inglewood, California Written by Ginger Van Hook May 20, 2010</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxjzOakSr3dts2mQc_XAK_H3CSZxt-IPxBS43wNavLKR9rfyFPb3zWcGMuOR4UE-0ziYYHcsIzMxAlssTGdubsXKGo2KWmdRlQZQnfgDTz3NHYoh_Msu-OPhuwEtIvZq-jKhfzjkuWB0E/s1600/P5209857.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxjzOakSr3dts2mQc_XAK_H3CSZxt-IPxBS43wNavLKR9rfyFPb3zWcGMuOR4UE-0ziYYHcsIzMxAlssTGdubsXKGo2KWmdRlQZQnfgDTz3NHYoh_Msu-OPhuwEtIvZq-jKhfzjkuWB0E/s320/P5209857.jpg" /></a></div><b><i> </i>I</b>nglewood Community Garden is a dream students at Morningside High School have realized today with the help of Inglewood City Council member, Ralph L. Franklin of District 4, Teachers and Mentors, Miss Roshondra Woods, World History Teacher, Mr. Shawn Stanton at Morningside High School with Mr. D'Artagnan Scorza, Director at The Social Justice Learning Institute, and Mr. Sirls, the Principal of Morningside High School. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Photography Ginger Van Hook, 2010</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9fO174m-PIbvH128CFjeh0FWCKhwWIun_maR6Yfr90JGEodOqLsFHuOVaocu-Jo-aRT6XjLT4u2LAOvAVV8R6xFnTWG_ItXcYjb894ybPXPu_ZwNW9RisdRZ7t-s4ygt2lOrnaDHpJYU/s1600/P5209853.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9fO174m-PIbvH128CFjeh0FWCKhwWIun_maR6Yfr90JGEodOqLsFHuOVaocu-Jo-aRT6XjLT4u2LAOvAVV8R6xFnTWG_ItXcYjb894ybPXPu_ZwNW9RisdRZ7t-s4ygt2lOrnaDHpJYU/s320/P5209853.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For some of the students, it was hard to believe that these beautiful green corn leaves had come from all this dirt and gravel, but the miracle on Yukon and 107th Street in Inglewood was in full bloom. A student by the name of Jazz told the audience that she has been disheartened at first to see that this was a big empty lot with what seemed endless rocks. Then the students started clearing the land and putting their hearts and souls into the earth and the soil responded to their efforts to grow everything from tomatoes to chilies, jalapenos, lettuce, squash as well as herbs like parsley and oregano too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I dedicate...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I dedicate...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">my words,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">my voice,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">my sound,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and my choice...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">of speech</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I speak of here.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I dedicate...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I dedicate...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">what I have seeked here</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">throughout, without and within this garden</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I dedicate...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I dedicate...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">my rough hands</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and my</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">rock indented knees</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">my wind tormented hair </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the dirt infected breeze</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">that flows through this garden</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">like a stream of music through my ears</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When it comes down to it</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">this would not mean as much</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">without you, me, us</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">so</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I dedicate myself to you.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk8NP8YS6AU12I38e1c7K70NeJKzyv15B3ioYqH8fKAeaZxNh8kIhbk52lRTpqz9bfPvjCK5gJglBIxQLVmvM1BZgU_UkG8oi-WtHUdDMrdxVnoo8wiModaUYMZV31mYp0MZpQiSrsxks/s1600/P5209975.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk8NP8YS6AU12I38e1c7K70NeJKzyv15B3ioYqH8fKAeaZxNh8kIhbk52lRTpqz9bfPvjCK5gJglBIxQLVmvM1BZgU_UkG8oi-WtHUdDMrdxVnoo8wiModaUYMZV31mYp0MZpQiSrsxks/s320/P5209975.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As an Inglewood Artist I was invited to attend this event, thanks to Ceres Madoo and when I arrived, I did not know what to expect; but whatever it was to be, I knew this was a GREAT IDEA! As I milled about I got the opportunity to meet Mr. D'Artagnan Scorza who told me how the students from Morningside High School had gotten together to discuss civic engagement, how to show school spirit, how to improve the community and how to better serve the needs of the school district. The students themselves came up with the concept of a community garden, but at first, did not have the means to make it happen. The original students were from Miss Roshondra's class and Mr. Shawn Stanton's class. A good idea took root then and there. One thing led to another and with the help of Inglewood City Council Member Ralph Franklin, their project got the encouragement and the support they needed right there from the school district's land. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This property belongs to the school so now the students are able to </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">develop a way to empower themselves to be a self sustaining community </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">with healthy nourishing meals for its students. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">No better way to grow fine artists, fine students and fine citizens</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">than to take the seeds and cultivate, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">water frequently, daily, encourage with wisdom and respect for the land.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The students have a great number of plans which includes a farmer's market, music, art and culinary culture events.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvwQGMiDf_J_Fbixi2fqjb55RKd9Si2oVPMz7XajvSjqnyucgC-RMlZ69L3fpwAvrK0BxDGxYQFwGDpKCG-LNvtjZicaLi-wtstFzM8FyP5Io2f5TdnhDlctBBCT86WlNg8kJiI-LvfBs/s1600/P5209905.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvwQGMiDf_J_Fbixi2fqjb55RKd9Si2oVPMz7XajvSjqnyucgC-RMlZ69L3fpwAvrK0BxDGxYQFwGDpKCG-LNvtjZicaLi-wtstFzM8FyP5Io2f5TdnhDlctBBCT86WlNg8kJiI-LvfBs/s320/P5209905.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-37564254986574582952009-08-19T23:47:00.000-07:002009-08-26T01:55:58.831-07:00The Art Of The Summer Garden 2009<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A Photo-Journal Feature</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">written and photographed by</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ginger Van Hook</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5KLZECkN93MmB6uAChRajnsrz3cOWmVR18m7S94T7hhyiaKhzicUXckZrHtHd-KnmDuJgRhmZRSXEydaqAbJP4Sn-eYz4whZbrY6MaX-v2VGe4OJU_y1OWcNxJXcWGAsy-V4-tbbfa0E/s1600-h/Linda.Tomatoes.green.7.22.9.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5KLZECkN93MmB6uAChRajnsrz3cOWmVR18m7S94T7hhyiaKhzicUXckZrHtHd-KnmDuJgRhmZRSXEydaqAbJP4Sn-eYz4whZbrY6MaX-v2VGe4OJU_y1OWcNxJXcWGAsy-V4-tbbfa0E/s200/Linda.Tomatoes.green.7.22.9.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374182661086003298" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTEC87c5_q7_3B3z_oBmsvkwrPGAH_un2ZBBKtKkjlKj7EaYUnBXV5h6vgvN-MWc3PD7Rn-P93a2vAXPuUwkbVYKyTttU5aw7wsPRO50UFCM-DOLMfDEuozdWMODOfCevlPLKMJnAh2yQ/s1600-h/LindaKunik.08.05.09.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTEC87c5_q7_3B3z_oBmsvkwrPGAH_un2ZBBKtKkjlKj7EaYUnBXV5h6vgvN-MWc3PD7Rn-P93a2vAXPuUwkbVYKyTttU5aw7wsPRO50UFCM-DOLMfDEuozdWMODOfCevlPLKMJnAh2yQ/s200/LindaKunik.08.05.09.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374182657700540578" /></a><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Features Beverly Hills Artist</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>LINDA KUNIK</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"PLANT IT FORWARD"</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;">Local Beverly Hills Artist Creates Art </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;">From Her Garden </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;">Launching a new project called </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;">“PLANT IT FORWARD”</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">A local artist and resident of Beverly Hills turned her garden into an art form by creating a project called “Plant It Forward”. Linda Kunik, an artist and alumna from Otis College of Art and Design has initiated a project to enhance her artistic community as well as inspire local artists to do the same. “Plant It Forward” is about establishing community while reconnecting with the earth, a vision which includes artists bartering for vegetables either by working in the garden or helping in the documentation of the garden’s delights by photographing, videotaping and or journaling about the experience. Ms. Kunik believes trading services for food in these tough economic times makes sense because while cultivating the soil, a group of artists will also cultivate friendships and nourish the community. The foundation of Linda Kunik’s work is to get back to the roots of sustainable agriculture. “Plant It Forward” does exactly what it says. The seeds are planted now and the fruits of this labor go forward to feed people who take from the harvest the inspiration to plant their own gardens.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>“…My vision is for everyone to have their own garden, large or small and if that is not possible, to raise enough awareness for the people to shop locally and support their local Farmer’s Markets…” Ms. Kunik states as she points to the five large gardens she created in the back yard of her home, replacing flowerbeds and lawns in order to plant vegetables, herbs and fruit trees. Kunik wanted to give back to her community, raise awareness of the need for personal gardens and utilize the artistic medium to make her statement. “My work has always referenced the land. From my early days as a watercolorist painting landscapes to later works making paintings of deforestation or global warming; the beauty and fragility of the earth has been a recurring theme. Combining my agricultural practice with my art-making seems to be an natural evolution.” </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>The prospect of jumping into an artistic adventure to produce homegrown fruits and vegetables with a group of fellow artists was contagious. Thus the enthusiasm carried this labor of love into the summer as Ms. Kunik worked with a group of artists to bring in soil, create raised beds and began to fill them with the seeds of tomatoes, carrots, spinach, lettuce, corn, and a variety of herbs, citrus fruits and assorted vegetables. Some of the artists participating in Plant It Forward include Juna Amano (Painting & Sculpture), Marissa Magdalena (Installation, Performance and Drawing), Ofunne Obiamawe (Photographer), Suzanne Oshinsky (Videographer), Michiko Smith (Painting), Whitney Stolich (Photographer) and Ginger Van Hook (Photographer) as well as the new artists joining every week.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>It is the zenith of summer now and already some of the tomatoes have ripened looking fat, juicy and red. In recent weeks, there have already been harvests of endive lettuce, carrots and radishes. The important element in the formation of this garden is the artistic component of Ms. Kunik’s vision. The raised beds and gardens are shaped into asymmetrical forms with a walking path between them. Large Sunflowers adorn the corners of each of the vegetable beds and the aromas of fresh tomatoes and rosemary mixes with the fragrances of roses and lavender permeating the air in her back yard.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>Linda Kunik has written a blog about her work and continues to support the arts by highlighting the artistry of organic gardening in photography and painting. She also founded a community artist forum called the O Salon. The O Salon is where artists network and take part in conceptual critique as well as share information about each other’s works. Ms. Kunik is involved in a number of professional organizations including the Los Angeles Art Association, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Docent Council and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsE2feWBDuc_bRSL75UWNAK-F9zd7ZIhzeqOB6_GRZxicP1GRyD6keHg5-_dqd5U41bqjagEDCBeQYypvQP0CnL6vPd62HKhf6L6edpfRtVwKbZX388YlmgdxuiwAnG1wZodkgKj8iyyg/s1600-h/LindaKunik.G825.08.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsE2feWBDuc_bRSL75UWNAK-F9zd7ZIhzeqOB6_GRZxicP1GRyD6keHg5-_dqd5U41bqjagEDCBeQYypvQP0CnL6vPd62HKhf6L6edpfRtVwKbZX388YlmgdxuiwAnG1wZodkgKj8iyyg/s400/LindaKunik.G825.08.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374179993194225810" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">L<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">inda </span>K<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">unik photographed beside her painting </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Exhibition at Gallery 825 in Los Angeles, California, 2008</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">(Photo by Ginger Van Hook)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Plant It Forward-the starving artist project</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://plantitforwardla.blogspot.com</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">lindakunik@gmail.com</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">www.lkunik.com </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i>Additional artists websites and blogs:</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul><li>Juna Amano (Painting & Sculpture) http://junaamano.blogspot.com</li><li><br /></li><li>Marissa Magdalena (Installation, Performance and Drawing) www.marissamagdalena.com</li><li><br /></li><li>Ofunne Obiamawe (Photographer) www.RepublicofPeace.com</li><li><br /></li><li>Suzanne Oshinsky (Videographer) http://isoareyesore.blogspot.com/.</li><li><br /></li><li>Michiko Smith (Painting)</li><li><br /></li><li>Whitney Stolich (Photographer) www.whitneystolich.com</li><li><br /></li><li>Ginger Van Hook (Photographer) www.gingervanhook.com</li><li>http://gingersartjournal.blogspot.com</li><li><br /></li><li>Luke Van Hook (Painting) www.lukevanhook.com</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></b></div><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"Plant It Forward" : The week of June 07, 2009</span></span></b><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgJiW9Cb-7OrvR2m2k5XFRQivlDdHTbE1JnUd__42kn31prXkPByGql3b37nPiWgUaklmhsKt05mOO4y7xLL-W1EulhXdGPzUWW1NiUUFEVzXAA2S73yreKdVK2mmkXOf5xlD4q8zlMKI/s1600-h/Bouganvillas.6.07.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTEyTRHCIZGOABxjFuL8Un-g5JYwNJLoczpfPygIVHJXLrnvWxwICCf71T-QdB8GlgJ_q-5KoVNjPpc0OQ4HJmcvKmR75GW5t7WG7qy0S8JvYgywg6r7dOlw18oJHDu53oS1sLunRqHcc/s400/Linda.Juna.Marissa.Michitko.7.29.9.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374152619290486898" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">"Plant It Forward" : The week of August 5, 2009</span></span></span><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><br /></b></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVfMXJ1bw7_JFTjsgInWi1XN3-RAnA8tbBUNCDpAelmI0YqHlOJ1zJs2Vu_YSMFIfTO7_4CbOr479aP2GAnf3YxFIuyMOBvMFXDhUe8Esmm43w1MnykZg5ut3tF4JCvBu9R4K_krheyDM/s1600-h/LindaKunik.08.05.09.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVfMXJ1bw7_JFTjsgInWi1XN3-RAnA8tbBUNCDpAelmI0YqHlOJ1zJs2Vu_YSMFIfTO7_4CbOr479aP2GAnf3YxFIuyMOBvMFXDhUe8Esmm43w1MnykZg5ut3tF4JCvBu9R4K_krheyDM/s400/LindaKunik.08.05.09.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374149386008049634" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-family:georgia, fantasy;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Artist, Linda Kunik planted a garden to share with fellow artists</span>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifRSMc_KV-nK87Q2fNK9I777BTuDCczcm7fNrxytynd0MF7SvksYEVn9JUqOY3hy-12sd3KvjNMs-KP3hCm3MEuGlpVZfBO1u6cKS0EbHuolzCggLDK1jCK8W_84GHqqAnil7E6H0Ic_s/s1600-h/Huge.Watermelon.8.5.9.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9CCiCr4lcsavhsSoP1nrcW0HaTttrPncHVsB2Z_miqiAp029Pd6_whpWisS9m9SynfFNlRlbiiAxdp5eQPOXEaFPxBvnVzp_OVxVmehYV67CpTgul9WF3pilLhTfUAC1dEoWaracsVw/s400/Zuccinni.bread.8.20.9.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374094424853343698" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQDmXQ63xJTDHbqIDcoeMv2uOUrHrdzriTcolBM6NPa3FL8VgjN5gCuih9Ckdu8GLN0M2iuKvRtvNLSZPQrPkcmjifZ9kS3e-mQQPJOIALO2zqWWV_6snFYo9pCtUFsQCGj2qBi3ykW-o/s1600-h/Fried.Zuccinni.8.20.9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQDmXQ63xJTDHbqIDcoeMv2uOUrHrdzriTcolBM6NPa3FL8VgjN5gCuih9Ckdu8GLN0M2iuKvRtvNLSZPQrPkcmjifZ9kS3e-mQQPJOIALO2zqWWV_6snFYo9pCtUFsQCGj2qBi3ykW-o/s400/Fried.Zuccinni.8.20.9.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374094452886998546" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>The Art of the Summer Garden 2009</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>A Photo-Journal Feature</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>written and photographed by </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>Ginger Van Hook</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>Features Beverly Hills Artist</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">LINDA KUNIK</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b> "PLANT IT FORWARD"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div>Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-24177721140068391352009-01-01T22:51:00.000-08:002009-07-08T14:20:06.999-07:00The Art of Lovin' Animals --- Featured Group of Artists Inspired by Their Beloved Pets.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVCwYqfVtoPjw6jwF4FWIVcriRXOhCD6VQUQHFb7SSec9jlOyBCpbQRLM-vqo48_dk-Jje6cCaQkj5CGUKH0N60fCBMQKBAMZIT2jliQkwRWKws4Fr074wMVIypvLvJTY4yXa-wkeeSL8/s1600-h/Enilde+%26+Children+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVCwYqfVtoPjw6jwF4FWIVcriRXOhCD6VQUQHFb7SSec9jlOyBCpbQRLM-vqo48_dk-Jje6cCaQkj5CGUKH0N60fCBMQKBAMZIT2jliQkwRWKws4Fr074wMVIypvLvJTY4yXa-wkeeSL8/s400/Enilde+%26+Children+1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295738026475867826" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzdCYMYoTKQOOESJV-ad9_BRzhtjkrKqXHRm3Y_pnJwTnGOBrAJoq1Nm5gen4UthfQL3A3U_oEBxJd8eKeHuKB-dWzoeZyMOViJxhQlGOEtB8u-_I54PQDGS4b-2hmCCWwIpwG3Q7iM58/s1600-h/Enilde+%26+Children+1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Enilde And Our Children" Oil on Panel 42" x 60"</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzdCYMYoTKQOOESJV-ad9_BRzhtjkrKqXHRm3Y_pnJwTnGOBrAJoq1Nm5gen4UthfQL3A3U_oEBxJd8eKeHuKB-dWzoeZyMOViJxhQlGOEtB8u-_I54PQDGS4b-2hmCCWwIpwG3Q7iM58/s1600-h/Enilde+%26+Children+1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Painting by Luke Van Hook, 2003 </span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Painting and Photograph copyright by Luke and Ginger E. Van Hook, 2004</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">The Art of Lovin' Animals<br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Features a group of artists inspired, </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">motivated or influenced by their beloved pets </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">and appear in this blog in the following order:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Joshua Elias, Simone Gad, Betty Glass, David Newsom, </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Monrovia Association of Fine Arts supporters</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(KidsArt Studio, PaintNPlay Art Studios, Tyson & Tillman Skate Dogs) </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Family Dog and Cat Hospital in Monrovia, California (displays animal artwork).</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Ginger Van Hook, Luke Van Hook, </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Alex in Welderland, Elena Wolek, and Zareh.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Additionally as part of the "Art of Lovin' Animals" </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">there is a special book and movie review of </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">John Grogan's book "Marley and Me", and the recent hit movie </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">starring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Written by Enilde G. Van Hook with special thanks to all participating artists!</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Do you remember your first pet? I do. I even have a picture of how much bigger my cats’ paws were than my two feet put together at the age of three. My mother, tells me I had a yellow duck, a small dog and a large yellow tabby cat that owned me as a child. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTSx9ChT8Rv0oNIzfiFYGnFc196r6OPl3KfDAdD4eQ2S1VJa1Q1czgKPoUHv1-YJTGCWzCJ1V20n63oI4LldOD50LRfERMG2DLZLkm41ssUURFYy0JtaBU5efQeDtbU9DMq9-jOEHMw6M/s1600-h/EnildeAge2.CAT.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 231px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTSx9ChT8Rv0oNIzfiFYGnFc196r6OPl3KfDAdD4eQ2S1VJa1Q1czgKPoUHv1-YJTGCWzCJ1V20n63oI4LldOD50LRfERMG2DLZLkm41ssUURFYy0JtaBU5efQeDtbU9DMq9-jOEHMw6M/s320/EnildeAge2.CAT.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295736477868635458" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">These three pets were protective, possessive and they were my first companions as I ventured out, for the first time, into my wild back yard of dirt and weeds. I was born in Rosario Argentina and to me now as an adult, my backyard is still my world. I live in Los Angeles, California but the romance of the Argentinean Pampas is not lost on me. From the pictures of my past, I gathered that my Belgian Grandfather, Francisco, ran a plant nursery in Buenos Aires and that my father, Luis, grew up to be an inventor in America. But the most unique connection I have to my past is my relationship with animals. I’ve had a pet at almost every age as I grew up. The importance of this type of companionship has not been explored enough in the art world, at least, this is my opinion. This is the reason I am blogging about the subject of the art and inspiration of lovin’ pets. I hope to instigate discussion, if not compassion. I hope to motivate an artistic response to my thoughts as well. You may have a completely different experience, so I personally encourage you to post your comments after you read this entry.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is what I asked myself for the subject of the essay for Ginger's Art Journal. What is the relationship of animals and pets to the art world? How involved are animals throughout the art strata? How much inspiration is gathered from the love of a pet? Can that even be measured? Does the love of a pet inspire political causes? Activism? How does one explain the pangs of loneliness from the loss of a pet? Does the death of a pet make an artist create more art? Does the gift of a new life of a pet inspire hope and renewal in artists? How do artists express their love and affection for the four-legged critters of our earth? How do animals, pets, pet trees, pet rocks or pets of any kind affect the process of making art?<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There are a number of artists that I have followed for a period of time to investigate the questions that will make up this entry. Studying the work of a number of local artists from the Los Angeles and surrounding areas that work with pets in their art practice, I will present some of their unique stories with photos. The artists, in alphabetical order, include Joshua Elias, Simone Gad, Betty Glass, David Newsom, Ginger Van Hook and Luke Van Hook, Alexandra from Alex in Welderland, Lena Wolek and Zareh. Additionally, the art of lovin’ animals has made a seamless transition from the literary art into the film arts so I will discuss one of my favorite books by John Grogan named “Marley and Me” as it compares to its latest movie version of “Marley and Me” starring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson which opened in December for Christmas Day.</span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The method selected to choose these artists was random. I began my animal photographic study in 2006. Through my daily practice of studying the arts, I have come across people who were “in my back yard” and came to connect with me in a special way. I didn’t set out to write a story about animals. I merely went about my daily routine of photographing people and artwork that caught my “eye” because I was at the right place at the right time. Believing that the universe has a special plan for me, I allowed this story to evolve of its own volition. What I discovered both surprised me and opened me up. What I mean by this is that I was surprised to discover that artists who had pets had a great deal in common with other artists who had pets. Most people know and understand the history that reveals how the Egyptians revered cats and how the dog is considered “man’s best friend”. While it was common to have general conversations about how great it was to have pets and create pet portraits, I rarely came across artists that spoke to the deeper underlying significance in the arts about this specifically. While doing this research, I came across the most extreme case of worshiping our pets. The act of cloning has been in the news ever since the cloning of “Dolly” the sheep, but did you know that now there is a company that has launched itself into a commercial venture to clone man’s best friend? I discovered this and lots more so enjoy the new year in 2009 with a renewed commitment to your beloved pet. This is an ongoing story so don’t feel left out if your best friend isn’t included in this entry. I’m still reviewing artwork and pet portraits,<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> feel free to send me an email about your animal story and I’ll include it in the followup stories!</span></div><br />*********************************************************************************</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">JOSHUA ELIAS</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Fine Arts Painter</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV12_CxH7v7cSGoDBBNL4_07u2gEY8J6CQYv7tbHBlkXLcWJeCB_s4jO0YVG0pJzAN0gbPR71_Tm7KuOsn0T94GHmuIZNCWXZUrgiZTIm-jdVp0U_YMOqIYYSlv2p4L9aACr-cb3vRtoM/s1600-h/Joshua+DCA.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV12_CxH7v7cSGoDBBNL4_07u2gEY8J6CQYv7tbHBlkXLcWJeCB_s4jO0YVG0pJzAN0gbPR71_Tm7KuOsn0T94GHmuIZNCWXZUrgiZTIm-jdVp0U_YMOqIYYSlv2p4L9aACr-cb3vRtoM/s400/Joshua+DCA.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293562510227782146" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Joshua Elias, Exhibition, DCA Fine Arts</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Santa Monica, California</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2007</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1DRcNbFE1TcospvjnZNK89Q5leZu9cNREPvpJTPD7LKk9zU45D2TS3nMJ0JYfHHOvnGRad1oPjYsSC2gPAW2d5jHObMAqG5T8CRGR4JaWRW8gowwtD5CmI3_Mv3AVi1jOIyZkp9rjouI/s1600-h/Lucille&Winston.COUCH.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1DRcNbFE1TcospvjnZNK89Q5leZu9cNREPvpJTPD7LKk9zU45D2TS3nMJ0JYfHHOvnGRad1oPjYsSC2gPAW2d5jHObMAqG5T8CRGR4JaWRW8gowwtD5CmI3_Mv3AVi1jOIyZkp9rjouI/s400/Lucille&Winston.COUCH.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293562518141360178" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Winston and Lucille read art literature on the couch and </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">wait for Joshua Elias to become inspired to feed them.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2008</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj27cf3KeWTIU4FcHCPZy9kHnonwVMvPw0TBiCSvixKI-bwz1QOOvZ6WXlljZbpqBrtwzNYd41clOMBhQPtHVo4O4QFu3-EW-XFUhipUHigW_aynqdjgs1kdUYyIS7Q2JFNkIM89TLLawA/s1600-h/JoshuaElias.Art.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj27cf3KeWTIU4FcHCPZy9kHnonwVMvPw0TBiCSvixKI-bwz1QOOvZ6WXlljZbpqBrtwzNYd41clOMBhQPtHVo4O4QFu3-EW-XFUhipUHigW_aynqdjgs1kdUYyIS7Q2JFNkIM89TLLawA/s400/JoshuaElias.Art.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293501911864922386" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Paintings by Joshua Elias</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Art in the making at the Brewery Artist Colony</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Los Angeles, California, 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Studio visit by Ginger Van Hook</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhir7lhHupR8dMGIXDNUcP-42nmzjBoJ7EjkfCnM-iB_6l1hY-8LeuYw2LvBYQnbn3Cbx04IDmdtMIE2CET7QpqeegZb0GmmvulsgOwn5obO6OKr0CgC0z4J7VoYAhiDBfFcuFTjEfA0iA/s1600-h/JoshuaElias.Brushes.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhir7lhHupR8dMGIXDNUcP-42nmzjBoJ7EjkfCnM-iB_6l1hY-8LeuYw2LvBYQnbn3Cbx04IDmdtMIE2CET7QpqeegZb0GmmvulsgOwn5obO6OKr0CgC0z4J7VoYAhiDBfFcuFTjEfA0iA/s400/JoshuaElias.Brushes.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293501907775407122" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Artist brushes belonging to Joshua Elias</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The instruments by which Joshua Elias creates the canvas of weather and inspiration.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2008</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTn32mFVgG3AbBGfepQDZGqW8P3T18tomd8d48oJS70lb6HpXd0zh1pkint22wmQvSp_deCWbzvAJunSCEl9fOcQa9LXeOCtTTxnHAVCcNgq3TYVWtBIkJvq3UOZzY696FHQ6-mgDcdUY/s1600-h/JoshuaElias&MattHeller.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTn32mFVgG3AbBGfepQDZGqW8P3T18tomd8d48oJS70lb6HpXd0zh1pkint22wmQvSp_deCWbzvAJunSCEl9fOcQa9LXeOCtTTxnHAVCcNgq3TYVWtBIkJvq3UOZzY696FHQ6-mgDcdUY/s400/JoshuaElias&MattHeller.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293501910207501570" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">DCA Fine Arts Gallery, Joshua Elias with Mathew Heller and his girlfriend</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook 2007</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNSi6fUEWeb_3xlxowN1NBkTwUsGfoT-A_K_d8lvKaikRPwZaNFm1gLbeeMEKeYVetDcsFlqNYVkkhw6Q8JbxPseIlDAXJwFrO4ZNgMsoEsuWCruqhwuvyyAR1H-wnDATr1C4RsYrOVwc/s1600-h/JoshuaDCAGallery.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 317px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNSi6fUEWeb_3xlxowN1NBkTwUsGfoT-A_K_d8lvKaikRPwZaNFm1gLbeeMEKeYVetDcsFlqNYVkkhw6Q8JbxPseIlDAXJwFrO4ZNgMsoEsuWCruqhwuvyyAR1H-wnDATr1C4RsYrOVwc/s400/JoshuaDCAGallery.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293501905447824946" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Joshua Elias, Exhibition at DCA Fine Arts Gallery</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Santa Monica, California</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2007</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO6d4ZOewE8o5drPDe6Yw3oXkchc_pgxY2N_6q0Nvqg-F8ZwpDXbiz6hNTvv-RYcJjoM6nz_uEnbDj1LVe5foF-R3Bex-mLq7S2lCZu0nFopqEorp9nr9md7i_q4hht7yoV6m4HQ_-p-Y/s1600-h/Joshua'sCats.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO6d4ZOewE8o5drPDe6Yw3oXkchc_pgxY2N_6q0Nvqg-F8ZwpDXbiz6hNTvv-RYcJjoM6nz_uEnbDj1LVe5foF-R3Bex-mLq7S2lCZu0nFopqEorp9nr9md7i_q4hht7yoV6m4HQ_-p-Y/s400/Joshua'sCats.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293501904595748562" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Joshua Elias with his cats Winston and Lucille </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">in his studio at the Brewery Arts Complex in Los Angeles, California</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2008</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEislA8hLgJO6_17nZMy6GaOgpO57QWeQ1b8nU_FoopkVsC0QHLlP4C-l1U6M_AQX3fRvpHLjl19EiueXD7EcDkt7YdP-_lfDX_qoDXsm6rPoN6B8BFMzdDDXRg_l_akncc9gVXRY2cmk2g/s1600-h/Joshua&Jacqueline.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Joshua Elias </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Artist Statement</span><br /><br />Art has become about large quantities of Resin, masquerading as Content. The focus has been on Process, confusing it with Content. Enough. I wish to focus on Content. Story and Vibration lead the way for me to paint.<br /><br />I work in oil because of the depth and movement that it allows for me, as a medium. I focus on Landscapes that are rearranged. Traveling spirits act as guides, to the movement of a particular painting. The influence of Moorish architecture and its many doorways offers and allows entryways into paintings.<br /><br />At present we are in a period of Time where there seems to be long standing fights over Space, Time Religion, Money, Ideology, and Relationships. Enough. The one thing we do all share is Weather. Through the action of Creating our own environment, our own personal Weather, the Repositioning of Weather can illuminate and allow for more Creation to happen, more of a Life Force to shine and to take shape.<br /><br />ï¿_ Joshua Elias<br /><br />Courtesy of the DCA website<br />*************************************************************************************************************************<br /><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">SIMONE GAD</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Fine Arts Painter, Collage Artist, Actor and Performer</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihrzLxCpJHvhuhIPsUdXWol3KV7rMwslvsIajyIWRq8yz_1r6cXx8ZBjlE8k4_xrhzwFxVaQQ4lmQAvqbdTz_LgkLuqesRbkVUGkDd8YUEaJqASfoJ64qfcUuehM4xDe6KP4s3h0V-KxY/s1600-h/SimoneGadGVH08.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihrzLxCpJHvhuhIPsUdXWol3KV7rMwslvsIajyIWRq8yz_1r6cXx8ZBjlE8k4_xrhzwFxVaQQ4lmQAvqbdTz_LgkLuqesRbkVUGkDd8YUEaJqASfoJ64qfcUuehM4xDe6KP4s3h0V-KxY/s400/SimoneGadGVH08.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286868595646250002" /></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Simone Gad, Artist, Solo Show, L2Kontemporary Gallery</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">February 2008 Chinatown, Los Angeles, California, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photograph by Ginger Van Hook, copyright 2008</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvZOg336y8EcRQg-sRefiGn-mn5mXMr5u5ezDdTjWH-bZOb-Poyc-YBuYOGkFkKgUH87SJ9Mei5yXhSRpI-JRHpBU-GLqYOhiIyydsQtMLuv5dF26L2KPdEG4Cme26ossADYrfTYX65d0/s1600-h/Picture+Self-portraits+2005+and+Victorians+044.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvZOg336y8EcRQg-sRefiGn-mn5mXMr5u5ezDdTjWH-bZOb-Poyc-YBuYOGkFkKgUH87SJ9Mei5yXhSRpI-JRHpBU-GLqYOhiIyydsQtMLuv5dF26L2KPdEG4Cme26ossADYrfTYX65d0/s400/Picture+Self-portraits+2005+and+Victorians+044.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288980019455716610" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Selfportrait with Max and Bella/Autoportrait avec Max et Bella</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Private collection, photo courtesy of Simone Gad, Artist, copyright 2005</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPb05R7ziO_JZOwBct3ep7vQA3C9VrBZOvuYGEAhvuHAEfH-ewRVIqVydqPrHt-SlD4dAwWzhyphenhyphenQl9CoNlTbPhsXTCCPJ4kXNT5lH_o2ngXunLpnqynr4WUAYyqEhkMx913Ipqa2BYD6PQ/s1600-h/Picture+Holocaust+Clowns-Pinups+053.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPb05R7ziO_JZOwBct3ep7vQA3C9VrBZOvuYGEAhvuHAEfH-ewRVIqVydqPrHt-SlD4dAwWzhyphenhyphenQl9CoNlTbPhsXTCCPJ4kXNT5lH_o2ngXunLpnqynr4WUAYyqEhkMx913Ipqa2BYD6PQ/s400/Picture+Holocaust+Clowns-Pinups+053.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288980014531500498" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Gad/Rin-Tin-Tin Collection Long Beach Museum of Art</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy Simone Gad, Artist, copyright 2005</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj508p64LrjupU3pN5xPVFM2kjJkwT8hwq-FPgAam0-BQbMhiB94ZdnyRKKu3rZr6wy8X_6mMRHAdIzEykDqvA2REiK3-NgQXbMjFhdJZMrSuAELM3G1K8StjexhPJcbHM7Z0O1c6F4MJg/s1600-h/Picture+Holocaust+Clowns-Pinups+127.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj508p64LrjupU3pN5xPVFM2kjJkwT8hwq-FPgAam0-BQbMhiB94ZdnyRKKu3rZr6wy8X_6mMRHAdIzEykDqvA2REiK3-NgQXbMjFhdJZMrSuAELM3G1K8StjexhPJcbHM7Z0O1c6F4MJg/s400/Picture+Holocaust+Clowns-Pinups+127.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288980012550504290" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Picture Holocaust Clowns - Pinups 127, Gad and Poodle</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy Simone Gad, Artist, copyright 2005</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhie2UOBL87WcIOCDs-y_xkBL_zR73nFsogSIVeXD-SShrtZic8aF-JvyKo8uI6T7Hg3iyq86wx9odzUAfr4Fxc1fZ55Rdk9xbYeHfN128xXQwJ_J-xmesOlDFa9KS0rM94UcG5d3hV0jQ/s1600-h/Picture+Holocaust+Clowns-Pinups+099.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhie2UOBL87WcIOCDs-y_xkBL_zR73nFsogSIVeXD-SShrtZic8aF-JvyKo8uI6T7Hg3iyq86wx9odzUAfr4Fxc1fZ55Rdk9xbYeHfN128xXQwJ_J-xmesOlDFa9KS0rM94UcG5d3hV0jQ/s400/Picture+Holocaust+Clowns-Pinups+099.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288980001994365714" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Selfportrait with Cat and Jesus</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Private collection, Courtesy of Simone Gad, Artist, copyright 2005</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVnsY8R-Oye3sb3FWcRf7YXGWhMRDNx_K4PrdpBP3DI3FTfhUOW6YS_w7jCwu-DdW3OZuCMGdCvtf3ljCaggc8_svVfa7u9OS0paOhXLAqlSTJz0uL-0sxNvzRx4RnrXQbm1T31vx3308/s1600-h/Picture+Holocaust+Clowns-Pinups+055.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVnsY8R-Oye3sb3FWcRf7YXGWhMRDNx_K4PrdpBP3DI3FTfhUOW6YS_w7jCwu-DdW3OZuCMGdCvtf3ljCaggc8_svVfa7u9OS0paOhXLAqlSTJz0uL-0sxNvzRx4RnrXQbm1T31vx3308/s400/Picture+Holocaust+Clowns-Pinups+055.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288979991808172242" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Hommage a Ma Mere 2005 Painting Collage</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Copyright and Collection- Simone Gad</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Courtesy Simone Gad-Artist</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Photograph by Antonio Garcia </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSm7ZMKGCUi25Wld5QqKaePTlkcPXDNHHrPJSlGx215C6Zl0dg9Aln_SlKGkXnLUb3tZ40_Izm_NKxXJURw1NT4G20Am3uVtkfMkVRkGP78u0P1hBgdVQ7USgVusHPQL61oxrksqFyimo/s1600-h/Picture+Self-portraits+2005+and+Victorians+006.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSm7ZMKGCUi25Wld5QqKaePTlkcPXDNHHrPJSlGx215C6Zl0dg9Aln_SlKGkXnLUb3tZ40_Izm_NKxXJURw1NT4G20Am3uVtkfMkVRkGP78u0P1hBgdVQ7USgVusHPQL61oxrksqFyimo/s400/Picture+Self-portraits+2005+and+Victorians+006.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289025943499671762" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Autoportrait avec Kashmir, painting collage 2005/06 </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy Simone Gad- Artist and L2Kontemporary Gallery</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Chinatown, Los Angeles, California. Copyright Simone Gad</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2WHr4F1Ouu92FoQBpWpVSmlqHTkGDjVSoLoVI78mlUaXhplo6ruL4S3Kt4LwmxRNS3RnPKDWTmN9edEI1pEyLkPW10xek6SfiE5aXdWzdH3jrwSC5N6KNnFWNQDvEe9QZ5_fdrg-kkrI/s1600-h/BellaisSecretary.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 334px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2WHr4F1Ouu92FoQBpWpVSmlqHTkGDjVSoLoVI78mlUaXhplo6ruL4S3Kt4LwmxRNS3RnPKDWTmN9edEI1pEyLkPW10xek6SfiE5aXdWzdH3jrwSC5N6KNnFWNQDvEe9QZ5_fdrg-kkrI/s400/BellaisSecretary.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286866886743233330" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Portrait of Bella, the Brindle cat, acting secretary for Artist, Simone Gad</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Los Angeles, California, Artist studio visit</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photograph by Ginger Van Hook, copyright 2008</span></span></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEmo09Ej-l8hRE9_8iR8rsA9thXKWx6IU-FBa8y54favNKrxYp_ZGHq_xBH41TVIls0G_FG0wGkEV88jkBX_POTDucBg62aVlzgnmVVumYHZnG5RyriC5e2Etmr2tLClVRsYxJeQgzeCo/s1600-h/For+Simone+02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEmo09Ej-l8hRE9_8iR8rsA9thXKWx6IU-FBa8y54favNKrxYp_ZGHq_xBH41TVIls0G_FG0wGkEV88jkBX_POTDucBg62aVlzgnmVVumYHZnG5RyriC5e2Etmr2tLClVRsYxJeQgzeCo/s400/For+Simone+02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293100040292986354" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;">B<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">ella the Brindle Cat, (on the Marilyn and JFK Installation)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright and courtesy of </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Jesse Bonderman and Simone Gad, </span><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6DFNuQnLJSEFAIcx4vl9qsW5LVRXeBC6wTbvnqTl9utwgcQCzdnXu-MoDhd4oQiGT7gtGN-ELpMjw_xX7eUuELi7FxX_dRgvMBNbL-yPuId3CQMZcYbX__8QSWMFFzQpGzj-LkxpoIxc/s1600-h/For+Simone+01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 370px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6DFNuQnLJSEFAIcx4vl9qsW5LVRXeBC6wTbvnqTl9utwgcQCzdnXu-MoDhd4oQiGT7gtGN-ELpMjw_xX7eUuELi7FxX_dRgvMBNbL-yPuId3CQMZcYbX__8QSWMFFzQpGzj-LkxpoIxc/s400/For+Simone+01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293100038138096802" /></a>B<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">ella, the Brindle Cat #2 (Marilyn Installation)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo courtesy of Jessie Bonderman and Simone Gad</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhArtVucu3shnGytoyk3IjaYMQOJpMVwV0v2h1tHWcBbZmBszos6IjazHhencQtGg2hF-t-IFSqAtoCTPWDheoTjoFgcAVcSwNVcdiPhoEkEzB4PDYP52D8taozCrBbkjlbF1XXiK9BBO4/s1600-h/BellaKisses.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhArtVucu3shnGytoyk3IjaYMQOJpMVwV0v2h1tHWcBbZmBszos6IjazHhencQtGg2hF-t-IFSqAtoCTPWDheoTjoFgcAVcSwNVcdiPhoEkEzB4PDYP52D8taozCrBbkjlbF1XXiK9BBO4/s400/BellaKisses.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286866882760604642" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Portrait of Simone Gad, Artist with companion, Bella.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Los Angeles, California, Artist studio visit</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photograph by Ginger Van Hook, copyright 2008</span></span></div><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 360px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSET67_Nrrwj5iiUGzlbETXWB0We1Q_Akry0ZYFk-nbpvc6TvQnSdHQopJ1nPWHpWHrBHYBZa_AUXM-s4wG9pUiU06prjOJL3APhMvGGzYoRvwyvA0qv3j_Kl49LZ07ZkBiN2CC1lRB7I/s400/BellaPortrait.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286866879072029922" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Portrait of Bella</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> The Brindle cat, Artist assistant, model</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and loyal companion to Simone Gad.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Los Angeles, California, Artist studio visit</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photograph by Ginger Van Hook, copyright 2008</span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6KW-6vGf_N8RAVYzBMZGxa0hKh9Ov_Kl0r7dixep3FXgBK385B-uD5xnExwFRX7CKMCP_9B2p8CGItPpz8VL-EmiSTjDYDm2qLXgApuwTmZt97A2wh2wVusCWXFvzwgqCHwsNG0p26vI/s1600-h/Max&Bella.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 249px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6KW-6vGf_N8RAVYzBMZGxa0hKh9Ov_Kl0r7dixep3FXgBK385B-uD5xnExwFRX7CKMCP_9B2p8CGItPpz8VL-EmiSTjDYDm2qLXgApuwTmZt97A2wh2wVusCWXFvzwgqCHwsNG0p26vI/s400/Max&Bella.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286866877545212786" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Max and Bella pose for pictures in the window of Simone Gad's artist studio</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Los Angeles, California</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photograph by Ginger Van Hook, copyright 2008</span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8xAoNmrRg2GnIoTFbmA7OQm6WncOeHpXDORbYfPP_k5yrarDWD-pVud5wCtTYUnNNdklXLLijxNujDk4fwp-03cxRKvrtl7VGmAxPhj2F5m_O6jUhGoKzjpel7L8i8W0caB7h2U-V3R8/s1600-h/SimoneGadGVH2008.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8xAoNmrRg2GnIoTFbmA7OQm6WncOeHpXDORbYfPP_k5yrarDWD-pVud5wCtTYUnNNdklXLLijxNujDk4fwp-03cxRKvrtl7VGmAxPhj2F5m_O6jUhGoKzjpel7L8i8W0caB7h2U-V3R8/s400/SimoneGadGVH2008.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286866873892506946" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Simone Gad poses with one of her paintings of Chinatown </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">during her solo show at L2Kontemporary Gallery</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Chinatown, Los Angeles, California</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photograph by Ginger Van Hook, copyright 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Enilde Van Hook writer's notes</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">:</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> I met Simone Gad at an exhibition of her work in Chinatown in the spring of 2008. The L2Kontemporary Gallery is a unique gallery located at 990 N. Hill Street #205 in Downtown Los Angeles (90012), California. I received an email from ArtScene, a wonderful source of local Art Events that is produced by the staff of Coagula Art Journal. Special thanks to Michael Salerno and Mat Gleason, because somewhere in the announcement, I read that Simone Gad was a Belgium-born artist and this led me to want to meet her to talk about the art in Belgium, where my grandfather had been born. Once I attended her exhibit and got a chance to meet Simone, I realized there was a distinct cultural connection we had through our reverence to the animals. She used images of her cats to make intriguing and poignant self-portraits and insightful photographic collages.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I have followed Simone Gad’s work into 2009 and you will enjoy visiting her site through the L2Kontemporary Gallery located in Chinatown in Los Angeles: Follow these links to get to know a renaissance artist, a versatile film and TV actress, a woman of many talents and an artist who has a great deal of compassion to show for her animal friends: visit the online gallery site at http://www.l2kontemporary.com to view her solo show at L2k for Feb 08 plus her updated resume which may be viewed at saatchigallery.org by writing in her name or wooloo.org by writing in Simone Gad’s name.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Special thanks to the L2Kontemporary Gallery for cooperating with my interview! (www.L2Kontemporary.com and L2Kontemporary@sbcglobal.net and phone: 323-225-1288)<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Simone Gad</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Artist Statement and Biography: 2009</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><br />I've been showing in museums and galleries for 40 years-am a 6 times grants recipient, including a CRA Grant 1986, the Woman's Building 1985/6, New Orleans Contemporary Museum of Art 1984, the Gottlieb Foundation-NYC/Painting Medical Emergency Grant, Change Inc-Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Grant-both in 2002 for painting and medical emergency, and Artist Fellowship Foundation Grant in 2007-NYC. I am included in the Archives of the National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian-Washington, DC, and will also be included in the Lyn Kienholz Encyclopedia of Los Angeles Artists who have shown between 1944 and 1979. In Los Angeles, I am represented by L2kontemporary Gallery-Chinatown, Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco, and am showing in Spain. I am also in the traveling museum exhibition-Your Documents Please thru 2010 in Japan/Europe/Mexico curated by Daniel Georges of Brooklyn, NY. I was born in Brussels, Belgium to holocaust survivor parents, from Poland. We came to the US in the early 1950's and settled in Boyle Heights/E.L.A, after arriving at Ellis Island. My mother got me into show-biz at the age of 4 upon our immigration. I grew up in the entertainment field as a young actress-have been working professionally in film, tv, commercials and theatre ever since. Have always had a dual career-.visual/performance artist and actor. George Herms and Wallace Berman were my first mentors. Al Hansen was my mentor from 1972 to 1995 when he passed away in Koln, Germany.<br /><br />My cats Max and Bella Bettina Kashmir are my inspiration for many of my painting collages-have been so for many years. I've always been inspired by my cats and dogs that I've had since I arrived to this country from War torn Europe. My father got me my first dog-Teddy Queeny when I was a child living on Folsom Street-We had just returned from a movie on Brooklyn Avenue when we saw the puppies on our way home. I was allowed to have one-and I was so happy. But my mother hated animals and wouldn't let me keep my pet with me in my bedroom and it cried all night. I was heartbroken when I got home from Nursery School the following day and found that my dog was gone. My mom told me she had sent it to New Jersey to live with my Tante Sally. I wasn't allowed to have any animals after that. Years later I visited my aunt and asked her if she had taken care of my Teddy Queeny and she told me she never did-she never got the dog-didn't know what I was talking about. I realized that my mother had lied to me and had possibly killed my beloved doggie. I had moved to Topanga Canyon for a while in the late 1960's-that's where I got to know Wallace Berman and George Herms. I was given a miniature sheppard-who I named Lady. She was my constant companion and I adored her. She was run over by a couple of friends who were staying with me one night. I found her bleeding from her mouth by the driveway. She died in my arms and I could feel her spirit leave her body. We buried her the next morning. I was devastated for years. A friend of mine gave me a dash-hound and I took it home to be with me when I left Topanga and stayed with my parents for a while. I named her Wiggle Butts because she had this habit of wiggling her behind when she walked. I was not allowed to keep her-once again-so I called a friend and had her drive from The Canyon to pick Wiggles up and take care of her for me. When I left my parents and got an apartment, I got a cat-Nathaniel-my very first cat-who was with me for 15 years until he passed away. It was then that I started to incorporate animal objects into my collages-in the mid 1970's.<br /><br />copyright Simone Gad 2009<br /><br />http://www.l2kontemporary.com to view Simone Gad’s solo show at L2k for Feb 08 plus her updated resume-you may also get it on saatchigallery.org by writing in her name or wooloo.org by writing in Simone Gad’s name-</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span>************************************************************************************<br /><br /></div><div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">BETTY GLASS</span></span></span><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGfeU5nPoGDihBSyzop3kqeJp7NCvMnWH__DcrdWRP0vORwBUT8TPaqIbl3_YlEY3_e6oPqP8WKD0WHfFBdt6YbHvuIENxTwlIqw6jdZwBCzA_eIfKe0aZKrq-fUHVkbnPb9WtSfBbnvs/s1600-h/BettyGlass&dog.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;">Watercolor Artist</a></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGfeU5nPoGDihBSyzop3kqeJp7NCvMnWH__DcrdWRP0vORwBUT8TPaqIbl3_YlEY3_e6oPqP8WKD0WHfFBdt6YbHvuIENxTwlIqw6jdZwBCzA_eIfKe0aZKrq-fUHVkbnPb9WtSfBbnvs/s1600-h/BettyGlass&dog.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><br /><img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGfeU5nPoGDihBSyzop3kqeJp7NCvMnWH__DcrdWRP0vORwBUT8TPaqIbl3_YlEY3_e6oPqP8WKD0WHfFBdt6YbHvuIENxTwlIqw6jdZwBCzA_eIfKe0aZKrq-fUHVkbnPb9WtSfBbnvs/s400/BettyGlass&dog.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290564644851096322" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></span></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGfeU5nPoGDihBSyzop3kqeJp7NCvMnWH__DcrdWRP0vORwBUT8TPaqIbl3_YlEY3_e6oPqP8WKD0WHfFBdt6YbHvuIENxTwlIqw6jdZwBCzA_eIfKe0aZKrq-fUHVkbnPb9WtSfBbnvs/s1600-h/BettyGlass&dog.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Betty Glass and her dog Lulu attend the opening reception at</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Focus One Gallery in Monrovia, California. Sponsored by M.A.F.A.,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> the Monrovia Association of Fine Arts and Focus One Community Credit Union.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook, copyright 2006</span></span></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGsFqU4MGOrrI6J8v4hxxp_7BHUlPa9_tdkoDxA1XlvNdFE8fsCpklr5_RAG7AP-6QiBF2rBfxeiaKSw7JIheQxpSVrPgXAxuRXoVplks4H24B0c8eOByGM6WfGve9VrdTGxTTNvS_d0/s400/Betty'sDog.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290564646277526354" /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGsFqU4MGOrrI6J8v4hxxp_7BHUlPa9_tdkoDxA1XlvNdFE8fsCpklr5_RAG7AP-6QiBF2rBfxeiaKSw7JIheQxpSVrPgXAxuRXoVplks4H24B0c8eOByGM6WfGve9VrdTGxTTNvS_d0/s1600-h/Betty'sDog.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lulu attends the opening art show reception of her owner, Artist, Betty Glass</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGsFqU4MGOrrI6J8v4hxxp_7BHUlPa9_tdkoDxA1XlvNdFE8fsCpklr5_RAG7AP-6QiBF2rBfxeiaKSw7JIheQxpSVrPgXAxuRXoVplks4H24B0c8eOByGM6WfGve9VrdTGxTTNvS_d0/s1600-h/Betty'sDog.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Focus One Gallery, Monrovia, California.</span></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGsFqU4MGOrrI6J8v4hxxp_7BHUlPa9_tdkoDxA1XlvNdFE8fsCpklr5_RAG7AP-6QiBF2rBfxeiaKSw7JIheQxpSVrPgXAxuRXoVplks4H24B0c8eOByGM6WfGve9VrdTGxTTNvS_d0/s1600-h/Betty'sDog.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Photo by Ginger Van Hook, copyright 2006</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGsFqU4MGOrrI6J8v4hxxp_7BHUlPa9_tdkoDxA1XlvNdFE8fsCpklr5_RAG7AP-6QiBF2rBfxeiaKSw7JIheQxpSVrPgXAxuRXoVplks4H24B0c8eOByGM6WfGve9VrdTGxTTNvS_d0/s1600-h/Betty'sDog.jpg"><br /></a><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTh7Xm-K3nE57Qmp5sfLPSSJa8FF43Hh4AKc2wpGaioikR5JIpI5BBOscn4Bs3K3UbCbGrLqOT7GE_1tYcKxXkhwnc-uGWHSIMXzTHIEH03zPA0uLp5DkSRCvV11RCdSTOrP3yBwABda4/s400/BettyGlass.Unicorn.08.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290564650764736658" /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTh7Xm-K3nE57Qmp5sfLPSSJa8FF43Hh4AKc2wpGaioikR5JIpI5BBOscn4Bs3K3UbCbGrLqOT7GE_1tYcKxXkhwnc-uGWHSIMXzTHIEH03zPA0uLp5DkSRCvV11RCdSTOrP3yBwABda4/s1600-h/BettyGlass.Unicorn.08.jpg"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Betty Glass, Focus One Gallery, Monrovia, California </span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTh7Xm-K3nE57Qmp5sfLPSSJa8FF43Hh4AKc2wpGaioikR5JIpI5BBOscn4Bs3K3UbCbGrLqOT7GE_1tYcKxXkhwnc-uGWHSIMXzTHIEH03zPA0uLp5DkSRCvV11RCdSTOrP3yBwABda4/s1600-h/BettyGlass.Unicorn.08.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">2008 Holiday Group Show </span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTh7Xm-K3nE57Qmp5sfLPSSJa8FF43Hh4AKc2wpGaioikR5JIpI5BBOscn4Bs3K3UbCbGrLqOT7GE_1tYcKxXkhwnc-uGWHSIMXzTHIEH03zPA0uLp5DkSRCvV11RCdSTOrP3yBwABda4/s1600-h/BettyGlass.Unicorn.08.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Sponsored by M.A.F.A.</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTh7Xm-K3nE57Qmp5sfLPSSJa8FF43Hh4AKc2wpGaioikR5JIpI5BBOscn4Bs3K3UbCbGrLqOT7GE_1tYcKxXkhwnc-uGWHSIMXzTHIEH03zPA0uLp5DkSRCvV11RCdSTOrP3yBwABda4/s1600-h/BettyGlass.Unicorn.08.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Monrovia Association of Fine Arts and </span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTh7Xm-K3nE57Qmp5sfLPSSJa8FF43Hh4AKc2wpGaioikR5JIpI5BBOscn4Bs3K3UbCbGrLqOT7GE_1tYcKxXkhwnc-uGWHSIMXzTHIEH03zPA0uLp5DkSRCvV11RCdSTOrP3yBwABda4/s1600-h/BettyGlass.Unicorn.08.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Focus One Community Credit Union</span></a></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTh7Xm-K3nE57Qmp5sfLPSSJa8FF43Hh4AKc2wpGaioikR5JIpI5BBOscn4Bs3K3UbCbGrLqOT7GE_1tYcKxXkhwnc-uGWHSIMXzTHIEH03zPA0uLp5DkSRCvV11RCdSTOrP3yBwABda4/s1600-h/BettyGlass.Unicorn.08.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook, copyright 2008</span></a></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUg06OvInqacYg-OBQGYxc9lpmWaMiKBFOi8SRXCxWERXPfDivQMBgOyXgJO15DDVpGct6Sks6I_ox8ZvQv3jH9dFpoQRcD8JuMxDJM1FSUWI9qHxh5vzDykN95XPJqHkSpxj6cda96o/s1600-h/LuluBettyXmas2008a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 392px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUg06OvInqacYg-OBQGYxc9lpmWaMiKBFOi8SRXCxWERXPfDivQMBgOyXgJO15DDVpGct6Sks6I_ox8ZvQv3jH9dFpoQRcD8JuMxDJM1FSUWI9qHxh5vzDykN95XPJqHkSpxj6cda96o/s400/LuluBettyXmas2008a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290642148236258322" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Betty Glass celebrates Christmas with Lulu at home in 2008.<br /></span></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Lulu, wearing her new holiday sweater, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">pokes her nose into the gift bag </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">to see if she likes what Santa has brought her.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright and courtesy of Betty Glass and James Glass.</span></span></div></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghcdUoRqUJic1zb83ynmx1xX6buKOCrBHZeAmk8G0ur8IQvcI5qQ2_ke73-6vpEN1smY79erbDGrdJJRfomIOQeBXb3bDeb2KGj7YAzSZdwi5VaHlhjRhhugMH5CtQH1-HPPUDh85KfaA/s1600-h/Turtle_web.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghcdUoRqUJic1zb83ynmx1xX6buKOCrBHZeAmk8G0ur8IQvcI5qQ2_ke73-6vpEN1smY79erbDGrdJJRfomIOQeBXb3bDeb2KGj7YAzSZdwi5VaHlhjRhhugMH5CtQH1-HPPUDh85KfaA/s400/Turtle_web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293168153741473538" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Turtle Painting, Watercolor Artwork by Betty Glass reminiscent of her pet turtles.<br /></span></div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright and courtesy of Betty and James Glass.</span></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV4dLvKZTzNxz2VGgyDJ7r8TiyQ9148Cp10ZJXYGkwjcMe8HSeeWuQQBD6Pv0G8xwrBFUek2qNtxZOJYaKbUFrC0blxQgweL0gPwvpQM6YUuVd2TyGTlFVK9EocXmEzu5x7iHfsEPXSYo/s1600-h/Troika.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV4dLvKZTzNxz2VGgyDJ7r8TiyQ9148Cp10ZJXYGkwjcMe8HSeeWuQQBD6Pv0G8xwrBFUek2qNtxZOJYaKbUFrC0blxQgweL0gPwvpQM6YUuVd2TyGTlFVK9EocXmEzu5x7iHfsEPXSYo/s400/Troika.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290642136774274978" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Trojan Horses, Watercolor painting by Artist, Betty Glas</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">s</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright and courtesy of Betty and James Glass.</span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin6PYDL4oeNZY-FzMk6vuOPs4VmFQ9bWAjqIU2htgvqnXUI2ikDd8AeNNzUG2F6KLKMdKxfTizWG7Vumc4YKaOtgJnBuomOBjpULah6twkGui98gCWrbLbH6NabfMVUI8Ux7jdtSjvwmo/s1600-h/Hummy-Cropped-and...jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin6PYDL4oeNZY-FzMk6vuOPs4VmFQ9bWAjqIU2htgvqnXUI2ikDd8AeNNzUG2F6KLKMdKxfTizWG7Vumc4YKaOtgJnBuomOBjpULah6twkGui98gCWrbLbH6NabfMVUI8Ux7jdtSjvwmo/s400/Hummy-Cropped-and...jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290653101370590882" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">H<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">ummy, Watercolor Painting by Artist, Betty Glas</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">s.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright and courtesy of Betty and James Glass.</span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwLabwPJQq4czXlX0xC2sCEwiFnfVBNAe2sq5bUm9ZpzZkuG_H5bW9maH3TELKO5NWvhBPIpS5fHIjPxBWkQw1uDKKO4IJfaUwRe4L3yAdnkt2wgt7qnR5W06lUI6ieZTk2C6WMLg2Q4E/s1600-h/YankeeSugar_web.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwLabwPJQq4czXlX0xC2sCEwiFnfVBNAe2sq5bUm9ZpzZkuG_H5bW9maH3TELKO5NWvhBPIpS5fHIjPxBWkQw1uDKKO4IJfaUwRe4L3yAdnkt2wgt7qnR5W06lUI6ieZTk2C6WMLg2Q4E/s400/YankeeSugar_web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290642134686835122" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Yankee and Sugar, Watercolor Painting by Artist, Betty Glass </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">memorializing the life of her beloved friends.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright and courtesy of Betty and James Glass.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIam7GR8e_fSTugGWSsQiRd3uaeiXFj4ySkimI42_BQs9tLDhAzRR34ro_slOTR6FutS9CSIUgH8mhcsZTUjYMyp_lf8o1gZPJC2udpw7S3y2yBo0i9JJUleHel2WpqcTouVfWGvUUDWo/s400/Yankee-Sugarphoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290642130776644786" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Yankee (5-17-80 --- 4-20-94) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">the larger white and orange Brittany on the right, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and Sugar (7-20-90 --- 12-24-04) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">the smaller Brittany on the left. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> "Beloved Friends and Forever in our hearts!" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Loyal Friends, Inspiration and Companions </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">to Artist, Betty Glass and her family.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(Special thanks to husband, James Glass </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">for his technical computer assistance </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">with digital photography formating of Betty Glass Artwork.)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright and courtesy of Betty and James Glass</span></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Enilde Van Hook, Writer's Notes: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I met Betty Glass through the Monrovia Association of Fine arts in 2006. We were showing together at the Focus One Gallery on Huntington Drive in Monrovia, California. When Betty came into the gallery, she was toting her adorable poodle named Lulu. I was charmed immediately and I just had to have a photo of this beautiful female pooch with a twinkle in her eye and the gumption to come into an art gallery where only humans gathered. This little poodle had no clue there was any difference between her and her owner, and she acted like she was looking at the art just like everyone else. At the time, I considered this a very cultured poodle and I told Betty so. Betty giggled and let me take her snapshot with Lulu and then we did not see each other again until we had another show together, also at Focus One Gallery two years later in December of 2008. When I saw Betty this time, I saw the connection of her artwork and the love of her animals come through her work and later, she agreed to participate in the interview for my blog. You may enjoy Betty Glass's artwork by visiting her website at www.bhglassart.com</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Betty H. Glass </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Artist Statement about Animal Art<br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Through art we communicate our feelings and thoughts. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Our art reflects what experiences in life have influenced us.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I have had a lifetime of pets </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">ranging from goldfish, parakeets, and turtles and, of course, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the loyal dog—always your friend even when the sky seems to be falling.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I am still sketching and painting animals, birds, and fish.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> The softness of their fur, the texture of their feathers and fins,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> the variations of color are very appealing to me, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">because color is part of my artistic signature.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Sometimes they are presented in a realistic fashion. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Other times I use animals in a more stylized way—</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">using their shapes as patterns, semi-abstracting them and their background.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For example, my painting Trojan Horses shows flattened stylized figures of horses. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Hopefully artistically pleasing and calling to mind ancient Greece.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">After losing our two year old dog, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I did a painting of pure color that ebbed and flowed with no form. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The painting expressed my pain and grief at losing her </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and it symbolized her spirit being released from her body and the pain she suffered in it.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">*******************************************************************************</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">JOHN GROGAN</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">A<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">uthor of "Marley & Me"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Copyright and Courtesy of John Grogan,</span> 2005</div><div style="text-align: center;"> William Morrow, Imprint of Harper Collins</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">BOOK and MOVIE REVIEW </div><div style="text-align: center;">Written by Enilde Van Hook, 2009</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMuKCubGLwk_muBTKPXS1Z7TVFkzWylVJ0btbtS3zK5LG148EVJXSYqGw9xQN71Blx13A9W3kTyhq6QD5SihXwAmbGFmDWg77YBo2pJcN4l3eHWJ8BekAKkq9D6iCLRdnwPjNXRsLXtBs/s1600-h/Marley&Me.1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 275px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMuKCubGLwk_muBTKPXS1Z7TVFkzWylVJ0btbtS3zK5LG148EVJXSYqGw9xQN71Blx13A9W3kTyhq6QD5SihXwAmbGFmDWg77YBo2pJcN4l3eHWJ8BekAKkq9D6iCLRdnwPjNXRsLXtBs/s400/Marley&Me.1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293413081121358994" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The day I bought this book, I was wandering around the Borders Bookstore </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">looking for a good book to get into. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I had recently heard a review on the radio station KCRW broadcasting from Santa Monica, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">about a Florida author who wrote about his dog </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and as I turned around, there in my line of sight, appeared</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> a stand of hundreds of 'Marley & Me' books barking at me to pick one up.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Luke, I'd like to pick this one!" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I said excitedly to my husband and thus I took home a piece of Marley and John Grogan home with me in 2006. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I had no idea I was about to be transformed.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo scan by Ginger Van Hook, 2009</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht3TWgWHWBcltuS4rihVF5pv2MpoCKA6NBeZ-VW0s_EnheDExJ4AVEdCLUEMoqrMAQbYo2rU4Z7rdjs1-Uh-vjXLqKOitj7wM6obw3JMhvbggXOxwuwbFOiS53WDk4RJJVN2uqTo3IVl0/s1600-h/ReceiptForBook.1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 182px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht3TWgWHWBcltuS4rihVF5pv2MpoCKA6NBeZ-VW0s_EnheDExJ4AVEdCLUEMoqrMAQbYo2rU4Z7rdjs1-Uh-vjXLqKOitj7wM6obw3JMhvbggXOxwuwbFOiS53WDk4RJJVN2uqTo3IVl0/s400/ReceiptForBook.1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293413081298545938" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Evidence that I made the right choice for a book that day, I kept the Borders receipt as a bookmark. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I spent about $15.38 with our bookclub discounts, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and I decided after reading the book </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">that it was one of the most valuable book purchases I had made that year. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Then three years later, an avid fan, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I took Luke Van Hook to see the movie, 'Marley & Me' </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">starring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo scan by Ginger Van Hook 2009</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjukhYKsUuGTzAH9no0LEWjWDFJC7JwOn3ooG8WReiSH5j7DsqPxhLupqvp0bXaD4iwMYH1fkE07Xwx75LHgMVeH-hLewlD2CljEIqozKLj-WMM4q1C6GBr2tkHs-vkNaPdF1GDlp1O6Ko/s1600-h/Marley&Me.1.MovieTix"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 243px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjukhYKsUuGTzAH9no0LEWjWDFJC7JwOn3ooG8WReiSH5j7DsqPxhLupqvp0bXaD4iwMYH1fkE07Xwx75LHgMVeH-hLewlD2CljEIqozKLj-WMM4q1C6GBr2tkHs-vkNaPdF1GDlp1O6Ko/s400/Marley&Me.1.MovieTix" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293413083992922066" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ginger and Luke Van Hook made a movie date to attend the opening of "Marley & Me" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">the movie starring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Bridge Cinema, Sunday matinee, December 28, 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo Scan by Ginger Van Hook, 2009</span></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">H</span></span>aving gone through grad school at an art college makes one appreciate the art of reading even more as one engages with history, studies the past literary greats and becomes immersed in the life of the mind of other authors and readers. What happens to the mind when it is engaged in experiencing grief for the loss of a pet? It became abundantly clear to me that I was about to find out, about a year into art school at Otis College of Art and Design in Westchester, California the veterinarian informed us that our five year old dog Celbee had a fast-developing cancer forming in his left cheek and within another year, he would have to be put down. As if life had not thrown us enough blows, the year after Celbee passed away, we were in for another round of vet visits with Bella a beautiful black and tan airedale who had by then grown a large tumor on her shoulder and we were about to lose Bella a year after we graduated, almost a year after Celbee, a beautiful Queensland Heeler who often attended art school with us, but did not make it to graduation day.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">A</span></span>s a writer, oddly enough, I practically stopped writing. Oh, I still made journal entries to my diary, but often these entries were teary remembrances of our times with our dogs, who we considered our children. As artists, my husband and I had continued to make artwork, but the cute portraits, were now replaced with poignant portrayals of the dogs we no longer had in our midst. I had finished writing my first novel "The Kingdom of Nuts and Bolts" for graduation, but I had no ummph left in me to put together any other creative project, poem or literary contribution. I was left in a desolate wasteland of feeling grief as I had not felt it before. </div><div style="text-align: left;">Thus, when I heard about a Florida man who had written a story about living with the 'World's worst dog' I was intrigued. I was craving for some good news to soothe my estranged mind that had fallen off it's writing track and like a train-wreck, was still waiting for the heavy machinery to lift me out of my rut.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"Marley & Me" was the heavy mechanism with which I was lifted out of sorrow and brought back to the land of the living. I give thanks to John Grogan who used his voice as a newspaper reporter to describe his life with a new puppy he had purchased for his wife. His wife, in this novel, had plans to start a family, therefore the puppy became the gift that life had bestowed upon John Grogan instead. By now most folks have already seen the movie that just came out last month for Christmas day, but in 2006, I quickly recognized the value of this particular story and the fascinating way in which John Grogan decided to tell it. I knew when I had finished reading "Marley & Me" that this story would eventually become a hit movie. </div><div style="text-align: left;">I could feel it in my gut. It was only a matter of time!<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Thus, when the movie did come out, I made a point to request a movie-date with my husband to see it at our local theatre. I took handfuls of tissue and stuffed my pockets to prepare for the gushing tears. After claiming our seats in the dim-lit theatre arena, Luke went to bring in the heavy artillery of comfort foods required for a good old fashioned tear-jerker of a movie; popcorn with extra butter, red vines, a soda to wash it down with and more napkins. As a movie, just as a biographical novel, "Marley & Me" did not disappoint. We were expecting slight differences in how the story-telling would come out in a visual medium, but the director had stayed very close to the original novel. The care with which Jennifer Aniston stepped into her role as the mom and the raw emotion she displayed in her parts just made the movie seem all that more real. Owen Wilson playing the part of John Grogan was cleverly selected to demonstrate an insecure writer trying to navigate through life with a new puppy, a new wife, a new family and an ever changing landscape of writing assignments. Owen Wilson perfectly demonstrated the feelings one gets when one's best friend just keeps getting all the good juicy newspaper assignments and one feels always like the odd man out. In the end, both the movie and the book leads the viewer and or the reader to realize a unique truth about life. </div><div style="text-align: left;">If one truly examines one's own life in the present, one finds little marbles of disappointments, but often overlooks the huge beach balls of joy that knock one silly in the process. Personally, when I was experiencing grief, nothing else mattered except my grief until someone reached out, and down into my water-well of self-pity and presented me with how life can really be if properly meditated upon. Life is a joy despite the ups and downs. Remember the see-saw as a child? I finally got that. Each of us have a path in life and on that path, who we run into and who runs into us seems to be a random process, but how each of us reacts to these unique collisions leads to the growth of our character. In so far as John Grogan's dog Marley collided with the fate that eventually faces all of us, we learn to accept life with all its passions, joys, sorrows and uplifting hope for the future. I just want to thank John Grogan for writing the book, his wife for encouraging her husband to do so and for the talented cast of actors who took the time in their busy lives to work on the project to bring it to life and help the country heel and heal as a whole nation. If you haven't seen the movie yet, be sure and take a big box of kleenex. It is worth it to have a good cry in the dark with about two hundred other sniffling souls.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>As we approach another sniffling and most significant moment in our American history, the changing of the guard, the inauguration of our new president Barack Obama on January 20th, 2009, we have in the new President of the United States of America about to step into the puppy lifestyle of one of the most powerful families in the world. In an interview last month, Mr. and Mrs. Obama revealed to the nation that their two daughters had requested a puppy.</div><div style="text-align: left;">My only recommendation for a smooth transition into the White House for the Obama Family is, "get a doggie door!"<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Enilde Van Hook</div><div style="text-align: left;">Writer, photographer, artist and animal lover</div><div style="text-align: left;">1-20-2009</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">******************************************************************************</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">DAVID NEWSOM</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Photographer Film-maker Artist Author</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOR-ggVe-5q4L3vV0zCiaYDPiA-gSPzWxncKrK1TOQqy1IoPwo-czs1I40uT6ttWc0ouoLy_JeuNEujWlXaprIemA8DO42c_mM9FVnrSxXu1dMdalQP9GIVQiUZFueEZlLS_rv8yq0JsM/s1600-h/DavidNewsom.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 282px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOR-ggVe-5q4L3vV0zCiaYDPiA-gSPzWxncKrK1TOQqy1IoPwo-czs1I40uT6ttWc0ouoLy_JeuNEujWlXaprIemA8DO42c_mM9FVnrSxXu1dMdalQP9GIVQiUZFueEZlLS_rv8yq0JsM/s400/DavidNewsom.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293493317879310370" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">David Newsom with his dog Burt</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> DCA Fine Arts Gallery Santa Monica, California</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photograph copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2007</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZwY4Q3CsCLWJUGNBgJEEvsg0fxJQHhX2sYduxedrZ_gvxwAOUffHf0spOItbwNSqAlkEs3gCwIwBPnfFxPPGkE3jkiZSx7Pz0lCZqt9OXmE6xWmf4AGWPRiW6W_RID1isEN2Pa0Iiu1w/s1600-h/DavidNewsomShowopen.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZwY4Q3CsCLWJUGNBgJEEvsg0fxJQHhX2sYduxedrZ_gvxwAOUffHf0spOItbwNSqAlkEs3gCwIwBPnfFxPPGkE3jkiZSx7Pz0lCZqt9OXmE6xWmf4AGWPRiW6W_RID1isEN2Pa0Iiu1w/s400/DavidNewsomShowopen.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293493313918291202" /></a>3 Miles of Idaho</div><div style="text-align: center;">DCA Fine Arts Gallery<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy0H4gDau9d8yb5F3do_ViF7FhBfHoj_j27QbMLFXkspih71iQnRDLJ5qlPnraFMLMRoN8EKwvpsGL0SSIGa9Rr4vg1JqvvfDOFKu-_pcYMNjm8zAH0FfStz83WDffeXt4UTgkc9GN4tA/s1600-h/PagefromSKIP.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy0H4gDau9d8yb5F3do_ViF7FhBfHoj_j27QbMLFXkspih71iQnRDLJ5qlPnraFMLMRoN8EKwvpsGL0SSIGa9Rr4vg1JqvvfDOFKu-_pcYMNjm8zAH0FfStz83WDffeXt4UTgkc9GN4tA/s400/PagefromSKIP.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293493316182052322" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Excerpted from David Newsom's book, SKIP</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy and copyright David Newsom, 2007</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Enilde Van Hook, Art Review, July 2007</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">DAVID NEWSOM, PHOTOGRAPHER “3 MILES OF IDAHO”<br />Newsom Artwork Showing through July 14th, 2007<br />DCA Fine Art Gallery 3107 Pico Boulevard Santa Monica, CA<br />www.dcafineart.com<br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As a Los Angeles based artist with a degree in filmmaking from Ithaca College in New York, David Newsom found a way to slow down the moving pictures of his own life and focus on his family and contemporary social issues all in one fell swoop. In this exhibit he exposes two bodies of relevant work. The photographs which hang on the walls of the DCA Fine Art Gallery, comprise 3 Miles of Idaho and the book of photographs with poetic excerpts that describe the true nature of his work titled, SKIP.<br /><br />“It’s all about the story,” David Newsom quipped with a boyish Jersey smile, as he shook my hand in front of his photographs at DCA Fine Art Gallery in Santa Monica. In these portraits he exposes both painterly images of the thistle and juxtaposes the raw untold story of his mentally disabled brother Skip through poignant portrayals of Skip adjusting and finding acceptance in a rural community in Idaho. Some of the images convey silhouettes of the thistle against a backdrop of dark foreboding clouds, while others use the vignette and graininess of the film and camera to procure the light as it breaks through the clouds.<br /><br />David Newsom reveals a number of themes in his work throughout this exhibit. On the walls of the DCA Fine Art, sharp images depict Skip and the dogs running through the stunning beauty of three mountain ranges surrounding the Teton Valley almost unscathed by modern civilization. Newsom balances his focus between reportage and the aesthetic of art using the language of the frame. The image titled Quammen’s Rule #2, for instance, is a special tribute to David Quammen’s Planet of Weeds, (published in Harper’s Oct 1998 issue). The photograph, shot with a Holga camera, emerges in the frame with a dreamlike quality spurting the bright fuchsia bloom “dramatic and distracting, atop its lethal stem”, as Newsom writes in his book. In pinks and reds the thistle begs acceptance and yet stands in defiance of man’s opinion of them.<br />David Newsome uses the common thistle, the stark and untamed landscape of three miles between his brother’s and his sister’s houses and the special relationship they all have with their brother Skip as a backdrop to call your attention to the issues of the mentally disabled as well as the basic appreciation for simple everyday living in nature. Newsom looks inward to his own soul to produce these works of art.<br /><br />The images in this exhibit rise above angst and convey the messages of reconciliation with nature, weaving a tale of hardship rewarded with success, the bitter-sweetness of the struggle but eventually winning the prize. The prize is the freedom to exist in this phenomenal natural setting and the benefit of this prize is the acceptance Skip finds in his new community. As he describes the thistle, his main theme, Newsom seems to have extracted a metaphor between these weeds in nature, to the acceptance his brother Skip has discovered in this ecosystem. “Both are transplants”, Newsom explains in the final pages of his book, SKIP, “…but some, at least, have found a home.”<br /><br />A variety of themes are carved in the fabric of the landscape and are tied to the memoir of childhood and the emergence of independence for the first time. Unlike Diane Arbus, the photographer known for her portraits of people living on the fringes of society, David Newsom exposes some of the most intimate details of his own family experiences within the frame and achieves a unique balance between art and storytelling.<br /><br />“My mom was a painter, a landscape watercolorist”, Newsom admits. “But I used to make fun of mom’s work because I told her it should be edgier; not the escapist type of landscapes she preferred. I used to tell her, you’re a divorced woman living in the suburbs of New Jersey for God’s sake, ‘paint your own life!’ But she would answer, ‘I don’t want to paint my own life!’ And continue on painting her flowers and landscapes. One of the paintings she considered her favorite was a piece called ‘Four Grocery Bags’; So I would give her grief about the mundane nature of her work but later in life, I realized something important about her, especially after her death. Now, I’ve sort of taken to holding a candle to her, so to speak, and I’ve been influenced by her love of watercolor images.”<br /><br />“Don’t get me wrong, all my careers have informed my work, even acting and film-making but what I think drives me the most is my impulse to tell a story as a photographer… I’m deeply indebted to Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr., (who played the part of Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy), because his strengths are in painting and photography as well as poetry and I came across this excellent opportunity to collaborate on a book with him. One thing led to another and he was the one encouraging me to do something I’ve always had in mind to do.”<br /><br />Photographic Techniques<br /><br />David Newsom uses a variety of cameras for his work. In this series he played back and forth between the Holga camera, and the Nikon F100. The Holga camera is an inexpensive, medium format 120 film toy camera, originating in Hong Kong in the early to mid 1980’s, which later came to be appreciated for its low-fidelity aesthetic.<br />The Holga's cheap construction and simple meniscus lens often yields pictures that display vignetting, blur, light leaks, and other distortions. Ironically, these particular qualities of the camera which some consider problems, became a virtue among some photographers, with Holga photos winning awards and competitions in art and news photography. Newsom also experiments with the processing of the film using a double exposure inside the camera as well as close-ups and faraway shots. Some of the images are cross-processed film techniques and he completes a number of shots using modern digital manipulations commercially available.<br /><br />Newsom's Background<br /><br />Googling, one can expect to find an exhausting list of David Newsom’s accomplishments in the field of award winning films, documentaries, significant acting roles and a host of VIP’s from the movie industry he’s worked with; And yet, 3 Miles of Idaho along with the book SKIP is perhaps David Newsome’s most heartfelt work to date which qualifies him to be considered a Renaissance man of the 21st century.<br /><br />‘In 2005, David began producing movies, starting with his first short film Mother, written and directed by his girlfriend, Sian Heder. April 2006, "Mother" won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at the Florida Film Festival, a victory that automatically qualified the film for a potential Academy Award nomination. Mother was also selected for the May 2006 Cinefondation Competition of the Cannes Film Festival, where it won third place in a field of 18 films from around the globe. The film was then selected for many other festivals, including the prestigious Seattle International Film Festival, where it received the "2006 Short Film: Narrative Special Jury Prize". "Mother" continues to play globally and recently took the Grand Jury Award-Narrative Shorts at the Oxford Film Festival. In early 2007, Newsom and Heder partnered with The Mark Gordon Company and are in pre-production on the feature film, "Tallulah".’ (From Wikipedia Internet sources) ##<br /><br />SKIP, © 2005 Perceval Press, All images, David Newsom ISBN # 0-9774869-1-5<br />Printed in Spain, at Jomagar S/A www.percevalpress.com<br /><br /><br />FREELANCE WRITER’S EXTRA NOTES<br />By Enilde Ginger Van Hook<br /><br />David Newsom stretches beyond his comfort zone and exposes his family’s setbacks as well as their joys thus raises the work to an artistic level with the poise of his camera and the humanity of his subject.<br /><br />SKIP is bound to win awards in the near future for both its poetic and lyrical qualities; the merge between image and text brings insight and a fresh look at the intimate landscape of beauty which leaves us with something more than memories; It leaves us with concrete evidence that a life exists within the confines of the mind and that nature and the mind often find refuge in each other.<br /><br />Rather unexpectedly especially in an art gallery, Burt, a tall lanky black and white mix of Airedale Terrier and Labrador Retriever comes barreling in from the back room, gives me a most inappropriate sniff and grants me acceptance with a prompt wag of his tail as he circles back to sit beside David. David sports an exasperated expression on his face, apologizing for the actions of his dog. “Ah, my greatest work!” David offers wrapping his arm affectionately around Burt. This is my first meeting with the contemporary Los Angeles-based photographer David Newsom, as well as my first introduction to the artwork, the heart of the artist and not to mention, Burt.<br /><br />Throughout the interview, I looked around and was taken aback by the number of photographs involving dogs in the landscapes so that I found it perfectly appropriate for Burt to participate in the interview. Then again as if coming out of a documentary film about the lush Idaho countryside, there emerged the figures of two dogs on the wall called “Dogfight, 2004”. Then out of nowhere, Burt abounds, wagging his tail as big as life jumping onto David’s lap. David attempted to put Burt back in the alley yard, but Burt didn’t like it there so he came back. I included photos of David with Burt not only because he is man’s best friend and thus comically upstages David at every wag of his tail, but because it documents David Newsom’s personal character as a human being who cares about his family, his environment and his artwork equally.<br /></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">******************************************************************************</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">MONROVIA ASSOCIATION </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">OF FINE ARTS</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">www.monroviafinearts.org</span></div><div>Supports Artists of the Fine Arts in Monrovia Schools </div><div>as well as Arts Education in the Surrounding Areas </div><div>of the Foothill Mountain Communities<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiESPS2hOH1MDP6sp1kkm9TDhHmztr-zbumc4EXbV1VpLodzmcLGl0izC7zfDKDD3tIMWuRufX9nKN1LImkCXuDBGahz8rorPlDlAICPK8t5CPCDzb_1RjDhwn6GkgloVuTa6Kkm86XtKI/s1600-h/KIDSART.1.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiESPS2hOH1MDP6sp1kkm9TDhHmztr-zbumc4EXbV1VpLodzmcLGl0izC7zfDKDD3tIMWuRufX9nKN1LImkCXuDBGahz8rorPlDlAICPK8t5CPCDzb_1RjDhwn6GkgloVuTa6Kkm86XtKI/s400/KIDSART.1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293247351305520706" /></a>KIDSART at the SUMMER ARTWALKS, 2008</div><div>Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigwTkkgnIZuGNsuj2Wv1OXG2PXk4y3wO6e5YzoiLg10rhjG30W-xeNanb4qryDNp9GGFogWaPN1-kTtGPGfNrzf6jk6fMD0jYXBJKEnma-n9qIJtqu-XHSuTN62yatmZCaXxtu4-rAeOs/s1600-h/I+LOVE+KIDSART.tshirtgirl.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigwTkkgnIZuGNsuj2Wv1OXG2PXk4y3wO6e5YzoiLg10rhjG30W-xeNanb4qryDNp9GGFogWaPN1-kTtGPGfNrzf6jk6fMD0jYXBJKEnma-n9qIJtqu-XHSuTN62yatmZCaXxtu4-rAeOs/s400/I+LOVE+KIDSART.tshirtgirl.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293247343620382674" /></a>"I love KIDSART"</div><div>Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuS1_aPjdOwGymGQ-Cm7XkxjPuUc_SXzWFhlZxxxrYN7L5g2cmOFdeNJF2nO700CHzM4hpxf23bSGEUNFkO92BsuuBfTauIn9olL8OOMqeXJsXXPOO63v2EKmwHlUYPHUpJOMvHZKXmpg/s1600-h/LiveFishies.Art.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuS1_aPjdOwGymGQ-Cm7XkxjPuUc_SXzWFhlZxxxrYN7L5g2cmOFdeNJF2nO700CHzM4hpxf23bSGEUNFkO92BsuuBfTauIn9olL8OOMqeXJsXXPOO63v2EKmwHlUYPHUpJOMvHZKXmpg/s400/LiveFishies.Art.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293248352953819890" /></a>WildRose School sponsored Window Exhibition of the art produced by students of the Monrovia Unified School District, 2008</div><div>Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7yk_HzuKIASMMPPj4RDIPjh8DVbF65IveEzTqoXq_SN8oiplY1_HuuXdEay0RwezSVG5PJN0qhuu05uqmVeIUUzTr6gP-10vW2o0GWnIbB_208VXgu4Qmwl6DD9m28MgHfg9nefe3RYc/s1600-h/KidsArt.animals.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7yk_HzuKIASMMPPj4RDIPjh8DVbF65IveEzTqoXq_SN8oiplY1_HuuXdEay0RwezSVG5PJN0qhuu05uqmVeIUUzTr6gP-10vW2o0GWnIbB_208VXgu4Qmwl6DD9m28MgHfg9nefe3RYc/s400/KidsArt.animals.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293247347806541506" /></a>Animals in Artwork are some of the students most favorite subjects.</div><div>Summer Artwalk Student Exhibiton </div><div>Photo by Ginger Van Hook, 2008</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12VwS_ZZl97KKyIQ6fFwxh-C2KsR65zXv1Rr5krEDr9g4HezagdCp8v8XAq8lBQgfZ8IdeNq1Y7b6eblP-A3HKtWTDusF-01cnUyufZAg1hu3vRZnUx0NUd6Y74gMVCXF7PQZE1Y3Z40/s1600-h/Dalmation+Artist.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12VwS_ZZl97KKyIQ6fFwxh-C2KsR65zXv1Rr5krEDr9g4HezagdCp8v8XAq8lBQgfZ8IdeNq1Y7b6eblP-A3HKtWTDusF-01cnUyufZAg1hu3vRZnUx0NUd6Y74gMVCXF7PQZE1Y3Z40/s400/Dalmation+Artist.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293247343049116914" /></a>Student at KIDSART holds up a drawing of a Dalmation, Monrovia, California</div><div>Photo by Ginger Van Hook, 2008</div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj34JJmfP0Bx0WzIrAhlU95T_iDNm8VDksW-SQe2PkyRsdrV357RRaUjxynYnZomkz8M6Il3_WQW8BcBrMYsOPmgcWCQ99k9pvziUPIR4wXnI7g5Zqy5QuHIGjC1xxaLIIu5OlNTPqyRK8/s1600-h/AA+WildRose.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj34JJmfP0Bx0WzIrAhlU95T_iDNm8VDksW-SQe2PkyRsdrV357RRaUjxynYnZomkz8M6Il3_WQW8BcBrMYsOPmgcWCQ99k9pvziUPIR4wXnI7g5Zqy5QuHIGjC1xxaLIIu5OlNTPqyRK8/s400/AA+WildRose.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293247339202381810" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5tZO69bZ9Ftey2x7TAj9_kn2K5FW5mw4jP1Rq2VpuyMXcQh5eS2cFrpVMDU22IZzM8rEuxFpH4YYjE7O_kBq4qbstJn8M7AVagk-maKrrjBYXk1FmIemBSHNVfuQxsSmGtX08KDN_Mjo/s1600-h/AA+SeaHorses.Fishies.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMHCee2SLM0qNIrapf7dX7elHUNrpooRNJ0KGgQrwIo6ws9zJST2QxHvcedkoCgDRZPkjuTMK-5GKLl0TIxozKtQCmqNdzw20C5K7YBZAc85i_maztWIqMDOoTzwh5tZPqNGhaiN2e_ws/s400/ARTIST+of+week.KIDSArt.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293246731300279698" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYp5z5ZNBxdbYkt4oa6oZvVLdwjpuREzZaCUNwsiegeYKTkuBvwBO9r9UcdaNav4w2vo0ndOmmH47EO782M6FVQ-Kk72L837whGoq8bCDdZQKqHlELBejtosgXsn3i42Hlas-reJRiLqo/s1600-h/MonroviaLibraryPark.Sign.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYp5z5ZNBxdbYkt4oa6oZvVLdwjpuREzZaCUNwsiegeYKTkuBvwBO9r9UcdaNav4w2vo0ndOmmH47EO782M6FVQ-Kk72L837whGoq8bCDdZQKqHlELBejtosgXsn3i42Hlas-reJRiLqo/s400/MonroviaLibraryPark.Sign.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293245768922448066" />Currently Monrovia Library Park is under construction, but in the recent past, one of the largest Art Festivals in the area was hosted under the Library Trees. </a></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYp5z5ZNBxdbYkt4oa6oZvVLdwjpuREzZaCUNwsiegeYKTkuBvwBO9r9UcdaNav4w2vo0ndOmmH47EO782M6FVQ-Kk72L837whGoq8bCDdZQKqHlELBejtosgXsn3i42Hlas-reJRiLqo/s1600-h/MonroviaLibraryPark.Sign.jpg">The October Arts Festival hosted by the Monrovia Association of Fine Arts</a></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYp5z5ZNBxdbYkt4oa6oZvVLdwjpuREzZaCUNwsiegeYKTkuBvwBO9r9UcdaNav4w2vo0ndOmmH47EO782M6FVQ-Kk72L837whGoq8bCDdZQKqHlELBejtosgXsn3i42Hlas-reJRiLqo/s1600-h/MonroviaLibraryPark.Sign.jpg">is one of the oldest exhibitions for artists from all areas of the mountain side communities. Members of M.A.F.A. participate from areas all around Southern California including Riverside, Claremont, Glendora, Glendale, Pasadena, </a></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYp5z5ZNBxdbYkt4oa6oZvVLdwjpuREzZaCUNwsiegeYKTkuBvwBO9r9UcdaNav4w2vo0ndOmmH47EO782M6FVQ-Kk72L837whGoq8bCDdZQKqHlELBejtosgXsn3i42Hlas-reJRiLqo/s1600-h/MonroviaLibraryPark.Sign.jpg">Duarte, Arcadia, San Marino, El Monte, Temple City, </a></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYp5z5ZNBxdbYkt4oa6oZvVLdwjpuREzZaCUNwsiegeYKTkuBvwBO9r9UcdaNav4w2vo0ndOmmH47EO782M6FVQ-Kk72L837whGoq8bCDdZQKqHlELBejtosgXsn3i42Hlas-reJRiLqo/s1600-h/MonroviaLibraryPark.Sign.jpg">Los Angeles, </a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYp5z5ZNBxdbYkt4oa6oZvVLdwjpuREzZaCUNwsiegeYKTkuBvwBO9r9UcdaNav4w2vo0ndOmmH47EO782M6FVQ-Kk72L837whGoq8bCDdZQKqHlELBejtosgXsn3i42Hlas-reJRiLqo/s1600-h/MonroviaLibraryPark.Sign.jpg">and Echo Park just to name a few. </a></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYp5z5ZNBxdbYkt4oa6oZvVLdwjpuREzZaCUNwsiegeYKTkuBvwBO9r9UcdaNav4w2vo0ndOmmH47EO782M6FVQ-Kk72L837whGoq8bCDdZQKqHlELBejtosgXsn3i42Hlas-reJRiLqo/s1600-h/MonroviaLibraryPark.Sign.jpg">Animals on a leash are always welcome </a></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYp5z5ZNBxdbYkt4oa6oZvVLdwjpuREzZaCUNwsiegeYKTkuBvwBO9r9UcdaNav4w2vo0ndOmmH47EO782M6FVQ-Kk72L837whGoq8bCDdZQKqHlELBejtosgXsn3i42Hlas-reJRiLqo/s1600-h/MonroviaLibraryPark.Sign.jpg">to walk by the booths with their owners and enjoy the artwork.</a></div><div>Photo Copyright by Ginger Van Hook, 2008</div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMlGw2CvHCyDeQ04B0HF44WjYA5EoZ06XZfJkSWE-QIGwgFTypwT3HOIS36AbAFqsKxpG1lDR9IWzRZzXFXQaeY4Hjwsw-7eVVHYNzZMZFAf23pctpkvBDAMjnRBKFJ237CklEEBra2RU/s1600-h/LionAtMAFA.Fest.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMlGw2CvHCyDeQ04B0HF44WjYA5EoZ06XZfJkSWE-QIGwgFTypwT3HOIS36AbAFqsKxpG1lDR9IWzRZzXFXQaeY4Hjwsw-7eVVHYNzZMZFAf23pctpkvBDAMjnRBKFJ237CklEEBra2RU/s400/LionAtMAFA.Fest.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293248353203197714" /></a>Lions and tigers and bears </div><div style="text-align: center;">often appear in photographic displays </div><div style="text-align: center;">at the Monrovia Association of Fine Arts October Art Festival.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Photograph copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2008<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb3uN_JDnxg4hqnEP1LbdgBxsGdHolk9BeTy4Y5m_RLwNn5efCT2nl2zxioP1YWrKnmPzmlGfGNlanOhTyHymkYz81VtjG_VKl0U_Z7ni3PLov-sD3zk0jD0hKY_9yV5TIs6__6QD7I2E/s1600-h/Gilbert+and+Kelly+Vella.MAFA.Fest.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb3uN_JDnxg4hqnEP1LbdgBxsGdHolk9BeTy4Y5m_RLwNn5efCT2nl2zxioP1YWrKnmPzmlGfGNlanOhTyHymkYz81VtjG_VKl0U_Z7ni3PLov-sD3zk0jD0hKY_9yV5TIs6__6QD7I2E/s400/Gilbert+and+Kelly+Vella.MAFA.Fest.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293248355092613490" /></a>Artists Gilbert and Kelly Vela from Riverside, California</div><div style="text-align: center;">exhibit their photographs of wild animals in the African Planes </div><div style="text-align: center;">at the Monrovia Association of Fine Arts-- </div><div style="text-align: center;">October Festival-- Monrovia Library Park</div><div style="text-align: center;">www.mountainandmeadows.com</div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo Copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2008<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB6A38wPy7ntc-hO1PoOSe6ICiYmxwai7L0Etz3lua47m-bNMqIIDzyOKycxEQ6p1qcInMX3f9ESXi5rm3LcdejRiOR8Lx36SEdP7vg3b6L85cPN0os2lOMpMJ0j8dQZVee6pv1RH9EXI/s1600-h/Drums&Dragons.Poodle.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB6A38wPy7ntc-hO1PoOSe6ICiYmxwai7L0Etz3lua47m-bNMqIIDzyOKycxEQ6p1qcInMX3f9ESXi5rm3LcdejRiOR8Lx36SEdP7vg3b6L85cPN0os2lOMpMJ0j8dQZVee6pv1RH9EXI/s400/Drums&Dragons.Poodle.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293248352337975810" /></a>Drums and Dragons Fine Art children's books </div><div style="text-align: center;">are exhibited at the Monrovia Association of Fine Arts October Festival<br />with a loyal student attending the booth and holding the white poodle.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2008</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiihBfiBD6slxJFKM8lCo6kyyuImRSxBlAvicai9wjJm5oDWyVQenoxTJf8x8dYbroYvejkrdpSA_LudBwH2V7DW7ITHCsxgt8slrRM1TrSmb0d35YSl7zoHELY2AgoXo2ur-DLq8EIpE/s1600-h/AA+SummerArtWalk.Banner.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiihBfiBD6slxJFKM8lCo6kyyuImRSxBlAvicai9wjJm5oDWyVQenoxTJf8x8dYbroYvejkrdpSA_LudBwH2V7DW7ITHCsxgt8slrRM1TrSmb0d35YSl7zoHELY2AgoXo2ur-DLq8EIpE/s400/AA+SummerArtWalk.Banner.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293245767905644258" /></a>SUMMER ART WALKS are the Summer's biggest art attraction for families and their children every year. Sponsored by the Monrovia Association of Fine Arts.</div><div>Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2008<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZNmcZoIL175RRa4NSSWUSxBuMC58tmCqxLoQ2ZUg0Zv4bjD0G1sBXzmA6lIbM4x89oxfIwiRF1okbdX15kcU_vK4duPBfUYjYf3S7Nit4em_IJdILvQkcZiOB4yRuTGvye3e4Dh_pVg8/s1600-h/AA+PAINTnPLAY.doggies2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZNmcZoIL175RRa4NSSWUSxBuMC58tmCqxLoQ2ZUg0Zv4bjD0G1sBXzmA6lIbM4x89oxfIwiRF1okbdX15kcU_vK4duPBfUYjYf3S7Nit4em_IJdILvQkcZiOB4yRuTGvye3e4Dh_pVg8/s400/AA+PAINTnPLAY.doggies2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293245769149626402" /></a>Puppies at Paint N Play Studio<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ipCOyAk8vivaKKhE86sw4FCNtoGiHc2Mh__ToC7pAqTNKviBhqHxgEdIdYM8LZ_sapUVPvrCfONJ1eShV_NsiUzZmTaZydBBtcw2JLrwM-IjWvqYaaSkcQxB4_qxUBsNmvFVCzPuLJg/s1600-h/AA+PaintNPlay.Doggies.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ipCOyAk8vivaKKhE86sw4FCNtoGiHc2Mh__ToC7pAqTNKviBhqHxgEdIdYM8LZ_sapUVPvrCfONJ1eShV_NsiUzZmTaZydBBtcw2JLrwM-IjWvqYaaSkcQxB4_qxUBsNmvFVCzPuLJg/s400/AA+PaintNPlay.Doggies.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293245766245128546" /></a>More Puppy Art at Paint N Play in Monrovia, California</div><div>Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2008<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjagOrRLdXTWzYTvC15GM6VJjV83t4hsLoyI-Lfm0eKu2w1urkcumGNuZPLDKqj8w2UUlvuEa9KzOKC936lo3Kn2j9mT4V8xeVYh6xQTfbAbnuzuEjRNYqoY1VZzf7is_TYqBZlwCPOYVo/s1600-h/AA+PaintNPlay.Lisa.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjagOrRLdXTWzYTvC15GM6VJjV83t4hsLoyI-Lfm0eKu2w1urkcumGNuZPLDKqj8w2UUlvuEa9KzOKC936lo3Kn2j9mT4V8xeVYh6xQTfbAbnuzuEjRNYqoY1VZzf7is_TYqBZlwCPOYVo/s400/AA+PaintNPlay.Lisa.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293245766171783362" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Lisa and Rachel both work to support the artistic inspiration </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and promote the fine arts at </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">PAINT N PLAY ART STUDIO and </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">PAINT N PLAY ART GALLERY </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">in Monrovia, California</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Photo copyright by Ginger Van Hook, 2008<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">*****************************************************************************</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">MONROVIA ASSOCIATION OF FINE ARTS</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">SPECIAL SALUTE TO TYSON AND TILLMAN, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">THE REAL SKATEDOGS</span></span><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBPTR9-hYm_F0Ya91D4ah657fG4pRXWAK1l65463rBZC3XxugbxgZlJN7-ip4EIXc5npdrJIpBb1cJoq4hjXbOOr4B4ypOLIv2VKG1dK30TuebNboi9doEBoRaTur_FA0RrPjHqvimTgk/s1600-h/Monrovia.downtownFlag.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBPTR9-hYm_F0Ya91D4ah657fG4pRXWAK1l65463rBZC3XxugbxgZlJN7-ip4EIXc5npdrJIpBb1cJoq4hjXbOOr4B4ypOLIv2VKG1dK30TuebNboi9doEBoRaTur_FA0RrPjHqvimTgk/s400/Monrovia.downtownFlag.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293259104761410610" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">n the quaint mountain community of Monrovia, California </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">there are SkateDog Fans eager to salute the incredible skills </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">that have been demonstrated by Tyson and Tillman the skate bulldogs</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> that recently performed for the Pasadena Rose Bowl Parade on January 1, 2009</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzVUntjwZx4_Cbcixc1alWPurGzfrDwPIrKk53VbEE2_PWkzVvkxmc6W-Go7TfxZbU1-wqCfXc838HEjtN0y_NmhqDgfVaV_wDWhDpwsRJUqTH73CIal_bcCaZm2IqOOOFut3gqW7NKBI/s1600-h/STIX.RIDESHOP.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzVUntjwZx4_Cbcixc1alWPurGzfrDwPIrKk53VbEE2_PWkzVvkxmc6W-Go7TfxZbU1-wqCfXc838HEjtN0y_NmhqDgfVaV_wDWhDpwsRJUqTH73CIal_bcCaZm2IqOOOFut3gqW7NKBI/s400/STIX.RIDESHOP.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293259100772568066" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">STIX RIDESHOP located at 421 S. Mytle Avenue in Monrovia</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> is also a big fan of the skateboarding bulldogs.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Alec Lucero, Nathan Bernal, Shawn Wong, Mario "Sexy" Deviana </div><div style="text-align: center;">and Lucky Seven pose in front of the skate shop, pausing for </div><div style="text-align: center;">only a brief moment in their skateboarding activities.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo Copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2008</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMF62W3W4cDKCmsn16jtl4aiZliG9GtwlBQmzGRmd8lTE-jvyK_20VIpk3KauPEyN_Ivxwo7h60NkqHFeJcqJh6hCboFwjsYZki-B6FwdB3pfoyAYVB_TnyqPb5L61TtJSjs3gYlKzCs4/s1600-h/SALUTE.SkateDogs.Stix.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMF62W3W4cDKCmsn16jtl4aiZliG9GtwlBQmzGRmd8lTE-jvyK_20VIpk3KauPEyN_Ivxwo7h60NkqHFeJcqJh6hCboFwjsYZki-B6FwdB3pfoyAYVB_TnyqPb5L61TtJSjs3gYlKzCs4/s400/SALUTE.SkateDogs.Stix.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293259100351310018" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">GRRRRRR, GO GET EM' SKATEDOGS! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A proper salute from skateboarding fans in Monrovia, California<br />Photo copyright, Ginger Van Hook, 2008</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ91MZPDBwWq5CZgohbzdpDczLJOyL7NtcLb4o4S2DHDPsdh8HvgwUFAnDdzS2XLOmlFavIPCa2oiMtRXlW7GNm__oNMTqN3qJA3lbB7UQRgNB2T2ymFSKlUUGOTm3AsyElJvrl-cQ_wk/s1600-h/SkateDogs.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ91MZPDBwWq5CZgohbzdpDczLJOyL7NtcLb4o4S2DHDPsdh8HvgwUFAnDdzS2XLOmlFavIPCa2oiMtRXlW7GNm__oNMTqN3qJA3lbB7UQRgNB2T2ymFSKlUUGOTm3AsyElJvrl-cQ_wk/s400/SkateDogs.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293233386086981282" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The English Bulldog demonstrates the proper way to pick up a skateboard... </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">SKATEBOARDING DOGS TYSON AND TILLMAN</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;font-size:24px;"><br /></span>Tyson and Tillman--Skateboarding bulldogs at Pasadena Rose Parade<br />Tyson, the skateboarding bulldog, tears up Main Street in Huntington Beach. Onlookers are stunned to see that Tyson really skates on all four paws without the urging of owner Jim Blauvelt. ANA VENEGAS, THE REGISTER http://www.ocregister.com/photos/rose-parade-bulldogs-2264983-skateboard-pasadena/pid2264985<br /><br /><br /><br />*********************************************************************************</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Family Dog and Cat Hospital</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Sylvia Zapien-Garcia, D.V.M.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">David L. Garcia, R.V.T.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">136 W. Lime Avenue Monrovia, CA 91016</div><div style="text-align: center;">www.familydogandcathospital.com</div><div style="text-align: center;">626-303-2300</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />The Family Dog and Cat Hospital had an open house on Saturday, April 4th, 2009 to encourage community members to bring their beloved dogs and cats when they are in need of care. </div><div style="text-align: center;">So if your little bulldog gets hurt while trying to</div><div style="text-align: center;"> skateboard up and over a ramp or just trying out ollies, David and Sylvia and close by in Monrovia, ready to mend their bumps and bruises.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1NWqvXHpIbSkPaCbgCwNf_f80p0YpzeYs-7Z5MszokaV82RDD_aSrngs3vcj8i8dpDUg4D17pY3YDqYry2PDK-fhRTnDJdXbTPM7SQPdDLYbHyJ7A0puCq9NQsCS6FZt2FhwONyrNDcU/s1600-h/FamilyDog&CatHospital.2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1NWqvXHpIbSkPaCbgCwNf_f80p0YpzeYs-7Z5MszokaV82RDD_aSrngs3vcj8i8dpDUg4D17pY3YDqYry2PDK-fhRTnDJdXbTPM7SQPdDLYbHyJ7A0puCq9NQsCS6FZt2FhwONyrNDcU/s400/FamilyDog&CatHospital.2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322801426731843074" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRJ6-rS1XXZHrSiiIf2sx65W6A06E6eq-ZA67WYJqP0iuhIav1A9H0WXFRPtaApqmoJgKkiRTbKmkMvrIPMDsCRYPiRGtXA1Vh4QJyXc1f6fkpbpIjdueW5aoh-ylsLNLDCXD32v6efhs/s1600-h/FamilyDog&CatHospital.4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRJ6-rS1XXZHrSiiIf2sx65W6A06E6eq-ZA67WYJqP0iuhIav1A9H0WXFRPtaApqmoJgKkiRTbKmkMvrIPMDsCRYPiRGtXA1Vh4QJyXc1f6fkpbpIjdueW5aoh-ylsLNLDCXD32v6efhs/s400/FamilyDog&CatHospital.4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322801431025797282" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwynnTS9YnVA1dRCXO7IQm0lhCcm1oepm6RXRr7Y-OQ2DA0XeSIqVJrtnTwWOU0R2CpVFqgv3yJ0qh4oaxYjuGgpnGsi11IpfXg8uF091NiaZhb8oiQnBkQJ5i-ZmRR6BuA2cDIgI6Iqw/s1600-h/FamilyDog&CatHospital.6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwynnTS9YnVA1dRCXO7IQm0lhCcm1oepm6RXRr7Y-OQ2DA0XeSIqVJrtnTwWOU0R2CpVFqgv3yJ0qh4oaxYjuGgpnGsi11IpfXg8uF091NiaZhb8oiQnBkQJ5i-ZmRR6BuA2cDIgI6Iqw/s400/FamilyDog&CatHospital.6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322801437307193314" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXnSuXg5871nNmOoetMupXzs9dEFFKNQM4ZISC0ruuOtfqpPt6wGKFiD5ESNoG2uB0ayG_pcJL_BFTmQH6HRgRGZRYwtvqsVMWMuWspMSwLGaQ6cN2rhqFB6JT1jk1uxu2M9m1ctiAw88/s1600-h/FamilyDog&CatHospital.5.in.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXnSuXg5871nNmOoetMupXzs9dEFFKNQM4ZISC0ruuOtfqpPt6wGKFiD5ESNoG2uB0ayG_pcJL_BFTmQH6HRgRGZRYwtvqsVMWMuWspMSwLGaQ6cN2rhqFB6JT1jk1uxu2M9m1ctiAw88/s400/FamilyDog&CatHospital.5.in.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322801430454267778" /></a>The inside scoop on the Family Dog and Cat Hospital on Lime in Monrovia, California</div><div style="text-align: center;">Photos by Ginger Van Hook</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br />************************************************************************************</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">ENILDE GINGER INGELS-VAN HOOK</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Artist- Photographer - Writer</span></div><div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">JOURNAL ENTRY FROM </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">THE DIARY OF ENILDE VAN HOOK</span></span>:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"The Adoption of Sasha"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">March 18, 2007<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">My Dearest Friend,<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We approached Burbank from the 405 Freeway and got off near the NBC studios. We saw a park, but no one seemed to be there so we went under the underpass and drove up and around on Buena Vista Street looking for a doggie park set up with doggie adoptions. At first, it all looked quiet and residential but then we started to see people on the street walking their dogs. We decided to follow them; which led us to the park directly across from the parking lot of NBC studios.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: italic;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">There we hit the dog-day jackpot. There were tents and booths and a DJ blaring music from loudspeakers set way up in the trees. There were Chihuahuas and Poodles and Labrador retrievers walking around pulling and dragging their new owners and new families (sometimes little Johnny or little Susie would get tangled in the lead and a little Jack Russell would finally sit with a smirk of a doggie smile from tooth to wagging tail.) There were short haired, short legged hotdog looking wiener dogs and robust looking Rottweillers and fancy faced terriers and droopy brown-eyed cocker spaniels and dogs that looked like wolves and Lassies that looked like they were ready to save lives and short Corgi’s that could hardly walk because they were so portly.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">An arena was roped-off where there was a black, tan and white Border collie showing off her ability to catch Frisbees in mid-air and her trainer lifting his leg so she could jump through it like a hoop to catch the Frisbee on the other end. She would catch and jump and flip in the air and the audience would applaud and whoohoo and squeal in delight. There were families in this park with one, two, three or sometimes four and more children bundled together in the crowd like they were standing in line for a ride at Disneyland. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Beneath the element of show was an urgent need for each of these families to find and connect with their perfect matching adopted family member. On the way over we walked beside a woman who spoke aloud what Luke and I were thinking privately. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: italic;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">“I don’t know who is coming home with me today, but I hope I find him or her. I hope maybe he or she finds me. I want a happy healthy dog. I just want a companion. I don’t care whether it be a boy or a girl,” she said as we crossed the street at the green light with three more people headed for doggie adoption, “before I left the house,” she continued, “I said to God, ‘Lord’ just find me the right one, that’s all, just let it be the right one. My last one had cancer, bless her little soul, and I do have two other dogs at home, but we need one more. I just want a healthy one today.”</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: italic;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I was quiet. I kept walking and thinking. Luke was quiet. Then I opened up and agreed with her. I wanted to share with her that we wanted the same thing she did. We wanted a healthy companion to live and share a good life with us too. Luke whispered from behind me, “if it is meant to be, it will be.” We waved our parting goodbyes to this woman; we had barely met, and yet connected with on a level of human compassion for animals when suddenly we were engulfed in doggie-mania.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">After all our anticipation, we were finally at the place where one of these 2000 beautiful dogs was going to come home with us. Now which one would it be? We wanted to be fair so we walked around several times to look at all of the dogs. There were so many. They all barked or whined or pleaded to come home with us. Some of them just wanted out of their cages and would go home with anyone that would let them out. Others just sat there and observed the circus of freaky looking people that walked by. Some dogs looked like they didn’t care. The sky was overcast, there was a slight breeze blowing and I was grateful for all those dogs that were at this adoption festival that it wasn’t a hot day. On the loudspeaker, there was an urgent announcement…’would the owner of an SUV license plate number… please return to your car. The dog inside is getting hot and we will break the window to your vehicle to get it out. We have authority from the police department. Will the owner of an SUV license plate number…’<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: italic;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">At first, I saw ‘Bailey’ a small terrier-looking dog with a beige cream curly haired coat and he smiled at me, wagged his tail and then turned around at the bark of the dog behind him. Although I liked him, it was a boy and Luke wanted a girl so, we kept looking. Then one after another, the dogs I liked were boys. I wasn’t planning this; I just looked at the faces and wanted to see a reaction of connection. It was so hard to choose. I saw one brown-eyed droopy cocker spaniel that seemed perfect. He was a boy too. Boys are great, but they have to lift their legs to mark their territory and often mark the whole house. Ok, maybe a girl dog would mark it too in her own way.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Then, I saw the eyes of a dog that took my heart and shattered it with grief. It was the eyes and face and body of our boy Celbee…but it wasn’t. It was a girl and her brother in two separate cages. Brother and sister were up for adoption to a good home. An inspector would have to come to the house and approve the home so this one could not be our dog today either. But those eyes! Those Celbee eyes! The memories of his cancer returned. The hurt in his eyes when he realized he was going to be put down. He knew. He knew his time was up. He didn’t like the vet with the expensive oxford shoes. He tried to hide under the chair. But we made him get up on the table. The table where he was to receive the injection for an irreparable cancer that was about to take his brain and his doggie memories.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The piercing look on this female dog brought Celbee back to life and my heart broke for yet another time. I was disturbed. She didn’t recognize me. I had never seen this dog before. It was really the memory of our dog Celbee, yet her eyes penetrated mine and I had to look away for a second. I calculated. I would have to take home two dogs today. I could not. These two were strays that had managed to stay together on their journey when they were rescued from this shelter. And this animal rescue wanted brother and sister together. I agreed. I took a business card, but I knew I would not call. I left the booth with a heavy heart. I really missed my dog Celbee. He died in 2004. He didn’t make graduation. He barely made five years. Bella on the other hand made graduation but she was overtaken by the tumor in her shoulder in 2005. It was now two years later. It felt just like yesterday when I looked into the eyes of that beautiful female Queensland Healer in her cage, today.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: italic;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I left that booth disheartened wondering if Luke and I would ever find a dog that was right for us. We didn’t want to replace our happy Bella and Celbee memories. We just wanted to make new ones. We wanted a wagging tail when we came home and the bark of joy when we said we were going for a walk. I looked over the bridge in the park and noticed there was an entire section of the park dedicated to cat adoptions. I turned away. Eggs, the neighbors’ cat was all the cat we needed. We have a cat. The cat doesn’t know about ownership and rights and legalese. It only knows his house is under construction and he prefers our house while his is getting worked on. But Egg’s family will be finishing their house this summer and it was time. Jill wants her cat back in her new house with her. I don’t blame her. If Eggs was my cat, I would want him back in my house too. Needless to say, it was time for us to get our own dog. It was time for us to let Bella and Celbee rest in peace. It was time for us to return to the land of the living or we were in danger of becoming ghosts ourselves.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: italic;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And then, we went back to another isle of dogs we had been by before. I saw a face I recognized. It was a boy, said the animal control officer. But this time I didn’t care. The face looked at me and told me all I wanted to know. This face was the face that was coming home with me. I just had a feeling. Luke and I came inside the booth. We were asking questions, the officers were excited. “Oh, yes this one is available… Oh are you going to take her home she is really sweet…” “Did you say she? “So she, is not a boy…no…I said. She has nipples.” “Oh…no” said the animal control officer with her clipboard full of notes. “let me look up her file.. . Yup she’s a girl!”<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: italic;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We took her out of her cage to walk around the park and feel her out. She is a brown terrier the officer said. She pooped. She had diarrhea. But she didn’t seem upset with all the people. She gave us kisses. We named her Chela for our student loans were on a fifteen-year payment plan, so we hope she has over 15 happy healthy years with us.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We picked her. Luke agreed. I agreed. She responded to us. I signed paper work. Luke held her lead. She gave him kisses. She was sweet. She coughed a little. She walked with us. She seemed genuinely happy to be out of the doggie fair. She followed us to the car. She pranced. Her paperwork said she was a terrier. But the more I looked at her, there was something familiar about her face.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Enilde</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9o44kfV4ibZKC8nFLlcU7FdlnFlAByISDsHNrd7jrzJPc-DmZ8xs3ekcLSFQvDNFVZG4xdh-Dbfqy9xteJM8JK018xVVEX3uSWoIWw8sLO0Sh3KsGhKPsYHJH3jj9aHAi-4QCX3NZsF8/s1600-h/EnildeSashaRiver07.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9o44kfV4ibZKC8nFLlcU7FdlnFlAByISDsHNrd7jrzJPc-DmZ8xs3ekcLSFQvDNFVZG4xdh-Dbfqy9xteJM8JK018xVVEX3uSWoIWw8sLO0Sh3KsGhKPsYHJH3jj9aHAi-4QCX3NZsF8/s400/EnildeSashaRiver07.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293550667769689762" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ginger Van Hook holds Sasha Van Hook as she goes for her first visit to Northern California on the border of Northern Nevada where the Sierra Mountains kiss the sky and the rivers run with icy waters. Being a city dog, Sasha is uncomfortable with the cold water and it is a miracle she stands still on the slippery rock for this photograph.<br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright by Luke Van Hook, 2007</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRyD8vwioI0Vx0iRcmv6XNmOLFzsvVpN9SVidlNzh9NcnUNOdm_0x9QMDGaJv7ahk7QdFFeGUcrpFsTTUA7bdu4uqyfppQ3p2wRttg6ElR5t2dMbDNVqY1l9jfJA-JBEA79jv6L9Fmvkk/s1600-h/Sasha.Porch.web.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRyD8vwioI0Vx0iRcmv6XNmOLFzsvVpN9SVidlNzh9NcnUNOdm_0x9QMDGaJv7ahk7QdFFeGUcrpFsTTUA7bdu4uqyfppQ3p2wRttg6ElR5t2dMbDNVqY1l9jfJA-JBEA79jv6L9Fmvkk/s400/Sasha.Porch.web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286593738679519906" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Sasha Van Hook</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, prefers to enjoy her new sun-drenched back porch in Los Angeles,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Sunny Southern California </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photography copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2007</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZ9ET4LMY7AWtnX5K23zMIV7y5m10b5HVBXNwkY0GTRXswCfVJG0aKYLDY8SA_MZKUnAshnSzq__0mggXqKt4p0_KjcoZ8wAUbb2_Lv_M2njLggM8JxuSF1Xh1_taaOX9r5o0f9sz2-E/s1600-h/SquirrelPatrol.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZ9ET4LMY7AWtnX5K23zMIV7y5m10b5HVBXNwkY0GTRXswCfVJG0aKYLDY8SA_MZKUnAshnSzq__0mggXqKt4p0_KjcoZ8wAUbb2_Lv_M2njLggM8JxuSF1Xh1_taaOX9r5o0f9sz2-E/s400/SquirrelPatrol.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293144796485224034" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">S</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">quirrel Patrol Sargeant, Sasha the Red Terrier </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and her new mate First Class, Pyro the Red Irish Terrier </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">guard their territory from trespassing varmits </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and their impending approach into their sanctuary.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2009</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG_V-hfGOV8w_AiWRnFJKC0JJAa0kzrtxYQDVJxQFMmpmcFkeQq3lx0A_Q0d3gmLI8BM-FnuIMn3VT87hdJNtp8e1W1PO4HOLZQ2suuQE6qM0hiay2i_MOhuNDlnJLSuO5HahYJGFuNr0/s1600-h/SashaKissPyro.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG_V-hfGOV8w_AiWRnFJKC0JJAa0kzrtxYQDVJxQFMmpmcFkeQq3lx0A_Q0d3gmLI8BM-FnuIMn3VT87hdJNtp8e1W1PO4HOLZQ2suuQE6qM0hiay2i_MOhuNDlnJLSuO5HahYJGFuNr0/s400/SashaKissPyro.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293144784973658274" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> S</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">asha and Pyro Van Hook share a doggy kiss, </span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG_V-hfGOV8w_AiWRnFJKC0JJAa0kzrtxYQDVJxQFMmpmcFkeQq3lx0A_Q0d3gmLI8BM-FnuIMn3VT87hdJNtp8e1W1PO4HOLZQ2suuQE6qM0hiay2i_MOhuNDlnJLSuO5HahYJGFuNr0/s1600-h/SashaKissPyro.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Los Angeles, California, 2009</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photograph Copyright Ginger Van Hook</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy from the Van Hook Collection</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Y3dyqpbTUfoPwAS36Y-dFxD-eYrhgSYjsAFnFS-Q5GYvNWglMaRpShV_FnfB0J8cYRvxb4MYFuHUoMry7N0xsNH8jESU2dgjLQhsHnI75tmwN6mKW3pLL2lqXnNAMU0mPESJ_bJAvBg/s1600-h/Pyro.NewHome.09.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Y3dyqpbTUfoPwAS36Y-dFxD-eYrhgSYjsAFnFS-Q5GYvNWglMaRpShV_FnfB0J8cYRvxb4MYFuHUoMry7N0xsNH8jESU2dgjLQhsHnI75tmwN6mKW3pLL2lqXnNAMU0mPESJ_bJAvBg/s400/Pyro.NewHome.09.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293144784460526946" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Pyro Van Hook, is adopted from the Carson Shelter in January of 2009 </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">to become the newest furry Van Hook member of the family. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The red Irish Terrier is told that Sasha is a dominant dog and</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">if he wants to live here, he'll have to go by Super Sasha rules...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">no eating Sasha food, no getting on the couch, no sniffing the cockatiels, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">no playing with the turtles and most of all, bark loud for any and all intruders!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2009</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ohwywKN8aogKQF0wC4v0xCdJKLytoHomsr9TSW9Nyporfux-dJBIYG5-leUAnrSJvtqQ4j-8epJ52ik52NJ1Vue83HTzIbQ0wTrHsDDpOAEeYZDrwO-dzuzQcf1QJX8Swi_RfUCQCas/s1600-h/GingerSashaPyro.09.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ohwywKN8aogKQF0wC4v0xCdJKLytoHomsr9TSW9Nyporfux-dJBIYG5-leUAnrSJvtqQ4j-8epJ52ik52NJ1Vue83HTzIbQ0wTrHsDDpOAEeYZDrwO-dzuzQcf1QJX8Swi_RfUCQCas/s400/GingerSashaPyro.09.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293144782819274514" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Ginger Van Hook with Sasha and Pyro</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Luke Van Hook, 2009</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPGwM3IAd2Lb-FajAHlgg-e9jSThdE3y-TLVHM9QMylXJG-bRG_6z_TghnYAgeKhB7XtGkL_VW8TvAvS8qm5OZLRV1zj04SJMjeSHfav5MTqqpgniNVjBuLake_-7u26-xOXPVNd-wXHs/s1600-h/LukeSashaPyro.09.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 348px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPGwM3IAd2Lb-FajAHlgg-e9jSThdE3y-TLVHM9QMylXJG-bRG_6z_TghnYAgeKhB7XtGkL_VW8TvAvS8qm5OZLRV1zj04SJMjeSHfav5MTqqpgniNVjBuLake_-7u26-xOXPVNd-wXHs/s400/LukeSashaPyro.09.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293144779354377186" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Luke with Sasha and Pyro</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection, 2009</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO BELLA VAN HOOK 1994-2005</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">JUNIOR VAN HOOK 1993-1998 and CELBEE VAN HOOK 1998-2004</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGXjjUSnHNBDDTGe1LZbv2BwH8bnFlia4Ib1xhTABRN6TLjJl-nBZoNgNvNoeLDXBXmKViNaNWvWZxQaySWK9D9jK9JeV0Fs6AfnXQaQlGSEoej77U-J15tb-_sLB369BR5zvWHygdnXI/s1600-h/RoyalCupCoffeeHouse.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 340px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGXjjUSnHNBDDTGe1LZbv2BwH8bnFlia4Ib1xhTABRN6TLjJl-nBZoNgNvNoeLDXBXmKViNaNWvWZxQaySWK9D9jK9JeV0Fs6AfnXQaQlGSEoej77U-J15tb-_sLB369BR5zvWHygdnXI/s400/RoyalCupCoffeeHouse.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293110464698246770" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Royal Cup Coffee House Gallery, Long Beach, California 2006</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Husband and Wife Show, Ginger and Luke Van Hook</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Copyright and Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYEgsqzDBy8FQTq__3tW2n4Y8sHAOiTubdi2ZrLmUoJZIBQvppAv0lusZavlnUfpqirc4d3XCU69iBw9QGmK0BpEejpMlK4xNswPnN7hE1n0oyGCM1Js5uZhxXgOz2x6FTknYJzqvxLqo/s1600-h/Beach+Bella.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 273px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYEgsqzDBy8FQTq__3tW2n4Y8sHAOiTubdi2ZrLmUoJZIBQvppAv0lusZavlnUfpqirc4d3XCU69iBw9QGmK0BpEejpMlK4xNswPnN7hE1n0oyGCM1Js5uZhxXgOz2x6FTknYJzqvxLqo/s400/Beach+Bella.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293480806235729426" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Enilde Van Hook on the sand an in the surf with Beach Bella, 2003</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Pacific Coast, California, Photo copyright Luke Van Hook</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7rMMaVzWDJ5BFTqg6K-83DeYmyTutHHolazcl5Vv8LZYHSrg-PwXDQruBDect_terM9d4FNo3wGd9l6gNO6yVMgL1DKkMPhzPTPAa1ORrS4fkQiUYbwyiV8OBz57-btSwByIpTZwC0ZY/s1600-h/BellaCelbeeMotel6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7rMMaVzWDJ5BFTqg6K-83DeYmyTutHHolazcl5Vv8LZYHSrg-PwXDQruBDect_terM9d4FNo3wGd9l6gNO6yVMgL1DKkMPhzPTPAa1ORrS4fkQiUYbwyiV8OBz57-btSwByIpTZwC0ZY/s400/BellaCelbeeMotel6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293110456046349746" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">B</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">ella and Celbee Van Hook enjoy a nap at the Motel before hiking in the woods. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Mount Shasta Vacation, Weed, California, 2003</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photograph copyright by Ginger Van Hook</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT6hH8-Gz0egHTDjTeaqdMs65-3U95srTe1vOYo4YrRuj-_e1jposmhgcWmTxQ5spzDS9SHejsNGLWe2mkjxOjppZ0CwNHoyYInKKnTtZs2D_hFbEiXumTtChyzC509g875UWeMsIYuO8/s1600-h/In+the+wagon.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT6hH8-Gz0egHTDjTeaqdMs65-3U95srTe1vOYo4YrRuj-_e1jposmhgcWmTxQ5spzDS9SHejsNGLWe2mkjxOjppZ0CwNHoyYInKKnTtZs2D_hFbEiXumTtChyzC509g875UWeMsIYuO8/s400/In+the+wagon.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286593730067729794" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Bella Van Hook riding in her Red Wagon, 2005</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photography copyright Ginger Van Hook</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQlZrwzeMv5etwKAbrPequcKO_wYhYiAnFQcUfQTKWMF3IHkjEDdOApjpHbCstsLYCpoUBmioSTKHO2ndh6ZksbNAYfIy65RXr_TQjXSJ6sGNBjaid_HyBX4dyoyG0F-Y3UT_wYTy2g-U/s1600-h/Bellaportrait.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQlZrwzeMv5etwKAbrPequcKO_wYhYiAnFQcUfQTKWMF3IHkjEDdOApjpHbCstsLYCpoUBmioSTKHO2ndh6ZksbNAYfIy65RXr_TQjXSJ6sGNBjaid_HyBX4dyoyG0F-Y3UT_wYTy2g-U/s400/Bellaportrait.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286593728626788450" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Portrait of Bella Van Hook, 2005</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Enhanced Digital Photography Copyright by Ginger Van Hook</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqhQN3X_SxJBp5j12OgM7pB-AEZvu3nWmWDJQTrp21H1oAYCgCu-4WRsr7O1HtpZT8tK5F8OWunomFMFeJdPJFypbiSv2xYGxqurQo-qhRPCK3ip34qLrZd0wz-Vs631ASt9CpSpzlpmY/s1600-h/Bella's+Fortune.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 282px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqhQN3X_SxJBp5j12OgM7pB-AEZvu3nWmWDJQTrp21H1oAYCgCu-4WRsr7O1HtpZT8tK5F8OWunomFMFeJdPJFypbiSv2xYGxqurQo-qhRPCK3ip34qLrZd0wz-Vs631ASt9CpSpzlpmY/s400/Bella's+Fortune.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293404762455008786" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Bella On Vacation, Yosemite 2005<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photograph copyright Ginger Van Hook</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9V4P7flUeKpi2ZRiBulJcz8GrG0XzLekYJqFKkadpwhqsHbs46TZsPS1XJYi435WUP65Xxft6DYxU156PEuAsOYzUiJF2fZSwERmq5pLcl2cbDl40gilrejeAD5jPEur9zRO4vZAfzD4/s1600-h/CelbeeDriving.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 307px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9V4P7flUeKpi2ZRiBulJcz8GrG0XzLekYJqFKkadpwhqsHbs46TZsPS1XJYi435WUP65Xxft6DYxU156PEuAsOYzUiJF2fZSwERmq5pLcl2cbDl40gilrejeAD5jPEur9zRO4vZAfzD4/s400/CelbeeDriving.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286590841159670930" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Celbee in the Driver's Seat, Parkinglot, Los Angeles, California 2004</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photography copyright Ginger Van Hook</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6z_KTBTl_X0hJ89GCgcu0elUa9X_yDqiNrLn8d_SqfEp5e8L8WLxWbdV623ut6cozJ790ld75JroPwTewU3jEL2YcPxWfLiwXSiEH0mK_vbglPow_s1K4K33i3wcnABauWXf6Nq_Fnn0/s1600-h/BellaEyes.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 330px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6z_KTBTl_X0hJ89GCgcu0elUa9X_yDqiNrLn8d_SqfEp5e8L8WLxWbdV623ut6cozJ790ld75JroPwTewU3jEL2YcPxWfLiwXSiEH0mK_vbglPow_s1K4K33i3wcnABauWXf6Nq_Fnn0/s400/BellaEyes.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286590836106064898" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Bella's Face, Early in the morning, 2004</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Digitally Enhanced Photo Copyright Ginger Van Hook</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwg8VDeFooWQv3JTMfyUROawMB5MtMnCo3NmNdEok5U4Nu35Lwph2X1tLtBGQ6VNs4hFe6iW_hBb2njXyzzRIldmnLRUc29aEg0B-VL5Zl4Uxu_xWIf2k6250aM0SxdSuo2Jx_sdSoHCY/s1600-h/Bella+with+Junior+%26+his+food+bowl.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 295px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwg8VDeFooWQv3JTMfyUROawMB5MtMnCo3NmNdEok5U4Nu35Lwph2X1tLtBGQ6VNs4hFe6iW_hBb2njXyzzRIldmnLRUc29aEg0B-VL5Zl4Uxu_xWIf2k6250aM0SxdSuo2Jx_sdSoHCY/s400/Bella+with+Junior+%26+his+food+bowl.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286590835616311522" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rottweiller, Junior Van Hook and Airedale Bella Van Hook, </span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwg8VDeFooWQv3JTMfyUROawMB5MtMnCo3NmNdEok5U4Nu35Lwph2X1tLtBGQ6VNs4hFe6iW_hBb2njXyzzRIldmnLRUc29aEg0B-VL5Zl4Uxu_xWIf2k6250aM0SxdSuo2Jx_sdSoHCY/s1600-h/Bella+with+Junior+%26+his+food+bowl.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Gardnerville, Nevada 1998</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwg8VDeFooWQv3JTMfyUROawMB5MtMnCo3NmNdEok5U4Nu35Lwph2X1tLtBGQ6VNs4hFe6iW_hBb2njXyzzRIldmnLRUc29aEg0B-VL5Zl4Uxu_xWIf2k6250aM0SxdSuo2Jx_sdSoHCY/s1600-h/Bella+with+Junior+%26+his+food+bowl.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> "DinnerTime!"</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Original Photo by Peter Bolten, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Digitally Enhanced Photo by Ginger Van Hook, copyright, 2005</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy from the Van Hook Collection</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtoWDLwRS9MkBA-rBWLypj8vqUN21CnbN0InaZ6kYlK9usGUdi0cf5VvnTIZzYO_MDTvRl5ZUBIewIISTke0rXj3K0UysY9GGN1SMP2DFlS6t_EIkoH7fAz5js-XrEn-uY-p28y5tpvk/s1600-h/Bella+goes+with+Angels.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtoWDLwRS9MkBA-rBWLypj8vqUN21CnbN0InaZ6kYlK9usGUdi0cf5VvnTIZzYO_MDTvRl5ZUBIewIISTke0rXj3K0UysY9GGN1SMP2DFlS6t_EIkoH7fAz5js-XrEn-uY-p28y5tpvk/s400/Bella+goes+with+Angels.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293109726274696434" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Bella's last breath, April 23, 2005</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photographic Tribute/Memorial to Bella Van Hook's life</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ginger Van Hook</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Journal Entry from the Diary of Enilde Van Hook<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">April 23, 2005<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dearest Friend,<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Bella has had a very difficult night and her nightmare has continued on through this morning and now it is afternoon. She is panting in pain. Her eyes are red and bloodshot from lack of sleep. Or are those Luke’s eyes that I see from crying. I have been crying too. We told our neighbor Don and he rushed over to say goodbye, now that we know the end is near. A lot of people love Bella. Bella is a very loving soul. I talked to her this morning about leaving us. I told her if it was too painful to stay here with us, that she could go with Celbee and Junior and my sister Else if she chose to. Just let us know Bella. I don’t know exactly what happens when you travel, because I haven’t personally gone on this journey myself, but I explained, my sister Else told me in whispers that she was all right. That somehow it was not as frightening as everyone thinks. I can only say that you have been the kindest, most loyal friend two people could ever be blessed to have in a lifetime. We have been blessed with you from the moment you walked into our hearts at six weeks old. We saw you jump into the river in Pleasant Valley because you thought you had to save Junior from drowning when you were 8 weeks old. I thought the river would swallow you up. Junior came back to shore struggling. You crawled up the side of the rocks in the river like you were a wet river rat and you could climb anything. This cancer has been the biggest mountain you have had to climb, dearest Bella. We saw you chase away a bear from camp in Lake Tahoe and witnessed you get gored by a bull and come back to bite him in the leg and made him jump back over the fence to run away from you. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In your own back yard, even the birds salute you, Queen Bella. You know that the seeds we planted together last week have sprouted? Here, take a look. It is the Rose Queen that has come up from the wet earth to remind you of our wonderful times together. You have kept papa and mama in shape by making us run after you for about eleven years. It isn’t fair that you should have inherited such a painful disease at this stage of your life.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Your good times and good memories abound. Running on the beach, running up in Big Bear Lake, running in Alpine, swimming at Lake Tahoe and running from hotel security at Circus Circus Hotel in Las Vegas. You’ve traveled to Oregon to visit Becky and Noah and gone up and down the coast of California. You had already conquered Nevada when you took over California. Large and in charge, Bella, you ran us and held our hearts in your paws.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">At this time, Luke and I are with you on the grass, laptop beside me and Luke is making drawings of you. Our closeness quiets your moans. You sleep for minutes at a time between the sharp pain shooting through your shoulder. We make the appointment with the Vet for you today at 2:40pm. We will let the doctor evaluate you, but if it is time, then we must say goodbye, for now. Until we meet again.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Enilde and Luke Van Hook,<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“Farewell to Bella”, 2</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">005</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div>**********************************************************************************<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwg8VDeFooWQv3JTMfyUROawMB5MtMnCo3NmNdEok5U4Nu35Lwph2X1tLtBGQ6VNs4hFe6iW_hBb2njXyzzRIldmnLRUc29aEg0B-VL5Zl4Uxu_xWIf2k6250aM0SxdSuo2Jx_sdSoHCY/s1600-h/Bella+with+Junior+%26+his+food+bowl.jpg"><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">LUKE VAN HOOK</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Fine Artist Painting</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFujBgFhY4zj-6xGI_0MwcUQDsijAY0Kj-e2p4VbExkxso-5rlCfejX7X6lZomMQFPOEMEeZ5EKfwWMhUZl-A7FPJ7l6VBJgMiQNNWHgkIeydc1QKihKTKZGmwaqCchF3PNPFRkfXv47w/s1600-h/Baby+celbee%26bella.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 172px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFujBgFhY4zj-6xGI_0MwcUQDsijAY0Kj-e2p4VbExkxso-5rlCfejX7X6lZomMQFPOEMEeZ5EKfwWMhUZl-A7FPJ7l6VBJgMiQNNWHgkIeydc1QKihKTKZGmwaqCchF3PNPFRkfXv47w/s400/Baby+celbee%26bella.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291635701810091474" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFujBgFhY4zj-6xGI_0MwcUQDsijAY0Kj-e2p4VbExkxso-5rlCfejX7X6lZomMQFPOEMEeZ5EKfwWMhUZl-A7FPJ7l6VBJgMiQNNWHgkIeydc1QKihKTKZGmwaqCchF3PNPFRkfXv47w/s1600-h/Baby+celbee%26bella.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></span></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFujBgFhY4zj-6xGI_0MwcUQDsijAY0Kj-e2p4VbExkxso-5rlCfejX7X6lZomMQFPOEMEeZ5EKfwWMhUZl-A7FPJ7l6VBJgMiQNNWHgkIeydc1QKihKTKZGmwaqCchF3PNPFRkfXv47w/s1600-h/Baby+celbee%26bella.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">B</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">ella Van Hook,</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFujBgFhY4zj-6xGI_0MwcUQDsijAY0Kj-e2p4VbExkxso-5rlCfejX7X6lZomMQFPOEMEeZ5EKfwWMhUZl-A7FPJ7l6VBJgMiQNNWHgkIeydc1QKihKTKZGmwaqCchF3PNPFRkfXv47w/s1600-h/Baby+celbee%26bella.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> the black and tan female airedale, aged 4 in human years</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFujBgFhY4zj-6xGI_0MwcUQDsijAY0Kj-e2p4VbExkxso-5rlCfejX7X6lZomMQFPOEMEeZ5EKfwWMhUZl-A7FPJ7l6VBJgMiQNNWHgkIeydc1QKihKTKZGmwaqCchF3PNPFRkfXv47w/s1600-h/Baby+celbee%26bella.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">poses with the new red queensland heeler male puppy, </span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFujBgFhY4zj-6xGI_0MwcUQDsijAY0Kj-e2p4VbExkxso-5rlCfejX7X6lZomMQFPOEMEeZ5EKfwWMhUZl-A7FPJ7l6VBJgMiQNNWHgkIeydc1QKihKTKZGmwaqCchF3PNPFRkfXv47w/s1600-h/Baby+celbee%26bella.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Celbee Van Hook aged, 6 weeks. At our home in Gardnerville, Nevada.</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFujBgFhY4zj-6xGI_0MwcUQDsijAY0Kj-e2p4VbExkxso-5rlCfejX7X6lZomMQFPOEMEeZ5EKfwWMhUZl-A7FPJ7l6VBJgMiQNNWHgkIeydc1QKihKTKZGmwaqCchF3PNPFRkfXv47w/s1600-h/Baby+celbee%26bella.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Owners Luke and Ginger Van Hook </span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFujBgFhY4zj-6xGI_0MwcUQDsijAY0Kj-e2p4VbExkxso-5rlCfejX7X6lZomMQFPOEMEeZ5EKfwWMhUZl-A7FPJ7l6VBJgMiQNNWHgkIeydc1QKihKTKZGmwaqCchF3PNPFRkfXv47w/s1600-h/Baby+celbee%26bella.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photograph copyright Ginger and Luke Van Hook, 1998</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 334px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvHOfTXjR5XCrcYdEukNPMD91OX6-ptNzRM8mv41TS2BaMGSkfBI9KFoAj3VEuFbbTB88Yau68_RgKbeUgHAJAC-ckHYbIR9m4WnKio67uD59wdB5F93KoGRCHwUJb7eUXhlItm59mJo/s400/BellaONPorch2.highcontrast.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291635697961146562" /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvHOfTXjR5XCrcYdEukNPMD91OX6-ptNzRM8mv41TS2BaMGSkfBI9KFoAj3VEuFbbTB88Yau68_RgKbeUgHAJAC-ckHYbIR9m4WnKio67uD59wdB5F93KoGRCHwUJb7eUXhlItm59mJo/s1600-h/BellaONPorch2.highcontrast.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> P</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">ortrait of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">B</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">ella Van Hook, 2004</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvHOfTXjR5XCrcYdEukNPMD91OX6-ptNzRM8mv41TS2BaMGSkfBI9KFoAj3VEuFbbTB88Yau68_RgKbeUgHAJAC-ckHYbIR9m4WnKio67uD59wdB5F93KoGRCHwUJb7eUXhlItm59mJo/s1600-h/BellaONPorch2.highcontrast.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Black and Tan Airedale contemplates her life on her back porch, Inglewood, California.</span></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Painting, Oil on Canvas, 10" x 12" by Artist Luke Van Hook<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photograph of Painting Copyright and Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Luke and Ginger Van Hook</span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgBOx0d3vEb6-KOrZyj4E-D8Vc5HVAKwE0caZ1kmEO34LrxUP9zPc1hb4FklHNZ8DR8O0LQr9SihQrOgw0LZVy0xZ7Gwh1A7YIIbd_i4VzlBH54GYyaNVcxcr23BezLFPK8SDa36Wt-3o/s1600-h/BellalaysonPorch.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 187px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgBOx0d3vEb6-KOrZyj4E-D8Vc5HVAKwE0caZ1kmEO34LrxUP9zPc1hb4FklHNZ8DR8O0LQr9SihQrOgw0LZVy0xZ7Gwh1A7YIIbd_i4VzlBH54GYyaNVcxcr23BezLFPK8SDa36Wt-3o/s400/BellalaysonPorch.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291635693412883634" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Portrait of Bella Van Hook 2005, </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">(Bella's last days with us, aged 11 in human years)</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Drawing, Graphite on Paper, 6" x 15" by Artist Luke Van Hook</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Photograph of Drawing copyright and courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Luke and Ginger Van Hook</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> Los Angeles, California, 2005</span></span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbM_Ozy-DUukvm4bQWe07jt6DrrVDrAYnSKcMeRDfNBCZdKZtg2_juS45n0VIkIn4MRW8jzt-MeKdGpQe2thADQIpU1Hwn-Z2B57vBkcJH9RPTWJb6A_kW6kkki7WOyzietYhGQ3IJ0XY/s1600-h/CelbeeinArt.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 257px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbM_Ozy-DUukvm4bQWe07jt6DrrVDrAYnSKcMeRDfNBCZdKZtg2_juS45n0VIkIn4MRW8jzt-MeKdGpQe2thADQIpU1Hwn-Z2B57vBkcJH9RPTWJb6A_kW6kkki7WOyzietYhGQ3IJ0XY/s400/CelbeeinArt.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291635690212776626" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Portrait of Celbee Van Hook"<br /></span></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Red Queensland Heeler aged 3 in human years </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">wears white BVD shorts and white t-shirt, integrated into the artworld. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Celbee Van Hook goes to Art School, Otis College of Art and Design 2003<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Oil on Panel, Painting, by Luke Van Hook</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photograph and Painting copyright Luke and Ginger Van Hook </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHNLrvIGqufUlbWjOhe2lyorMe5OUgGW_3vo6QnBnRscrSlbB7oRyN-JQAXGB1LnVGtu_wB-Aat2FYfqqgZleaa0bNWO1K2Iyjgy6jplP4Lyy8l1J6xdP99mAwdve8uF3VN6qBlw3pBp0/s1600-h/I'mSoSorry.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHNLrvIGqufUlbWjOhe2lyorMe5OUgGW_3vo6QnBnRscrSlbB7oRyN-JQAXGB1LnVGtu_wB-Aat2FYfqqgZleaa0bNWO1K2Iyjgy6jplP4Lyy8l1J6xdP99mAwdve8uF3VN6qBlw3pBp0/s400/I'mSoSorry.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291635683366768114" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">"I'm So Sorry" Oil on Canvas, 14" x 16" Painting by Luke Van Hook, 2005<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Photograph and Painting copyright Luke and Ginger Van Hook </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdUBpwsmuyM3_eovZcrvjK222wcYjQJ-6Wp0533fG5Mg1D0rbRRRsUShvJXWsYsgECD2e_JdWtMOlbepO5kRobFyEGY6iGpB9RJ6Yf1Oemw-P3HfkTN4QBMqbkRXVPJglI8SS2OQsyYSQ/s1600-h/RiverIce11-24-07.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdUBpwsmuyM3_eovZcrvjK222wcYjQJ-6Wp0533fG5Mg1D0rbRRRsUShvJXWsYsgECD2e_JdWtMOlbepO5kRobFyEGY6iGpB9RJ6Yf1Oemw-P3HfkTN4QBMqbkRXVPJglI8SS2OQsyYSQ/s400/RiverIce11-24-07.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291315608821149826" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">On the fringes of the Golden State in Northern California </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">and the Silver State edges of Northern Nevada </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">one finds one of many rivers which flow down from the Sierra Mountains near Lake Tahoe. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">This is the playground where artists Luke and Ginger Van Hook </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">took their dogs to hike, romp and play since the day they met in 1993. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">This is a sacred place where we meditate upon nature, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">the purity of the icy water and all the gifts that come from the mountainsides </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">and feed the agricultural paradise of the Carson Valley below.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Photo copyright Ginger E. Van Hook</span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi3EkT6-8EtNe_qKscxYH9PS9LKg5l1Cr6GC1vZkPtwfwAr6Hvzgff3v7kYXtL1zAICbQBaRsCeOEyMAxkECG4gkE9_TpQTEZYdJmSdlz_R8SsG1kWLuuYaQu2TKLmKQxjM85-p4US_8w/s1600-h/LukeSashaWoods07.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi3EkT6-8EtNe_qKscxYH9PS9LKg5l1Cr6GC1vZkPtwfwAr6Hvzgff3v7kYXtL1zAICbQBaRsCeOEyMAxkECG4gkE9_TpQTEZYdJmSdlz_R8SsG1kWLuuYaQu2TKLmKQxjM85-p4US_8w/s400/LukeSashaWoods07.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291315601238362930" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Sasha Van Hook, a three year old red terrier mix is the new addition </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">to the Van Hook Family as of March 2007. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Luke and Ginger take Sasha to the same river </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">where all their other dogs had romped and hiked and played before. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Junior, the 140 pound Rottweiller, Bella the Airedale and </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Celbee Van Hook, the Queensland Heeler </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">all took turns in their short lives collecting rocks from the river, </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">catching sticks in the woods, and chasing fish </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">in the translucent river waters of the forests on the border of California and Nevada. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Sasha Van Hook, unlike her predecessors before her, does not like water or getting wet. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"> Thus, Sasha prefers to chase squirrels and rabbits and deer, but she won't go near the water.<br /></span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Photograph copyright Ginger and Luke Van Hook, 2007<br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD_1-1wfBSr7onF22GRXZG6EbXTwZnXlI-tmFka99skKtapK3tEljDBt3QfZPVmnk5BBGF_Uawl29YdPP9bKa9X5dl0XkE51pbwDRdde2c4t5vhTnowrCtKTdzXzKwI0yDTozI3RoYp6M/s1600-h/LukeCelbeeBellajpg.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD_1-1wfBSr7onF22GRXZG6EbXTwZnXlI-tmFka99skKtapK3tEljDBt3QfZPVmnk5BBGF_Uawl29YdPP9bKa9X5dl0XkE51pbwDRdde2c4t5vhTnowrCtKTdzXzKwI0yDTozI3RoYp6M/s400/LukeCelbeeBellajpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291315600943471506" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">After a long hike, Luke Van Hook poses with Bella and Celbee</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> in Indian Hills above our home in an area of Carson City, Nevada, 1999.<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBbLqZJc9RbUsZs2cq3ReTCpahRwjPOMdn1D8qLsncjw3vNjwahNsW8XwI-Y4EgY7fMrSbWigMW-GCppfe0CY6Hs8cac1uGVhT7Er4hx7j7R0Efucvs0_DJFTmOlOA6fpxAbJFXkkw9QY/s1600-h/BellaInTheMorning.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBbLqZJc9RbUsZs2cq3ReTCpahRwjPOMdn1D8qLsncjw3vNjwahNsW8XwI-Y4EgY7fMrSbWigMW-GCppfe0CY6Hs8cac1uGVhT7Er4hx7j7R0Efucvs0_DJFTmOlOA6fpxAbJFXkkw9QY/s400/BellaInTheMorning.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293097910540063586" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Bella would often wake Luke up in the morning with a robust bark </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">as she pounced his chest, urging her beloved owner to take her for a walk.<br />Digitally enhanced photo by Ginger Van Hook, 2005</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection</span><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkGJ5wJlpP6WIuC3OKPuywtbffSoboPsxCnVoRQjPWNvnDCqUzCtrSU5nQfjXUqIsci9QMvpKcA_98xEHAeGPtzfEJALhh0dryrP7nA9J5Q9CYo7m_DgGJXn8L71g5UDIBPB7AkvH8M5o/s400/Enilde+%26+Children+1" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291315598305419394" /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkGJ5wJlpP6WIuC3OKPuywtbffSoboPsxCnVoRQjPWNvnDCqUzCtrSU5nQfjXUqIsci9QMvpKcA_98xEHAeGPtzfEJALhh0dryrP7nA9J5Q9CYo7m_DgGJXn8L71g5UDIBPB7AkvH8M5o/s1600-h/Enilde+%26+Children+1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">"Enilde and Our Children", Oil on Panel, Painting by Artist Luke Van Hook, 2003</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Writer/Photographer Enilde Ginger Van Hook</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> poses for Luke Van Hook as a model with the dogs Celbee and Bella </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">during their years in art school at Otis College of Art and Design.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Photograph and Painting copyright Ginger and Luke Van Hook, 2003</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Courtesy of the Van Hook Collection.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK5YoF-GXGcTdaW4d3WrrTt6Uk4LmOrUJqY0KjcgT41UP3RxDOP7QqFKWsIZ1EobQ2b6KqLKetAhq21lDqA3cUzBnb0gboaLzwx-4lROt7koR68fBgnw411TctWLeoUgtt4d5JWmfXf14/s1600-h/Celbee'sLast+Breath.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK5YoF-GXGcTdaW4d3WrrTt6Uk4LmOrUJqY0KjcgT41UP3RxDOP7QqFKWsIZ1EobQ2b6KqLKetAhq21lDqA3cUzBnb0gboaLzwx-4lROt7koR68fBgnw411TctWLeoUgtt4d5JWmfXf14/s400/Celbee'sLast+Breath.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293094302567204450" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Tribute to Celbee, (Red Queensland Heeler) and Poem </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">by Luke Van Hook, 2004</span></span></span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Death has graced my door a few times. How come every time that bastard steals away someone that I’m close to I become pissed and jealous? It’s the only time that nothing else matters. Nothing, including painting and I hate it for having that power. Celbee our dog is courting death right now. The tumor is cutting off his breathing. It forces itself through the roof of his mouth to where he can barely close his mouth. It squeezes its way alongside his brain so that his right eye is going blind as it bulges out of its socket. I write this after picking up the bloody chunks that Celbee is able to scrape out with a little pebble he found in the dirt. He’s invented his own tool for dealing with death. I wonder if he knows that his time is limited? The cancer ticks away at Celbee’s time with us. Death doesn’t play favorites. This I respect. I find strength in thinking about other things. Can you imagine an art of pure emotion, no excess? What form could it mediate in? I can only think of Bas Jan Ader’s, ‘I’m too sad to tell you’ photograph that comes close. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But, this will change.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TODAY WE PUT HIM DOWN<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Where are you at?<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Really, are you better off?<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">As I sit on your blood soaked couch<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The weight of your head is tattooed<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In my thoughts.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This morning we fed the prisoner<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">his last meal of bacon and eggs<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and took him for a long walk down by the sea.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This day the ashen clouds parted to light your path.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I’m sorry. When you crawled under my chair<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">To get away from the doctor I knew you were not ready.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But I dragged you out to help you feel better.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Did I do the right thing?<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Should I have picked you up in my arms<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and run away with you till you told me it was time?<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Could you still see me when your lip was quivering?<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I miss the sound of your voice already.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">You fought your way out of this cruel world with your eyes wide open.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Thank you.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">If it is a lonely place, wait for me, I won’t be much longer.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Good Bye, Good Bye, Good Bye.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Artist statement by Luke Van Hook, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Courtesy of Van Hook Published Thesis, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, 2004</span></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Luke Van Hook's current work </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">in the area of abstraction </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">with an emphasis on the </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">circle </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">can be viewed on his website </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">www.lukevanhook.com</span></span></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div>***********************************************************************************</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">ALEX IN WELDERLAND</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZqMqf6trc8zxH30wFTBFyaI15PkibbsljSZB6NNFG2Qh4SVK4HvX9GDNaSRGq5rPQR6wLgPOyAzka73pegKvUKSpKfW3gAAYeerW8D5db8Bxx1LzgA9kwMrye-1d6fJb7L2Gh2vpO6pA/s1600-h/churchofart.front.2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZqMqf6trc8zxH30wFTBFyaI15PkibbsljSZB6NNFG2Qh4SVK4HvX9GDNaSRGq5rPQR6wLgPOyAzka73pegKvUKSpKfW3gAAYeerW8D5db8Bxx1LzgA9kwMrye-1d6fJb7L2Gh2vpO6pA/s400/churchofart.front.2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291220363606298962" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The "Church of Art" is located in one of the buildings inside the artist colony known as The Brewery Arts Complex in Los Angeles, California. Usually, a church is linked with holy worship, service to the community, and in particular, spiritual matters. A church is often where people go to seek comfort for the death of a loved one, to rejoice in the celebration of weddings and or to collect one's spiritual blessings or to simply and most importantly, to worship the God one believes in. At the Brewery Arts Complex there is such a space, aptly called "Church of Art" where the activities are somewhat unexpected. There seems to be a worship of the arts in particular and a great deal of artistic and musical performing, artists gathering and joyous merriment occurring in a space that seems to transcend its own mission...aptly located off of Mission Street on the 5 freeway. Beside this building and a few yards down there is indeed a small niche where one may seek comfort for the death of a beloved pet, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">called "Alex in Welderland".<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2007</span></div></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOSNsrEl6yA60_Uu4qECdEo3T4u3VtsmIwJiBttjRVfcktrgSCvdUhwKH7n6hyphenhyphenXaTaX5w6j-RyTnXi3Zb0U1OLw4_4QwK6y5EUzkjK2MNKmAojuyXnSf_jzWOJ8ws_2AHxoL7AoWofCrI/s1600-h/ChurchOfArt.Brewery.08.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOSNsrEl6yA60_Uu4qECdEo3T4u3VtsmIwJiBttjRVfcktrgSCvdUhwKH7n6hyphenhyphenXaTaX5w6j-RyTnXi3Zb0U1OLw4_4QwK6y5EUzkjK2MNKmAojuyXnSf_jzWOJ8ws_2AHxoL7AoWofCrI/s400/ChurchOfArt.Brewery.08.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291220371491170706" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The celebration times are posted outside the "Church of Art", </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, California. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2007</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxULQ1KXA0nqqnO51x8SsmfUQMvuXOZyNh9k9LsgPXCj3hALPEf53m9HBiDpnpAbzEXIbkjeN72TNis-Z907lqf1hFspwRadtymjXLpXV1QMYf5Ejs4LDAtH0o01bDHU32XxiOPevj8gY/s1600-h/ChurchOfArt.Front.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxULQ1KXA0nqqnO51x8SsmfUQMvuXOZyNh9k9LsgPXCj3hALPEf53m9HBiDpnpAbzEXIbkjeN72TNis-Z907lqf1hFspwRadtymjXLpXV1QMYf5Ejs4LDAtH0o01bDHU32XxiOPevj8gY/s400/ChurchOfArt.Front.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291220370393628370" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The "Church of Art" located inside the Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, California.<br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright, Ginger Van Hook 2007</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhTnSYXkOeC6hFrNAa7Z_-v-P25bK9Z1rXXT8w1oFRbiIoSajm03c3l21n_CSy-xpeiuo4XesznU9NwS9IskXS9xg-CmxI7vLPuD1BsbG-GUqH_6ayXfBTRcXo-mTb2_7n5tp3tL9u8cQ/s1600-h/Fwy10.MissionRd.LA.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhTnSYXkOeC6hFrNAa7Z_-v-P25bK9Z1rXXT8w1oFRbiIoSajm03c3l21n_CSy-xpeiuo4XesznU9NwS9IskXS9xg-CmxI7vLPuD1BsbG-GUqH_6ayXfBTRcXo-mTb2_7n5tp3tL9u8cQ/s400/Fwy10.MissionRd.LA.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291220364084817666" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Just off of Mission Road from the 5 freeway, one finds the infamous </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Brewery Arts Complex, supporting a unique artist colony.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook, 2007</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPziFEghsSgqfgymmFRrDD4m0TQ3SrWUpI4chM1OdpOu_odFH1TNQlBSE4378saQ-U80zonlgozr_xg06seoruddK9wFWi5TQ45rpBRtxKwjr6zuYWbuXYDc925KwqqUhrrdnmMRLTzkw/s1600-h/BreweryBldg.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPziFEghsSgqfgymmFRrDD4m0TQ3SrWUpI4chM1OdpOu_odFH1TNQlBSE4378saQ-U80zonlgozr_xg06seoruddK9wFWi5TQ45rpBRtxKwjr6zuYWbuXYDc925KwqqUhrrdnmMRLTzkw/s400/BreweryBldg.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291220352131742162" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Located within red brick and morter, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">one finds the Brewery Artist Colony in Los Angeles, California.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright, Ginger Van Hook 2007</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr2EuB7RK63AQLht0xe5bNEjNFIHbda1DN2GyU3a4um0OT5Ns0-Ou7-nbxFKLCUMDWspenW456HfDLK-hW_iphhXYsbMNeMzqd1Kz5zSJ2SvKxD2-nJWIcXUbQPqPZ6OnhOxqa0Itqfws/s1600-h/BreweryPole.Best.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr2EuB7RK63AQLht0xe5bNEjNFIHbda1DN2GyU3a4um0OT5Ns0-Ou7-nbxFKLCUMDWspenW456HfDLK-hW_iphhXYsbMNeMzqd1Kz5zSJ2SvKxD2-nJWIcXUbQPqPZ6OnhOxqa0Itqfws/s400/BreweryPole.Best.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293236348580171010" /></a></div><div>A famous symbol of the triumph of local arts within the confines of a busy metropolis, one can see the tall column that portrays the name of an old Brewery that has been converted into an artist sanctuary where local artists live, work, play and perform their artistic rituals. One may also find comfort in a unique opportunity to memorialize one's pets by visiting Alex in Welderland in her artist space or visit custompeturns.com<br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook 2007</span></div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9SVHmYRsb9EotFuvPdAFEa86XLrlVbYnUOIfdHHp9h_IiMAYpXsSgU6p0neJDQbuSe_qaEIELQ-ZumPuUK66RsFAJvGh5chTE6jNa-GUKen9VViuAnfYozwbwU_2qbCdmi5BYJ_PZG_s/s400/AlexInWelderland.08.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291219147961122786" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9SVHmYRsb9EotFuvPdAFEa86XLrlVbYnUOIfdHHp9h_IiMAYpXsSgU6p0neJDQbuSe_qaEIELQ-ZumPuUK66RsFAJvGh5chTE6jNa-GUKen9VViuAnfYozwbwU_2qbCdmi5BYJ_PZG_s/s1600-h/AlexInWelderland.08.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Alex in Welderland provides unique artistic sculptures which help one to memorialize the beloved pets which have touched our lives. Visit www.custompeturns.com or call Alexandra at 323-222-9533 to discuss your options for immortalizing your loved one in a special way.</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9SVHmYRsb9EotFuvPdAFEa86XLrlVbYnUOIfdHHp9h_IiMAYpXsSgU6p0neJDQbuSe_qaEIELQ-ZumPuUK66RsFAJvGh5chTE6jNa-GUKen9VViuAnfYozwbwU_2qbCdmi5BYJ_PZG_s/s1600-h/AlexInWelderland.08.jpg">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook 2007</a></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj99VQIRA19HaEZnHMO93QMqPJpCqYN3ARGidepEwhgr2WXV1B96Sqx3V-kmSNi3UN5sbU8lbtnXLYhsn1zGRj62X9FboeDB5klMonmz3ytSR0pHS0dQQFGYrTQn5Z-j-RqDWONu8k6NMs/s1600-h/ALEXinWelderland.08.2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj99VQIRA19HaEZnHMO93QMqPJpCqYN3ARGidepEwhgr2WXV1B96Sqx3V-kmSNi3UN5sbU8lbtnXLYhsn1zGRj62X9FboeDB5klMonmz3ytSR0pHS0dQQFGYrTQn5Z-j-RqDWONu8k6NMs/s400/ALEXinWelderland.08.2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291219141363592146" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">www.custompeturns.com<br /></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook 20</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">07</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioMr973kqbc7qsH-pdyvPcyAfOmgRWqJcCM7hAx24zpAavRm_usQ17TQK59hg7a_B82IfIFPD3GWfKbVrrxbSGcArN4OZ8YbbA7lsDQVEgAu-hKcE3PD7_BYJpmUDyGKvSbh-qShcDzM4/s1600-h/Alex&Sasha.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioMr973kqbc7qsH-pdyvPcyAfOmgRWqJcCM7hAx24zpAavRm_usQ17TQK59hg7a_B82IfIFPD3GWfKbVrrxbSGcArN4OZ8YbbA7lsDQVEgAu-hKcE3PD7_BYJpmUDyGKvSbh-qShcDzM4/s400/Alex&Sasha.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291231672069095506" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Sasha Van Hook accompanied me to visit the Brewery Artist Colony and personally met Alexandra of "Alex in Welderland". Sasha, the 40 pound red terrier mix wore a designer muzzle in order to encourage her good behavior with other doggies in the complex. Although Sasha was very cooperative and grateful to the artistic visit, she does not look particularly happy contemplating her next life. Sasha prefers to chase cats, intimidate other dogs and run loose, all activities that have been discouraged by her new family</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> unless she is behind a strong fence.<br /></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photo copyright Ginger Van Hook 2007</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">ALEX IN WELDERLAND, artist statement 2007</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">courtsey of her website www.custompeturns.com</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Each of these hand created pet cremation urns are customized </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">for your special, beautiful, wonderful, perfect pet.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Hello, My name is Alexandra. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I want to welcome you to my custom pet urn memorial site, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">at www.custompeturns.com</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> dedicated to all the dogs and cats who await us on the Rainbow Bridge of our hearts.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I have been a metal artist for the last 15 years. I have also been picking lost pets up off the street and finding homes for them for just as long. Both are my love. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I know what it is like to lose a dog or cat that you love so much. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">We know they await for us over the Rainbow Bridge, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">but for us down here, our hearts still grieve.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I hope I can ease your loss today. I started creating these pet memorials and urns as small memorial sculptures. I have lately included some wonderful hand chosen artists who are also creating beautiful memorials and urns for your pet. Every single one of these pet cremation urns are designed and made by hand especially for you. No two are ever alike, all are signed, dated, and each urn can be personally customized to your specifications. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">They make a wonderful, sweet memorial to keep with you always.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Again, I am sorry for the loss of your pet. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">But I hope by owning one of my pet memorials you will be reminded of the joy and happiness your dog, cat or other loved one brought to you and your life. This is a hard time, harder than most people admit. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Memorializing your loved cat or dog in one of our hand crafted urns </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">(we do not create the urn until we receive the order from you) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">will help heal your heart of this loss.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Remember, even if you are scattering or burying your pet's ashes, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">you can order one of these pet urn sculptures </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">to keep in your home as a beautiful memorial to your loved one. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">It does not have to be a "cremation urn" </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">but rather a memorial work of art. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">When you purchase an Alex in Welderland Urn,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> you are free to place it anywhere in the house. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">For it is a sculpture, and does not look like the customary 'urn' or cremation 'box'.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I look forward to hearing from you. Be well, Alexandra<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Pet Memorials<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">The loss of your pet can be a devastating time. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Often it is too emotional to even think of what to do with the body or ashes. Later we may regret that we did not cremate our loved one so we could have a pet memorial in his or her honor. This is o.k. I created these pet memorials for you to use with or without ashes. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">You can simply put a letter in the memorial and then seal it. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Or you can request the cremation urn without an opening at all </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">and then your pet memorial becomes a true sculpture honoring your little one. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">And remember they really do wait for us over the Rainbow Bridge.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">If you prefer, please choose from our pet memorial portraits. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">This is a wonderful way to remember your little one </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">if you no longer have your pets ashes </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">or are looking for something to go along with your pet's cremation urn.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> Remember these urns do not need to contain ashes, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">they can also be used as simple sculptures </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">if you do not have your pets ashes or have scattered them.</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">----Alex in Welderland</span></div><br /></div><div>***********************************************************************************</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">ELENA WOLEK</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPSMoLgJs_wL58oVkZAqWyWGQcSQlrJXNOdkpBPGBkPLoKHHUJFPMO2HwcuSTfKCrldMdCBTT6hFcdLYBIsWM5BpbK9gCWhUzMPavqJVST8HbSfHT097yVyJiJseon7zoX1IbdFveUYg/s1600-h/Wolek7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPSMoLgJs_wL58oVkZAqWyWGQcSQlrJXNOdkpBPGBkPLoKHHUJFPMO2HwcuSTfKCrldMdCBTT6hFcdLYBIsWM5BpbK9gCWhUzMPavqJVST8HbSfHT097yVyJiJseon7zoX1IbdFveUYg/s400/Wolek7.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289465598447041634" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPSMoLgJs_wL58oVkZAqWyWGQcSQlrJXNOdkpBPGBkPLoKHHUJFPMO2HwcuSTfKCrldMdCBTT6hFcdLYBIsWM5BpbK9gCWhUzMPavqJVST8HbSfHT097yVyJiJseon7zoX1IbdFveUYg/s1600-h/Wolek7.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="text-align: left;"></div></span></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPSMoLgJs_wL58oVkZAqWyWGQcSQlrJXNOdkpBPGBkPLoKHHUJFPMO2HwcuSTfKCrldMdCBTT6hFcdLYBIsWM5BpbK9gCWhUzMPavqJVST8HbSfHT097yVyJiJseon7zoX1IbdFveUYg/s1600-h/Wolek7.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Dog & Man with Sandwich</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPSMoLgJs_wL58oVkZAqWyWGQcSQlrJXNOdkpBPGBkPLoKHHUJFPMO2HwcuSTfKCrldMdCBTT6hFcdLYBIsWM5BpbK9gCWhUzMPavqJVST8HbSfHT097yVyJiJseon7zoX1IbdFveUYg/s1600-h/Wolek7.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Drawing courtesy of Artist Elena Wolek<br /></span></a><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></div><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA1ycDGdzQbRq0diTS35s84FyLwRaZaQHjXsYwweBsnPNr_LnGo_ZwM5L6QRZJryXNCdwjA6fHa8zFAyu8qr8uR2F8w_T9MhV4Ed9gE6vIXTZDeYxVToMFf09nDS97HjnWIBOmQE4FDEU/s400/Wolek5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289465597027825378" /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Dog on Table & Girl with Treat</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Drawing courtesy of Artist Elena Wolek</span></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4i3xCXDD6r5iqudOvqGltCBkj1whyAOjrPYukdXrJP_Gv8BSWpcJt9VVY9h9XNW9stawwoMTkdqyyQp9uIBHDXRj21DdIqOOcwW4M7gyG6Qd_VJIFViI9DkNpXzA1-yFat4BBUAn-gQI/s1600-h/Wolek3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 195px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4i3xCXDD6r5iqudOvqGltCBkj1whyAOjrPYukdXrJP_Gv8BSWpcJt9VVY9h9XNW9stawwoMTkdqyyQp9uIBHDXRj21DdIqOOcwW4M7gyG6Qd_VJIFViI9DkNpXzA1-yFat4BBUAn-gQI/s400/Wolek3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289465592362828098" /><br /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Man Sniffing Dog #1</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Drawing courtesy of Artist Elena Wolek</span><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi5zYZBtNaA6uIGMGU9H2p6kjO2ACDNY2GGg4AIt69VzU0xdCNswGeCsl_zw4Hd6-VlclUemU8SjMifZyhbmdCc1wXCAQY92ogqEFpyuVLbAWjLbXkdptz2CtBsmpYG5bwENC_JqO11aA/s1600-h/Wolek2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 329px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi5zYZBtNaA6uIGMGU9H2p6kjO2ACDNY2GGg4AIt69VzU0xdCNswGeCsl_zw4Hd6-VlclUemU8SjMifZyhbmdCc1wXCAQY92ogqEFpyuVLbAWjLbXkdptz2CtBsmpYG5bwENC_JqO11aA/s400/Wolek2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289461592442804674" /><br /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Dog Drinking Girl's Coffee</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Drawing courtesy of Artist Elena Wolek</span><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMg-JBBAMIqCnT21sHy9KiDZu3Rj9qgkeM-YXVRv-Tdj4B4mexb4ZNAHodwICcfb2e4ZP7Y5la8Xz3ErxQfU-VI-pVZfRGSRifCG6czcqezHhA1TQZERnfhSAPcUS1rxLIxnHIKWldUW4/s1600-h/Wolek9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMg-JBBAMIqCnT21sHy9KiDZu3Rj9qgkeM-YXVRv-Tdj4B4mexb4ZNAHodwICcfb2e4ZP7Y5la8Xz3ErxQfU-VI-pVZfRGSRifCG6czcqezHhA1TQZERnfhSAPcUS1rxLIxnHIKWldUW4/s400/Wolek9.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289461592496063042" /><br /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Woman Taking Photo of Dog on Table</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Drawing courtesy of Artist Elena Wolek</span><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8nfAmSLb0RKnSxjGV7zzFoLQFWp8swS6Ry2xuy8JI4MsSvH2jeRiuaZPEUHzR121vhLQThMWX5I8pprwN51sIO1WGXf3Kfr9RI5OumHFfXSsrv-BBvMPGiYFFrniNnnqycZHNnG_xWKk/s1600-h/Wolek10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 329px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8nfAmSLb0RKnSxjGV7zzFoLQFWp8swS6Ry2xuy8JI4MsSvH2jeRiuaZPEUHzR121vhLQThMWX5I8pprwN51sIO1WGXf3Kfr9RI5OumHFfXSsrv-BBvMPGiYFFrniNnnqycZHNnG_xWKk/s400/Wolek10.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289461590948731522" /><br /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Hungry Dog Stares Down Man Eating Burger</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Drawing courtesy of Artist, Elena Wolek<br /></span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2md2e5ms-HHRfeSyf20bNZODuhZAZlanvIEr7pggEH_fUXrV9Yh-jyYpAb8ALKkwWmkh6r3RQIOyRMNj4Is1kJjMa-G1H9NFJrhxiHhu1GlFJxViKIj8OfcVCzyE48nJIb6lBjRMa0mw/s1600-h/Wolek12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 348px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2md2e5ms-HHRfeSyf20bNZODuhZAZlanvIEr7pggEH_fUXrV9Yh-jyYpAb8ALKkwWmkh6r3RQIOyRMNj4Is1kJjMa-G1H9NFJrhxiHhu1GlFJxViKIj8OfcVCzyE48nJIb6lBjRMa0mw/s400/Wolek12.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289461586570983266" /><br /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Meditation of Woman, Dog and Cat</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Drawing courtesy of Artist Elena Wolek</span><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJLSRvmFN3f6HZhkgaDIKTlabSK__w5EEM3H_O_cjdP5K4-TrpXR0lwgs7Jhujo_td6jHXQ_2J5G4yuGPV8Po-jK_la3DHip3TKmTHVLyTwlO1DhLNFuicV5ll3Pi218XCbGEIku0ecAs/s1600-h/Wolek13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJLSRvmFN3f6HZhkgaDIKTlabSK__w5EEM3H_O_cjdP5K4-TrpXR0lwgs7Jhujo_td6jHXQ_2J5G4yuGPV8Po-jK_la3DHip3TKmTHVLyTwlO1DhLNFuicV5ll3Pi218XCbGEIku0ecAs/s400/Wolek13.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289461587149293602" /><br /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">French Poodle Sits On Woman's Lap </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Drawing courtesy of Artist Elena Wolek<br /></span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1eV02JBTjiyGa6FmwAHyM374mANybdTbzhlgrvFELoB8b92NWAUbdk6XOXrBcNuawT99CiT0_8z3EqJgpaV_Z7hiv8AmiyfSGoBctK57JBIbFFlsNkr4of8y1JYsYMq-6hoxQuw59cn4/s1600-h/Wolek4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1eV02JBTjiyGa6FmwAHyM374mANybdTbzhlgrvFELoB8b92NWAUbdk6XOXrBcNuawT99CiT0_8z3EqJgpaV_Z7hiv8AmiyfSGoBctK57JBIbFFlsNkr4of8y1JYsYMq-6hoxQuw59cn4/s400/Wolek4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289461013567182306" /><br /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Meditation of Woman and Dog</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Drawing courtesy of Artist Elena Wolek<br /></span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkL8XEeua0yNx0hCYdFXQs9InsodbWPhpqeo6x8d9AzmQ_pdEwZZo2fMRCbhQmy4Hx8cTxFj7v6iIdl6bqdv9iYZns3HSxxP3zgiFse0FF4yt4Kd-a9nRR0TyCnSBYbiG5VqsvcxQocp4/s1600-h/Wolek6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkL8XEeua0yNx0hCYdFXQs9InsodbWPhpqeo6x8d9AzmQ_pdEwZZo2fMRCbhQmy4Hx8cTxFj7v6iIdl6bqdv9iYZns3HSxxP3zgiFse0FF4yt4Kd-a9nRR0TyCnSBYbiG5VqsvcxQocp4/s400/Wolek6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289461012340427906" /><br /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Two Dogs and a Cat Meditating Together </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Drawing Courtesy of Artist Elena Wolek</span><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJGcy4U9iRxEPXKK3VpfH8ukJZshoZCLlifN4GeoikxfqJeShWucNp2wUb2zQ7tyV733N61Yww7LZUjDBvYpIyxIqwL3vbGrWGHRp3mX5V__ORvSwpP2Cc2uGXG2Qha8le-XQm6WML_s0/s1600-h/Wolek11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 178px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJGcy4U9iRxEPXKK3VpfH8ukJZshoZCLlifN4GeoikxfqJeShWucNp2wUb2zQ7tyV733N61Yww7LZUjDBvYpIyxIqwL3vbGrWGHRp3mX5V__ORvSwpP2Cc2uGXG2Qha8le-XQm6WML_s0/s400/Wolek11.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289461008043032258" /><br /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Man Sniffing Dog #2</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Drawing Courtesy of Artist Elena Wolek</span></span></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEithAJ-GLI31RAWTMDHQyVxNqW4X1GUHIgTx8ErZY081uX5IRlAJelFQoC3WYunWV2jF62eykbGzpGIqRLhL2v3bhg-034cFv6Rg7r-Fym6wKuk9ZB2klWVlfrnHfs3S-5IRu7F9LlhLao/s1600-h/Wolek1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 329px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEithAJ-GLI31RAWTMDHQyVxNqW4X1GUHIgTx8ErZY081uX5IRlAJelFQoC3WYunWV2jF62eykbGzpGIqRLhL2v3bhg-034cFv6Rg7r-Fym6wKuk9ZB2klWVlfrnHfs3S-5IRu7F9LlhLao/s400/Wolek1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289460999300305842" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Man Taking Photo of Dog on his Dining Table</span></a></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEithAJ-GLI31RAWTMDHQyVxNqW4X1GUHIgTx8ErZY081uX5IRlAJelFQoC3WYunWV2jF62eykbGzpGIqRLhL2v3bhg-034cFv6Rg7r-Fym6wKuk9ZB2klWVlfrnHfs3S-5IRu7F9LlhLao/s1600-h/Wolek1.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Drawing courtesy of Artist Elena Wolek.</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Enilde Van Hook Notes:</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I met Elena Wolek in 2008 at an Artist Critique Session with a group of artists represented by Gallery 825 and the Los Angeles Art Association. The "O" Salon was hosted by Linda Kunik in her Beverly Hills studio for alumni, students and professional artists from Otis College of Art and Design. Elena Wolek was visiting and brought her drawing book. During the break, my husband Luke and I went through her entire book delighting in the caricature of her images and decided then and there that she fit in with the theme for this blog entry: "The Art of Lovin' Animals". Her artist statement and list of exhibitions are listed below. Elena Wolek's artwork may also be viewed on her website: </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">www.lenawolek.com</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Elena Wolek, Artist Statement</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">born 1972<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I was born and raised on the shores of Lake Baikal, Russia in the eastern part of Siberia during the last days of the Soviet Union. Living through those times gave me intense experiences socially, intellectually and culturally that established my persona.<br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In 1993 I received an Associate of Arts Degree as a construction technologist.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">However, I had no opportunity to work in such profession because of political and<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">economic changes happening during the fall of the former Soviet Union.<br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In 1997 I received a license to start up a private business and opened a fashion boutique. </span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I would travel directly to China to import goods for my shop.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In 1999 I have met an American man who became my husband. In 2001 I moved to the United States. We live together in Los Angeles with our daughter. I am currently enrolled in the Santa Monica College Art Mentor program.<br /></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">My challenges in coming to this country were social and economical differences.<br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As I assimilated to my new lifestyle and surrounding life, I realized how narrow points of view of political knowledges were given to both our countries about each other during the Cold war. </span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I had a baggage of values that had to be reevaluated. Discovering America opened my mind to the world and I now accept the differences in human cultures as a precious gift.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Art is a language for me and I express my observations of the world through it.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Everyone has a privilege to see the world in their own perspective that is given to us by our culture and it is part of our inner and outer being. My conscious and subconscious are juxtaposed in my art. I share my experiences and interpretations of my views from my life in Russia and America.<br /></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In the dog drawings I put together dog and human in the moment of a contact that establishes a relationship. But who is who in reality, being that the roles are reversed? A homeless and hungry dog can be a poor human being like beggars in downtown Los Angeles. Sometimes we use word “dog” to describe our own condition “hungry as a dog,” “dog-tired,” “every dog has its day,” etc.<br /></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">If you are dog in Siberia, you experience a very harsh life. You are meant to be a guard for people’s property and that is it. You live outside even in the cold of winter, and most of the time attached to an iron chain only a few meters long. You have a small ‘doggie” house the size of your body, but not always high enough to stretch your back; but it will be warmer in a winter to heat up the interior with your own breath. Your food is scraps from your owner’s table diluted with warm water and bread for a larger amount. You are lucky if you have it once a day. If you are a bitch, your new born puppies will be most likely taken from you right after you deliver them and you never see them again, being that they shall most likely be killed.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">If you are dog in America, you have a wonderful dream life. People have an enormous attraction to their pets. As an average American doggie you have many privileges, such as nice house with bed shared with your owner, personal doctor (sometimes even orthodontist), nice clothes if it is cooler outside, regular walks and food by schedule. People are so kind and lovely, they like to talk, to play and buy special treats for you.Dogs can live as nice a life as some people wish, or dogs can live a terrible life as some people do. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It’s a dog eat dog world.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Art Exhibitions, Elena Wolek</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2006-West LA college gallery. Group show.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2008-SMC mentor program group show.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2008-Upstairs Market gallery. Group show.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>********************************************************************************</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">ZAREH</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1AhJKeE70zvwl24LZAEC687Cigf9eLMyttKZmnchG6A3WtlMo6RCBbTfd3lz1GI1l6zi1J_x4LVM1XAisejsGk4tI-2t7yqwaRxsv8s7HSTFPlBKYMfI46LACoqG8lgxvaj7Lyy3hA0/s1600-h/29.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 329px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1AhJKeE70zvwl24LZAEC687Cigf9eLMyttKZmnchG6A3WtlMo6RCBbTfd3lz1GI1l6zi1J_x4LVM1XAisejsGk4tI-2t7yqwaRxsv8s7HSTFPlBKYMfI46LACoqG8lgxvaj7Lyy3hA0/s400/29.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289345821129977810" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Untitled Drawing, Courtesy of Zareh</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEillwy24Nqk7fO8SBg0_tuWYepk8NjxDqX_yxadfVnEAeBtJjHC49nOaollIB9k_JeaBqwSsw7gMTT83XOZweF9PJpjZkz5XGJP4NrmeuXobNSToYQU42l74jB2woOD3cgyLvTsA3wmy8U/s1600-h/zz3.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEillwy24Nqk7fO8SBg0_tuWYepk8NjxDqX_yxadfVnEAeBtJjHC49nOaollIB9k_JeaBqwSsw7gMTT83XOZweF9PJpjZkz5XGJP4NrmeuXobNSToYQU42l74jB2woOD3cgyLvTsA3wmy8U/s400/zz3.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289345817276124482" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Untitled Drawing, Courtesy of Zareh, 2001</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfjKy6Xc-1UX1p6Eu4WDPyDl3OpizgF0HbJ4yj3jHQ_keVJaATiOZeCNA__Bqe6fAZQv4ajdvMps48gXCQTy37lVEaVZ5dHbqMQSF6FSL7vFhhF5AOninxIc2CUxNP9H557G7ICRMvVac/s1600-h/6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfjKy6Xc-1UX1p6Eu4WDPyDl3OpizgF0HbJ4yj3jHQ_keVJaATiOZeCNA__Bqe6fAZQv4ajdvMps48gXCQTy37lVEaVZ5dHbqMQSF6FSL7vFhhF5AOninxIc2CUxNP9H557G7ICRMvVac/s400/6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289345810168769794" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Untitled Drawing, Courtesy of Zareh, 2003</span></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7IuzDbGRpq9bA5A1auEOnzrGsBIbk5vTS5j3sqWbpsTDepx7YuavuZN27iLkQeJ2UsqnkMcGOI5msQb9b-qJFCRpp2rTfm8FqoLqbI2HzZ0_JyaGAG6uhQWq2Onj7Zd1pdiJxZ5ypkLk/s1600-h/7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 302px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7IuzDbGRpq9bA5A1auEOnzrGsBIbk5vTS5j3sqWbpsTDepx7YuavuZN27iLkQeJ2UsqnkMcGOI5msQb9b-qJFCRpp2rTfm8FqoLqbI2HzZ0_JyaGAG6uhQWq2Onj7Zd1pdiJxZ5ypkLk/s400/7.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289345810723785906" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Untitled Drawing, Courtesy of Zareh, 2003</span><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBYMKQ-YpiCTnIWnd6jQU2S7_jTji3LLypWeYO77Kgl42p_SODWVEa1iV9Svn_fJZVOHUlQ2WAi4NckfdFSoi4YcoG83rT0UOeQz-hmbaSbMIU_bqUPVn-rdjCJvvtmtYBZCnFS_t2Lx4/s1600-h/9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBYMKQ-YpiCTnIWnd6jQU2S7_jTji3LLypWeYO77Kgl42p_SODWVEa1iV9Svn_fJZVOHUlQ2WAi4NckfdFSoi4YcoG83rT0UOeQz-hmbaSbMIU_bqUPVn-rdjCJvvtmtYBZCnFS_t2Lx4/s400/9.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289345794452417938" /></a></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBYMKQ-YpiCTnIWnd6jQU2S7_jTji3LLypWeYO77Kgl42p_SODWVEa1iV9Svn_fJZVOHUlQ2WAi4NckfdFSoi4YcoG83rT0UOeQz-hmbaSbMIU_bqUPVn-rdjCJvvtmtYBZCnFS_t2Lx4/s1600-h/9.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Untitled Drawing, Courtesy of Zareh, 2003<br /></span></a><br /></div><div><br /><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Enilde Van Hook notes:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I met Zareh through the Monrovia Association of Fine Arts in 2005. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Zareh has a unique approach to art in that he uses several mediums to express his voice and his political views. I reviewed a number of his video works and then came upon one of his drawing exhibitions in Glendale where he utilized animals to express, in very subtle fashion, some of the feelings he has about the challenges of life he faced as he was growing up. One may visit his website by going to this link: www.artistzareh.com</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><br />Below are links to a film of Zareh's artwork performance:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />"The Red Trees Of The Armenian Genocide" is on YouTube and Zareh wanted to share them. They are 2 parts. Enjoy and please forward them to others--(Zareh)<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZaGWguVPqI part 1<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y2gwBlA8tM part 2<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Zareh</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Artist Biography and Statement, 2009<br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Zareh was born in 1956, in Aleppo, Syria, to Armenian parents. In 1963 he moved to Beirut, Lebanon, with his family.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">At 12, Zareh began taking art classes. After high school, he attended fine art classes at Al Kaslik University for a year, until his academic studies were curtailed by the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war. The hostilities had a profound effect on Zareh.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Zareh moved to the United States in 1983. Since 1988, he has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout Southern California, and has staged several live,public exhibits.Zareh lives and works in Los Angeles.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Zareh, Artist Statement:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Existence is a collective experience. The feeling of existence is a sense of being different. Differences engender reaction and reaction leads to change. Life is the change. Changes bring awareness of time and movement. Differences enable us to compare and measure. Measure and proportion are the logic of mind. Completion and perfection do not exist. Reality is not absolute, it is relative. Art is an expression relative to environment and period.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">My art is an act in which time and transformation seek existence in movement, change, sequence, repetition, relationship and resemblance. My work conveys feelings, imagination, communication, struggle, relief and my marks of existence.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Below is more about the use of animals in my artwork:<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I have been influenced by animals and used them in my art.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Long shapes from animals have been shown more in my art,<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">like beaks of birds, sharp, coming down as the long metal<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">of ambrellas in a windy and rainy day, the hair and horn of a<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">running animal, the legs and tail of a horse, fish flying out of a pan,<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">group of people becoming the wing of a bird, roof tops becoming<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">teeth of a dog or becoming tails of an attacking airplane bomber.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Shapes repeated and changed becoming or resembling something<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">else in a different situation.<br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /></div></div></div>Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-7788379049346344962008-11-02T21:17:00.000-08:002016-12-03T15:18:20.092-08:00The Art of Lovin' Trees --- Featuring Joel Tauber<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIV9K_T0QG90yQ1ZY56EyHSb6puFUFO7GctuzNcRFmDKijZC_O1h8AZhX21uEzMdIXsowOjluh80nxdcHBG3tBrsqeJjHSfyeQljy6Oo0_aSdTylV9l1b14D808XGWUBVTsf2KRivnJYU/s1600-h/Tauber_115_LayingWithTree_hires.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264302914314228274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIV9K_T0QG90yQ1ZY56EyHSb6puFUFO7GctuzNcRFmDKijZC_O1h8AZhX21uEzMdIXsowOjluh80nxdcHBG3tBrsqeJjHSfyeQljy6Oo0_aSdTylV9l1b14D808XGWUBVTsf2KRivnJYU/s400/Tauber_115_LayingWithTree_hires.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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Story dedicated to Joel and Alison</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Written and Researched by Enilde Van Hook<br />Story Consult and Editing by Luke Van Hook</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> America is having a love affair with trees and California is second to none in leading its appreciation of trees. Digging deep into the roots of this story, I have followed and researched the tree culture specifically in Los Angeles where our love of trees has spawned a unique pop tree culture relating to art. Our popular tree culture today includes but is not limited to tree sculptures, tree paintings, tree photographs, tree videos, tree poetry, tree songs, tree jewelry, tree movies and even tree love affairs. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqPkfibYRt0ObgFIb0WQVD8Xvy2FQ681nQJOMZ-ehASV21h8XY51W4C4TdA11gau1HuXRCa2UCAxhLhTlMIvvk7fDyDzlYs2BgPekIeVeQdPOKQpen2HxiP7QFU-i5vZFZBMfy92BZlhI/s1600-h/Tauber_128_Leaf01_detail01_hires.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265344305182949026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqPkfibYRt0ObgFIb0WQVD8Xvy2FQ681nQJOMZ-ehASV21h8XY51W4C4TdA11gau1HuXRCa2UCAxhLhTlMIvvk7fDyDzlYs2BgPekIeVeQdPOKQpen2HxiP7QFU-i5vZFZBMfy92BZlhI/s400/Tauber_128_Leaf01_detail01_hires.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 267px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Leaf sculpture by Joel Tauber</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjceyG9KQogS5QM-U_4Xti0ifXOT9Ze0wM7BFdUrRkVk6tOynLqAIW0MrIFkBuNKStmNGzHdySF0MfX7B7Fh1z-HLo2JwZfSRKbRLCerq-En8pRyDaZxeP0keeue9U6a6DnJGrVcKgicMU/s1600-h/Tauber_127_TreeEarringFemale01_lores.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265344293974106930" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjceyG9KQogS5QM-U_4Xti0ifXOT9Ze0wM7BFdUrRkVk6tOynLqAIW0MrIFkBuNKStmNGzHdySF0MfX7B7Fh1z-HLo2JwZfSRKbRLCerq-En8pRyDaZxeP0keeue9U6a6DnJGrVcKgicMU/s400/Tauber_127_TreeEarringFemale01_lores.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 267px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Female tree earing by Joel Tauber.</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj78yx78SSupEf4JdD-ZCPDcSnXeYFwrRkn9j8lOTfdu0YZZGZbMqhcNyT2UuZ0r4TYiZCNMRlxl0qmJa0AVl-S-Ym2zGHS44r7rzWkyCPjmPm0AMzNJhtqlk8A0quBXIBR88ztc9rvxQ/s1600-h/Tauber_126_TreeEarringMale02_lores.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265344295855421906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj78yx78SSupEf4JdD-ZCPDcSnXeYFwrRkn9j8lOTfdu0YZZGZbMqhcNyT2UuZ0r4TYiZCNMRlxl0qmJa0AVl-S-Ym2zGHS44r7rzWkyCPjmPm0AMzNJhtqlk8A0quBXIBR88ztc9rvxQ/s400/Tauber_126_TreeEarringMale02_lores.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 267px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Male tree earing created by Joel Tauber, photo courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Gallery, 2008</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In modern literary circles there are a number of great imaginative family favorites written about trees, like “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein. Then there’s the infamous story of how Robinson Crusoe lived in a tree-house, and of utmost importance to our American history of trees, we propagate the very memorable legend of ‘Johnny Appleseed’.</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In our contemporary times we have a legend in the making too. I have been fortunate to witness the emergence of a new ‘Johnny Appleseed’ and interestingly enough, the story involves a recent romantic love affair between one special tree and a mortal that is well worth pursuing the story. Sometime in the fall of in 2007, I met Joel Tauber. This is the artist who I believe was struck by a mythological bolt of lighting, so to speak, pertaining to one of the Greek or Roman deities’. Joel Tauber is said to have fallen head over heels in love with one particular Sycamore Tree in the parking lot of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. My chance meeting with this now famous mortal under the influence of an enchanted mystical spell, has led me to research the mysteries intrinsic in the charms of trees. I too have been struck with the frailty of trees, their vulnerabilities, and their enormous strengths and inspiration. This together with my own personal experiences with trees has prompted me to come out of my shell and discuss the subject in all seriousness.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My own personal background is not in trees. I am simply a tree-lover from childhood. For a little over ten years, my professional background was in radio as a disc jockey and on-air personality. I listened to music, reviewed songs and kept tabs on the pop music culture. I worked in the Los Angeles market as well as Santa Barbara, California; Eventually I moved to expand my work experience in neighboring radio markets like Reno, Carson City, Lake Tahoe and Gardnerville/Minden, Nevada. It was through traveling that I saw some of the most beautiful trees along the routes through Northern California and Northern Nevada!<br />
While I drove from one radio market to another over the years, I watched the trees go by at the various speed limits along the highways of my life’s journeys. Thus you will understand when I tell you that often I see art and life, for that matter, through a series of moving images in my head which include a music bed. </div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I was eleven years old when in 1970, Joni Mitchell wrote and released a song called ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ whose lyrics surpassed the test of time and is currently in airplay by a glut of new groups. The lyrics began with “…They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum and they charged all the people a dollar and a half just to see ‘em.” One of the barometers I use to gage the influence of any particular song, music or artwork that I come into contact with is if it will surpass the test of time, among other important criteria. This song became one of my favorite songs of all time. The lyrics made so much sense to me.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>When I met Joel Tauber, I was introduced to the enormous scope of his Sick-Amour Tree-Baby Project. It was then that I suddenly started hearing Joni Mitchell’s song in my mind again, only this time, as I got in my car, Counting Crows was performing the song. When I started doing more research on the song that I could not get out of my head, I was struck by how many artists had re-recorded the song and barely changed anything about the words. There is Amy Grant, who upgraded the dollar amount from $1.50 to $25 when singing about how much the museums charged people to enter. Additionally there is Green Day, Sarah McLachlan, Charlie Barker, Bob Dylan, Moya Brennan, Ireen Sheer, Donnie Eidt and a host of so many others that have recorded ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ it was simply overwhelming!<br />
I think the importance of the lyrics to this one particular song is that it reveals the fact that people love trees and hate parking lots. The message is that if it weren’t for our trees, we could be living in a frying pan! The impact of this single song is that it reveals what is really going on in people’s minds. There is a reason why so many artists are flocking to re-record the lyrics in their own way.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 238); text-decoration: underline;">Dr. Martin Luther King is memorialized with trees along Expositon Blvd. across from the Los Angeles Coliseum and down the street from the University of Southern California.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Online sources on the subject of trees are rich in number. For instance, eighteen years ago, here in Los Angeles, a multi racial group of volunteers planted 400 Canary Island Pine trees along seven miles of road on Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King’s life. Today, this living homage to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. continues to thrive and keep the dream alive for his followers. The founder and President of www.treepeople.org is Mr. Andy Lipkis and he keeps tabs on the trees to make sure all 400 trees stay healthy.</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mayor Antonio Villarigosa is the person to thank for the ‘Million Trees Initiative’ he signed into effect in May of 2006 and Los Angeles residents can learn how they too can receive up to 7 free trees to plant on their property. Visit the website at www.milliontreesla.org to learn the details. Also in Portland, Oregon there is www.friendsoftrees.org and in Bellingham Washington you will find www.geocities.com. There is also the International Society of Arboriculture called ISA and can be accessed by visiting www.isa-arbor.com. You will also find a great deal of valuable advise on the growth and care of trees at www.treesaregood.com and check out Tree Care Industry Association TCIA as well.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In the art world, an artist named Mark Dion was featured in a documentary film report that aired in 2007. To view the video one may visit on the Internet by going to www.pbs.org and find Mark Dion as he took the subject of trees and made an art piece that explored what would happen if one were to take a tree after its death, take it out of its familial context of natural forest, and re-create the ecosystem in an environment that would otherwise be a hostile urban setting, needless to say, a cityscape. Just outside of Seattle Washington, he states, a Hemlock fell on February 8th, 1996…and so begins an elaborate experiment that pits optimism against reality." The PBS special is very detailed and you will enjoy the depth of research and work that Mark Dion went to to take a tree out of the forest and recreate the setting in the city. The difference between the artwork presented by Mark Dion and the artwork presented by Joel Tauber is in the nature of the life of the tree. Mark Dion works with a dead tree and its living components, and Joel Tauber creates life out of a tree seed and duplicates it all over his community.</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thus I’ve discovered for myself that when I researched the subject of trees, I discovered Joel Tauber wasn’t alone! However, instead of creating an experiment in ecology, Joel Tauber goes further than Mark Dion does with this concept of eco-systems and their frailties. Joel Tauber begins a journey that could eventually repair the eco-systems that man has destroyed. This is where Joel Tauber takes the lead in the art world and becomes not only the realist but the optimistic hope for trees in desecrated forests all over the country.<br />
Joel Tauber’s work as a living project of art in 2008 has resonance and his story is well worth telling again and again. He is certainly not the first, nor the last to get involved in the love of trees, but he is the first in contemporary times to have been associated with a mythological and mystical occurrence of reproducing tree babies out of just hugging one lonely tree.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The last time I saw a man hugging a tree, he was hugging the tree for all the wrong reasons. At the MOCA, Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art, some years back I was viewing an exhibition that was in town by the Utah born artist now working in Los Angeles, Paul McCarthy. While this work of art depicted a very raw and unsettling sculpture of ‘tree-lovin’ it had nothing whatsoever to do with the love of any tree. The work displayed a timely political statement about our government rather than the love for trees, but bear in mind that the thought involved images from man’s intimate involvement with trees both in the biblical sense and in the sense of man’s raping of the planet. Joel Tauber’s work counteracts the devastation of many years of neglect for our trees with a very basic recipe for the renewal of our commitment to our green-leafed friends. Now, when I see the image of Joel Tauber hugging his Sycamore Tree in Pasadena, I get a whole new perspective for the love for our planet, our trees and our environment as a whole.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The caption in the book reads as follows: " 'The Garden' is a full-scale tableau of an outdoor, woodland scene, complete with leafy trees, shrubs and rocks. This tranquil picture of nature is rudely interrupted by the presence of a middle-aged, balding man with his trousers round his ankles, engaged in a wholly unnatural act. From one side of the installation, his actions are not immediately apparent, being partially hidden by the tree trunks and foliage, but the sound of mechanical activity draws the viewer in to discover the shocking sight of a man copulating with a tree. This robotic figure, with its endlessly repetitive movements, is both comical and crude, and is intended by McCarthy to question notions of acceptable public behavior and sexual morality. McCarthy is a lecturer at UCLA as well as an artist. His sculptural installations evolved out of his earlier performance work which focused on his own body engaged in extreme and disturbing acts."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>To further explain this romantic entanglement between a tree and a mortal, I cite some important historical facts. Back in 2005, Joel Tauber was in the parking lot of the Pasadena Rose Bowl, when he spotted a particularly lonely and neglected Sycamore Tree. There are hundreds of thousands of trees in Pasadena, and a great number of them thrive very well on the grounds of the Rose Bowl, should you ever drive through this luscious community of tree and rose-lovers, you will see. But Joel Tauber focused his attention on one specific lonely tree. He started to note more and more how cars would hit the bark of the tree and scrape it, injuring the tree repeatedly. Joel Tauber became a witness to this tree’s life. Taking compassion and friendship upon this particular tree, Tauber began to film the area of the parking lot where the tree was growing. He got the idea to put up solid barriers to protect it from cars and also carried water in large plastic bags to irrigate the tree. Soon, Tauber found himself as a one-man band, orchestrating a symphony of activities leading to editing mass quantities of tree footage, fighting City Hall, and embarking on a quest to save this tree from infertility using tried and true guerilla tactics that would make tree-huggers stand and salute. To personally view the Sick-Amour project, along with the giant scale tree sculpture installation exhibited at Susanne Vielmetter Gallery in 2007, you may visit www.vielmetter.com.<br />
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Recently, I had the privilege and opportunity to discuss Joel Tauber’s work with Susanne Vielmetter and she was delighted to tell me what a wonderful sense of humor that Tauber exhibits in all of his works of art. Susanne Vielmetter reviewed the Underwater project with me as well as the Flying Project which Tauber presented.<br />
She explained how deep down, she feels Tauber is on a quest for meaning in his work and that he has a keen sense of humor that unifies and makes his ideas successful. She states that he uses the comical and the tragic in the Tree-Baby project to address the issues of urban living in our time and very subtly pokes fun at the problems innate in urban planning. The real irony of a small Sycamore tree dying of thirst in a parking lot of a beautiful park in a paradise-like valley, alongside the 110 Pasadena Freeway where 80% of the territory is plastered with concrete and the water below runs along asphalt channels of the Los Angeles River is not lost on Tauber, she explained. To contrast, Susanne Vielmetter cited that parks in Europe allow for weeds to grow naturally on landscapes that are not covered with concrete. Joel Tauber’s projects were initially presented at the Susanne Vielmetter Gallery located at 5795 Washington Blvd., in Culver City, California. The response Susanne Vielmetter’s Gallery received was incredibly exciting, even though at first, some folks thought Joel Tauber was a nut; he went on to prove just how serious he really is about changing the landscape of our environment, one tree at a time.<br />
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<photo: gallery="" susanne="" vielmetter=""><br /><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Joel Tauber has a large body of video artwork, photographs and developing tree babies, (the children of a mortal and a Charmed Sycamore Tree) and one may also visit www.joeltauber.com.</photo:></div>
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<photo: courtesy="" culver="" from="" hugging="" joel="" photo="" susan="" sycamore="" tauber="" vielmetter=""><photo: gallery="" susanne="" vielmetter=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>As I learned more and more about Joel Tauber’s project, I realized how blessed we all are that tree-lovin’ is not a singular act of love or even a fleeting love of art. I realized how connected we all are to our environment and how the idea of having a special friend ‘the tree’, any tree in any state, in any country for that matter is a beautiful connection to have. The connection that Joel Tauber has to his Sycamore Tree is in synch with the love that the country is experiencing during our new millennium. We have all become acutely aware of the fragility of life; we realize now more than ever that we must respect our dependence on our environment and value our trees.</photo:></photo:></div>
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<photo: courtesy="" culver="" from="" hugging="" joel="" photo="" susan="" sycamore="" tauber="" vielmetter=""><photo: gallery="" susanne="" vielmetter=""><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The first thing that struck me about Joel Tauber was that we had the love of trees in common. He seemed a bit shy, unassuming and humble yet I was later to learn the enormous power he wielded for this one frail and neglected tree in the parking lot of the Pasadena Rose Bowl in California. I was truly inspired by the level of involvement and commitment he had demonstrated for his own beloved Sycamore Tree which he had turned into a full-blown art-project including video, photography and sculptured jewelry. (He did it all!) He named this work the Sick-Amour Project mainly because he said he felt this tree was ill from the lack of love and the inability to have tree babies to fulfill its legacy. I had never personally met someone with such an extreme love and dedication to one particular tree. In our local newscasts, I had heard stories of people who became very emotional when a land developer was about to cut down a tree they considered a relic of their community; in which case people got very nasty about the issue and would chain themselves to the trees or surround the location with demonstrators that would shut down the jobsite. That’s when the news crews would come in with their cameras and boom mikes and the news helicopters would hover in circles above the trees trying to capture the ‘event’ that was creating all the uproar. A very recent example of this type of community behavior is written about on the front pages of the Los Angeles Times where Eric Bailey, a Times Staff Writer, wrote an extensive story about the tree-issues pertaining to Scotia, California where activists are protesting the logging of the Great California REDWOODS! Read the Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times, August 24th, 2008 or visit www.latimes.com online to learn how the tree-sitters are doing today.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>But Joel Tauber is a different type of activist. He doesn’t consider himself an activist at all. He merely states, humbly, just for the record, that he loves this one particular Sycamore Tree and it is an outrage to him to see how his new best friend is being suffocated under a six-inch blanket of black tar and asphalt. Better yet, Joel Tauber does something about it. Not with a crew of forty thousand demonstrators, not even with a crew of forty residents. He does this on his own, quietly challenging the laws of the city of Pasadena and humbly takes responsibility for the care and nurturing of his new best friend. I was touched. At once I began to marvel at his potent idea.<br /><br /><photo asphalt="" at="" boulders="" bowl="" bumpers="" committee="" edges="" from="" has="" in="" installed="" joel="" large="" lot="" of="" original="" outer="" parking="" pasadena="" protect="" rose="" seduced="" skirt="" surrounding="" sycamore="" tauber="" that="" the="" to="" today="" tree="" trunk=""><br /><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The art of loving our trees has grown roots in the higher levels of the art world as well. For instance, if one were to visit the J. Paul Getty Museum both at the Getty Villa which recently re-opened in Malibu and at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, you will find the love of trees has grown branches on all the hillsides surrounding both properties. There are lucky Sycamores and fortunate Pines; there are Pomegranate trees, Apple trees, Pear trees, Jacaranda trees and trees that just look good in a vista overlooking the ocean. Millions of dollars went into the development of artistic gardens which envelope the California landscape against a backdrop of the Pacific Ocean on one edge and the rolling hills of Malibu on the other.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirte-rDd_BjoIDDYzkY-Ff61JYJncin_TFuZusdw1fUJt6a9zelSxQIeEKb55lfSye64mq-hyh2j5Y-P_C_ihDP3DiIM1iJvQ6B-ZXzeuBDMgeZiW5q5z9ckaakcVplV4MUXggasesGSI/s1600-h/GettyHerbGarden.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266796649433270818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirte-rDd_BjoIDDYzkY-Ff61JYJncin_TFuZusdw1fUJt6a9zelSxQIeEKb55lfSye64mq-hyh2j5Y-P_C_ihDP3DiIM1iJvQ6B-ZXzeuBDMgeZiW5q5z9ckaakcVplV4MUXggasesGSI/s400/GettyHerbGarden.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 266px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><br /><photo a="" at="" charmed="" enjoy="" getty="" in="" large="" life="" malibu="" sycamore="" the="" trees="" villa=""><br /><br /><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Over in the area of the Miracle Mile, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is celebrating an enormous renovation of its facilities and you guessed it, there are aisles and isles of gigantic palm trees lining the walkways to the entrance of the museum in concert with a unique and flamboyant architecture that has drawn the attention of the art-world with the generosity of Eli and Edythe Broad of the Broad Foundation. The Broad Contemporary Art Museum is the new wing at the LACMA and is considered the largest space in the country devoted exclusively to contemporary art. With a ‘living art display’ dedicated to the iconic palm trees, not native to California, Robert Irwin has developed a plein-air walkway through ‘Palm Gardens’ as one makes their way to the entrances of the museum.<br /><br /><photocaption: at="" by="" created="" gardens="" lacma="" palm="" robert="" the=""><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEJqOPZyskgqgijVpE65P2WvSTy7qxV7ar5kPhWSQjexMYrVPYHYpgx2imzsMR9LpfMvssMnaAS4vDFP0oA5HlcBYubw6PF_BCoLUu9xA2hwCRzTmN-rI1C4tlb6Gc6c4_gqZkSsIbJuw/s1600-h/PasadenaTrees2RoseBowl.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266727065092160226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEJqOPZyskgqgijVpE65P2WvSTy7qxV7ar5kPhWSQjexMYrVPYHYpgx2imzsMR9LpfMvssMnaAS4vDFP0oA5HlcBYubw6PF_BCoLUu9xA2hwCRzTmN-rI1C4tlb6Gc6c4_gqZkSsIbJuw/s400/PasadenaTrees2RoseBowl.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" />Lush green trees thrive all over Pasadena, California, home of the Rose Bowl where Joel Tauber fell in love with a Sycamore Tree. Photo by Ginger Van Hook, 2008</a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj7S-y8myvuJmAHMGSZzbeJ2YcHRCkngVleaWke5NF0zNg8seR1Aon_HIL_MfQzi2nooFNeEMNoqu33HHPHGF64HqAPstzSnIbxeDyBaczmzav0Xbk4TsfzIeheleXUvaj4eb_IpXYruE/s1600-h/NortonSimonTrees.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266727059953169138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj7S-y8myvuJmAHMGSZzbeJ2YcHRCkngVleaWke5NF0zNg8seR1Aon_HIL_MfQzi2nooFNeEMNoqu33HHPHGF64HqAPstzSnIbxeDyBaczmzav0Xbk4TsfzIeheleXUvaj4eb_IpXYruE/s400/NortonSimonTrees.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a></photocaption:></photo></photo></photo:></photo:><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj7S-y8myvuJmAHMGSZzbeJ2YcHRCkngVleaWke5NF0zNg8seR1Aon_HIL_MfQzi2nooFNeEMNoqu33HHPHGF64HqAPstzSnIbxeDyBaczmzav0Xbk4TsfzIeheleXUvaj4eb_IpXYruE/s1600-h/NortonSimonTrees.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0);"></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj7S-y8myvuJmAHMGSZzbeJ2YcHRCkngVleaWke5NF0zNg8seR1Aon_HIL_MfQzi2nooFNeEMNoqu33HHPHGF64HqAPstzSnIbxeDyBaczmzav0Xbk4TsfzIeheleXUvaj4eb_IpXYruE/s1600-h/NortonSimonTrees.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"> The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California is also home to some of the most exquisite antiquities in its museum history which includes sculptures amid a forest like atmosphere. Currently at the Norton Simon Museum, among its many exhibitions, one may enjoy the artwork of Ruth Weisberg, Dean of the Gayle Garner Roski School of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. Opening on October 17, 2008 the Weisberg exhibition at the Norton Simon runs through March 2, 2009. Additionally a lecture by the artist is planned where Weisberg discusses: Guido Cagnacci and the Resonant Image on Sunday November 16, 2008. The Norton Simon Museum of Art is located at 411 West Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, California. Ruth Weisberg was instrumental in selecting the work of Joel Tauber to be permanently planted on the Main University Campus of USC on January 24, 2008 where a tree planting ceremony was held and attended by numerous members of USC faculty, staff, students and guests. The location of the new tree-baby, child of the Sick-Amour Project, currently exists on the Exposition side of the campus between Gate one and the Fischer Gallery, across the street from the Museum of Natural History. </a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj7S-y8myvuJmAHMGSZzbeJ2YcHRCkngVleaWke5NF0zNg8seR1Aon_HIL_MfQzi2nooFNeEMNoqu33HHPHGF64HqAPstzSnIbxeDyBaczmzav0Xbk4TsfzIeheleXUvaj4eb_IpXYruE/s1600-h/NortonSimonTrees.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In Pasadena, where lovers of trees line every street of the city as the landscapes are lush with all types of trees and where these wonderful healthy trees keep cool the throngs of tourists who visit the Rose Bowl every year, is also home to the Norton Simon Museum and the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Both locations are areas where tree-lovin’ may be experienced alongside some of California’s best-known artworks. Visit the NORTON SIMON MUSEUM at www.nortonsimon.org located at 411 West Colorado, Pasadena, California 91105 or visit the PASADENA MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA ART at www.pmcaonline.com at 490 East Union Street, Pasadena, California.<br />
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<photo art="" california="" museum="" norton="" of="" pasadena="" simon=""><br /><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In San Marino, California, the art of trees, gardens and succulents has found a worthy haven at the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens spanning an area of 120 acres dedicated to the fine arts founded by Henry E. Huntington in 1928 as the very first public art gallery in Southern California. Along with English portraits and French eighteenth-century furniture, one will delight in tours of the unique garden paradise established for the pure love of the botanical arts.</photo></div>
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Visit the Skirball Museum online at www.skirball.org, or enjoy a personal walk along the grounds and explore the tributes to culture at 2701 North Sepulveda, Los Angeles 90049.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMVNutxvROWA0jAWKIvEnCZa9cJk0feNc81Nyd-rcuPkDdmKaVd3akZAruhqYuOoroypSlDKNUDhRVcCcNaobwGweSU27Pub-2svlLDgd184sG8k8d6d5lBW57qca6rcFdqXtsFFWFrmI/s1600-h/SkirballTreesVariety.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266783773999909954" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMVNutxvROWA0jAWKIvEnCZa9cJk0feNc81Nyd-rcuPkDdmKaVd3akZAruhqYuOoroypSlDKNUDhRVcCcNaobwGweSU27Pub-2svlLDgd184sG8k8d6d5lBW57qca6rcFdqXtsFFWFrmI/s400/SkirballTreesVariety.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" />Trees at the Skirball Museum and Cultural Center thrive and enjoy the mild California climate.</a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqQXQde0NzZxRO_sky0H_AbAOZYHHw1_vjQreANlOwQYRbkhxbN0Xu-sXhMoa2exiphhb-HWuuPU6u-a0Ev7gpcogJ5tabx5pbdSzrJTqCv8BOj0bRqXQwmEg1cXNMfLZjFIP9i457Uto/s1600-h/SkirballCulturalCenter.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266783760930335842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqQXQde0NzZxRO_sky0H_AbAOZYHHw1_vjQreANlOwQYRbkhxbN0Xu-sXhMoa2exiphhb-HWuuPU6u-a0Ev7gpcogJ5tabx5pbdSzrJTqCv8BOj0bRqXQwmEg1cXNMfLZjFIP9i457Uto/s400/SkirballCulturalCenter.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In San Diego, one enjoys walking through a vast museum complex housing 15 unique museums in Balboa Park, not to mention to the collection of rare cactus and enormous Eucalyptus trees (just to name one tree type out of numerous ones) which shade the paths leading from one museum to another.<br /><br />Each of the locations I have mentioned or described here is where I personally walked through, witnessed, and or photographed sophisticated artistic tree landscapes of the California terrain.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">The Roots of my personal anxieties: Why I care.</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The impact of my meeting Joel Tauber coincided with an important event that took place for me way before I knew about his Sick-Amour Tree project and was what eventually led me to throw myself into this frenzied study of trees over this summer. Thus I do not necessarily consider myself struck by any of the Greek or Roman gods. I believe my influence came with a special awareness of the frailty of trees with this personal story:<br /><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A little over one year ago, on June 30th, 2007 I was walking our dog Sasha, around the block for one of our frequent walks. I rounded the corner to the next block when I was taken aback as I witnessed a set of ‘city’ crewmembers slaughtering what appeared to be a California Oak tree. I had grown quite fond of that particular Oak on my many walks while I was writing my first novel. As a matter of fact, I had used that model of tree to describe a forest of these trees in a chapter in my first fiction novel. I especially love the sculptured texture of the Mighty gnarly Oaks. This tree had been the one to rekindle my relationship with the trees of my imagination. My stomach got queasy when I saw how it was being destroyed. I would have thrown-up, but I got a hold of my emotions and took Sasha home. Not only did I return to the scene of the slaughter, but I brought my camera to document the death and dismemberment of this great oak; I was so distraught that I returned again to the site, without my camera this time, and begged the men to stop for a moment while I sought out the seeds for this tree. To my surprise, the men stopped and helped me search for the seeds.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfbqaHBCauu4ToLKqflYz8DAQdege9Jp_CTk9Yn-KXNwimFvGS2q0x7CkwWjJf9lcQNniNbYQuDrkKUW2MzbPlDlGTW2NGyBp8QrCSIqMKhxKzuv0FxzpBRYONdGuRUIG-TDa5cColfNw/s1600-h/DeathGreatOak2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266796640639125154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfbqaHBCauu4ToLKqflYz8DAQdege9Jp_CTk9Yn-KXNwimFvGS2q0x7CkwWjJf9lcQNniNbYQuDrkKUW2MzbPlDlGTW2NGyBp8QrCSIqMKhxKzuv0FxzpBRYONdGuRUIG-TDa5cColfNw/s400/DeathGreatOak2.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoG5KLEBzCCYE62IZAHpgitrARJHuyb067hBUueyQEAqaG7tM6tTfXCMvtfAoslbu5csa5T_vgnYr6-oTux1iAPyFNCqxGEIgXtwOPOEgHL6sz2tWe7aMiVd-yOrtak_50HymBeFy2F_E/s1600-h/DeathOfGreatOak.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266796634003058418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoG5KLEBzCCYE62IZAHpgitrARJHuyb067hBUueyQEAqaG7tM6tTfXCMvtfAoslbu5csa5T_vgnYr6-oTux1iAPyFNCqxGEIgXtwOPOEgHL6sz2tWe7aMiVd-yOrtak_50HymBeFy2F_E/s400/DeathOfGreatOak.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><photocaption: a="" death="" in="" inglewood="" knurly="" oak="" of="" tree=""><br /><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>When I got home, I had no idea what to do with the seeds. I called a couple of nurseries until a gentleman at a nursery in Marina del Rey explained to me that I had to wait until the pods dried up and slit to get at the seeds and plant them. So, I waited until the pods were black and wrinkled. I split them according to the directions I had gotten from this kind anonymous arborist. (He suggested a process much like that which squirrels have for cracking the pods.) I photographed the seeds and compared them with the larger seed of an apricot fruit tree and the seed of a maple tree.<br /><br /><photocaption: an="" oak="" of="" seeds=""><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjadCBNVkY6R3v7tO9lkCNaAEFkxWqpLOr16c9SCmi5G7PdchHh-0x2rvTWb1wZ97RyB5cnfCey2HluVKkGEyDkbTxYfmIc2-9FfrQBiQAB7UV_088I2albqIVVui3Pe_zxJ7dJ1EBxNL8/s1600-h/Seed+from+pod.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266770886602142594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjadCBNVkY6R3v7tO9lkCNaAEFkxWqpLOr16c9SCmi5G7PdchHh-0x2rvTWb1wZ97RyB5cnfCey2HluVKkGEyDkbTxYfmIc2-9FfrQBiQAB7UV_088I2albqIVVui3Pe_zxJ7dJ1EBxNL8/s400/Seed+from+pod.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivhicIraqQ8gViIXim4Xxw-5ffoqi_gErCHLpwrY4GeR82_OrFTVnr06yn9ncYnjz6EtlOK0-VpFJkdA08RWEN_y8THtTew09z8F0RP8yQHzuo5S0qBqr9D1y8u3xmRVqKHePh7VNpcDQ/s1600-h/Oak+seed+pops+up.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266770884206535922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivhicIraqQ8gViIXim4Xxw-5ffoqi_gErCHLpwrY4GeR82_OrFTVnr06yn9ncYnjz6EtlOK0-VpFJkdA08RWEN_y8THtTew09z8F0RP8yQHzuo5S0qBqr9D1y8u3xmRVqKHePh7VNpcDQ/s400/Oak+seed+pops+up.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmNaG37KRJBJo6esNThVej-9NKd4e0MZRsG1iTmgkP8fJSQxbQ69xxiw3ASY0jnBifaEC5C8biDDTgSZVWioceFdNbuWhcjZtHh_rhDhXljn_H0Fm7NTk7WqOOvYX2bsZnlP1IVDliaco/s1600-h/CompareSEEDS.07.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266770875751313330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmNaG37KRJBJo6esNThVej-9NKd4e0MZRsG1iTmgkP8fJSQxbQ69xxiw3ASY0jnBifaEC5C8biDDTgSZVWioceFdNbuWhcjZtHh_rhDhXljn_H0Fm7NTk7WqOOvYX2bsZnlP1IVDliaco/s400/CompareSEEDS.07.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Once properly documented, I planted them in a small brown pot. Two weeks later, the first seed came up. A few days later another seed appeared to take root. On the one-year anniversary of the re-birth day of this Great Knurly Oak tree, July 20th, 2008, I documented how large the great twin oaks had become. The highest little bitty branch was about fourteen inches tall. I estimated this tree had grown a little over an inch every month. A compassionate act of kindness yielded a new life on the impulse of grief. The impulse of grief affected not only me; there is an entire world of tree-lovers mourning the losses of their favorite tree friends in surrounding communities.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266719009925772018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2QwCwzsMkXPZBRzYTwFnBnRbQHUXT53KBV2Erg28ggldnO46Npigcny_yEtC4larrjXv4nmULHcDmqxpvbZjbjz5Y_xtcktUlQRJmjOX2T-aDxIiSuoJ4Z1zk536maPunshfLjStdmEg/s400/Gemini.MyBabyOak.Tree.+July20.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></photocaption:></photocaption:></photo></photocaption:></photo></photo></photo:></photo:><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2QwCwzsMkXPZBRzYTwFnBnRbQHUXT53KBV2Erg28ggldnO46Npigcny_yEtC4larrjXv4nmULHcDmqxpvbZjbjz5Y_xtcktUlQRJmjOX2T-aDxIiSuoJ4Z1zk536maPunshfLjStdmEg/s1600-h/Gemini.MyBabyOak.Tree.+July20.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}">by Ginger Van Hook</a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL68F8jclfNAwiI83dOc9WlFvhkw5Z_AzrJADKFORg0TaSsPKIGWCtAGw6nfD4nTMY0_2zR9BFu_gEADGMKrZqnjarNREKJz2NZDMfI8s4gwEEBAvgu69xXxvW1qBlY49T_mioHGu7gt4/s1600-h/Gemini.November08.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0);"></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL68F8jclfNAwiI83dOc9WlFvhkw5Z_AzrJADKFORg0TaSsPKIGWCtAGw6nfD4nTMY0_2zR9BFu_gEADGMKrZqnjarNREKJz2NZDMfI8s4gwEEBAvgu69xXxvW1qBlY49T_mioHGu7gt4/s1600-h/Gemini.November08.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"> My baby tree "Gemini" has grown in quite tall, as in November 08, 2008 it already reaches my windowsill. Photo by Ginger Van Hook, 2008</a></div>
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<photo: courtesy="" culver="" from="" hugging="" joel="" photo="" susan="" sycamore="" tauber="" vielmetter=""><photo: gallery="" susanne="" vielmetter=""><photo asphalt="" at="" boulders="" bowl="" bumpers="" committee="" edges="" from="" has="" in="" installed="" joel="" large="" lot="" of="" original="" outer="" parking="" pasadena="" protect="" rose="" seduced="" skirt="" surrounding="" sycamore="" tauber="" that="" the="" to="" today="" tree="" trunk=""><photo a="" at="" charmed="" enjoy="" getty="" in="" large="" life="" malibu="" sycamore="" the="" trees="" villa=""><photocaption: at="" by="" created="" gardens="" lacma="" palm="" robert="" the=""><photo art="" california="" museum="" norton="" of="" pasadena="" simon=""><photocaption: a="" death="" in="" inglewood="" knurly="" oak="" of="" tree=""><photocaption: an="" oak="" of="" seeds=""><photo a="" back="" brown="" for="" in="" my="" oak="" starters="" trees="" twin=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I can really only speak to my own experience in that my relationship with trees started when I was a child.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>There used to be an enormous Maple tree in our front yard where we lived growing up in Duarte, California. My middle sister Else and I used to climb its large branches and hang out, swinging like little monkeys and scrambling up and down pretending to have a treehouse. One day, we came home from school and our mother was just sweeping up the sawdust in the driveway. The tree had been removed. She said it was for the best. She said she wanted a better view of the mountains and she said she was tired of raking the leaves. She said all these things, but when I look back, I realize she was afraid my sister and I would climb too high and fall off and break a bone or two. I now realize the maternal instinct my mother had for the safety of her children, being that we were such very active climbers…But as a child, my sister and I didn’t know that. My sister and I felt a great sadness for the loss of our playground friend.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266596829048575666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgghBMV5ix-x1l2PL85An8JhtJnyIXYjf62IFZVuMDft4_4QXxO6OVol85nBZ9a_fyCqTL150PpLZ_YAM2IretsfELyPnSRlvskCPi4rI52W89MgSEr6ib-ZRvK7x5eFp5Y762su3-XlHA/s400/ElseIngels.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 322px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 400px;" /><photo 1966="" else="" in="" of="" tree=""><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 102 , 0);"><br /></span></photo></photo></photocaption:></photocaption:></photo></photocaption:></photo></photo></photo:></photo:></div>
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<photo: courtesy="" culver="" from="" hugging="" joel="" photo="" susan="" sycamore="" tauber="" vielmetter=""><photo: gallery="" susanne="" vielmetter=""><photo asphalt="" at="" boulders="" bowl="" bumpers="" committee="" edges="" from="" has="" in="" installed="" joel="" large="" lot="" of="" original="" outer="" parking="" pasadena="" protect="" rose="" seduced="" skirt="" surrounding="" sycamore="" tauber="" that="" the="" to="" today="" tree="" trunk=""><photo a="" at="" charmed="" enjoy="" getty="" in="" large="" life="" malibu="" sycamore="" the="" trees="" villa=""><photocaption: at="" by="" created="" gardens="" lacma="" palm="" robert="" the=""><photo art="" california="" museum="" norton="" of="" pasadena="" simon=""><photocaption: a="" death="" in="" inglewood="" knurly="" oak="" of="" tree=""><photocaption: an="" oak="" of="" seeds=""><photo a="" back="" brown="" for="" in="" my="" oak="" starters="" trees="" twin=""><photo 1966="" else="" in="" of="" tree=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 102 , 0);">Else Ingels, 1966 photo by Luis Ingels, (Senior). Else Ingels was the second daughter of Luis Ingels, Sr. of Duarte, California. Else Ingels was a victim of childhood Leukemia and was medically cared for through the generosity of the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California. Born in Argentina, my lovely middle sister lived from April of 1964 when she came to the United States, through the age of 11 when she died in June of 1975. Else Ingels is buried at Resurrection Cemetery in Montebello, beside a number of trees which memorializes our joy of running through our make-believe forest in Duarte, California when we were children. My personal memories of the loss of trees has become undeniably tied to the loss of my sister Else. Each one of us has memories of a tree and an event that marks our existence, our happiness or our loss. Everyone on the planet has a relationship to at least one tree in their lifetime. My relationship with trees has continued to evolve and I respect the life of trees in fond memory to the life of my sister Else. In her short life, Else Ingels became a child beauty queen in a contest in El Monte, California; she had a white and gray kitty named Angel, and she performed in tap-dance shows for the City of Duarte Parks and Recreation. She continues to be recognized as our family's little angel in heaven, climbing and swinging on all the trees in paradise.</span></photo></photo></photocaption:></photocaption:></photo></photocaption:></photo></photo></photo:></photo:></div>
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<photo 1966="" enilde="" in="" of="" tree=""><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Later on, as Else and I got old enough to ride our bikes down the street and several houses out of sight of my mother’s guarded watch, we would go about a block and enter a forest of trees that could have been the ones of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’s Forest’, or even the enchanted forest where princesses were awakened with a kiss. My sister Else, her best friend Susie and I would play hide-and-go-seek and have adventures that we envisioned from reading the books in the Duarte library. We often had fake wars and pretend camping trips with lots of our neighborhood friends and children. The forest of trees was thick. It had Knurly Great Oaks and Tall Pines and groves of Orange and Lemon trees too. The area was rich in a variety of trees.</photo></div>
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<photo: courtesy="" culver="" from="" hugging="" joel="" photo="" susan="" sycamore="" tauber="" vielmetter=""><photo: gallery="" susanne="" vielmetter=""><photo asphalt="" at="" boulders="" bowl="" bumpers="" committee="" edges="" from="" has="" in="" installed="" joel="" large="" lot="" of="" original="" outer="" parking="" pasadena="" protect="" rose="" seduced="" skirt="" surrounding="" sycamore="" tauber="" that="" the="" to="" today="" tree="" trunk=""><photo a="" at="" charmed="" enjoy="" getty="" in="" large="" life="" malibu="" sycamore="" the="" trees="" villa=""><photocaption: at="" by="" created="" gardens="" lacma="" palm="" robert="" the=""><photo art="" california="" museum="" norton="" of="" pasadena="" simon=""><photocaption: a="" death="" in="" inglewood="" knurly="" oak="" of="" tree=""><photocaption: an="" oak="" of="" seeds=""><photo a="" back="" brown="" for="" in="" my="" oak="" starters="" trees="" twin=""><photo 1966="" else="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo 1966="" enilde="" in="" of="" tree=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Another current example of people’s love for trees is the outpouring of rage and the outcry of the residents of Santa Monica, California when they lost their beloved Ficus trees along Fourth Street and along Second Street this summer. You may read the story written by Lynne Bronstein, staff writer, of the Santa Monica Mirror and see the photo by Daniel Jansenson in the volume IX, issue 50 for May 22-28, 2008. The depiction of the slaughter of Ficus trees is documented after the California Court of Appeals vacated the temporary stay order it had previously issued. This is all part of the proof that trees are intimately involved with people and people are intimately involved with trees of all species, of all sizes, of all ages.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG78Vj65FPFVXHTKSD-QnHyC6DmtBcb-x0aI44bZVdkLJnKH0FSCiQi9FGZERrrXSp_aBugGiBi0Zf8tcUzvr9jv0baelEc38LBG_IHw1Ho2DcNDqnzDYEwwFT6LzrPg61EzmNRyqj1Uc/s1600-h/Tree+Down-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266745517355394610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG78Vj65FPFVXHTKSD-QnHyC6DmtBcb-x0aI44bZVdkLJnKH0FSCiQi9FGZERrrXSp_aBugGiBi0Zf8tcUzvr9jv0baelEc38LBG_IHw1Ho2DcNDqnzDYEwwFT6LzrPg61EzmNRyqj1Uc/s400/Tree+Down-1.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 365px;" /></a><photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photocaption:></photocaption:></photo></photocaption:></photo></photo></photo:></photo:><br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My simple-minded memories of my childhood playing in the dirt and posing for a picture with my mother and sister in the Sequoia National Forest beside a gargantuan Redwood is a relevant recollection that millions of people share across our planet. So too are my abundant memories of hiking in Yosemite, driving through Joshua Tree National Monument and recently camping with my husband in the Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains of California.<br />
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<photo a="" california="" child="" enormous="" i="" in="" redwoods="" the="" was="" when=""><br /><br /><photo><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bristlecone Pine Trees from the White Mountains in Northern California and Northern Nevada are upwards of 4500 to 5000years old; some Bristlecone trees compete in age with the Pyramids in Egypt.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_CcrQVrTX6UUTqU0Xp5EfaAgqqQGrsULBEL6aCGOZ9hzzQEWyvvF2WUwywIXQyF8tcF7Zlj9xXScoSEiLhpi1qLpHh7lpPeCj1Bh25bFrEUG8RBjdDkmfMkvXUPMzsqxP3KlTXx0NtY/s1600-h/EasternSierras.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266783756971801330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_CcrQVrTX6UUTqU0Xp5EfaAgqqQGrsULBEL6aCGOZ9hzzQEWyvvF2WUwywIXQyF8tcF7Zlj9xXScoSEiLhpi1qLpHh7lpPeCj1Bh25bFrEUG8RBjdDkmfMkvXUPMzsqxP3KlTXx0NtY/s400/EasternSierras.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> To get to the Bristlecone Pine Forest (The White Mountains), one must travel up Highway 395 where you will see some of the most incredible tree landscapes change from one terrain to another. The journey through this route takes you through small towns, dessert communities and communities by the river where climates can vary between dry and sandy to lush and forest green, as well as from wintery snowy landscapes to dry harsh cactus plains between Northern California and Northern Nevada.</a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTc9pz3dxUKHoo85520HBTRGYH8zX-UM_mAX1y3b2F2-Ev5lS0c0jxtMAAHkILw3WpWObm3G_TWYsgau0EseKemRWNDUYkV7c6-bH6Q8kcq-P7mvxVQNgQSreDI35l1UYeTN8TB5TZDas/s1600-h/CampinginBristlecone.Forest.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266783751508984290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTc9pz3dxUKHoo85520HBTRGYH8zX-UM_mAX1y3b2F2-Ev5lS0c0jxtMAAHkILw3WpWObm3G_TWYsgau0EseKemRWNDUYkV7c6-bH6Q8kcq-P7mvxVQNgQSreDI35l1UYeTN8TB5TZDas/s400/CampinginBristlecone.Forest.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> Camping is permitted in designated camping areas only; no campfires are permitted unless in designated firepits in order to protect the landscape from its very dry conditions.</a></photo></photo></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>On Jan 24th 2008, three years after Joel Tauber had fallen in love with his Charmed Sycamore Tree, he was preparing for a tree planting ceremony for one of the tree-babies he had grown with the assistance of the Theodore Payne Foundation. The Theodore Payne Foundation is dedicated to preserving the native plants of California. By this time, Tauber had already planted 200 tree-babies throughout the Los Angeles area. He was about to plant yet another tree-baby beside the Fine Arts building at the USC Gayle Garner-Roski School of Fine Arts where his new tree-baby would have a protected existence and grow for future USC Trojans to appreciate.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 238); text-decoration: underline;">Ruth Weisberg, Dean of the USC Gayle Garner Roski School of Fine Arts gives opening remarks and welcomes guests, students, faculty and staff to the official tree planting ceremony on the USC Campus on Jan 24, 2008. Although the weather was rainy and cold, a large crowd turned out to support the planting of a special Tree-Baby nurtured by Joel Tauber, (from the original Sycamore Tree in the parking lot of the Pasadena Rose Bowl).</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZRjd0QvFsisruMEkZ3BwKuHOkdHkoPo-Iq6ub8Q34aLdzPBsp5KngaaB24VTXlVsIjO3b_Ila3UdIwMd4P64rOhtRzqyM79mWIbFDYOqOwFkEBea3suM-iLQ6VTUsouEbCWizL7aPagE/s1600-h/LaurieFirstenberg.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 153);">Director, Laurie Firstenberg from LAX-Art Gallery describes the journey that Joel Tauber went through to plant this tree baby on the USC Campus.</span></a></div>
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<photo>“When you started this project in 2005, did you know then that this Tree Baby project would ever get to be so big?” I asked Joel Tauber when he was busy setting up the stone bolder with an engraved plaque to commemorate the planting of a Sick-Amore Tree Baby.<br />“I had no idea!” Tauber answered and repeated this to himself while he shook his head from side to side focusing his attentions on directing the forklift operator, artist Trevor Norris, to center the bolder a specific distance from where a new tree-baby was to be planted.</photo></div>
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Boulder pictured below with special plaque.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 153);">A special plaque was installed upon a bolder commemorating the original Sycamore "Parent" tree in the Pasadena Rose Bowl which developed into Joel Tauber's Sick-Amour Project. Special mention and recognition is also given to Caryl Levy, (Painting and Drawing Artist) and Director of Special Projects at USC Roski School of Fine Arts. Caryl Levy helped plan and implement the USC tree ceremony event but was involved in an auto accident that injured her leg about a day or two before the event was to occur so she was not able to attend. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 153);">Special thanks is extended to Caryl Levy for all her dedicated efforts in preparing a successful tree planting ceremony.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi362uDC9wy3pnAyWgJeFSzC4-R6WeSC1_FZopn7ibqIehkUL5Pj1zHN9a7ZlxrjfcElOIQ623sOC4slJX3Pp1FUGFpXk26fPs4_GI8cUpucvBWuyEryLunmm0_oo-4BEnk62PFTvvSU98/s1600-h/Laurie&Ruth.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 238); text-decoration: underline;">L</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 153);">aurie Firstenberg, Director of LAX Art Gallery discusses Joel Tauber’s art work with Ruth Weisberg. Planting day for a Tree-Baby on the campus of USC. </span></span></a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 153);">Photo by Ginger Van Hook, 2008<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS_x-1kJcFszmKHZdhvyOF5IMRvdya0-O0qhbR1h2j1Gb5ke3zlWdEcXDJIvhCAUN27cRpAYnVnHR74M8NkjrspDfankEJYa4XRz4mgJkdKFsgp0HMztVEefvHeAyriAmZVv9fD6Tv3RU/s1600-h/Photographer1&RobertFlick.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268984503588127906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS_x-1kJcFszmKHZdhvyOF5IMRvdya0-O0qhbR1h2j1Gb5ke3zlWdEcXDJIvhCAUN27cRpAYnVnHR74M8NkjrspDfankEJYa4XRz4mgJkdKFsgp0HMztVEefvHeAyriAmZVv9fD6Tv3RU/s400/Photographer1&RobertFlick.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" />Photographers witnessing the tree-planting ceremony at USC on January 24, 2008. </a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 153);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS_x-1kJcFszmKHZdhvyOF5IMRvdya0-O0qhbR1h2j1Gb5ke3zlWdEcXDJIvhCAUN27cRpAYnVnHR74M8NkjrspDfankEJYa4XRz4mgJkdKFsgp0HMztVEefvHeAyriAmZVv9fD6Tv3RU/s1600-h/Photographer1&RobertFlick.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}">Robbert Flick, Professor of Photography at USC Fine Arts pictured on the right. </a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 153);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS_x-1kJcFszmKHZdhvyOF5IMRvdya0-O0qhbR1h2j1Gb5ke3zlWdEcXDJIvhCAUN27cRpAYnVnHR74M8NkjrspDfankEJYa4XRz4mgJkdKFsgp0HMztVEefvHeAyriAmZVv9fD6Tv3RU/s1600-h/Photographer1&RobertFlick.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}">Photo by Ginger Van Hook</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 153);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv2azMng3YK_Yd3QFiQClw0Pn7ojdrPHS3cDWFLUyhGQwB16SM3dvGAxja1V9oB6c-fyq-_DEF_IMzQ_xCOySpnb6E7-3ty4akfrZP7UEnOtvGfN5PiZ1m89BQUNvA9gN9D9dR5byNsLM/s1600-h/GuestsWitnessTree.Planting.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"> vip guests, students, faculty and staff. </a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 153);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv2azMng3YK_Yd3QFiQClw0Pn7ojdrPHS3cDWFLUyhGQwB16SM3dvGAxja1V9oB6c-fyq-_DEF_IMzQ_xCOySpnb6E7-3ty4akfrZP7UEnOtvGfN5PiZ1m89BQUNvA9gN9D9dR5byNsLM/s1600-h/GuestsWitnessTree.Planting.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}">Photo by Ginger Van Hook, January 24, 2008.</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 153);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiM1zNuD7EaZQ2zaL9_6MkDhGm7Vyl6MVivBXWEnUsFVMTQFT64zjraBVXx14LpWz2NuAQN8Fa1IrIhVDpQ1BK_jjnWS19gwMzs-XGdCsYu9LU0YlQeq_BlqV-EtGKFVEk2gbYs9kUHIE/s1600-h/DonnaStein.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}">Photo by Ginger Van Hook, 2008.</a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghje55eH45wiUVPBs5wlvTdvxylRh1NNyCNBrSa9dH0ntTBcBVhyphenhyphenK8jppwRdXQkraEHcGwqZ3V_KSq2LVsI3u56-Qt9WNo48034bEkzhD-HW-ynkP8jBIUgiUsYNKCLG0xIDHE9gAlpfs/s1600-h/CharlieWhite.CarolineClerc.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268984489864931666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghje55eH45wiUVPBs5wlvTdvxylRh1NNyCNBrSa9dH0ntTBcBVhyphenhyphenK8jppwRdXQkraEHcGwqZ3V_KSq2LVsI3u56-Qt9WNo48034bEkzhD-HW-ynkP8jBIUgiUsYNKCLG0xIDHE9gAlpfs/s400/CharlieWhite.CarolineClerc.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 351px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 153);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghje55eH45wiUVPBs5wlvTdvxylRh1NNyCNBrSa9dH0ntTBcBVhyphenhyphenK8jppwRdXQkraEHcGwqZ3V_KSq2LVsI3u56-Qt9WNo48034bEkzhD-HW-ynkP8jBIUgiUsYNKCLG0xIDHE9gAlpfs/s1600-h/CharlieWhite.CarolineClerc.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 153);"></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghje55eH45wiUVPBs5wlvTdvxylRh1NNyCNBrSa9dH0ntTBcBVhyphenhyphenK8jppwRdXQkraEHcGwqZ3V_KSq2LVsI3u56-Qt9WNo48034bEkzhD-HW-ynkP8jBIUgiUsYNKCLG0xIDHE9gAlpfs/s1600-h/CharlieWhite.CarolineClerc.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}">Witnesses at Tree-Planting ceremony, Photographers Charlie White, Assistant Professor USC Fine Arts, Intermedia Arts and Caroline Clerc, USC Fine Arts Faculty, Intermedia Arts,</a></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9681BHeRKxXYWppcYzBFdU5WEEiqqNNAN4a0lIaAwyxZWdCz9KiGAObd2xJn-L0O-bYLWm-8jb-3kkI-CTV4MQquKPyjAuF3c12Y_nOh1sXP_dsGL_7bLqq_GEYaN8uNM22DW3XJCFew/s1600-h/waterbearer.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ruth Weisberg pours the honorary first drops of water upon the tree-baby sapling nurtured from the Charmed Sycamore Tree rescued by Joel Tauber...Sick-Amour Project, January 24, 2008. Photo by Ginger Van Hook. </span></a><br />
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<photo: courtesy="" culver="" from="" hugging="" joel="" photo="" susan="" sycamore="" tauber="" vielmetter=""><photo: gallery="" susanne="" vielmetter=""><photo asphalt="" at="" boulders="" bowl="" bumpers="" committee="" edges="" from="" has="" in="" installed="" joel="" large="" lot="" of="" original="" outer="" parking="" pasadena="" protect="" rose="" seduced="" skirt="" surrounding="" sycamore="" tauber="" that="" the="" to="" today="" tree="" trunk=""><photo a="" at="" charmed="" enjoy="" getty="" in="" large="" life="" malibu="" sycamore="" the="" trees="" villa=""><photocaption: at="" by="" created="" gardens="" lacma="" palm="" robert="" the=""><photo art="" california="" museum="" norton="" of="" pasadena="" simon=""><photocaption: a="" death="" in="" inglewood="" knurly="" oak="" of="" tree=""><photocaption: an="" oak="" of="" seeds=""><photo a="" back="" brown="" for="" in="" my="" oak="" starters="" trees="" twin=""><photo 1966="" else="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo 1966="" enilde="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo><photo a="" california="" child="" enormous="" i="" in="" redwoods="" the="" was="" when=""><photo><photo><photo><photo><photo><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In the matter of Fine Arts, there is no question Joel Tauber has fulfilled his duties as a serious artist taking an important cause and bringing artistic attention to bear fruit, so to speak. In his video work Tauber makes successful choices for his metaphors as well as applying the historical significance of the ancient Persian ruler Xerxes who loved a particular sycamore tree so much that he gave it a bodyguard and adorned the tree with golden ornaments. Tauber also developed his own golden ornaments for his Sick-Amour tree; gold leaves, golden seeds and given the enormous amount of attention he has been getting lately, Tauber may have succeeded in developing a new golden age of tree planting.</photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photocaption:></photocaption:></photo></photocaption:></photo></photo></photo:></photo:></div>
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<photo: courtesy="" culver="" from="" hugging="" joel="" photo="" susan="" sycamore="" tauber="" vielmetter=""><photo: gallery="" susanne="" vielmetter=""><photo asphalt="" at="" boulders="" bowl="" bumpers="" committee="" edges="" from="" has="" in="" installed="" joel="" large="" lot="" of="" original="" outer="" parking="" pasadena="" protect="" rose="" seduced="" skirt="" surrounding="" sycamore="" tauber="" that="" the="" to="" today="" tree="" trunk=""><photo a="" at="" charmed="" enjoy="" getty="" in="" large="" life="" malibu="" sycamore="" the="" trees="" villa=""><photocaption: at="" by="" created="" gardens="" lacma="" palm="" robert="" the=""><photo art="" california="" museum="" norton="" of="" pasadena="" simon=""><photocaption: a="" death="" in="" inglewood="" knurly="" oak="" of="" tree=""><photocaption: an="" oak="" of="" seeds=""><photo a="" back="" brown="" for="" in="" my="" oak="" starters="" trees="" twin=""><photo 1966="" else="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo 1966="" enilde="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo><photo a="" california="" child="" enormous="" i="" in="" redwoods="" the="" was="" when=""><photo><photo><photo><photo><photo><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>As an artist, Tauber uses the video medium as a vehicle to carry not only his message, but also a poignant portrayal of our society at large, searching for meaning. The American Heritage Dictionary defines art as the ‘human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature’. In this best case, Tauber supplements his tree with water, additional barriers to enforce protection from man-made vehicles, and ornamental jewelry to adorn his new ‘love’. But counteracting the work of nature seems a bit of a contradiction. The asphalt covering the parking lot is man-made. The efforts Tauber has made to overcome the Sick-Amour Tree’s infertility is above and beyond the call of duty both of nature and of man or woman. This is a true and loyal friendship for this Sycamore tree. This is a friendship that involves a personal commitment and has the momentum to involve a commitment from the masses as well.</photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photocaption:></photocaption:></photo></photocaption:></photo></photo></photo:></photo:></div>
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<photo: courtesy="" culver="" from="" hugging="" joel="" photo="" susan="" sycamore="" tauber="" vielmetter=""><photo: gallery="" susanne="" vielmetter=""><photo asphalt="" at="" boulders="" bowl="" bumpers="" committee="" edges="" from="" has="" in="" installed="" joel="" large="" lot="" of="" original="" outer="" parking="" pasadena="" protect="" rose="" seduced="" skirt="" surrounding="" sycamore="" tauber="" that="" the="" to="" today="" tree="" trunk=""><photo a="" at="" charmed="" enjoy="" getty="" in="" large="" life="" malibu="" sycamore="" the="" trees="" villa=""><photocaption: at="" by="" created="" gardens="" lacma="" palm="" robert="" the=""><photo art="" california="" museum="" norton="" of="" pasadena="" simon=""><photocaption: a="" death="" in="" inglewood="" knurly="" oak="" of="" tree=""><photocaption: an="" oak="" of="" seeds=""><photo a="" back="" brown="" for="" in="" my="" oak="" starters="" trees="" twin=""><photo 1966="" else="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo 1966="" enilde="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo><photo a="" california="" child="" enormous="" i="" in="" redwoods="" the="" was="" when=""><photo><photo><photo><photo><photo><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>For Tauber to bring this project into the realm of the fine art galleries, he has called attention to the concepts of environmental protections intersecting with the poetics of natural beauty. In his films, he discusses at length the ugliness of neglect and the beauty of the love that makes the tree get well again. This is a timely concept to explore when the world is in dire need of more compassion for the very planet that sustains our lives as humans. Touching upon the love of one tree, Tauber has hit a nerve that runs through America’s Tree Culture from coast to coast. Introducing the concept of a tree as an art piece in a video is one thing, but taking it upon himself to personally sustain the amount of energy and commitment needed to drive this project several years later is quite another artistic feat.</photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photocaption:></photocaption:></photo></photocaption:></photo></photo></photo:></photo:></div>
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<photo: courtesy="" culver="" from="" hugging="" joel="" photo="" susan="" sycamore="" tauber="" vielmetter=""><photo: gallery="" susanne="" vielmetter=""><photo asphalt="" at="" boulders="" bowl="" bumpers="" committee="" edges="" from="" has="" in="" installed="" joel="" large="" lot="" of="" original="" outer="" parking="" pasadena="" protect="" rose="" seduced="" skirt="" surrounding="" sycamore="" tauber="" that="" the="" to="" today="" tree="" trunk=""><photo a="" at="" charmed="" enjoy="" getty="" in="" large="" life="" malibu="" sycamore="" the="" trees="" villa=""><photocaption: at="" by="" created="" gardens="" lacma="" palm="" robert="" the=""><photo art="" california="" museum="" norton="" of="" pasadena="" simon=""><photocaption: a="" death="" in="" inglewood="" knurly="" oak="" of="" tree=""><photocaption: an="" oak="" of="" seeds=""><photo a="" back="" brown="" for="" in="" my="" oak="" starters="" trees="" twin=""><photo 1966="" else="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo 1966="" enilde="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo><photo a="" california="" child="" enormous="" i="" in="" redwoods="" the="" was="" when=""><photo><photo><photo><photo><photo><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I believe the Sick-Amour project is successful on several layers. On the one hand, this has now become a project that may develop its own engine to drive itself. And there will be obstacles. The idea is quite attractive when the little trees are young and in that playful sapling kind of stage. But the economics of grown trees invading our man-made asphalt and choking off sewer pipes and entangling power lines is also a devastating reality that architects, landscapers and developers face which can stop the growth of trees cold in its tracks.<br />Art opens dialogue. With Tauber bringing the Sick-Amour project into the elite realm of Fine Arts, he has given his beloved tree a dignity unaffordable to the every day tree in the city or in the forest. Tauber has opened a door through which tree-lovin’ has become socially vogue. The Sick-Amour project lends legitimacy to having a pet tree in one’s own back yard and makes it socially acceptable to love the ‘object’ of ones desire especially when it makes sense for the planet.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266745519496025250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5eDskrZFDQvm0BCESq1L-ZMI-d6XMDgn-fPk7N7mGiIZNvRHGQrjZWJTxZk8Hm1MZQb0vq0Xtz6z2l7KD4kPi3AqBbHMHsBMFEIarL9KmXjGmE6CHj4u6niJi0zzMn3battq-AS27Ic4/s400/USC+Tree+Baby.now.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photocaption:></photocaption:></photo></photocaption:></photo></photo></photo:></photo:><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5eDskrZFDQvm0BCESq1L-ZMI-d6XMDgn-fPk7N7mGiIZNvRHGQrjZWJTxZk8Hm1MZQb0vq0Xtz6z2l7KD4kPi3AqBbHMHsBMFEIarL9KmXjGmE6CHj4u6niJi0zzMn3battq-AS27Ic4/s1600-h/USC+Tree+Baby.now.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"> The Sick-Amour Tree Project has come full circle to enjoy a permanent home at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. Together with artwork created by USC students and a boulder that enshrines a plaque with the photo of the original Sycamore Tree in the parkinglot of the Pasadena Rose Bowl, Joel Tauber has successfully accomplished the nurturing of a new life and connected this new life to the fine arts. Today the Tree-Baby Sycamore, stands over five feet tall and resides only several feet from the Gayle Garner Roski School of Fine Arts at USC. The Dean, Ruth Weisberg was instrumental in introducing Joel Tauber's tree project to the University community.</a></div>
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<photo: courtesy="" culver="" from="" hugging="" joel="" photo="" susan="" sycamore="" tauber="" vielmetter=""><photo: gallery="" susanne="" vielmetter=""><photo asphalt="" at="" boulders="" bowl="" bumpers="" committee="" edges="" from="" has="" in="" installed="" joel="" large="" lot="" of="" original="" outer="" parking="" pasadena="" protect="" rose="" seduced="" skirt="" surrounding="" sycamore="" tauber="" that="" the="" to="" today="" tree="" trunk=""><photo a="" at="" charmed="" enjoy="" getty="" in="" large="" life="" malibu="" sycamore="" the="" trees="" villa=""><photocaption: at="" by="" created="" gardens="" lacma="" palm="" robert="" the=""><photo art="" california="" museum="" norton="" of="" pasadena="" simon=""><photocaption: a="" death="" in="" inglewood="" knurly="" oak="" of="" tree=""><photocaption: an="" oak="" of="" seeds=""><photo a="" back="" brown="" for="" in="" my="" oak="" starters="" trees="" twin=""><photo 1966="" else="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo 1966="" enilde="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo><photo a="" california="" child="" enormous="" i="" in="" redwoods="" the="" was="" when=""><photo><photo><photo><photo><photo><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The cultural and social paradigm through which the Sick-Amour Tree project must also be viewed is the potential for it to inspire people to imitate the compassion, if not the root cause. The Sick-Amour Tree project has been called everything from an obsession to a love story. The real story is that it both. From the get-go, Joel Tauber was enamored of a Sycamore tree that appeared forlorn and neglected, but he reveals that love is a difficult thing to understand, much less explain. An obsession is only part of the truth because while this project can properly be defined as a compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea, it could hardly be called an unreasonable idea at that.<br /><br />In retrospect, the work of Joel Tauber’s Sick-Amour Tree-Babies project seems to refer to an eerie sense of déjà vu that we often experience in America. All over the world, global warming issues are breathing down our necks. As we see more and more streets and communities paved with asphalt and tar there remains less and less space for the trees, under the pavement. Thus the lines written in the song by Joni Mitchell have come full circle to become the ‘oracle’ of our current generation. Tree museums are now weaved into our permanent culture. The fact that a tree makes it to a museum show in this day and age often indicates our trees are fast becoming priceless pieces of artwork that are going extinct. This unique ‘obsession with a tree’ that Tauber expresses through his art has evolved, in my humble opinion, into a methodical research art project revealing the empowerment that can happen with a good idea. Whether it was through a divine act of love from the ancient gods that struck Tauber, or just Tauber, recently graduated from art school from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena looking for a good art project to get involved in; Tauber has inspired the growth of a minimum of 200 Sycamore Tree-Babies with the assistance of the Theodore Payne Foundation. Additional Tree-Babies are being planned for local elementary schools all over Los Angeles, each with an identifying plaque. Tauber’s art project has connected with a grassroots movement that has been spreading across America for a number of years now. The issue becomes larger than life as the word spreads. The art of Tree-lovin’ has reached a new level of awareness that is of utmost importance if our planet is to survive the heat of our future.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The impact that Tauber’s work has on the culture of our trees in California cannot be measured today. This work has life. It is growing, literally. It will be measured in future trees and future shade. The ‘future’ has always been a hard sell, especially for environmentalists. Trees have enemies as well. The best that we can hope for in a political climate such as this is to have a balance. It is important to have a balance between tree cutting and tree planting. It is important for our society to recognize the intrinsic value of the first step to achieving this balance is to take responsibility for the seeds from the trees. (Any tree will do.) This idea promotes the planting of trees individually into containers, at first, especially if you don’t own your own land. One may be inspired to grow a tree in a clay pot and invest in the future, or adopt a grown tree…This is really only a small part of what Joel Tauber’s message reveals with the Sick-Amour Tree Baby project.</photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photocaption:></photocaption:></photo></photocaption:></photo></photo></photo:></photo:></div>
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<photo: courtesy="" culver="" from="" hugging="" joel="" photo="" susan="" sycamore="" tauber="" vielmetter=""><photo: gallery="" susanne="" vielmetter=""><photo asphalt="" at="" boulders="" bowl="" bumpers="" committee="" edges="" from="" has="" in="" installed="" joel="" large="" lot="" of="" original="" outer="" parking="" pasadena="" protect="" rose="" seduced="" skirt="" surrounding="" sycamore="" tauber="" that="" the="" to="" today="" tree="" trunk=""><photo a="" at="" charmed="" enjoy="" getty="" in="" large="" life="" malibu="" sycamore="" the="" trees="" villa=""><photocaption: at="" by="" created="" gardens="" lacma="" palm="" robert="" the=""><photo art="" california="" museum="" norton="" of="" pasadena="" simon=""><photocaption: a="" death="" in="" inglewood="" knurly="" oak="" of="" tree=""><photocaption: an="" oak="" of="" seeds=""><photo a="" back="" brown="" for="" in="" my="" oak="" starters="" trees="" twin=""><photo 1966="" else="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo 1966="" enilde="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo><photo a="" california="" child="" enormous="" i="" in="" redwoods="" the="" was="" when=""><photo><photo><photo><photo><photo><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In my opinion, Tauber is not obsessive about his love for one tree and the continued propagation of its life. If he was seduced at all it was a seduction by a mythical tree goddess whose time had come. As an artist, Tauber is both thorough and persistent and chances are he’s got much more to do! This project appears to connect people from every continent through an underground network of roots. People depend on trees and there are enormous communities of animals and birds that live in trees and depend on them for shelter and food as well. From the most heralded Trees in American Art dubbed the Sequoia Redwoods to the 5000 year old Methusala trees in the Bristlecone Pine Forest of the White Mountains in Northern California and the edges of Northern Nevada as well as the enticing and enchanting Yosemite Forest our trees are our greatest artistic treasures. The charms of one tree are the charms of all of the trees. The mythologies of yesterday come to haunt us in our present. One man’s love for one tree is beautiful, but a national epidemic of love for all of our trees that’s the best part of our culture, that’s the miracle of our humanity!<br /><br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266796646763631874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaq0Y9RaphsMpiCU96rnRUiBoLlB2aALz4bkTRb6aYygXLxYDp5hZalYbXqhgdJdYcZaF1B8x2ym6CuL2Yo9dmAaGaJsNLF_AgVgxaVCbAfOXrkoF_osM2LDzPvM0Mu6S_QBlHtuEFhkQ/s400/Venus.GoddessofLove.GettyVilla.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 218px;" /></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photocaption:></photocaption:></photo></photocaption:></photo></photo></photo:></photo:><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaq0Y9RaphsMpiCU96rnRUiBoLlB2aALz4bkTRb6aYygXLxYDp5hZalYbXqhgdJdYcZaF1B8x2ym6CuL2Yo9dmAaGaJsNLF_AgVgxaVCbAfOXrkoF_osM2LDzPvM0Mu6S_QBlHtuEFhkQ/s1600-h/Venus.GoddessofLove.GettyVilla.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The statue of Venus, the Goddess of Love, at the Getty Villa may have provided the muse with which we believe may be responsible for rewarding Joel Tauber love in return for his faithful efforts to save a Charmed Sycamore Tree in the Parkinglot of the Pasadena Rose Bowl and Tauber's working diligently with the Theodore Payne Foundation to nurture and find homes for over 200 tree-baby seedlings over the last three or more years. Photo by Ginger Van Hook, 2008, Getty Villa, Malibu, California.</span></a></div>
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<photo: courtesy="" culver="" from="" hugging="" joel="" photo="" susan="" sycamore="" tauber="" vielmetter=""><photo: gallery="" susanne="" vielmetter=""><photo asphalt="" at="" boulders="" bowl="" bumpers="" committee="" edges="" from="" has="" in="" installed="" joel="" large="" lot="" of="" original="" outer="" parking="" pasadena="" protect="" rose="" seduced="" skirt="" surrounding="" sycamore="" tauber="" that="" the="" to="" today="" tree="" trunk=""><photo a="" at="" charmed="" enjoy="" getty="" in="" large="" life="" malibu="" sycamore="" the="" trees="" villa=""><photocaption: at="" by="" created="" gardens="" lacma="" palm="" robert="" the=""><photo art="" california="" museum="" norton="" of="" pasadena="" simon=""><photocaption: a="" death="" in="" inglewood="" knurly="" oak="" of="" tree=""><photocaption: an="" oak="" of="" seeds=""><photo a="" back="" brown="" for="" in="" my="" oak="" starters="" trees="" twin=""><photo 1966="" else="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo 1966="" enilde="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo><photo a="" california="" child="" enormous="" i="" in="" redwoods="" the="" was="" when=""><photo><photo><photo><photo><photo><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255 , 0 , 0);">POST SCRIPT:</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255 , 0 , 0);"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255 , 0 , 0);">When Joel Tauber first took it upon himself to end the loneliness of one frail and neglected Sycamore Tree, in a somewhat mysterious and inexplicable way, the Sycamore Tree responded with blessing Joel Tauber with happiness as well. On November 9, 2008, Joel Tauber announces his engagement to a lovely woman named Alison. The love story is complete. The kindness shown to a charmed tree has been repaid in love and kindness in return. We take a moment to thank Joel Tauber for the kindness he has shown to his community, his environment and the tree babies he has nourished. We also wish him many generations of blessings and happiness to come for himself, Alison and the children of a charmed marriage. </span></span></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photocaption:></photocaption:></photo></photocaption:></photo></photo></photo:></photo:></div>
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<photo: courtesy="" culver="" from="" hugging="" joel="" photo="" susan="" sycamore="" tauber="" vielmetter=""><photo: gallery="" susanne="" vielmetter=""><photo asphalt="" at="" boulders="" bowl="" bumpers="" committee="" edges="" from="" has="" in="" installed="" joel="" large="" lot="" of="" original="" outer="" parking="" pasadena="" protect="" rose="" seduced="" skirt="" surrounding="" sycamore="" tauber="" that="" the="" to="" today="" tree="" trunk=""><photo a="" at="" charmed="" enjoy="" getty="" in="" large="" life="" malibu="" sycamore="" the="" trees="" villa=""><photocaption: at="" by="" created="" gardens="" lacma="" palm="" robert="" the=""><photo art="" california="" museum="" norton="" of="" pasadena="" simon=""><photocaption: a="" death="" in="" inglewood="" knurly="" oak="" of="" tree=""><photocaption: an="" oak="" of="" seeds=""><photo a="" back="" brown="" for="" in="" my="" oak="" starters="" trees="" twin=""><photo 1966="" else="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo 1966="" enilde="" in="" of="" tree=""><photo><photo a="" california="" child="" enormous="" i="" in="" redwoods="" the="" was="" when=""><photo><photo><photo><photo><photo><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255 , 0 , 0);">Best wishes to your family, Ginger E. Van Hook and Luke Van Hook.</span></span></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photo></photocaption:></photocaption:></photo></photocaption:></photo></photo></photo:></photo:></div>
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Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-20786294264743093432008-11-02T13:10:00.000-08:002008-11-05T10:55:03.714-08:00INGLEWOOD ARTWALK NOVEMBER 8TH 2008<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivnJxjxNidWWm-yLvhPg-ch-aClpClwyW62DyCpgwZWJTUpF2_ZQOGNMYKLCsFGSBsJrvcg7cW0WNy-nkJaBwV5rdlOeBS_3stfAGJ9WTc9r6X9X_WSecMYgiLthZFcQizmt2d1cDG9zk/s1600-h/OTIS+GradsInglewood.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivnJxjxNidWWm-yLvhPg-ch-aClpClwyW62DyCpgwZWJTUpF2_ZQOGNMYKLCsFGSBsJrvcg7cW0WNy-nkJaBwV5rdlOeBS_3stfAGJ9WTc9r6X9X_WSecMYgiLthZFcQizmt2d1cDG9zk/s400/OTIS+GradsInglewood.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264185485413946850" /></a><div><div style="text-align: center;">Artists Kenneth H. Ober and Renee A. Fox both graduates of Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles participated in and were instrumental in organizing the very first Inglewood Artist Artwalk and Open Studios in October of 2007. One may visit their website by clicking www.rafkhostudios.com </div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook, 2007<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOF8iOW1n8UubTpl36YHAVjfs-EBFVq1xgQvcNcZU7vEh_-oTqpiOiHz7xd_g5IHjk_JyFaG-ovIZF_89-vjXVg8TC9pSmp3K40vR1OI4N9GqkSJ9J526snXzGMxWhTQzp7iPVs6cTvY8/" com="" _ioi1_pqkuau="" sq4lssbwzgi="" aaaaaaaaats="" vxma_flwyvc="" s400="" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264186457233739266"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilroi5XqgOmqiKiSzqJlm2xVdF-Bdrbjp7i6dnN3WXVtzzdVFO7YyXUXx_iMrUq_ctn0H1TVF9Mm6jOpxpiHnSeLDSyP70ZKGyroEFBtu61qTjKIGFxniQwgjpjekJ3cQJOK0MNNoRCEY/s1600-h/ReneeFox.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilroi5XqgOmqiKiSzqJlm2xVdF-Bdrbjp7i6dnN3WXVtzzdVFO7YyXUXx_iMrUq_ctn0H1TVF9Mm6jOpxpiHnSeLDSyP70ZKGyroEFBtu61qTjKIGFxniQwgjpjekJ3cQJOK0MNNoRCEY/s400/ReneeFox.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264207097171809682" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Renee Fox poses in front of one of her paintings exhibited in the Gallery 825 in Los Angeles, located at 825 La Cienega, hosted by the Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA) in conjunction with the 90th Anniversary Celebration for Otis College of Art and Design. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook, 2008<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3tTU_d1Ei4N7ZRngwOsj4gudh23boT-Ivug8zJKTp6339I_Etcs-GzbPronlAllrPjXPgGcfJS9nqgIShnU410EaTgoKTsm_NGoGE6nprmB9erUrEIUT8jSEn78y3gx9mO3uQlgZnLU0/s1600-h/Kenneth+Ober.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3tTU_d1Ei4N7ZRngwOsj4gudh23boT-Ivug8zJKTp6339I_Etcs-GzbPronlAllrPjXPgGcfJS9nqgIShnU410EaTgoKTsm_NGoGE6nprmB9erUrEIUT8jSEn78y3gx9mO3uQlgZnLU0/s400/Kenneth+Ober.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264224375305087714" /></a><br />Kenneth H. Ober, graduate of Otis College of Art and Design, Artist and Painter participating in the Inglewood Artwalk Open Studios Tour November 8th, 2008.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwkJXt_8aaTk_XVZt437df7hKOFms-8t_HLCULtfBppG0aoIy-J1NZhRzD4NXQ1LQ-KpRmkuWSUNGWH3h-LmMKxqcks_uT34gD9dgvUJN4ER2Q4gDt2QvH5llQguSRHX-c30rgmSDO0qA/s1600-h/KATEHARDING.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwkJXt_8aaTk_XVZt437df7hKOFms-8t_HLCULtfBppG0aoIy-J1NZhRzD4NXQ1LQ-KpRmkuWSUNGWH3h-LmMKxqcks_uT34gD9dgvUJN4ER2Q4gDt2QvH5llQguSRHX-c30rgmSDO0qA/s400/KATEHARDING.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264186453118950546" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Kate Harding participated in the very first Inglewood Artwalk Open Studios Tour on October 13th, 2007. Kate Harding was born in Martinsville, Indiana. Before she was old enough to start school, she would draw while her mother painted realistic wildlife and landscape paintings. While in kindergarten, in 1986, Harding became the youngest person to ever hold a U.S. Patent, when she won The Weekly Reader National Invention Contest. Her invention, the "Mud-Puddle Spotter", took her to New York City for the first time, where she was on Late Nights with David Letterman. After High School, Harding moved to New York City to study fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology, but after a year and a half of fashion classes, found herself painting in her dorm room into the early hours of the morning. Taking the hint, she changed her major to fine art and received her Associate degree from FIT in 2001, then moved to Los Angeles to attend Otis College of Art and Design, receiving her bachelor of Fine Art Degree in Fine Arts in 2003. Currently she is an artist practicing in Inglewood. <br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghPCISjWylq7ew-W-O5Q1geHrTXPH4CV-qVjpbdO44pBhhLG_sbk2MJQ6CQNBgeO6GzMAn1QTSRa202x2cFjsmZ7FT7ZJotMzQ_TcYhdJmALfAtV-VJ4KB_ywSifFVgIG-D8x7zBo89u0/s1600-h/ArtWalkInglewood07.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghPCISjWylq7ew-W-O5Q1geHrTXPH4CV-qVjpbdO44pBhhLG_sbk2MJQ6CQNBgeO6GzMAn1QTSRa202x2cFjsmZ7FT7ZJotMzQ_TcYhdJmALfAtV-VJ4KB_ywSifFVgIG-D8x7zBo89u0/s400/ArtWalkInglewood07.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264186444221873650" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">The First Annual Inglewood Artist Artwalk and Open Studios Tour October 13, 2007 drew a number of participating artists and residents to view the studios and the artists studio spaces. Pictured from left to right are visiting artist Luke Van Hook, Mrs. Anderson, Sean Anderson and Isis and Sebastian, friends of Sean's. In the Anderson studios the artwork reflected paintings by both of the Anderson brothers, Benjamin and Sean. Work from these two artists may be viewed by visiting www.benjaminanderson.com and www.seananderson.com. Art by Luke Van Hook may be visited by clicking on www.lukevanhook.com.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN4vWKAHPhn0h89dq3CxJjkLRzZLJmUqReG1ljAGtFHOH11WyIaMGT9fPrHdlktACok_8ZbM5e6Sv5_6Q1pdhzkHyxvG2yA4ch_URhyRgsyuFNzBPQZ5C2ob02WqHgBOc4g53ukw6eiBA/s1600-h/Ben&hisWife&Baby2B.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN4vWKAHPhn0h89dq3CxJjkLRzZLJmUqReG1ljAGtFHOH11WyIaMGT9fPrHdlktACok_8ZbM5e6Sv5_6Q1pdhzkHyxvG2yA4ch_URhyRgsyuFNzBPQZ5C2ob02WqHgBOc4g53ukw6eiBA/s400/Ben&hisWife&Baby2B.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264186435622292322" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Artist Benjamin Anderson is pictured with his wife and child to be (October 2007). Benjamin stated that the latest addition of art they were blessed with was a baby boy they named Luke Anderson. Benjamin Anderson is currently participating in the Inglewood Artist Open Studios Tour on November 8th, 2008. Photo by Ginger Van Hook, 2007<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9-rrpHKwII_6wEesamBf6WdZqLLgTWW6Sk3tcHtj7GYUFfJjCODiE9TBt9xSM7nBk3zFvWrS9xeGZJc55dA1RYANiVS2jg_CNsSMef1BZyB0qOdy-W94VpIc2OJz2AYGNHYjAykTdko/s1600-h/SeanAnderson.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9-rrpHKwII_6wEesamBf6WdZqLLgTWW6Sk3tcHtj7GYUFfJjCODiE9TBt9xSM7nBk3zFvWrS9xeGZJc55dA1RYANiVS2jg_CNsSMef1BZyB0qOdy-W94VpIc2OJz2AYGNHYjAykTdko/s400/SeanAnderson.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264224385090365634" /></a>Sean Anderson, posing by his artwork, Inglewood Artist Artwalk Open Studios, 2007. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook<br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9P6hdv4w7PJeGFLsBERS18h8hqgVRXp_50taEIc4HzNrhDHYcsV3znGgFS0ULH0uKd1gAqNsLfkGU7YjjX_b_sLgCcZ17Ee43XtbhQhWlOSl0QxSF8jaXc3eqEZHrZxpeBPQGZha-LQA/s1600-h/Ben&Sean.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9P6hdv4w7PJeGFLsBERS18h8hqgVRXp_50taEIc4HzNrhDHYcsV3znGgFS0ULH0uKd1gAqNsLfkGU7YjjX_b_sLgCcZ17Ee43XtbhQhWlOSl0QxSF8jaXc3eqEZHrZxpeBPQGZha-LQA/s400/Ben&Sean.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264186431973632530" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Benjamin and Sean Anderson, Inglewood Open Studios Tour, October 13, 2007.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcwQvARnuQwS-H_looGrHpuldnae023IXUDjJSAT90ABHjq4FUcjCc_t25E3WTeAIENRUBrmQZFDktBwSf2kjvzQVxddw4I1AeJvhY55lQE257KFnE8zCd_byU5UfayNf2rygTpWTtCl8/s1600-h/BENJAMINANDERSON.jpg"><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcwQvARnuQwS-H_looGrHpuldnae023IXUDjJSAT90ABHjq4FUcjCc_t25E3WTeAIENRUBrmQZFDktBwSf2kjvzQVxddw4I1AeJvhY55lQE257KFnE8zCd_byU5UfayNf2rygTpWTtCl8/s400/BENJAMINANDERSON.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264192577137652082" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; "><span><span>Benjamin Anderson poses in front of one of his original paintings, October 13, 2007, Inglewood Artist Open Studios, First Annual. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; "><span><span>Photo by Ginger Van Hook, 2007</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">INGLEWOOD ARTISTS OPEN STUDIO second annual show!</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">It’s time for another open studios in Inglewood on Saturday the 8th of November.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">THERE ARE quite a few more artists involved this year, <br /></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">so IT should be a good opportunity to have a behind the scenes look into some great artists…</div><div style="text-align: left;">(and possibly get some very affordable deals for the holidays)<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">To see the blog go to: http://inglewoodopenstudio.blogspot.com/<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">http://www.benjaminanderson.com<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-weight:bold;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Inglewood Open Studios : 15 locations around Inglewood<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Saturday November 8th, 2-7pm<br /></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Locations throughout Inglewood – see on-line map:<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">http://www.communitywalk.com/inglewood_cs/inglewood_open_studios/map/297303<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Contact: Renée A. Fox<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Email: reneeafox@sbcglobal.net<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Participating artists:<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Ben Anderson, Kavin Buck, Ericka Chapman, Rob Faucette, Renée A. Fox, Todd Gray, Cindi Gunadi, Ulysses Jenkins, Elisa Johns, Michael Massenburg, Gale McCall, Christopher Lawrence Mercier, Willie Middlebrook, Kenneth H. Ober, Claudia Parducci, Joan Robey, Dustin Shuler, Kyungmi Shin, Stanley Smith, May Sun, MonaLisa Whitaker, Edward Ewell.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Inglewood Open Studios is an all day event in which artists, with studios in Inglewood, will open their working spaces to the public. Recent work of these artists will be on view. Although Inglewood is not known for art, it has a sizable and vibrant artist community. There are also public art treasures throughout the city, such as Helen Lundeberg's 1940 mural "The History of Transportation", a detail of which is being used as the image for the 2008 Open Studios. Maps to Inglewood public art locations will be available at all participating studios.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Conceptually and materially diverse, these artists have the most common thread of proximity, however, they are also joined by the sense of a supportive community. Inglewood artists are professionals, teachers, business owners and students. A few are alumni of Otis College of Art & Design, whose modern campus is, like Inglewood, in the "Airport Area", but located in neighboring Westchester. Inglewood boasts a variety of commercial spaces amidst residential areas, perfect for artists, some of which can be seen on November 8th.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">On Saturday, November 8th from 2pm-7pm, more than twenty artists will open their studios throughout the neighborhood. Maps, like the one attached, will be available at all sites, showing numbers of the locations of all studios open for the event. Each studio will display a large number on the outside of their building, to make them easy to find. Street parking is readily available throughout the city although visitors are urged to pay attention to street parking signs.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2DwliuMitDpQT9ik0lsgXShCi4yAX2cHVN9TRvrbc_Uq88GWZeLzDFByDf2M52IKWHkb4lB6yJoFbY359dxmNYoQZxmN3B89jVOzlZpQN1SNf3z0P5hkXkl6clMBhkSYFucokFmFFxeE/s1600-h/Steven.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2DwliuMitDpQT9ik0lsgXShCi4yAX2cHVN9TRvrbc_Uq88GWZeLzDFByDf2M52IKWHkb4lB6yJoFbY359dxmNYoQZxmN3B89jVOzlZpQN1SNf3z0P5hkXkl6clMBhkSYFucokFmFFxeE/s400/Steven.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264192588586114498" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Drawing composed by Los Angeles Artist Steven Bankhead for his show at Circus Gallery </div><div style="text-align: center;">April 5th - May 10th 2008 titled "Battery" visit: www.circus-gallery.com 323-96208506<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheR42IJjgBLFz-3PZl8N9B06F3J8MQK3ZDBR19iiv86jq5j-xqVZuHkqY_wr0dSjoNJvp_FNy98GNSxh0-zQ_qfHIe3q3LF9mYmtmQU5J_ULL0EYCPoFIPnEr5t51eF6zFuG2-a6-W3gg/s1600-h/Ginger&Luke.Inglewood.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheR42IJjgBLFz-3PZl8N9B06F3J8MQK3ZDBR19iiv86jq5j-xqVZuHkqY_wr0dSjoNJvp_FNy98GNSxh0-zQ_qfHIe3q3LF9mYmtmQU5J_ULL0EYCPoFIPnEr5t51eF6zFuG2-a6-W3gg/s400/Ginger&Luke.Inglewood.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264202657082348658" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Writer and Photographer Ginger Van Hook photographed beside her husband, Artist and Painter, Luke Van Hook, August 2008 for Luke Van Hook's show "Circle in the Square" exhibition at the Brand Library Art Gallery August 2nd, 2008. Ginger and Luke Van Hook plan to attend the Inglewood Artists Second Annual Artwalk and Open Studios Tour November 8th, 2008. Both Luke and Ginger Van Hook work in their Inglewood Studio in </div><div style="text-align: center;">Los Angeles County, California. Visit them online at www.lukevanhook.com and www.gingervanhook.com as well as www.enildeingelsvanhook.com </div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo courtesy of Peter Bolten, 2008<br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Artists practicing and working in Inglewood have opportunities to buy supplies close by at </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">CKS ARTIST PRODUCTS </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">(A business run by artists for artists)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> address:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> 1111 and 1115 North La Brea Avenue, Inglewood, California 90302-1212 </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">business phone: 310-677-3775 www.cksart.com)</span></div></div></div>Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-21120341265084528822008-08-29T04:45:00.000-07:002008-09-19T22:08:29.033-07:00Luke Van Hook Paintings Now at Brand Library Galleries "Circle in the Square" Yesung Kim, Barbara Kolo, Susan Sironi, Cheryl Walker thru Sept 5th 2008<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeWfz3lwtcP1-zwK0fxzOekeTgW4cEkhzXapsCmFJd7beM5CXgE5LYoyCjAJZPDyDQdMiTm0hYyhXZ1TGX49pf6ugnp8TmSGnRpE0pQ1csAvY2zgrexSINuKfHCDpBAHkd10EntO-T2wA/s1600-h/EntranceBrand1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeWfz3lwtcP1-zwK0fxzOekeTgW4cEkhzXapsCmFJd7beM5CXgE5LYoyCjAJZPDyDQdMiTm0hYyhXZ1TGX49pf6ugnp8TmSGnRpE0pQ1csAvY2zgrexSINuKfHCDpBAHkd10EntO-T2wA/s400/EntranceBrand1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239958155037536226" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">The Entrance to the Brand Library Art Galleries in Glendale, California hosts a prominent postcard of the show "Circle in the Square" now exhibiting through September 5<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">th</span>, 2008</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5RiNPl9XoYJucsXZkpv1QhwqRuHhEQ6g0u85KCpEZBQUp1AReaXYxWEpsR5ZLrC_X4ARwrhCQ3Y4-pFYVCBf8SvskHbeIno4t7sR3akdRHUPwFHgpvA4nbmORYbA1nR_zgXZIsE8dBhQ/s1600-h/BrandGallery.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5RiNPl9XoYJucsXZkpv1QhwqRuHhEQ6g0u85KCpEZBQUp1AReaXYxWEpsR5ZLrC_X4ARwrhCQ3Y4-pFYVCBf8SvskHbeIno4t7sR3akdRHUPwFHgpvA4nbmORYbA1nR_zgXZIsE8dBhQ/s400/BrandGallery.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239958153013138050" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">PHOTO-JOURNAL BY GINGER VAN <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">HOO</span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">K</span></span></span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:'lucida grande';font-size:24px;"> </span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDyDBNKDIH3x9ctfUi25BCREFoDa6AKqn_Xc5WDNIoIRwdBVUHGRMYe5Q6-Ta4Bu44bPyrX_fKfN0DVpj5bTdXVcViSGqQmqUlx9-6dH8_a8dqQGYKGQ334mePwMWzEhJvJ7RggF_LLVI/s1600-h/CircleInSquare.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDyDBNKDIH3x9ctfUi25BCREFoDa6AKqn_Xc5WDNIoIRwdBVUHGRMYe5Q6-Ta4Bu44bPyrX_fKfN0DVpj5bTdXVcViSGqQmqUlx9-6dH8_a8dqQGYKGQ334mePwMWzEhJvJ7RggF_LLVI/s400/CircleInSquare.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239958159020070866" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaoyzHn5dOVohjBDg9qtea8HcZ2sNZOoSBKnzen5fCeha2bl-YMJIpA5Rwb3ii5Gcg7xO4si026NXcA4tjW1WhoKqK1qVT2ew0JGZwCNthHs7RMyG1a2JPX8xOtUBF6VA0XqANQiy1JRc/s1600-h/Cathy&Luke.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaoyzHn5dOVohjBDg9qtea8HcZ2sNZOoSBKnzen5fCeha2bl-YMJIpA5Rwb3ii5Gcg7xO4si026NXcA4tjW1WhoKqK1qVT2ew0JGZwCNthHs7RMyG1a2JPX8xOtUBF6VA0XqANQiy1JRc/s400/Cathy&Luke.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239958155927568802" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Photo above: </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Cathy Billings, Art Librarian and Gallery Manager of the </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Brand Library Art Galleries and Co-Curator of </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">"Circle in the Square" selected Luke Van Hook </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">as one of the artists to show his circle paintings </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">which explore Giotto's fabled "perfect circle</span>.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">Photo below: </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">Alyssa <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Resnick</span>, Senior Library Supervisor, Gallery Director </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">and Co-curator pictured with Luke Van Hook.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">Both ladies made studio visits all over Los Angeles and surrounding communities in search of the "perfect circle" of artists to represent the illusive qualities of the circle.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"> </span></div></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7cwoDC-G7lgjVjtu_K-X9MPqSWbzR9TEJvMSUWVRvf5KRKy4WjPuXEgXJ7alLAw1V99mlv7TSEvtdNk9FJY3Qno1wmK5qVgIcg_I_SsQiQ8vMfTC9PV46aLlGUeYi6RCrfkhI-34AT7E/s1600-h/Luke&Alyssa.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7cwoDC-G7lgjVjtu_K-X9MPqSWbzR9TEJvMSUWVRvf5KRKy4WjPuXEgXJ7alLAw1V99mlv7TSEvtdNk9FJY3Qno1wmK5qVgIcg_I_SsQiQ8vMfTC9PV46aLlGUeYi6RCrfkhI-34AT7E/s400/Luke&Alyssa.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239958159785811954" /></a><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It takes over a year to prepare for a large show at the Brand Library Art Galleries and no one will have a better story to tell you about the waiting process than Galleries Manager and Curator, Cathy Billings or Alyssa <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Resnick</span>, Senior Library Supervisor and Gallery Director. These ladies traveled to Inglewood, California for a studio visit to see Luke Van Hook's circle paintings some time in the early summer of 2007. They told Luke that they were preparing to curate a show of artists working on the motif of the 'circle'. They had already reviewed a number of artists and found making the final decision difficult, first because there were a number of artists who worked with this subject and secondly, the talent was very competitive. The subject of the circle and how each artist approaches this topic is worth dedicated study in and of itself. These lovely ladies, Cathy and Alyssa, with a keen eye for artistic talent, selected a total of five talented artists to show together this summer. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Here you will find photos of how each artist expressed their obsession with the circular form. I'll begin my blog entry with a brief history of what I believe may have led Luke Van Hook to painting the circle and continue with the photos and biographical information of the additional four artists each selected for working with the motif of circles, independently of each other, with their own unique and individual interpretations of the circle: <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Yesung</span> Kim, Barbara <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Kolo</span>, Susan <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Sironi</span>, and Cheryl Walker.</span></span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Luke Van Hook began his present study of the circle in 2005. He first discovered the legend of Giotto's "Perfect Circle" in a class about ancient history; but the idea didn't sink in at first. He needed time to reason with his quest. While Luke approached the specific task of painting the circle with thin paintbrushes and applying layer upon layer of color to a raw naked canvas, I set about trying to understand what the hell prompted my husband to go circle crazy in the first place. I started researching what the circle meant and I found a lot of literature in the realm of magic, rituals, mathematics, secret societies and romance. But my first impression was that the circle was a way to get back to the beginning of things. Then I delved deeper. Was Luke trying to say that he was going in circles? Were we at this artistic point in our lives as a result of a past life? Was our circular existence referencing our cycle of birth, death and rebirth? Or was the answer more basic than that, like "the earth is round and it's an orbital thing.' There were other issues on the table I was urged to deal with also. Were these circle paintings partly influenced by the school we had attended? Once we leave school we are expected to make works of art that have fresh meaning and to blow out the cobwebs of old thinking. While at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, Luke Van Hook studied all the required areas to excel in his chosen profession as a fine arts painter including the figure, landscapes and abstracts. But the abstract visual image is what finally drew Luke back in. Could it be the understated obvious fact that the big 'O' (which formed a circle on every memo, syllabus and brochure in the name of Otis College) was influencing him subconsciously? </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Luke's earlier work involved intricately small hatch marks that evolved into large abstract images full of vibrant colors. This work was very reminiscent of Jasper Johns. So where did this circle idea really emanate from? Did his hatch marks get married or what? Observers of Luke Van Hook's work have stated that it raises the question, 'Is it a painting or a drawing? Is it text or writing?' Luke will often begin a row of circles that reads from left to right just as western literature is expressed. But sometimes he changes his mind, and the direction of his technique, and he starts to paint his rows from right to left. At other times, he completes a horizontal column of circles which refers more to ancient Asian forms of writing going from the top, down. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">During his graduating year at Otis College in 2004, Luke went on a mission to explore machine technology as it pertained to replacing humans. He painted large canvases with a number of faces and shapes that represented cyborgs expressing the fear, uncertainty and ambivalence that humans have toward our technological future. But once out of school, a full year later, in 2005 Luke seem to have turned a corner. He seemed to have replaced his fear of technology with a competitive defiance that defied all reason. Luke started working with his father-in-law, in his machine shop, where he started to observe how everything around him involved the circle in one way or another. He watched the machines (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Fadal</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">CNC's</span>- numerical control production machines) in action. The tool would spin in circles, plunging in and out of aluminum, stainless steel and plastic materials. The space left behind was almost always a perfect circle. Perhaps, this was Luke's starting point. It was the first time he'd really seen a machine make simple circles and Luke probably said something to himself like 'I can do this! Just watch me!' then promptly, decided to take on his destiny. To compete with a machine, may have been the early impulse that drew Luke to paint the circle, but the legend of Giotto's 'perfect circle' was what has kept Luke going full steam ahead into production of abstract works of art. The initial pieces he created were prototypes. These were the experiments he and his father-in-law Luis <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Ingels</span>, worked on before moving into the hand made pieces. As his first experiment, Luke inserted a paint brush into the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">collet</span> of the machine and programmed the coordinates to match the canvas. He overshot his calculations and the brush came crashing down upon the canvas; the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">collet</span> smashed the brush right through the canvas and even broke the frame. Perhaps, Luke might have thought as he and my father, Luis, looked at each other, 'it was time to go back to the drawing board'. Undaunted by initial failure, Luke did complete an entire series of machine made circles before he went on to the main event, the competition of drawing the circles, one by one, by hand. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Each piece of artwork created since his first attempts, is meticulously reinvented into creative visual landscapes layering circles upon circles of color schemes in gradations of complementary hues. The colors reveal very subtle changes. The circles pull the eye in. The images seem to have a life of their own, a vibrant quality of pushing the viewer to look for patterns while pulling the eyes into fishers, crevices, or 'wormholes' as one collector observed. I have witnessed the intimate evolution of Luke's circles only because I have the honor and privilege of being Luke's wife. The fact that I am discussing my husband's art work is of significance only in the sense that it is somewhat rare, although not unheard of, for the artist's loved one to interject a provocative discussion of the artwork publicly in a blog; however, this is a sign of the times we live in today and I feel blessed as a writer to have this open forum to share with you the joys and struggles inherent in Luke's artistic process. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The way I see it, Luke has taken on the impossible task of creating the perfect circle, where no perfect circle has ever existed before, despite Giotto's legend. All mathematical equations to date reveal that there is no perfect circle. It is a myth. So why Luke has persisted in this impossible feat only reminds me of the story of Don Quixote. Here is where I see Luke chasing his windmills. This is where in my imagination, I view the circles on the canvas as Luke's quest for the impossible dream and his circles are his windmills. His paintbrush is his sword. Thus Luke </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Van Hook's paintings, for me, exhibit all the romantic qualities innate in a love story. Seeking to please his beloved Lucia, these references emerging from raw canvas could be read practically like text. Some art collectors saw the circles as Braille text or some secret code or language. The secret, I think, lies in Luke's love of sports! Sometimes I interpret this circle code to reflect images of the sports activities I see Luke enjoy daily; I make visual connections to the circles on the wheels of his bicycles which hang in his studio or his skate boards that decorate the rafters of the painting bays or even the wheels that drive his car which sits resting on almost perfect circles on the driveway.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For a while, I was convinced that Luke's enthusiasm for cycling was directly influencing the subjects of his paintings because one day, I was staring at one of his earlier images, (which is hung lovingly on the wall of the dining room right over the microwave oven); I saw it hanging next to a photograph of Luke participating in the 'Death Race 1999', a bicycle ride that cycle enthusiasts pursue along the most dangerous mountainous roads known as the California Alps in Northern California at the edge of the Northern Nevada border where <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Markleeville</span> meets the Carson Valley. </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The image Luke had painted in 1998, while recovering, ironically, from a broken ankle suffered in a bicycle race in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Minden</span>; was the image of three bicycles in a dead heat on the gray pavement with the yellow dividing line providing a ground for what appears as three large helmets (representative of the riders) in red, green and yellow. The eventual emergence of Luke's hatch marks from work created in 2000, can be seen on the helmets and if you are really looking for this, (with your microscope) you may even find, the very beginnings of the influences which have eventually led to this mad case of circle paintings! The circle imagery you might be searching for could have started at the base of the bicycle's anatomy with the wheels spinning along the highway to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Kingsbury</span> Grade, somewhere near Genoa, along the bottom of the hill leading to Lake Tahoe. I comfort myself as painter's wife, that even Picasso had his periods, as did Rembrandt, Vincent Van <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Gogh</span>, Monet and Gauguin and so long as Luke Van Hook doesn't try to cut off his ear we are doing just fine with these circles.</span></span></div><div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitu_wKeVaYhrndXggEpedUJZF6XGDJT3cnOsVwrC1JFekP6-AWqegmKufTv_1uHURkrFLVuGgdM3TUTxs4x30EF0cmHiKN33UgvcYtpborFYJn848ZyNSCks8ASh7kyjNw8CGM6cgplPo/s1600-h/Luke1998.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitu_wKeVaYhrndXggEpedUJZF6XGDJT3cnOsVwrC1JFekP6-AWqegmKufTv_1uHURkrFLVuGgdM3TUTxs4x30EF0cmHiKN33UgvcYtpborFYJn848ZyNSCks8ASh7kyjNw8CGM6cgplPo/s400/Luke1998.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239956488963560594" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieuSSB3N5BpgcKoNL2dHzuqJeTYCPaIVDm0RZmq7pm3aH0DryAgHrZ6l79Hs07mt30y-e5OBmrZJ-1w8Q16rIyTa73QsAzuba2YFFI7I80zgNvobVJjv2BlOLH0cgOyj2ZmmzbXQB5NbQ/s1600-h/LukeBikeRide.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieuSSB3N5BpgcKoNL2dHzuqJeTYCPaIVDm0RZmq7pm3aH0DryAgHrZ6l79Hs07mt30y-e5OBmrZJ-1w8Q16rIyTa73QsAzuba2YFFI7I80zgNvobVJjv2BlOLH0cgOyj2ZmmzbXQB5NbQ/s400/LukeBikeRide.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239956493701744610" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>But don't take my word for it. Luke Van Hook's circle paintings are something you should see for yourself. The subtlety of the work is difficult to capture on film, although I tried my best to create a video after struggling with photographing the stills for three years. But even the video work fails to reveal the whole story. You've got to stand in front of one of these pieces to involve yourself in the novella of Luke's life. Although I can decode a small portion of what I see through his work, the rest of the circles on the canvas are still a vague mystery to me as well. Every relationship has its secrets. Thus Luke and I, as artists, are no different. Even when we know each other, there are elements of surprise and adventure that we have yet to tell each other. The mystery in his canvases is what really thrills me to see Luke's work on display under gallery lighting! (Sales don't hurt my enthusiasm either!)</span></span></div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqQThNbytcE7DJe8wJkWNzC1P6CogQKnbm6GnzUtaCsDvRV6DlAAthzKYzNvKiqpezCJPmCNQRYvxrAr07PNVG_wvmSTHJkkwVijCQ0zaAZ2ebsCQYmvowR2edbUOKYmVTQjHWUULX98s/s1600-h/LukeLargePaintings.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqQThNbytcE7DJe8wJkWNzC1P6CogQKnbm6GnzUtaCsDvRV6DlAAthzKYzNvKiqpezCJPmCNQRYvxrAr07PNVG_wvmSTHJkkwVijCQ0zaAZ2ebsCQYmvowR2edbUOKYmVTQjHWUULX98s/s400/LukeLargePaintings.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239956494769103026" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Rb4pGB-IgFONQJiBykCFqMuvxn1kqsvkCeg6oYA7jGmOv14f3UCcSznUShqlQrPWjcj_pNbyqx0Qhe4CHf8p6eiMxxl3KXqonDFexSujs1WHcFq5l-YfFp3aAm5aiyCWFZkb4uCmhxs/s1600-h/OrangePainting.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Rb4pGB-IgFONQJiBykCFqMuvxn1kqsvkCeg6oYA7jGmOv14f3UCcSznUShqlQrPWjcj_pNbyqx0Qhe4CHf8p6eiMxxl3KXqonDFexSujs1WHcFq5l-YfFp3aAm5aiyCWFZkb4uCmhxs/s400/OrangePainting.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239956500708096274" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0lKTJd5de_Zy8BtBOJBPT7xlRvofwXtloRdNddu-4Bsd7Mh04G3AhzzgAv0ZALy1hSTAUWjnXstbiYU877e2WCcF1OuWQ0g9UaTlWpThKxjPfIY9eoLoh0KKhbEjXRjwNkcINQeQ45Yc/s1600-h/RedPaintingLuke.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0lKTJd5de_Zy8BtBOJBPT7xlRvofwXtloRdNddu-4Bsd7Mh04G3AhzzgAv0ZALy1hSTAUWjnXstbiYU877e2WCcF1OuWQ0g9UaTlWpThKxjPfIY9eoLoh0KKhbEjXRjwNkcINQeQ45Yc/s400/RedPaintingLuke.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239956500281942658" /></a><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">When I think of Luke Van Hook's circle paintings, today, in 2008, I often think of Luke riding a skateboard doing 'ollies' and then trying for a loop-de-loop in mid-air. This is because in January of 2008, Luke begged for a skateboard for his birthday and little did I know what would happen when I wrapped it up for him! He has returned to the love of his youth. Luke Van Hook has come full circle to his beginnings to land on his home base. The skateboard has also flown in mid-air, in harmony with gravity, and both land as one in a perfect execution of a move I would never dare try to do myself. I see each circle on the canvas as Luke's attempt to catapult his work into the mainstream of the art-world with each rotation of the paintbrush on the surface of the canvas. This is where I see Luke Van Hook in mid catapult, surfing on the air, light in transition, from youth to inspired maturity; from student to master, with paintbrush in hand landing and continuing to roll on four wheels with a great big shit-eating grin on his face. ('four' being the lucky number of his numerology charts). I see the ordered struggle, the innate joy in the success of one loop-de-loop after another. And once in a while, I also see the crash landing and the bloody injuries. What is more important is that Luke gets up and does it again each and every time. Luke has to begin again with each new circle, every circle becoming a part of a larger layer of community, thus his canvases vibrate with activity, mystery, romance and adventure. I find my own meanings in each image as it develops day by day and I am privileged to stand beside him, admire and witness the struggle of our Don Quixote in the new millennium, first hand.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">There is still time to see these painting up close and personal. The Brand Library Art Galleries is part of the Glendale Public Library, located at 1601 West Mountain Street in the City of Glendale, 91201 Telephone: 818-548-2051/ fax 818-548-2713 ; visit the Brand Library Art Galleries online at www.brandlibrary.org to check for Library hours.</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1dUvJOnIqtR85DFLQKyr7UwxOfxnRfo8fr6oCfQU8Zqmyr8CxeQR-75VtvzajWWvfG8ZEIB3Be4ASqc0b9P8otnz9WdCvY0M_8OkTfUuLzVztU00GFU1C16b_pZkFvtoLKoXJc4dh-K4/s1600-h/CookieAnaMartha.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1dUvJOnIqtR85DFLQKyr7UwxOfxnRfo8fr6oCfQU8Zqmyr8CxeQR-75VtvzajWWvfG8ZEIB3Be4ASqc0b9P8otnz9WdCvY0M_8OkTfUuLzVztU00GFU1C16b_pZkFvtoLKoXJc4dh-K4/s400/CookieAnaMartha.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239953611761997682" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Cookie Gallegos, Ana Porras and Martha Ingels attend the opening of "Circle in the Square" to support Luke Van Hook. Brand Art Library Galleries, Glendale, California August 2, 2008 Photo by Ginger Van Hook</span></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-tTzcT_2nEjQYSEJ6T6Xp7b2dXP8tJv1NP_wgvv7GuCbaYpnBi06YfxqE55o7zC6_51JyQo3-LCHE_6cvF5zxvhec-8DUQ6G3gEOpq-rsqmtYrpKKWaGtnxxYMEnn_lfrYeN7b9F41Cc/s1600-h/Lynn&Friends2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-tTzcT_2nEjQYSEJ6T6Xp7b2dXP8tJv1NP_wgvv7GuCbaYpnBi06YfxqE55o7zC6_51JyQo3-LCHE_6cvF5zxvhec-8DUQ6G3gEOpq-rsqmtYrpKKWaGtnxxYMEnn_lfrYeN7b9F41Cc/s400/Lynn&Friends2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239953618520736322" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">(From left to right) Margo Payne, Lynn Nantana-Green and Angela Williams attend the exhibition "Circle in the Square" in support of Luke Van Hook</span>.<br /></div></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikhO_JxQV-Di9oc9PenLZ46yx73-R4spllfum27UDLmTU9v2q8WkXXC5gwzFrkRK6f4Iyyx1eeC02S-5drP8CWr3tLVqDuT9LPPM1XkI0c7o1H4wplW6Ow74WnJTlmpU09q1dmSTR6VfI/s1600-h/Lynn&LukeVanHook.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikhO_JxQV-Di9oc9PenLZ46yx73-R4spllfum27UDLmTU9v2q8WkXXC5gwzFrkRK6f4Iyyx1eeC02S-5drP8CWr3tLVqDuT9LPPM1XkI0c7o1H4wplW6Ow74WnJTlmpU09q1dmSTR6VfI/s400/Lynn&LukeVanHook.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239953616477843762" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Lynn Lantana-Green came to support Artist, Luke Van Hook at the opening reception of "Circle in the Square" an art exhibition held at the Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, California, August 2, 2008. Photos by Ginger Van Hoo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">k</span><br /></div></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg53ZdMQe3c2e2DYefLVqDDwgKE9ulr_U1gFIaQ3nBbGSqh4ouhTVRbbwk8We_03KJWLtB_uKOndnXRi5ao7kjF9CI7XQr-vSyBCNXBZQbnBY51SXohMl2WnSLv7C_PcaxBNAcUz2hwzi4/s1600-h/Kevin&Luke.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg53ZdMQe3c2e2DYefLVqDDwgKE9ulr_U1gFIaQ3nBbGSqh4ouhTVRbbwk8We_03KJWLtB_uKOndnXRi5ao7kjF9CI7XQr-vSyBCNXBZQbnBY51SXohMl2WnSLv7C_PcaxBNAcUz2hwzi4/s400/Kevin&Luke.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239953621151026594" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Kevin Powell came to support Luke Van Hook and enjoy the paintings at the Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale California, August 2, 2008. Photo by Ginger Van Hoo</span>k<br /></div></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR24wwglUmUIvid_dKB2yWv5H1wwSZFrWvPGPPJslKrhnu2RJAfIcPEu1nfoR2t4Ic_AL9W_VV3V6i6dOnbqHlhyqdR7W5nkP_dLFP0i8ISJWqhbspHp_E5fNDZwsMoUa7UQpzYSXlMqo/s1600-h/Hector'sGrandkids.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR24wwglUmUIvid_dKB2yWv5H1wwSZFrWvPGPPJslKrhnu2RJAfIcPEu1nfoR2t4Ic_AL9W_VV3V6i6dOnbqHlhyqdR7W5nkP_dLFP0i8ISJWqhbspHp_E5fNDZwsMoUa7UQpzYSXlMqo/s400/Hector'sGrandkids.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239952029028542530" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Artist Luke Van Hook brought home-made pies to his reception of the exhibition "Circle in the Square". In addition to painting, Luke Van Hook has a reputation for making awesome pies from scratch. Photographed milling around the Double Fudge Pican Pie and the Sweet Berry Pie were the grandchildren of Hector Sticker. Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, California August 2, 2008. Photo by Ginger Van Hook</span></span></div></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIcB2R2j-sJVOrJvuSExGl5WRGpCSAmeSCOn7mHckw3yw5qQCeF9q1AcDldDDtDo4QXjNgiSt77SPYPJZS3vWjw0aAljMhJOFSI6i0ZtJMkD6Mdvyu1sTNVTz6aKis7N4NwjBJJTQVDfI/s1600-h/Luke&Family.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIcB2R2j-sJVOrJvuSExGl5WRGpCSAmeSCOn7mHckw3yw5qQCeF9q1AcDldDDtDo4QXjNgiSt77SPYPJZS3vWjw0aAljMhJOFSI6i0ZtJMkD6Mdvyu1sTNVTz6aKis7N4NwjBJJTQVDfI/s400/Luke&Family.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239952034504346594" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">(From left to right) Claudio Sticker, Hector Sticker, Peter Bolten, Martha Ingels, Luke Van Hook and Luis Ingels attend the reception of "Circle in the Square". Luke Van Hook and Luis Ingels worked together to create circles on canvas with the use of robotic CNC machines. After creating a little over a dozen machine-made paintings, Luke went on to compete with the machine and do the circles on his own by hand, one by one. Each circle is represented as being one breath and Luke Van Hook states that these are the marks he is leaving behind which define his existence during this lifetime as he continues to pursue the legend of "Giotto's Perfect Circle". Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, California, August 2, 2008. Photo by Ginger Van Hook</span></span></span><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiypIn7nJzEhUU_MEssotQcPHJtJtfwIdP-mTOpxBL_RCXpahtFjxMyXTENuDeFA_u0YXiYHff98lheUVGmB8ESfg0TvZlWd3zrDcDoVFPpRlKp2nUt5VfZt_sXbad1U6Et6aiuJvMLCcM/s1600-h/Rousanna&Family.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiypIn7nJzEhUU_MEssotQcPHJtJtfwIdP-mTOpxBL_RCXpahtFjxMyXTENuDeFA_u0YXiYHff98lheUVGmB8ESfg0TvZlWd3zrDcDoVFPpRlKp2nUt5VfZt_sXbad1U6Et6aiuJvMLCcM/s400/Rousanna&Family.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239952032756049618" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">From left to right, Ohannes Berberian, his daughter Melanie, Luke Van Hook and Rouzanna Berberian attend the opening reception of "Circle in the Square" at the Brand Library Art Galleries, August 2, 2008. Ohannes Berberian owns DigiTECH Camera Repair in Monrovia, California (www.digitechcamerarepair.com). Luke Van Hook and Rouzanna Berberian are both fine art painters and members of the Monrovia Association of Fine Arts (M.A.F.A.). Rouzanna Berberian is a teacher in the after-school arts programs supported by M.A.F.A. which promotes the goal of enhancing the lives of those within the community through interaction with the arts and to increase the opportunities of children through art education</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. Photo by Ginger Van Hook</span></span></span><br /></div></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6csFdpc_giLVnoOBYsZbvejkaoUUhZGHvfTP4WC6blsPXzOzoGW21t0vopOq_4E9dSD64k_Yt4yc7gyAB4_IwbFRsvKXs05902EpQx_w1IEKVLJ9fUKdAOmuztdF-nYH57YqI5Kw56XM/s1600-h/TheZgnoc's&VanHookAug22008.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6csFdpc_giLVnoOBYsZbvejkaoUUhZGHvfTP4WC6blsPXzOzoGW21t0vopOq_4E9dSD64k_Yt4yc7gyAB4_IwbFRsvKXs05902EpQx_w1IEKVLJ9fUKdAOmuztdF-nYH57YqI5Kw56XM/s400/TheZgnoc's&VanHookAug22008.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239952034963996290" /></a><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">From left to right, Kathleen Zgonc, photographer Frank Zgonc and artist Luke Van Hook attend the opening reception of 'Circle in the Square' at the Brand Library Art Galleries, August 2, 2008. Frank Zgonc is a an executive member of the Monrovia Association of Fine Arts in Monrovia, California. Frank Zgonc is the vice-president and official curator of Monrovia's yearly October Art Festival. This year the October Festival will be held on Saturday and Sunday October 11th and 12th, 2008 at the Monrovia Community Center located at 119 W. Palm Avenue in Monrovia. Free and open to the public, this art event will feature work by photographer Frank Zgonc; (Scheduled from 10 am to 6pm both days). There will also be an Opening Night Celebration Saturday, October 11th from 7-9:30 pm where the special Renaissance Award will be presented to a worthy individual who has made significant contributions to the arts. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook</span></span></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbpNajFyoUGUGNZcFumPo9pefZiWukSGX72McPW7G1ahcKSlWyh46xNsslhIm1UUtH79vbrOV9tPZebdFJDDEi1WCNJoeuxqNjXWI1SAOqr2DVnCVxdZmSTAigTShXqP_X7IrX5Zw8FwM/s1600-h/Luke&EnildeAug2+2008.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbpNajFyoUGUGNZcFumPo9pefZiWukSGX72McPW7G1ahcKSlWyh46xNsslhIm1UUtH79vbrOV9tPZebdFJDDEi1WCNJoeuxqNjXWI1SAOqr2DVnCVxdZmSTAigTShXqP_X7IrX5Zw8FwM/s400/Luke&EnildeAug2+2008.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239952039833165186" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mr. and Mrs. Luke and Ginger Van Hook attend the opening reception of 'Circle in the Square' at the Brand Libraries Art Galleries, August 2, 2008 in Glendale, California. Luke Van Hook an artist working from Inglewood, California earned a BFA at Otis College of ARt and Design. For several years, Van Hook has been exploring in his work, Giotto's fabled "perfect circle". Over time the single-minded focus on the perfection of the circle has been subsumed by the artist's interest in the aesthetic and expressive qualities of the circle. New works depict ritualistically repeated circular brushstrokes on canvas, hemp, and other materials. Van Hook states that he began " as a challenge to myself to see if a perfect circle was possible; these circles have now morphed into a challenge to myself to see if a perfect circle is possible. These circles have now morphed into a study in patience. The sense of time and the marking of time is inherent in the meticulous application of paint. The viewer can appreciate these temporal qualities but is also compelled to bring their own interpretation to the work. Are these circles pure abstraction? Combined do they conceal deliberate shapes and forms? or are they perhaps a secret code or language? Van Hook has exhibited at TAG Gallery, Focus One Gallery, and the Bolsky Gallery in Westchester. Luke Van Hook's painting may also be viewed on his website: www.lukevanhook.com</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Photo courtesy of Peter Bolte</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">n</span></span></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxO-_HzXQr1bDhHYRchC_ih4yKTmBxbj7-rZtNbYiPgHx95uampl46p3IR5f6Q0nzEMdhzIYphLxnO2pS3tjCo5C-_QilShKGGX0IaI_nyFwbNoT2WvaQmoiyDwDRwqBOhDnEI-HN1wTI/s1600-h/KevinPowell&Luke.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxO-_HzXQr1bDhHYRchC_ih4yKTmBxbj7-rZtNbYiPgHx95uampl46p3IR5f6Q0nzEMdhzIYphLxnO2pS3tjCo5C-_QilShKGGX0IaI_nyFwbNoT2WvaQmoiyDwDRwqBOhDnEI-HN1wTI/s400/KevinPowell&Luke.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239950934390796866" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Kevin Powell comes to support Luke Van Hook for his opening reception. Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, California, August 2, 2008. Photo by Ginger Van Hoo</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">k</span></span></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOfaMV2i1KP-jEZCdYOMd7EqLx19QpV_LgT-sJjhMl8UuDMvYG74_XNRTVw1Slv0iznHb3Wq1Vhikj8PlQX5eSG86CwMqAqvgfbVhLunBI4pBrAa__wdDBOv3NLg0mpkYW01spKzqzG0Q/s1600-h/Jason&Luke2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOfaMV2i1KP-jEZCdYOMd7EqLx19QpV_LgT-sJjhMl8UuDMvYG74_XNRTVw1Slv0iznHb3Wq1Vhikj8PlQX5eSG86CwMqAqvgfbVhLunBI4pBrAa__wdDBOv3NLg0mpkYW01spKzqzG0Q/s400/Jason&Luke2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239950934542179826" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Jason Porras attends the opening reception to support Luke Van Hook in his endeavors to pursue Giotto's legend of the 'Perfect Circle'. Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, California August 2, 2008. Photo By Ginger Van Hook.<br /></span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLLSXFHMq7mzBoxIZPHPOM4F2tC5e9jdw2tc2Wvp1toQ6EDjemK5g6sbG0xvKJSd4JcjpuFk4Ag8gdxVKGWcUX8gw4-IaKpLleRuXh_Q-9Ht_doM3qlJGmoVn3ix2JAXQVYBiRLfViZ7s/s1600-h/StainGlass.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLLSXFHMq7mzBoxIZPHPOM4F2tC5e9jdw2tc2Wvp1toQ6EDjemK5g6sbG0xvKJSd4JcjpuFk4Ag8gdxVKGWcUX8gw4-IaKpLleRuXh_Q-9Ht_doM3qlJGmoVn3ix2JAXQVYBiRLfViZ7s/s400/StainGlass.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239950009496336514" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0G1GCDSwuxGEdgDnzrTj9dwdGqr2pxQPlqgGNLR4GvzacsCgj-Q0avsouj-MQ75GQBZl52_rus5RIFE-tjYiiDE0FSQn42cISV3XNMvftxUeiKQuL0UNgjJszY62IIJ29WBgki-ndmxQ/s1600-h/ZoeMarthaEnilde.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0G1GCDSwuxGEdgDnzrTj9dwdGqr2pxQPlqgGNLR4GvzacsCgj-Q0avsouj-MQ75GQBZl52_rus5RIFE-tjYiiDE0FSQn42cISV3XNMvftxUeiKQuL0UNgjJszY62IIJ29WBgki-ndmxQ/s400/ZoeMarthaEnilde.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239950018612149330" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Zoe Hengst, Ginger Van Hook and Martha Ingels attend the opening of "Circle in the Square" to support Luke Van Hook. Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, California August 2, 2008. Photo courtesy of Peter Bolten</span>.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-_i019mldsoW_16bDtnE_PMsiDo7xrk0NdKlIeSH7sgBnlu3pdmSnH76uKACUVW6w8QLGrr4UGz5ruHBgi1TU5Vjsa6cnTXZX6pwTIMMnkXuzeYBnPo6KWe7VRzx8UPOR4tpE20e9kik/s1600-h/Zoe&Jopie.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-_i019mldsoW_16bDtnE_PMsiDo7xrk0NdKlIeSH7sgBnlu3pdmSnH76uKACUVW6w8QLGrr4UGz5ruHBgi1TU5Vjsa6cnTXZX6pwTIMMnkXuzeYBnPo6KWe7VRzx8UPOR4tpE20e9kik/s400/Zoe&Jopie.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239950022889105442" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Zoe and Jopie Hengst walk through the center of the exhibition "Circle in the Square" to support Luke Van Hook at the opening night, August 2, 2008. Paintings by Susan Sironi in the background. Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, California. Photo by Ginger Van Hook.<br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsXTzsaltmmDzrWQh5fA9Q9q9jNjHh4bHpzC9wjMzma9Cm_lnfWET-wJRImEcTtPOvMhlR99k2AM2Qt0wxfvsBzQBk8jiewwA6Mrz74W3HxAneBhYII3cFHfuDF5HG0wdD38BO_1AImog/s1600-h/Cookie,Enilde,Luke.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsXTzsaltmmDzrWQh5fA9Q9q9jNjHh4bHpzC9wjMzma9Cm_lnfWET-wJRImEcTtPOvMhlR99k2AM2Qt0wxfvsBzQBk8jiewwA6Mrz74W3HxAneBhYII3cFHfuDF5HG0wdD38BO_1AImog/s400/Cookie,Enilde,Luke.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239950023863874658" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Cookie Gallegos, Ginger Van Hook and Luke Van Hook pose for photographs in front of Luke Van Hook's painting at the Brand Library Art Galleries, August 2, 2008 Glendale, California. Photo courtesy of Peter Bolten.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvs3jGy7ieXzhnvD8_nqGEKLygiPD6yPtjGcdwEJ3bXokD1MIJhgCzT8zqAdB58PEluReZqWiJjyBj4biv4zpfv89vLHU1z32OWuALh89DZmiV_HKUOcIjM1P5kFi8TP-Al6myG6ykleg/s1600-h/Cookie&Ana.JPG"><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvs3jGy7ieXzhnvD8_nqGEKLygiPD6yPtjGcdwEJ3bXokD1MIJhgCzT8zqAdB58PEluReZqWiJjyBj4biv4zpfv89vLHU1z32OWuALh89DZmiV_HKUOcIjM1P5kFi8TP-Al6myG6ykleg/s400/Cookie&Ana.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239950025213851458" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Cookie Gallegos and Ana Porras watch the dance performance choreographed by Cheryl Walker, Brand Library Art Galleries, August 2, 2008, Glendale, California.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ_9fMR0Nsyp89RL1c8stKryVIQU17a7Byo8eofMscHqkrNxBJjVafCCAsLBKSyvDf7J-QVOt0M5QGhEPtetpKdoimKnc9WPNvxWodDN-IS1djt618eOIfL8iISZam2UGA2AF-W-5wDyA/s1600-h/YesunKimCircles.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ_9fMR0Nsyp89RL1c8stKryVIQU17a7Byo8eofMscHqkrNxBJjVafCCAsLBKSyvDf7J-QVOt0M5QGhEPtetpKdoimKnc9WPNvxWodDN-IS1djt618eOIfL8iISZam2UGA2AF-W-5wDyA/s400/YesunKimCircles.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239948385481462418" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Paintings by Yesung Kim, Brand Library Art Galleries, August 2, 2008, Glendale, California. Photo by Ginger Van Hook.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqMvavpOI6XSd0nH8GilLyhHhNBIMSlFivUzftMBSheb4HKESBjrq5vVHXSzUSr1ImyKTxB3P_SC9dbVjZQeqOA9iF79FjVQI6YnIARP-b08c0ZwlLiqvhCtkjRNNHf9dTinO1dup9FfU/s1600-h/YesunKim3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqMvavpOI6XSd0nH8GilLyhHhNBIMSlFivUzftMBSheb4HKESBjrq5vVHXSzUSr1ImyKTxB3P_SC9dbVjZQeqOA9iF79FjVQI6YnIARP-b08c0ZwlLiqvhCtkjRNNHf9dTinO1dup9FfU/s400/YesunKim3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239948390110021762" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Paintings by Yesung Kim, Brand Library Art Galleries, August 2, 2008, Glendale, California.<br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib0BRoTlX_f3TJvOn5askL_cXj0LHHzqS3Jk0aWz6npKSd2RNI-oY88IWAcRVOaDhcDnzn6zjMmLEr_4NR0yBYuIwkc1VcRobpSm_4_fIh5CY308QgbtsEf_qIfaEog79OdQzysnskHvg/s1600-h/YesunKim.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib0BRoTlX_f3TJvOn5askL_cXj0LHHzqS3Jk0aWz6npKSd2RNI-oY88IWAcRVOaDhcDnzn6zjMmLEr_4NR0yBYuIwkc1VcRobpSm_4_fIh5CY308QgbtsEf_qIfaEog79OdQzysnskHvg/s400/YesunKim.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239948390726042242" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Yesung Kim poses for a photograph in front of her paintings at the Brand Library Art Galleries, August 02, 2008, Glendale, California. Yesung Kim from Upland, California, was born in Seoul, South Korea and holds MFA degrees from Chung-Ang University and Claremont Graduate University. Kim's mixed media pieces are seductively simple. Ordinary brown packing string is deftly applied to a painted canvas creating organic shapes that shimmer and reflect light. At times these shapes appear to be on the brink of an amoeba-like division as they spread and expand, dropping off the edge of one canvas and continuing on to another. Kim cites the natural world and light and color as the underlying themes that both inspire and permeate her work. Following solo shows at the Seoul Museum of Art and the Seoul Arts Center, Kim's work was most recently exhibited at the San Bernardino County Museum's Multi Media Mini Show. More information about Kim's work can be found on her website: www.yesungkim.com<br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsfwxWlzBB3HeSnbSKhfmTm9aUYrquE5w0UtcIduLzh287Ub8R_7zeiaBdgBD2SA5Sn8Tfdmh5gnegYKJRZglwubzDQ1DHZv1NALsBkeFoEYwXQxJH08FbhVS9mUkh5TiVEwHBNwNcH_A/s1600-h/SusanSironiCloseUP.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsfwxWlzBB3HeSnbSKhfmTm9aUYrquE5w0UtcIduLzh287Ub8R_7zeiaBdgBD2SA5Sn8Tfdmh5gnegYKJRZglwubzDQ1DHZv1NALsBkeFoEYwXQxJH08FbhVS9mUkh5TiVEwHBNwNcH_A/s400/SusanSironiCloseUP.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239948393317013618" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Painting by Susan Sironi, Brand Library Art Galleries, August 2, 2008 Glendale, California.<br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxaNuJXfWVaFoxdW6Z5A0SFHquxydSg3hGTxqdt41dFvN0xBn5OVj2FsrBoFJbQk390l0ePteFyIC3zoFred7io-U13LAeEV2xXGAgPKis7stfqOUPZBN8Xzub1-G4jPBAEFwCwI8DaZ4/s1600-h/OptiLensSironi.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxaNuJXfWVaFoxdW6Z5A0SFHquxydSg3hGTxqdt41dFvN0xBn5OVj2FsrBoFJbQk390l0ePteFyIC3zoFred7io-U13LAeEV2xXGAgPKis7stfqOUPZBN8Xzub1-G4jPBAEFwCwI8DaZ4/s400/OptiLensSironi.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239948400112583394" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Glass curtain by Susan Sironi, Brand Library Art Galleries, August 2, 2008,Glendale, California. Photo by Ginger Van Hook.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxzO2GiFChP4vgMb239YrEhRixpM16FM1veowApa_wgQ16EaIqcWQpzKdSMjsB0PUp6HDhfrP4u4UF-9Q0QB5s72fF4vdP4CK95KDpSMx06uy5GG99NI2MQWHt29BmpJ1u6m3w-FAEO4o/s1600-h/CherylWalker.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxzO2GiFChP4vgMb239YrEhRixpM16FM1veowApa_wgQ16EaIqcWQpzKdSMjsB0PUp6HDhfrP4u4UF-9Q0QB5s72fF4vdP4CK95KDpSMx06uy5GG99NI2MQWHt29BmpJ1u6m3w-FAEO4o/s400/CherylWalker.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239946502387292418" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Cheryl Walker designed a curtain of vinyl layers of color called 'Waterfall IV' that became the backdrop for a beautiful dance performance using the 'circle in the square' theme exhibited at the Brand Library Art Galleries in Glendale California, August 2, 2008. Cheryl Walker holds in her hand some of the vinyl circles that were placed upon the windows at the exhibition hall. Her vinyl circles upon the windows created an illusion of the stained glass effects. The dance piece entertained a large audience on opening night as artists, collectors, art appreciators and family and friends celebrated the mythologies, geometries, magical and mystical qualities of the circle. Dance Performers Liz Curtis, and Martha Carrascosa performed a dance which included participation from members of the audience. </span></span> </div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglPBkKlj12WDaltJbOrIPg3Rr35PMATVmbYasI1xhhLkHunkcay9d16K9-IZI2yZL-DFqJNHCUlx7P8q7MENw4grD0hyCMH0TjofTrv2P3yEApajeEwi8mHgp0Y2r2GlauvBp5FtNdDOQ/s1600-h/Audience1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglPBkKlj12WDaltJbOrIPg3Rr35PMATVmbYasI1xhhLkHunkcay9d16K9-IZI2yZL-DFqJNHCUlx7P8q7MENw4grD0hyCMH0TjofTrv2P3yEApajeEwi8mHgp0Y2r2GlauvBp5FtNdDOQ/s400/Audience1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239945886691120050" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Members of the audience interacted with the dancers Martha Carrascosa and Liz Curtis at the Brand Library Art Galleries participated in creating a colorful cascade of window art on August 2, 2008 in Glendale, California.</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpIwbfZtpFSV0O8a8LznxYyjAji-nDnUXpF6rYrmduomSrlfyNlu7qYQyYTLeIltyvNuL_uhXS6o4grJW8jDYJBoGH9bbA30lbafcYzW9qQhuvWuakVBr0Ti4QGGy7AXiwQF8lViEhaOM/s1600-h/Dancers4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpIwbfZtpFSV0O8a8LznxYyjAji-nDnUXpF6rYrmduomSrlfyNlu7qYQyYTLeIltyvNuL_uhXS6o4grJW8jDYJBoGH9bbA30lbafcYzW9qQhuvWuakVBr0Ti4QGGy7AXiwQF8lViEhaOM/s400/Dancers4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239945885654281330" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Audience watches dancers Liz Curtis and Martha Carrascosa from Glendale Community College as they perform a choreographed piece by Cheryl Walker, artist. "Circle in the Square", Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale California, August 2, 2008. Photo By Ginger Van Hoo</span>k<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz_z8jtdwn-23kfNTyuNkSCebO2OJ3Bz2wHEQE40zRCI4DNEGVu4oN96fUTRsnpSko7cBRJAhtxuSVFXvZFxKKN0YxttOjtWh0ce13fHh8Am3cAyjR1COT5udTyXT9H5TVMhlvnkVCYGk/s1600-h/Dancers3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz_z8jtdwn-23kfNTyuNkSCebO2OJ3Bz2wHEQE40zRCI4DNEGVu4oN96fUTRsnpSko7cBRJAhtxuSVFXvZFxKKN0YxttOjtWh0ce13fHh8Am3cAyjR1COT5udTyXT9H5TVMhlvnkVCYGk/s400/Dancers3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239945891901957506" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Dancers Liz Curtis and Martha Carrascosa performing dance choreographed by artist Cheryl Walker, (within the green curtain), Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, California. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKXoZLw2jWmJVtQRsPwTkGQBS5FMD7YgkUx0kF-7Lv_gVqtHv7eSTSTaJ6QuCllql5I-dwrEjmKY_jVyTubHIlcZ-IjCPuH7mUkoBtupHQNWALM_033imy7uO8wqE4CrxAXFh9dsHXYOk/s1600-h/Dancers2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKXoZLw2jWmJVtQRsPwTkGQBS5FMD7YgkUx0kF-7Lv_gVqtHv7eSTSTaJ6QuCllql5I-dwrEjmKY_jVyTubHIlcZ-IjCPuH7mUkoBtupHQNWALM_033imy7uO8wqE4CrxAXFh9dsHXYOk/s400/Dancers2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239945896013030018" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Cheryl Walker engaged in performance art intersecting with window art using the artistic theme of 'Circle in the Square'. Brand Library Art Gallery, Glendale, CAlifornia August 2, 2008. Photo by Ginger Van Hook.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhHbt6aiWqEJ3j_P5DJ5a2DM_7tts6umf-C5iBtOniDI2YFBycLixnkSN3NhZq5gZWqShSTcxI9AOn5bsqGmMaiNQcV5j8r3GIKEwtoakvstj_WO4AvkcqoXDRLZRQ9Y0J-ETx7ByYFko/s1600-h/Cheryl&Friend.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhHbt6aiWqEJ3j_P5DJ5a2DM_7tts6umf-C5iBtOniDI2YFBycLixnkSN3NhZq5gZWqShSTcxI9AOn5bsqGmMaiNQcV5j8r3GIKEwtoakvstj_WO4AvkcqoXDRLZRQ9Y0J-ETx7ByYFko/s400/Cheryl&Friend.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239945898781754594" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Cheryl Walker smiles happily on opening night, Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale California. August 2, 2008. Cheryl Walker, a Los Angeles artist, earned her BA in art in her home state of Minnesota, and her MFA from California State University, Long Beach. In this exhibition Walker created two large site-specific installations of vinyl, oil pastel and natural and artificial light. Walker explains that the driving force behind her work is "human interaction and improvisation in response to a natural phenomenon or situation." Trained as painter, Walker's installations have some of the qualities of painting; when viewed head-on the suspended layers of vinyl can appear to be two-dimensional because of their transparency and the cut shapes and forms applied to the vinyl are reminiscent of brushstrokes--but removed from the wall these works are thrust into what she calls an "interactive field of play." The fluidity of the material she works with and her interest in collaboration between the artist and the viewer have inspired Walker to create works that can be transformed into performance pieces by dance, music and in-situ art-making. In this exhibition, a dance performance captivates the audience on opening night at the Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, California. August 2, 2008. Photos By Ginger Van Hook<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBV64OfvyIDKP12JKkr35kliFNrIlygm8kyZmoeN1muQQ9fBAVghyphenhyphenJgvjwo3cqETA74ozmj4nffngmQm8VK5kaaLKxwq0pFwuMtLnozRazrub148jLIVaNtwAkdhYRSgmZffYe5yIhdg/s1600-h/crowd1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBV64OfvyIDKP12JKkr35kliFNrIlygm8kyZmoeN1muQQ9fBAVghyphenhyphenJgvjwo3cqETA74ozmj4nffngmQm8VK5kaaLKxwq0pFwuMtLnozRazrub148jLIVaNtwAkdhYRSgmZffYe5yIhdg/s400/crowd1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239943679036556130" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih7kIqKch7yJAGqEIGXFKUQHbpovRD8R1AMZsWi0ViCqco-s6QOnEPOfaFgAFUf-BkAX30eQP2gi25tespYvBq8yN9R_ZAZAXoJc2fftkicF7o5hKYR6Esbtx28pyl2XLk-_K4J80IBIA/s1600-h/BrandGallerySpace.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih7kIqKch7yJAGqEIGXFKUQHbpovRD8R1AMZsWi0ViCqco-s6QOnEPOfaFgAFUf-BkAX30eQP2gi25tespYvBq8yN9R_ZAZAXoJc2fftkicF7o5hKYR6Esbtx28pyl2XLk-_K4J80IBIA/s400/BrandGallerySpace.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239943681436638898" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT1vNk2FqeCHMkvKanOFc9i9UvVPoqTsoCeo1rJINEAmsazXa9vHNsMKPWooZD1wMfV0YZl0tO4p41Rpf7zSGJRy1yPWCT6D9bSukwWxf1Hv8YH3Q1xvS3WtL3Pp1EKTL-e636_0A4ELI/s1600-h/BarbaraKolo&husband.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT1vNk2FqeCHMkvKanOFc9i9UvVPoqTsoCeo1rJINEAmsazXa9vHNsMKPWooZD1wMfV0YZl0tO4p41Rpf7zSGJRy1yPWCT6D9bSukwWxf1Hv8YH3Q1xvS3WtL3Pp1EKTL-e636_0A4ELI/s400/BarbaraKolo&husband.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239942728763092098" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Barbara Kolo, Artist from "Circle in the Square" poses for a photograph in front of her painting with her husband Mr. Kolo. Barbara Kolo, a Santa Monica Artist, earned her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Kolo Participated in a successful two-person show at the Brand Library Art Galleries in 1999. The Brand Library Art Galleries are pleased to present (nearly ten years later) a new body of work by Barbara Kolo that connects to that which was here before. In those works and these, her focus is on representing organic materials. The current large scale acrylic on canvas works are saturated with color; the stippled application of paint creates organic shapes and patterns representative of the natural world. The subject matter is open to each viewers interpretation, where one may see a birch forest at dusk, others may see the bold aesthetic of pure color and abstraction. Kolo has had recent solo shows at Topanga Canyon Gallery and the Off Rose Gallery in Venice, California. More information about Kolo's work can be found on her website: www.barbarakolo.com Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale California. Photo by Ginger Van Hook</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTbmirP184FwQ9cQX7UYVhgySWXoT3QifcQ9ZDyvFm3udm_a5Hs2KMphSXlgkjkc7l_BouJFWjvGMC9_EO6LFBd3aFNKOh_8LThSa_iy1FwdjSWHhtTHRHE7OpuBMzZBhvZ4QL2zssgso/s1600-h/SSironiFamily.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTbmirP184FwQ9cQX7UYVhgySWXoT3QifcQ9ZDyvFm3udm_a5Hs2KMphSXlgkjkc7l_BouJFWjvGMC9_EO6LFBd3aFNKOh_8LThSa_iy1FwdjSWHhtTHRHE7OpuBMzZBhvZ4QL2zssgso/s400/SSironiFamily.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239942734803167570" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmIYebHXCw2X_qsQii7xlEjThUE0rxk04yWQe-5QOsHHKj0UBSnpomBL6tgPFYtlm2QBkMYR94FX8Lw6MNi3uL3yQOoHXZqlIfBM_WMsWMlJPosLeAPpuhKxX-RMu6ARhStVbHRU8svik/s1600-h/Susan&Friends.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmIYebHXCw2X_qsQii7xlEjThUE0rxk04yWQe-5QOsHHKj0UBSnpomBL6tgPFYtlm2QBkMYR94FX8Lw6MNi3uL3yQOoHXZqlIfBM_WMsWMlJPosLeAPpuhKxX-RMu6ARhStVbHRU8svik/s400/Susan&Friends.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239942734776882690" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw7c6yjPYJgl6iBrSvfeMZ6_r6sF4YAfAeGFxdIwKt4hVEtwB_n2X8l2qWyPmZMZJiYlQoKjmeS_3pMmIPR8kF0wMiJrVt_YEaxPOs0nGqmbD8MhhWn9APdkJmOO21pneXYzUp_WHKe_A/s1600-h/Susan&Friend.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw7c6yjPYJgl6iBrSvfeMZ6_r6sF4YAfAeGFxdIwKt4hVEtwB_n2X8l2qWyPmZMZJiYlQoKjmeS_3pMmIPR8kF0wMiJrVt_YEaxPOs0nGqmbD8MhhWn9APdkJmOO21pneXYzUp_WHKe_A/s400/Susan&Friend.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239942737818906674" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiakQHWVUxpflkylBhKvpSTEhFlvMBdNvydL2vbPAyTT9fcwTsfJ1SyDKujQcoELjrlKYD4keLxJ2Q_3AEjry9qceod5UJEcLHO6jXAZ4fbd-FzvFv1VIDYD4YuzfLhqjSovPILeUX2waw/s1600-h/BarbaraKolo.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiakQHWVUxpflkylBhKvpSTEhFlvMBdNvydL2vbPAyTT9fcwTsfJ1SyDKujQcoELjrlKYD4keLxJ2Q_3AEjry9qceod5UJEcLHO6jXAZ4fbd-FzvFv1VIDYD4YuzfLhqjSovPILeUX2waw/s400/BarbaraKolo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239941770974924066" /><br /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;">Barbara Kolo poses for a photograph during opening night celebrations for the exhibition, "Circle in the Square" at the Brand Library Art Galleries, Augusts 2, 2008. Glendale, California.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3u0SF9MoCXimiGM5jOYWw2XvocFYsEkVwmaEUrTGKLbJaM6gdJqvuNixb1efv6Dd6dBJuX-SUQxBbFzLhS-STabOIm_YajKrK3SDEPpQjZZ7IYpPuu3ma2IIRDdfklthwITFiSBjodtM/s1600-h/SusanSironi.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3u0SF9MoCXimiGM5jOYWw2XvocFYsEkVwmaEUrTGKLbJaM6gdJqvuNixb1efv6Dd6dBJuX-SUQxBbFzLhS-STabOIm_YajKrK3SDEPpQjZZ7IYpPuu3ma2IIRDdfklthwITFiSBjodtM/s400/SusanSironi.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239941774067048722" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Susan Sironi, an artist living in Altadena, California posed for her photograph in front of her paintings at the Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, California. August 2, 2008. Susan Sironi earned her BFA at California Sate University, Long Beach. This exhibition will showcase Sironi's recent paintings as well as her Glass Curtain installation which is comprised of conjoined antique optometric lenses. Her paintings are about texture, color and process. Small dabs of oil paint are painstakingly applied to aluminum, building up an intricate, thorny surface. Highly textured and multihued when viewed up close, this surface belies the color play minimalist color-field appearance of the work at a distance . In the artist's own words "texture and color play equal roles in these works. They ... set up contradictions within each piece. Painitings that seem to invite touch and intimacy are also reserved and automomous. Time and process are weighed against a static and minimal structure. Sironi's work was most recently seen in the Brea Art Gallery's Made in California exhibition, at the Chouinard School of Art Gallery, and the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. More information about Sironi's work can be found on her website: web.mac.com/susansironi/susan/sironi/Welcome.html.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook. </div></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW8Lx0XMCKPEpN2OaNjKFeUqieFnaQANIkEIXEN79JCinnvoye8HhfiPoG9qb5X4KLBAhP01zegrrtg-rThI66lyblTJc51DluHcHVpYRUcXvHpY8AWkzn6kQZE8DuvO20AN2cRBP-2Tc/s1600-h/YesunKim2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW8Lx0XMCKPEpN2OaNjKFeUqieFnaQANIkEIXEN79JCinnvoye8HhfiPoG9qb5X4KLBAhP01zegrrtg-rThI66lyblTJc51DluHcHVpYRUcXvHpY8AWkzn6kQZE8DuvO20AN2cRBP-2Tc/s400/YesunKim2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239941776469660114" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Yesung Kim, Brand Library Art Gallery, Glendale, California, August 2, 2008.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivVdDu2GZrhIXlGs8a9JlKLkF3h7Ga2BZv844P0xiX6bJx5noISYVavp5WYmbq7_OS9X0NYgoMWE7U0iwg08uDJ1-gbIpf6w8DGtCOHITRG6L2pvgOhiZCf-upEAcn6Z1qTHcI-32dZBI/s1600-h/CircleInSquare.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivVdDu2GZrhIXlGs8a9JlKLkF3h7Ga2BZv844P0xiX6bJx5noISYVavp5WYmbq7_OS9X0NYgoMWE7U0iwg08uDJ1-gbIpf6w8DGtCOHITRG6L2pvgOhiZCf-upEAcn6Z1qTHcI-32dZBI/s400/CircleInSquare.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239938617399288418" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiuy0OeuXDCJe21XKwYebCj8JDrRubL22fM-SSO2n90oyNtjZDB4sKAgYHtA9r61Acj1_56hviFHiqHUnKLLEKEIC-FWEpfmIFBRgx44c9sa6lqn8rQpFgz0uhxNgm2-UB6JUbt7BSjWk/s1600-h/EntranceBrand1.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiuy0OeuXDCJe21XKwYebCj8JDrRubL22fM-SSO2n90oyNtjZDB4sKAgYHtA9r61Acj1_56hviFHiqHUnKLLEKEIC-FWEpfmIFBRgx44c9sa6lqn8rQpFgz0uhxNgm2-UB6JUbt7BSjWk/s400/EntranceBrand1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239930613254669138" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">The Entrance to the Brand Library Art Galleries in Glendale, California hosts a prominent postcard of the show "Circle in the Square" now exhibiting through September 5th, 2008</span></span></span><br /></div></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHm5EPt-laSAdacrpjV75VycX4hyphenhyphenkzH8Mvgk2HzMOJCgovY-NtufT1nMkqvvEs9W_xOxYM_7vNMHtjGbtcCIYqSEuUljOUyRpxNuFQtnrLiXQNdIzOoxMJkeWq0NF1V4gtiSniY_CPWk/s1600-h/BrandGallery.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHm5EPt-laSAdacrpjV75VycX4hyphenhyphenkzH8Mvgk2HzMOJCgovY-NtufT1nMkqvvEs9W_xOxYM_7vNMHtjGbtcCIYqSEuUljOUyRpxNuFQtnrLiXQNdIzOoxMJkeWq0NF1V4gtiSniY_CPWk/s400/BrandGallery.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239929917681366354" /></a><div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"> Luke Van Hook</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"> paintings are now showing at the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Brand Library Art Galleries</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"> in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Glendale</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">"Circle in the Square"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"> is a group show of artist unified by the circle motif. Each artist brings to the show a new perspective with which to view the circle and its meaning. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Yesung Kim, Barbara Kolo, Susan Sironi, Luke Van Hook and Cheryl Walker</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"> are contemporary local artists working to change the viewers perception about circles. There is still time to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">view the show</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"> which runs </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">through Friday, September 5th, 2008</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">. Photographs from the reception and dance performance held on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 are available here on Ginger's Art Journal.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The paintings on display at the Brand Library Art Galleries exhibit an innate struggle in the depth of paint that each stroke reveals. The subtle grays on the raw canvas pushes and pulls the eye forward to the next circle and careful inspection reveals subtle degrees of paint on each circle which gives the image a vibrant hue which captures light and spins it forward.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div> </div><div><div><br /></div></div></div></div>Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-2191961237658987522008-05-02T20:02:00.000-07:002008-05-08T18:05:09.355-07:00The Art of Reading Leads to the Art of Writing at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the UCLA campus in Westwood! by Enilde Van Hook<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9yv0MiGttcj3cJu22mM9GmSOmKbEUv0hiuJzZqkmh3Fk0bkJixni88nsSzthh7eaZzpfL3k_u-1ujANFAevW1S7V2L-KSBGQ2HtyPkxe8Pffln6Jg8HEuxcndtCkCDS_WqCwDUi4wZU/s1600-h/FestivalOfBooks08.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9yv0MiGttcj3cJu22mM9GmSOmKbEUv0hiuJzZqkmh3Fk0bkJixni88nsSzthh7eaZzpfL3k_u-1ujANFAevW1S7V2L-KSBGQ2HtyPkxe8Pffln6Jg8HEuxcndtCkCDS_WqCwDUi4wZU/s320/FestivalOfBooks08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197511266314061186" /></a> <br />When is a library, not a library? When it’s a Book Festival where the books come out to play! The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books celebrated its 13th year of book promotions on the UCLA campus with an estimated attendance of over 140,000 people who love to read books!<br />Here is where the traditional library, once thought to be a stuffy, hush-hush, nerdy and quiet setting transforms itself into a megalomaniac fair of books and stories and documentaries just waiting to come alive. Books become the roller coaster of emotions, the merry-go-round of ideas, the bumper cars of change and the Ferris wheels of fiction.<br /><br /><br />In this day and age, the traditional library has undergone a radical change in our culture…it has gone outside, yes outside the box, outside the building and outside under yonder shade trees to re-invent itself. Unlike the regular library, where one checks out a book and must return it within a specific amount of time, this type of literary environment goes beyond just borrowing a book. This activity steps into the realm of personal libraries. This is where the reader amasses his or her own library collection of favorite authors, books, books on tape, digital recordings of books, even recordings for the blind and dyslexic by going outside the comfort of indoor lighting and venturing into the elements of nature. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim1BlFrUfiVsM1sem3uzaQ4leUMjYd3Ya_sJKGH2tTuPC6l8UWGq-P6udEg3eMvqYSPRa-Sn3510Ew3abt-atoyizfjBQtrjG1-TZCGonnKgjhyphenhyphenB40BYps9zTQXZuFAuZJ_T-7ydaM5Os/s1600-h/ThousandsAttendLATFOB.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim1BlFrUfiVsM1sem3uzaQ4leUMjYd3Ya_sJKGH2tTuPC6l8UWGq-P6udEg3eMvqYSPRa-Sn3510Ew3abt-atoyizfjBQtrjG1-TZCGonnKgjhyphenhyphenB40BYps9zTQXZuFAuZJ_T-7ydaM5Os/s320/ThousandsAttendLATFOB.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197525547080320466" /></a><br /><br />The weekend of April 26th and 27th, under weather conditions reaching over 90 degrees in Westwood, the Pacific Ocean breeze quietly slipped in and around the leaves of Ficus trees, Great Oaks, Pines, and luscious landscaped lawns of one of our most prestigious institutions of higher learning; on the campus of UCLA, surrounded by noble buildings of great learning and ample gardens of exquisite greenery, what promised to be adventure at first, had indeed become an obsession for learning, an unquenchable thirst for more information about one’s world…who was in it in the past? Who’s in it now? Where’s the planet going? Who killed who? Or Whom? What artist leapt to his death from the bridge of misunderstanding? The answers were all there waiting to be revealed once you ventured out into the Festival of Books to bring home some new friends! This was my third year visiting the LA Times Festival of Books.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMTfcmPpC5bqhbXsQfN7ZD5BmUbdOJtDy4hHtpIJdXz9-5p8uLtcICM-vtzjua4KgvJv2uRuoXeB1_LNwdSG_8oS1xx0GlDxq9XK_D-d05pSE5ioJI3BsyiHpIVnTUbScviZwKncDwbg/s1600-h/FestivalLATimes.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMTfcmPpC5bqhbXsQfN7ZD5BmUbdOJtDy4hHtpIJdXz9-5p8uLtcICM-vtzjua4KgvJv2uRuoXeB1_LNwdSG_8oS1xx0GlDxq9XK_D-d05pSE5ioJI3BsyiHpIVnTUbScviZwKncDwbg/s320/FestivalLATimes.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197523511265822130" /></a><br /><br /><br />As I came upon the first of the booths, I saw a long line of people, fanning themselves in the hot sun with only partial shade for some while others brought lawn chairs, umbrellas and water bottles or coolers and bared the heat while reading the LA Times or a comic book they’d purchased while sipping lemonades from the local vendors. “Get your lemonade!” a man shouted from the center of another line of readers waiting for an author. As I made my way down the narrow aisles of celebrity book fans I looked up in time to see that Valerie Bertinelli was about to emerge and I could already see a wave of nervous cameramen and camerawomen with their trigger fingers anxiously poised above their focused lenses. I felt in good company. I too was about to sign copies of my book today. The Kingdom Of Nuts and Bolts, was being released to the reading public and I was headed over to join the authors at booth 715 sponsored by THE GREATER LOS ANGELES WRITER’S SOCIETY. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyXEA4s_JwpT9vUoVyXaxJH5Wwc3Dd8hxjFAYL2YsEmOFWo9n4cSqTEWZb-n_A2i5HRsZs0PzJlHRYfLlcnwmqjulH7Zo6J-ZYfhktR9o2gdsc7c01uGqdvUOdJvhYIpW5M-NpQxImZVk/s1600-h/ReadersBuyBooks.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyXEA4s_JwpT9vUoVyXaxJH5Wwc3Dd8hxjFAYL2YsEmOFWo9n4cSqTEWZb-n_A2i5HRsZs0PzJlHRYfLlcnwmqjulH7Zo6J-ZYfhktR9o2gdsc7c01uGqdvUOdJvhYIpW5M-NpQxImZVk/s320/ReadersBuyBooks.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197524658022090178" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />I was invited to join the Greater Los Angeles Writer’s Society recently and have discovered the treasures of its membership as well as the benefits to career and community. The Greater Los Angeles Writers Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to mentoring writers of all levels in the craft and business of writing. The society works to provide continuing education and a forum for the marketing of a writer’s work. The society is guided by a philosophy of “writers mentoring writers of all disciplines” and their website (www.glaws.org) details their variety of resources, welcoming writers from all over California and the country to learn more about the craft.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirmFsy05sRykCvuN9QabDni9J0AKYEpp5a2m_cy25hchnCtCHUa2KE1fxDUPMGhXhL6MmpWZi7U6Ffo3GHTUSQrfprX1rsyTBbrUWHndcWRLicxG8slgQXCGNWKldpXc6DaRShYM19tKI/s1600-h/Membership08.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirmFsy05sRykCvuN9QabDni9J0AKYEpp5a2m_cy25hchnCtCHUa2KE1fxDUPMGhXhL6MmpWZi7U6Ffo3GHTUSQrfprX1rsyTBbrUWHndcWRLicxG8slgQXCGNWKldpXc6DaRShYM19tKI/s320/Membership08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197869653563976498" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOQ8Uatb8KggfPn1pTis6C9ELgqt-EHnRSXyC5wXMKMFe8g4kj_c_LqUPM9FnUHlFep5EZMIQX7G4sUy7rDESvMcEz6_e2lAjaTvDBJEYG569VobJYgXN28v5tMbmxTvMYx4HE7dFMYb0/s1600-h/FeaturedBooks.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOQ8Uatb8KggfPn1pTis6C9ELgqt-EHnRSXyC5wXMKMFe8g4kj_c_LqUPM9FnUHlFep5EZMIQX7G4sUy7rDESvMcEz6_e2lAjaTvDBJEYG569VobJYgXN28v5tMbmxTvMYx4HE7dFMYb0/s320/FeaturedBooks.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197526586462406114" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I knew I had gotten to the right booth when I saw the buttons they were passing out. “What’s Your Story?” As I was about to take the hot seat of an author…I kid you not; the seat was hot because the sun cast its rays upon the storytellers’ table; I thought to myself again, ‘I’m in fine company!’ I had heard that Gay Talese, Julie Andrews and Tommy Lasorda were telling their stories and here I was, a humble little writer of my first fiction novel about to tell my own. <br />I resorted to taking pictures to relax my own photo-happy-trigger finger. I always enjoy a good shutterbug moment and this was no exception. So, I took pictures of the authors I was with, while I signed a few books myself. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfjQ8E4dfkpZ0KKLRY8HGn5WLSgcyWPfZnktpioDCEmbw1h9F8j91JjDYCjHh-7mVOQ0j8dj0KiDVSzEng3hjUcR2isvK3CuFbQZLPPjteFT8bD5uWpbJ6AyHdNFRpe0LFngvojjg8ds/s1600-h/Leslie&Mike.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfjQ8E4dfkpZ0KKLRY8HGn5WLSgcyWPfZnktpioDCEmbw1h9F8j91JjDYCjHh-7mVOQ0j8dj0KiDVSzEng3hjUcR2isvK3CuFbQZLPPjteFT8bD5uWpbJ6AyHdNFRpe0LFngvojjg8ds/s320/Leslie&Mike.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197530185645000178" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />I met Leslie Ann Moore, the author of Griffin’s Daughter, and I learned she wrote romantic fantasy (which I overheard her telling a reader that she had won an award). I visited her website at www.leslieannmoore.com and was inspired by her story that she is a veterinarian, writer and belly dancer too!<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9g0gDB9B_Hiv6ZOF72mRdMps-D68JlxN8wEWtmfdPz87JLgoIuD5qsNANFgpnZHckiXxPuJvngPjKDeHWrK2CSOqmutpayEoIVnI_QQNnyS7GoE1iGX2WH3eHI3gOib4ljYA_zLNQY3c/s1600-h/LeslieAnnMoore.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9g0gDB9B_Hiv6ZOF72mRdMps-D68JlxN8wEWtmfdPz87JLgoIuD5qsNANFgpnZHckiXxPuJvngPjKDeHWrK2CSOqmutpayEoIVnI_QQNnyS7GoE1iGX2WH3eHI3gOib4ljYA_zLNQY3c/s320/LeslieAnnMoore.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197870654291356482" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /> I also met Mike Robinson the author of Too Much Dark Matter, Too Little Gray (which personally as a photographer, I liked the title.) I learned that Mike Robinson is the author of seven novels and two collections. Mike also sold a number of short stories to print and electronic magazines, anthologies and podcasts. Visit Mike’s website at www.freewebs.com and learn that he too is stalking BIG FOOT! <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7j-7FNAacQ_Mr9jzEMsswKDSEb8yH1y9KXBsWeB99GD3bUFxaNpax6rNolcYO2aw1TqqNejvg0NXphRCpa1bFFZX_1FmYEQPgiUxzqoRC7OZ6sXr3P2ARB1Hr8Sez-fvb5d5g5g8VMBM/s1600-h/MikeRobinson.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7j-7FNAacQ_Mr9jzEMsswKDSEb8yH1y9KXBsWeB99GD3bUFxaNpax6rNolcYO2aw1TqqNejvg0NXphRCpa1bFFZX_1FmYEQPgiUxzqoRC7OZ6sXr3P2ARB1Hr8Sez-fvb5d5g5g8VMBM/s320/MikeRobinson.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197873527624477538" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRLNLWTVK3re631FAajoouTXOArsihPULPGHrZ-z_TMxAX_SrbG-aDHh7gNmkyZFCvV9fgpeyy2oaFCjkLZWqO7VBDucBXVWsMg75JwJhqqImhmtXcYSUMcwi1lHCSZqT1ai9GK81rh64/s1600-h/AuthorsExhibit08.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRLNLWTVK3re631FAajoouTXOArsihPULPGHrZ-z_TMxAX_SrbG-aDHh7gNmkyZFCvV9fgpeyy2oaFCjkLZWqO7VBDucBXVWsMg75JwJhqqImhmtXcYSUMcwi1lHCSZqT1ai9GK81rh64/s320/AuthorsExhibit08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197521569940604322" /></a><br /><br />On Saturday, another author I had the opportunity to meet at the GLAWS booth was Matt Pallamary. We sat together as our fans lined up to talk to us about our books. (Maybe our lines weren’t as long as Valerie Bertinelli’s for her book “Losing it: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time” but we had a following, nonetheless!) Matt has written his memoirs detailing his spiritual journeys to Peru where he worked with shamanic plant medicines. His most recent book is titled Spirit Matters and his website is www.mattpallamary.com. This was a serendipitous place to be sharing space with Matt Pallamary as I had the rare opportunity to discuss some of my own spiritual stories from my early childhood in Argentina. The Kingdom of Nuts and Bolts is a story about a five-year-old boy named Miguelito, who can see things that others can’t and this makes him special and extra inventive. He has a special magic friend named Hector (made out of nuts and bolts) who teaches him to fix things. The story, a comedy, is set in Buenos Aires, Argentina using the popular genre of South American writers, that of Magical Realism. The story explores an imaginative spirit world set in the 1930’s and is told from the perspectives of a fly, a witch, a seagull, an angel, a demon and two little brothers. The paperback version is available through www.enildeingelsvanhook.com.<br />and coming soon to www.amazon.com so check the website in mid May for available stock.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW-eGV5rhUy-rEBAEqp9xXR4Pu1FMhFldPS0aGDgm1I-WvDAKgE0OXrSDJ32VPoXuU11HFBaKQnjNeKq1bQss-35roIkQljsNkKM2ibHjJ32fjFD9KG9oS6hud0KebYB281gP0swt7t4s/s1600-h/MatthewPallamary&EnildeVanHook.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW-eGV5rhUy-rEBAEqp9xXR4Pu1FMhFldPS0aGDgm1I-WvDAKgE0OXrSDJ32VPoXuU11HFBaKQnjNeKq1bQss-35roIkQljsNkKM2ibHjJ32fjFD9KG9oS6hud0KebYB281gP0swt7t4s/s320/MatthewPallamary&EnildeVanHook.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198103587547687842" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnMnqq20VSH0QugL1Unii5wqqFKsu0xO1VNVvcVD8-dIKJLzurdNsjI4tUCI8mcSzOPJIFAlLgiTXJucqR1BfuD_m6Fbnhw4FAJ8FRoMlFdW5Gk9DjFRMcUsOkEXcQW7SJMGTVvy4dLuw/s1600-h/JoanAFriedman.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnMnqq20VSH0QugL1Unii5wqqFKsu0xO1VNVvcVD8-dIKJLzurdNsjI4tUCI8mcSzOPJIFAlLgiTXJucqR1BfuD_m6Fbnhw4FAJ8FRoMlFdW5Gk9DjFRMcUsOkEXcQW7SJMGTVvy4dLuw/s320/JoanAFriedman.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197533475589948962" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Several new, emerging and established writers joined us at the Festival of Books in the GLAWS booth #715. Among them was Joan A. Friedman, a Ph.D. who is an identical twin, herself, and has over thirty years of experience as a psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of twin-related issues. Her new novel, Emotionally Healthy Twins is a comprehensive guide on how to raise twins who are self-realized and distinct individuals. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVQbEfuaWMF9Z9_MUSVLgNkGXw_MZutOkFybMMuP1K7w1sELE3aRRue2y1_AGTjp4Se5692Yzc6f-lZzU67HBJ0ZUkbVpl9HdOsKTJ7tvbqLw4bc7ryKptj4euz_kPy19GQWn1syoofoc/s1600-h/TonyJoanFreidmanJohn.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVQbEfuaWMF9Z9_MUSVLgNkGXw_MZutOkFybMMuP1K7w1sELE3aRRue2y1_AGTjp4Se5692Yzc6f-lZzU67HBJ0ZUkbVpl9HdOsKTJ7tvbqLw4bc7ryKptj4euz_kPy19GQWn1syoofoc/s320/TonyJoanFreidmanJohn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197534064000468530" /></a><br /><br /><br />Dr. Joan Friedman posed for a photo-op alongside two of the movers and shakers of GLAWS; Tony Todaro, one of its original founders (Sci-Fi aficionado) and an established strategic consultant (Todaro Communications) as well as John Weiskopf, the author of The Ascendancy. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2rwwLwuoB6MLGiJbHZzOVO7vsd92G17YP5bT0pYukp_RPv8RZS7YPJYOj44tjV8K7VnCeZ5Vzx1eRn9goNE1SnSRJDMyE3YxJ9rDJSV-buius0T2TS_864Tss3MW25O_NmBHreh1HGik/s1600-h/JohnWeiskopfSigns.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2rwwLwuoB6MLGiJbHZzOVO7vsd92G17YP5bT0pYukp_RPv8RZS7YPJYOj44tjV8K7VnCeZ5Vzx1eRn9goNE1SnSRJDMyE3YxJ9rDJSV-buius0T2TS_864Tss3MW25O_NmBHreh1HGik/s320/JohnWeiskopfSigns.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197875340100676466" /></a><br /><br />The Ascendancy is an appropriate story for today’s times, as John Weiskopf has created a new world mythology at a volatile point in history. His latest novel brings modern day imagination to the old story of Jack in the Beanstalk. The premise of this novel is that a beanstalk starts growing out of the rubble of the World Trade Center and the protagonist Jack Tott, a twenty-six-year-old musician, believes that if he climbs the beanstalk, he will somehow find the means to help save his dying sister. This book is available through www.johnweiskopf.com.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht8vxrtQVWJXiP7lxcSzHQSZ6idNsRzeDF5GoEYwhkANrgTdbMq2GhLsPbClwdwDamCbHnMNWaAlm0Ug2uvKz6iZQyi35l8OUOwVsLujIq79FHUWbk4CkMqWi0Sv3aQiyhzJbdbYhWqy8/s1600-h/AuthorsPitchStories.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht8vxrtQVWJXiP7lxcSzHQSZ6idNsRzeDF5GoEYwhkANrgTdbMq2GhLsPbClwdwDamCbHnMNWaAlm0Ug2uvKz6iZQyi35l8OUOwVsLujIq79FHUWbk4CkMqWi0Sv3aQiyhzJbdbYhWqy8/s320/AuthorsPitchStories.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198102719964294018" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg4hczx0G9l_BiRZf998NJwG-5z55M_toLF4CXSpbWuIA9zxU1YEFfNAOkVAWGqNfBPgvwLpd3MKplcjXappKs7R54cx5dOS1l2PiIgkB2xC866F4_9vOskLkOqiJwVUQtkSoT0Rwxgo0/s1600-h/GreaterLAWritersSociety.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg4hczx0G9l_BiRZf998NJwG-5z55M_toLF4CXSpbWuIA9zxU1YEFfNAOkVAWGqNfBPgvwLpd3MKplcjXappKs7R54cx5dOS1l2PiIgkB2xC866F4_9vOskLkOqiJwVUQtkSoT0Rwxgo0/s320/GreaterLAWritersSociety.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198103102216383378" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I met Sandra Walter, the author of The Creator State (www.sandrawalter.com) a story where actors discover a unique state of consciousness and art changes reality. Pictured here to the right is the author of Akira's Army by Keith Kowalczyk as he tells the story of Ray Quincy who becomes a prisoner of war while on his family vacation on a small South Pacific Island (a novel available through midnightpressbooks.com) Also pictured in booth #715 are Tony Todaro, Neil Citrin, and John Weiskopf.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8y_OWapXZAeyyJDKkQWeKqlqFIzjYZB6LOS1eF77W7Rb4Xk6T1tEjYW27RX3vdgtcnrc_m5DHYIMkRHia23M1uScWiKqiEwSOKCO7RDPgR66HsmN7Tdt_Wv5JY6d34LmoXrcLrcmI2xE/s1600-h/XanthanGumm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8y_OWapXZAeyyJDKkQWeKqlqFIzjYZB6LOS1eF77W7Rb4Xk6T1tEjYW27RX3vdgtcnrc_m5DHYIMkRHia23M1uScWiKqiEwSOKCO7RDPgR66HsmN7Tdt_Wv5JY6d34LmoXrcLrcmI2xE/s320/XanthanGumm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198156166537325538" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I also had an opportunity to talk to Robin Reed who was also releasing her first novel called Xanthan Gumm. Robin Reed writes in the science fiction genre about hard working creatures called ‘Humans’ who labor to make stories that are loved throughout the Galaxy. One young alien dreams of going to the ‘Forbidden Planet Earth’ to perform in the movies and wants to become famous like his idol, E.T. This book is available through www.barstowproductions.com.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNQeVUH_4Z9azmEGpTrDYoZ857vTjySJ6BcvnoO3feyR-LhGMFEtPC-GgnzeqzKnxmIkExEPtXkh05BOrTgbHUqsGSBwiIfPurFpGaCBde3eZpxU7kjheHHmtNuEnlHOswlMoGEe_Xstw/s1600-h/Recruitment.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNQeVUH_4Z9azmEGpTrDYoZ857vTjySJ6BcvnoO3feyR-LhGMFEtPC-GgnzeqzKnxmIkExEPtXkh05BOrTgbHUqsGSBwiIfPurFpGaCBde3eZpxU7kjheHHmtNuEnlHOswlMoGEe_Xstw/s320/Recruitment.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198106727168781234" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />On Sunday at the LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS, I had the distinct privilege of sitting at the author’s table with Film Educator and author Charles Domokos. His work in education especially in the cinema and film-editing field has a long history of contributing extremely technical post-production knowledge to film students at USC School of Cinematic Arts, Loyola Marymount and Los Angeles City College. His book titled: Non-linear Editing: The Cutting Edge provides the foundation for the college-level media student to make the leap into the world of film and HD-based professional post-production, as practiced in the Hollywood media community. His book is available through Amazon.com; Barnes&Noble.com or www.GoGardner.com. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAxhxkLXe5dUS4CyVPIgGFvmN6ElyiXscC5qBCzMcwfY_8SbrIdtniPBl7svyWrdDxxZzDpZpudxiaCK1mNtnYnAOaOSZz_d1L638sKom3D5oSPuiEjzrWVaUPyO_sau32VryAZ4vWnU/s1600-h/NonLinearEditing.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAxhxkLXe5dUS4CyVPIgGFvmN6ElyiXscC5qBCzMcwfY_8SbrIdtniPBl7svyWrdDxxZzDpZpudxiaCK1mNtnYnAOaOSZz_d1L638sKom3D5oSPuiEjzrWVaUPyO_sau32VryAZ4vWnU/s320/NonLinearEditing.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198172994219191410" /></a><br /><br />While sitting under the canopy of a nearby Elm tree, our booth enjoyed a little more shade and relief from the heat on Sunday, just enough to share our experiences and challenges of our publishing our first books. Charles and I also shared some of our inspirations to write and joked around that in our booth alone, we had the resources for taking my story of The Kingdom of Nuts and Bolts and turning it into a movie using stop-frame animation to create a Hollywood environment for my animated critter made of nuts and bolts and feathers named ‘Hector’. We figured we had a whole production team from writing the screenplay to filming, editing and strategic marketing with Tony Todaro!<br /><br /><br /><br />Speaking of Tony Todaro, one of the founders of GLAWS, I learned he is a prolific fiction writer as well. He is now working on a final draft of his next novel, “What Comes Around” a story set in a future city by the name of San Angeles, a metropolis divided by rivers and gangs after the ‘Big One’ (the big anticipated earthquake Angelino’s often fear, has already happened in this story) has rearranged the real estate and politics of the Southland. Just a little sneak preview of his upcoming book, finds Fed Corp Special Crimes investigator Major Xander Hunt in the midst of two murder mysteries to solve: the death of prominent physicist Allan Dunwharton, and after a series of battles and attempted assassinations, (perhaps even his own death). Hunt has kept his aging body alive with a concoction of drugs and nanobots, despite decades of damage as a black-ops agent, and the terminal cancer eating at his guts. (Imagine here the actor Sean Connery as the wise, aging officer in the Untouchables, though Hunt thinks of himself as the younger version of a Kevin Costner character.) Tony Todaro is a strategic marketing consultant with a long history in the music business and now shares his expertise with his fellow authors in GLAWS!<br /><br /><br /><br />With a philosophy of “writers mentoring writers of all disciplines” GLAWS holds monthly informative meetings, often with nationally-known guest speakers, offers critique groups, advice in the craft and business of writing, conducts special events including writers conferences and seminars, and promotes its vision through many businesses and social opportunities. <br />In April I had the opportunity to attend one of the membership meetings to hear the science fiction and fantasy writer, Tim Powers, author of Anubis Gates and winner of the Philip K. Dick Award. He spoke at length about the essence of “plot” or what actually happens in a story. He encouraged writers to think of the question ‘why’ and then dig deeper and ask no, ‘why, really?’; ‘why really is the character motivated?’ He also gave us an overview of what it is like to be a writer at work. He stated that he had cultivated a sense of both guilt and fear. “Afterall, I play with the cat while truckers have jobs…” In a brief moment I had to talk with him before he got on the podium, he stated that I should write down imaginary bets… but not to do it in my head. He urged me to write thoughts down directly onto the keyboard. In his presentation, he also shared some of the advantages to writing down your ideas and character traits onto index cards and spreading them around your workspace. Maybe one day, if you are experiencing ‘writers block’; maybe the landlord comes around knocking, blows open your door and tromps all over the index cards mixing them up every which way; well, he said, ‘you never know when that might have helped your plot strategy a little!’ TIM POWERS chuckled.<br /><br />The headline of today’s blog stated that the Art of Reading leads to the Art of Writing. I strongly believe this because I can attest to the significant verbal, literary and visual growth that a child can attain while immersed in a supportive community reading program. That, in and of it-self is where the art of reading leads directly to the successful art of writing. Exposure to the arts at a young age in a person’s life greatly enhances the chances this experience will foster a love of story telling as well as an appreciation for the authors and artists of these works that influence the mind at a critical stage in our development.<br />I am an example of an After School Reading Program child. My first exposure to library books came about at approximately the age of 8 when I stated participating in the Duarte Public Library After School Reading Program and simultaneously the Monrovia Public Library system in California. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrYU54Al9X2dRNStIvSX8KZwzpVew8v5wODwZx3ueRh72CEDhJm4QlRTJB5W01m1v0OLirCMQ68RtSuIX3Z6G_8dYN85ir7BaPlL5HD30monxWhyxBbtneBPbG2opx9r1PH9WsOYGbadY/s1600-h/DuarteLibrary08.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrYU54Al9X2dRNStIvSX8KZwzpVew8v5wODwZx3ueRh72CEDhJm4QlRTJB5W01m1v0OLirCMQ68RtSuIX3Z6G_8dYN85ir7BaPlL5HD30monxWhyxBbtneBPbG2opx9r1PH9WsOYGbadY/s320/DuarteLibrary08.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198108312011713490" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I personally see this important correlation between early reading and early writing because I began to keep a diary at the age of twelve after reading The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. I went on to improve my reading skills by practicing my writing skills in my journal and reading even more each month until I had practically consumed all the books I could in the children’s section of the Duarte Library. I seem to recall that by the age of thirteen I was already into the adult section where I promptly fell in love with science fiction and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. (At the time, I made no physical distinction between the right or left section of the Duarte Library but I did get into trouble with my mother who discovered one day that one of my books had an identifying label from the adult section of the library…I no longer remember what the name of that book was, because I didn’t get to read it…only that it had a harmless picture of a cat on the cover and I distinctly recall how disappointed and rather humiliated I was when I had to return the book to the librarian and admit that I had rules at home I had to follow that superceded library freedoms.)<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9RiBG562Udw-PrvlkgOn1JK2-nQkGrFW0wW3r8jMcj48tK9yggaBQqhuVHWzCBCaaJV-ZlbHU0bt5JupOaiIFwFIojq5R0Kxt9tgUm8fnrAym9nhyeIEweY1X4ucKoOWy_ua2FXD4dI/s1600-h/DuarteGreatOakTree.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9RiBG562Udw-PrvlkgOn1JK2-nQkGrFW0wW3r8jMcj48tK9yggaBQqhuVHWzCBCaaJV-ZlbHU0bt5JupOaiIFwFIojq5R0Kxt9tgUm8fnrAym9nhyeIEweY1X4ucKoOWy_ua2FXD4dI/s320/DuarteGreatOakTree.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198161337677949938" /></a><br /><br /><br />My consolation was that I was a rebellious child so after that, I no longer checked out the adult books to take home—I just spent my free time reading the contraband stories, sitting cross legged on the floor between the stacks by the light of a window where a beautiful oak tree cast intermittent sun, shade and childhood inspiration; Under these conditions, I finished reading Pearl Buck’s novel The Good Earth. I can’t stress enough the importance of reading in a young person’s life. I admired writers without even knowing what they looked like. Often I didn’t see pictures on the covers. I just knew their voices by the way they would write their sentences. I feel I learned about life, lived through the characters and had adventures I couldn’t even dream of having all through the art of reading a wonderful book.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5JpZntmO9Ih9jfpR3k4bm50wkbQwX2aua0rNGcsDC3D47lBvoQ8Jv2xZ83Btc8br-pKEbuJ7rUBri-JuGOUkZpeT6-POwakxJdbfGIIDE_p6A0EJ-Z73SFJvDhncJBDJOcOWTVi6_6AU/s1600-h/DuarteStacks.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5JpZntmO9Ih9jfpR3k4bm50wkbQwX2aua0rNGcsDC3D47lBvoQ8Jv2xZ83Btc8br-pKEbuJ7rUBri-JuGOUkZpeT6-POwakxJdbfGIIDE_p6A0EJ-Z73SFJvDhncJBDJOcOWTVi6_6AU/s320/DuarteStacks.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198161341972917250" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZPMF9re_O3YJpi2k98dwtY45PXEP3EqrMlx6-VkVkZrQtf9qZ8LHmnj8fQmvk-URd-VFRBxGW9XJ9lq7m1Kx8SqDJl5qYslHkGcoc5YXDLUQkCEoIOB0q9_gRFtQDIEaXUGZAD4Mo_Ic/s1600-h/DuarteLibraryCheckout.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZPMF9re_O3YJpi2k98dwtY45PXEP3EqrMlx6-VkVkZrQtf9qZ8LHmnj8fQmvk-URd-VFRBxGW9XJ9lq7m1Kx8SqDJl5qYslHkGcoc5YXDLUQkCEoIOB0q9_gRFtQDIEaXUGZAD4Mo_Ic/s320/DuarteLibraryCheckout.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198162608988269586" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> By the time I was sixteen, I had obtained my first job away from home. The Duarte Public Library hired me to work as a ‘page’ part time while I attended high school. I was able to devote even more time to filing and flipping through the pages of my most beloved writers and fondest friends. I recall taking a whole summer to finish the novel Hawaii by James Mitchner. These books were my education and entertainment away from the classroom and the schoolyard. By the age of eighteen, I was working for the USC Bookstore during freshman year of college and the Doheny Library by my sophomore year of college.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjolffLj0CnNl9stpjiDykmQ5tHyi2MN4qOTA2MBANJDd_IcbQ8ukKO4aV8BuSSEGmdwEun4CXl-YnaAnRQCcjVoBTgTiZPBjIHAk5H8XCKHXXXlL2Fd2w55TPTqyFPBSd7O-SAAeJuv4I/s1600-h/MonroviaCorner.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjolffLj0CnNl9stpjiDykmQ5tHyi2MN4qOTA2MBANJDd_IcbQ8ukKO4aV8BuSSEGmdwEun4CXl-YnaAnRQCcjVoBTgTiZPBjIHAk5H8XCKHXXXlL2Fd2w55TPTqyFPBSd7O-SAAeJuv4I/s320/MonroviaCorner.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198164808011525170" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEpFBrihSEfTc0IQPNSwBYDfXqQo8-d-YxeGftd1UulFkC1Qv3KfvIfZdPy-xgFtMoB0Z6BEtGstcIsVO-lLUfQo4LDe77XymDDNo1hwDs9QidcoJo5csv59TBQmUqvsF66BNA3VcRkEY/s1600-h/MonroviaLibraryConstru.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEpFBrihSEfTc0IQPNSwBYDfXqQo8-d-YxeGftd1UulFkC1Qv3KfvIfZdPy-xgFtMoB0Z6BEtGstcIsVO-lLUfQo4LDe77XymDDNo1hwDs9QidcoJo5csv59TBQmUqvsF66BNA3VcRkEY/s320/MonroviaLibraryConstru.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198164816601459778" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi0_c8O94aFTd1cq3DAZxPUgSbwNWz4i7xuEsdokstwTIm2KRh1pr8ZZ1vC-L9v6tLx2ZUYZhsrlp9Zez9N9ozy0wSw1ZiSlVMJj1aOgYSMqye9XH3zLEa8ufike7msnyFfsLMLMZldNw/s1600-h/MonroviaLibraryMoved.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi0_c8O94aFTd1cq3DAZxPUgSbwNWz4i7xuEsdokstwTIm2KRh1pr8ZZ1vC-L9v6tLx2ZUYZhsrlp9Zez9N9ozy0wSw1ZiSlVMJj1aOgYSMqye9XH3zLEa8ufike7msnyFfsLMLMZldNw/s320/MonroviaLibraryMoved.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198164820896427106" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7GdG4_AvlR9Hv6OVP32pgjSDIqYsYvlk4cHIfRypw69wM2RYywBrZzB0LLgb5bVxw_H1EIXZSd1_N5S6r6ypAhPii43FcvbcPepjPHflB54R3s2KVL29xApEuzYCoXVGjoRX8CcUYBAo/s1600-h/DuarteFLAG+Calif.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7GdG4_AvlR9Hv6OVP32pgjSDIqYsYvlk4cHIfRypw69wM2RYywBrZzB0LLgb5bVxw_H1EIXZSd1_N5S6r6ypAhPii43FcvbcPepjPHflB54R3s2KVL29xApEuzYCoXVGjoRX8CcUYBAo/s320/DuarteFLAG+Calif.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198162613283236898" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /> Now fast forward to the present day in 2008. I have written and self-published five books of poetry and recently released my first novel, The Kingdom of Nuts and Bolts here at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the campus of UCLA. Was it an accident that I developed into a writer? (In my particular case, I am also a photographer and an artist.) (www.gingervanhook.com) (www.enildeingelsvanhook.com) I don’t think this is a random event. I think there are no accidents in the universe. I firmly believe that everything happens for a reason. I believe in cause and effect. I believe that if you want to end up with a delicious cake, you need to prepare the recipe with proper ingredients. The ingredients leading to the successful art of writing requires nothing short of fresh time, young minds, good books and positive parental and community encouragement to read. The art develops naturally as the heat of age ripens the stories into cupcakes of our culture for everyone to enjoy!<br /><br />I attended the Duarte Festival of Authors in October of 2005 in Westminster Gardens, in Duarte California just to visit with and enjoy a moment listening to Ray Bradbury as the featured keynote speaker, presented by The Friends of the Duarte Library.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinA-fGKhbSpvDj0K2rI4R7NdoPgNOe6uKovqeyl-UrKp2Jk-wGikBCR6rtWs1Yl4bbH8UsuBhQ1YZdSdg4KPZdBoTvIRTNwVPLKECYIhA2ZKn5w8aSlks4twdLTnFray_IwRZm3Voc2ms/s1600-h/MAFAsign.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinA-fGKhbSpvDj0K2rI4R7NdoPgNOe6uKovqeyl-UrKp2Jk-wGikBCR6rtWs1Yl4bbH8UsuBhQ1YZdSdg4KPZdBoTvIRTNwVPLKECYIhA2ZKn5w8aSlks4twdLTnFray_IwRZm3Voc2ms/s320/MAFAsign.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198164816601459794" /></a><br /><br />We also support the Monrovia Arts Festival Association which is undergoing a change of name this year. In addition to the changes featured in Monrovia Library Park, with the new Library construction, Monrovia Arts Festival Association is about to be renamed the Monrovia Association of Fine Arts to better define the role of the arts in the community of Monrovia.<br />The Monrovia Arts Festival Association will continue to serve the arts and artists as well as the after school art programs in Monrovia as well as surrounding communities and schools. I firmly believe, the younger a child is exposed to the arts, in terms of reading, writing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, digital media, comic book art and art history just to name a few of the variety of arts, the more creative a child will grow into adulthood and the more rewarding our communities will be to thrive in.Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4049908443054245536.post-13330259377418440352007-08-21T21:53:00.000-07:002007-08-22T14:07:30.164-07:00Best Time To Invest in Art, NOW! by Ginger Van Hook<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi80GKidq_DsawpW1U978dbTEUUQlCBC6dLIBJjMmbuWBTT4DQtUj9YdLymbCnZzVauQqqFDLcs5a1AQPgr6YMWV10Jo2N6XANuL4qRbA-_G0OmiNutcsoRoiB-uhJ9wtFVy-2Xi17FxM/s1600-h/P8184319.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi80GKidq_DsawpW1U978dbTEUUQlCBC6dLIBJjMmbuWBTT4DQtUj9YdLymbCnZzVauQqqFDLcs5a1AQPgr6YMWV10Jo2N6XANuL4qRbA-_G0OmiNutcsoRoiB-uhJ9wtFVy-2Xi17FxM/s320/P8184319.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101470103636448850" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" >TV celebrity <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jason Alexander </span>supports the arts at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">TAG Gallery</span> in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Santa Monica</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">California</span> on August 18, 2007 for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">CALIFORNIA OPEN EXHIBITION</span> show juried by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Peter Frank</span>. Now showing <span style="font-weight: bold;">NEW WORKS</span>, painting, mixed media, sculpture, photography and video through September 1st 2007. Jason Alexander, an actor who played the part of "George" in the long running and popular hit TV show "Seinfeld",<br />is pictured here beside sculpture artist Ali Alinejad. <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Photo by Ginger Van Hook<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw6pXnpropvYjmHg6nMwSsiT4XgHz6OPU5G4T55qE38eZGxCdpo72C9nDPdBnZTeDQDLxHrdjEPDk3vAh2FyfZ9CdHasYUEiSfbrNOTGDI2KBPu3voTCfb2OjGTi5QBnUfoPMXNaXC6z4/s1600-h/P5123376.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw6pXnpropvYjmHg6nMwSsiT4XgHz6OPU5G4T55qE38eZGxCdpo72C9nDPdBnZTeDQDLxHrdjEPDk3vAh2FyfZ9CdHasYUEiSfbrNOTGDI2KBPu3voTCfb2OjGTi5QBnUfoPMXNaXC6z4/s320/P5123376.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101478543247185506" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Christine Owens</span>, president of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Focus One Community Credit Union</span> and sponsor of the </span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Focus One Gallery</span> in Monrovia, California is presented with the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Renaissance Award</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">by Monrovia City Councilman, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joe Garcia</span> at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Monrovia Arts Festival Association</span> Gala Black Tie Annual Fund-raising Event May 12, 2007. The Renaissance Award is given to honor and recognize a special member of the community whose contributions to their fellow citizens leads to the cultural enrichment of the community as a whole. <span style="font-style: italic;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook</span><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN1yAnxc0LMqQhNJUAXzto2zhJdXICpR5orB6eQpwURFHNNPOP_zs_1T_JQE-xNsOglWjXR3BzYf02Dd_TBD86jZUOFaKvYQJKmJuss1VlOlxZ4dvjyB4gGlqDz_K9Gx6xKSmf9z6VaF8/s1600-h/DavidNewsom.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN1yAnxc0LMqQhNJUAXzto2zhJdXICpR5orB6eQpwURFHNNPOP_zs_1T_JQE-xNsOglWjXR3BzYf02Dd_TBD86jZUOFaKvYQJKmJuss1VlOlxZ4dvjyB4gGlqDz_K9Gx6xKSmf9z6VaF8/s320/DavidNewsom.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101491200515806850" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" >Artist, Photographer and Actor, <span style="font-weight: bold;">David Newsom</span> poses with his dog in front of his latest photographs (Thistle #1) being exhibited at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">DCA Fine Arts Gallery</span>, in Santa Monica, California, (June 1, 2007 through July 14th, 2007). Three miles of Idaho is an exhibit focusing on the landscape between his brother and his sister's properties in a unique and poignant family setting. David Newsom released large scale renditions of his work currently published from his best-selling book titled <span style="font-weight: bold;">SKIP. </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Photo by Ginger Van Hook<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2f8L9birxNc_0GAuab8DZgKgqXKFaTmgTE2J1gjAJPfhMOwzngLgyz15OFAewcOFF4qy10ytu6WLkZw5UtcRMwZ95mGqXHfbDqfL88lpunUUVLolw1jH81JGk9-3BEQ8Ko0khD0M0YMw/s1600-h/P8184276.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2f8L9birxNc_0GAuab8DZgKgqXKFaTmgTE2J1gjAJPfhMOwzngLgyz15OFAewcOFF4qy10ytu6WLkZw5UtcRMwZ95mGqXHfbDqfL88lpunUUVLolw1jH81JGk9-3BEQ8Ko0khD0M0YMw/s320/P8184276.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101564519902516978" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Peter Frank</span>, Jurist, for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">TAG Gallery</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">CALIFORNIA OPEN EXHIBITION</span>,<br />stands beside emerging Los Angeles based artist, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Luke Van Hook</span>, August 18th, 2007.<br />The Painting in background, oil on canvas, "May", the study of Giotto's perfect circle.<br />by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Luke Van Hook</span><br />(Investigating the legend that Giotto drew a perfect circle for the Pope)<br /><br /></span></div> </div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> A</span></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">s the economy goes up and down, so do the trends in the arts and art collecting. This is an exciting time for the arts because we have many historical markers and world conditions that exist today that make it a good time to invest in the arts. For instance, instability in the stock market often releases money to make investments in art, that, like real estate, also goes up in value as the years progress. Additionally, there are wars raging around the world so instability in world economic markets are impacting the art market too. The best impact that market instability plays upon the arts is that it gives incentives to support artists in your local communities. These artists are here and now. Their work is presently available, and like property, it too can be insured, placed into a family trust or safety deposit vault and along with the family heirlooms, art can be bequeathed as a legacy or inheritance to members of your family. Both the housing market and the stock market have been riding a roller-coaster in recent years making a good piece of tangible artwork a far more solid investment than betting on governments, point spreads or Las Vegas Mega Slots.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div dragover="true" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> <span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> M</span></span>y husband Luke and I have explored a number of fine art galleries and art communities that will interest the art lover, the art collector and fellow artists in the pursuit of great works being created in the NOW, as well as some works that have survived the test of time. In my Blog I intend to discuss some of the hot spots and hot artists in Sunny Southern California. I'll share photos with you of some of these exciting options available to the every day collector, the seasoned collector, the art aficionados, or the emerging collectors eager with new money to infuse into an already thriving and ripe harvest of works in Oil Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Conceptual works, Collage, Digital Photography, Digital Film and Electronic Visual Art.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> T</span></span>hrough this summer we visited communities on the West side such as Santa Monica, West LA, and Culver City. In the inland areas, we visited some of the foothill mountain art communities such as Glendale and a little further inland, we visited Old Town Monrovia. Starting with the inland foothills we find the quaint town of Monrovia where I grew up and went to school at Immaculate Conception Elementary on Shamrock Avenue. In Monrovia, the City of Art and in Duarte, the City of Health, I grew up as a child. I volunteered about 300 hours as a candy striper for the City of Hope in my teenage years, went on to work for the Duarte Library and attended Alverno High School for girls in Sierra Madre. This is the place where I was raised marching in parades with the Brownies and the Girl Scouts and where I learned to tap dance, twirl a baton and where I rode a ferris wheel for the first time at the fiesta, (as well as ate a lot of cotton candy), I came back as an adult to find an incredible amount of support for the arts in local schools. The arts are not limited to crayons and pencils either. There is an extensive array of art mediums in which students, and some very young students at that, learn to hone their creative skills. For instance, at Paint N Play on Myrtle Avenue, they learn how to throw pottery. Also, with after school teacher, Rouzanna Berberian, children learn the art of drawing, photography and gallery showmanship as well. There are art lessons going on, on almost every street corner you encounter in the busy Old Town Center on Myrtle near the Krikorian Movie theatre. You'll find this charming section of town both soothing and exhilarating. You ought to try walking up and down the main street where there are sidewalk activities, new park benches to rest under shade trees, new lampposts and lanterns all reminiscent of a nostalgic time. Artists show their work on wide city blocks and inside cool and dim lit gallery spaces. The mountains loom in the distance and the afternoons yeild a light summer breeze in the early evening.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" > W</span>e support the <span style="font-weight: bold;">M</span>onrovia <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>rts <span style="font-weight: bold;">F</span>estival <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>ssociation in their endeavors to promote the arts to the children at a very young age. It is not uncommon for lots of families that are raised to appreciate art to blossom into artists later in life. MAFA is a nonprofit organization led by President Bill Beebe with a history of supporting local artists and local after-school art programs. Over the years, the Monrovia community has begun to expand its outreach of art by developing local talent through a number of venues: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Focus One Gallery</span> for instance, is located in the lobby of the Focus One Community Credit Union at 404 East Huntington Drive on the corner of California and Huntington Drive. The president of Focus One Community Credit Union, Christine Owens is known for her support of local artists and was recently nominated for and awarded the annual Renaissance Award by Monrovia City Councilman Joe Garcia at the MAFA Black Tie Fundraiser in May 2007. This is a prestigious award that goes to honor and recognize a special member of the community whose contributions to their fellow citizens leads to the cultural enrichment of the community as a whole.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzOw6P7m3XsIh3lpUbWBiZSnkH4_1ZhKEMUDLpwuftcJNsfVhwf2E9q_Pml23rE4vhK878JAxz8-TSbMncCLjh6oJs5Oa-KMvbtTc1NAkj-2KKsyfNXwIkqgoxWde12MgsoNTdNPVaPtw/s1600-h/P5123368.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzOw6P7m3XsIh3lpUbWBiZSnkH4_1ZhKEMUDLpwuftcJNsfVhwf2E9q_Pml23rE4vhK878JAxz8-TSbMncCLjh6oJs5Oa-KMvbtTc1NAkj-2KKsyfNXwIkqgoxWde12MgsoNTdNPVaPtw/s320/P5123368.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101450909427602850" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">MAFA Marketing coordinator, (on left)Denise Daniels is pictured here with Christine Owens, President of Focus One Community Credit Union and Bill Beebe, President of MAFA at their annual Black Tie Fundraiser that occurs in May.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Monrovia, California<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Foothill Mountain Communities</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Some Artists in Action...</span><br /></span><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii1mKioQRqFHnWwwstZksT9EHYLW8qH8HZkwCyaKbC650C4fer9fjG2RJbMIrX4YbD0AeND5gy76vnZIhheoplSSza3Lsmp8m7z-Yu2FTDEGKlKqd3uTzWNx6yOc1wOFBVLfTjIAUBfCU/s1600-h/MAFA+GALLERY.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiquNfRgyonHXGKzXKWQvvuIBeCo7gQdUvDKCHIgFEbjeT6cESIgEBWjVNUThkDcm3loAAGjvpecffC0v6xpDN0co66hXbvuYWvDSd_97WDFaV2wpxM3yI-tg1IpUFK_T2o5PEoaEYg5_I/s320/FINEARTS@.PAINTNPLAY" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101457747015538146" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI-lB2dFRgAqdPtRYtJeUMSe-8784KOS2Wc1gb98ac379XU132V6BXyr0JHracORaXmUHGSI7jVhixVP4TD093spKgjHASCZUVCSNq6aEwasTjdJS94W2OrDQPWM7Wb1hSReLxnaq_uOg/s1600-h/PaintNPlayCeramic.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI-lB2dFRgAqdPtRYtJeUMSe-8784KOS2Wc1gb98ac379XU132V6BXyr0JHracORaXmUHGSI7jVhixVP4TD093spKgjHASCZUVCSNq6aEwasTjdJS94W2OrDQPWM7Wb1hSReLxnaq_uOg/s320/PaintNPlayCeramic.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101465830143989298" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMx9iidAeuQ6FmPP4lM1CN_m1J9JRWVdE2kaupgtBiS_BSGL3ViUftlgsluYl7TSj1Ai0mR2MBhP9uA2ChJ3KAyDixj9bYIcCY_pAto3Q76-Z3TdaVMJnc4UiQ9VMc4knJOpt4sRcgK6w/s1600-h/paintnplay.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMx9iidAeuQ6FmPP4lM1CN_m1J9JRWVdE2kaupgtBiS_BSGL3ViUftlgsluYl7TSj1Ai0mR2MBhP9uA2ChJ3KAyDixj9bYIcCY_pAto3Q76-Z3TdaVMJnc4UiQ9VMc4knJOpt4sRcgK6w/s320/paintnplay.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101466856641173058" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE MONROVIA ARTS FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION </span>otherwise known as<span style="font-weight: bold;"> MAFA</span>, is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization and is dedicated to the cultivation and support of the arts in children's after school programs as well as educational awareness of the arts in the community at large. MAFA P.O. Box 92 Monrovia, CA 91017 (www.artfestivals.org) 626-256-3124<br /><br />Several galleries and art venues have developed over the years which participate and support <span style="font-weight: bold;">MAFA</span>. The following information is current as of August 2007: If your event or venue is not listed, please contact Ginger Van Hook, press liaison, for MAFA at (enilde@sprintmail.com).<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">AZTEK ART GALLERY</span>, is located beside the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Aztek Hote</span>l at 305 West Foothill Blvd. Exhibits local artists work as well as holds art classes during scheduled times. The contact person is Bill Hyatt, (Hyatt2000@yahoo.com)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">California Wine and Cheese, LLC </span>supports local artists. New Artist reception for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Frank Zgonc</span>, Photographer is scheduled for the evening of Friday August 24th, 2007. Frank Zgonc shares images from his travels through Europe, scenes from Bodie Flats, Nevada and local scenes in Monrovia along with his signature digital watercolor manipulations. <span style="font-weight: bold;">California Wine and Cheese </span>is located at 115 W. Foothill Blvd., Owned by Janet and Tom Dugan, their website can be located at www.cawineandcheese.com (Contact by phone 626-358-6500 for reservations.)<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">MONROVIA COFFEE COMPANY</span> supports local artists and is located at 425 South Myrtle Avenue. Exhibits contemporary and emerging artists work. Next artists showing September 1 through December 30th, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ginger and Luke Van Hook</span> Photography exhibit, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Methusula in the Bristlecone Pine Forest</span>. (Landscape photographs of some of the oldest pine trees on the planet. Some trees aged over 4,700 years, older than the Egyptian Pyramids.) (Additional digital photography of flowers and collage by Ginger Van Hook.) For artist schedules, contact person is Carol Curtis, (shutterbug@altrionet.com)<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">PAINT 'N PLAY ART GALLERY</span> is affiliated with Monrovia Arts Festival Association in its' support of the arts by providing a meeting place for MAFA members to discuss and plan their upcoming events for the community on a monthly basis. Contact Lisa or Rachel at paintnPlay2@aol.com. Paint 'N Play is located at 418 South Myrtle Avenue. Paint N Play sponsors the <span style="font-weight: bold;">SUMMER ARTWALKS</span> in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Old Town Monrovia</span> along with several merchants who participate every year. KidsArt, Segil Fine Art, Oh My Goddard Gallery, Family Festival Productions, Scoops, Joy Print and Design, Box Jewelers and Baldwin's Baked Potatoes as well as the Outback SteakHouse- Arcadia and Trader Joe's also participate in art festivities that promote the education of art in schools through Summer Artwalks. For more information regarding Summer Art Walks and how you may participate, you may also contact Betsy Thurmond (626-358-7800) or kamonrovia@verizon.net. The next SUMMER ARTWALK is scheduled for Saturday evening, August 25, 2007 from 6:30 to 9pm.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >*********************************************************<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-family:georgia;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >GLENDALE COMMUNITY </span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);font-family:georgia;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">ARTISTS EXHIBIT AT THE </span></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);font-size:180%;" >BRAND LIBRARY ART GALLERIES<br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">August 11 - September 28th, 2007.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Glendale Public Library Associates of Brand Library</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1601 West Mountain Street Glendale, CA 91201</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">818-548-2051 www.brandlibrary.org</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br />A group show Titled: <span style="font-weight: bold;">PATTERN PLAY</span>. Four artists demonstrate the variety of patterns available in color schemes, pattern originality, unique images in oil paints, sculpture, and graphic designs. Artist reception August 18, 2007. Artists featured are <span style="font-weight: bold;">Patsy Cox, Yuriko Etue, Melanie Rothschild, and Jerrin Wagstaff</span>. Definitely a great show for the entire family. You'll experience a great variety of brilliant colors and patterns that pop out of the walls, rise from the floor and reveal creative abstract patterns that draw you in, spiral you out and make you feel good.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 0, 51); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3XZTP6cKh3_lGcjjTYunYxM_tyloiepXbwiCPwo7RL_uMdecoB5Zw2t570EDMjCCWzZofjngtC7YnRcT483zGtZJ2EEQDqbiyXP0_2gRSOOANc4AABstAcf12yOi-3ivSckEn5e7IVkw/s1600-h/P8114137.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3XZTP6cKh3_lGcjjTYunYxM_tyloiepXbwiCPwo7RL_uMdecoB5Zw2t570EDMjCCWzZofjngtC7YnRcT483zGtZJ2EEQDqbiyXP0_2gRSOOANc4AABstAcf12yOi-3ivSckEn5e7IVkw/s320/P8114137.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101542332101465746" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Artist, Melanie Rothschild<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAls9gbEk9ItykXBlYP4axvgUwbtznW3aS2EycLswODC5wk2uigQNxNaBlgcT1TgE5hcyzCUawCnnwFLoZbx1mpNRA97Ix2MqO8iUQ2xqN6Tuva2D0ky941KKCo4K0rvcTijJLIY6HOZU/s1600-h/P8114172.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNXPdG5EkpILZDYNIIG4qf5hyg7P9O4638kGL7KuwxEQdZyP98NO7PUWKb4MY5WlZu247JDvkYCmvvNwGdoTMFbA8PRJ1pWjfNBsONqgl7_nFRhhEZfyoL0JzXr4Ym-yZAEu3DLFLYJHE/s320/P8114201.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101548701537965762" border="0" /></a>16:1 Gallery, Santa Monica, California Summer 2007<br /><br />MONGREL<br /><br />Kathryn Andrews<br />Chris Lipomi<br />Donald Morgan<br />Stephanie Taylor<br />organized by Kathryn Andrews<br /><br />Showing August 11 through September 8, 2007<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Sixteen:One</span><br />2116 Pico Blvd., Unit B<br />Santa Monica, CA 90405<br />310-450-4394<br />email: info@16to1.com<br />www.16to1.com<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf3vpl5yOK5vJyMnmqPDSS4GSnDDP38CDfUoP_9qKYPN6NmmNexmfppKS0ThLDTd1_auYS1g8oqYGzjNMGh2vjthkkzFmXioxquKAa-0H1jOU-l7HaIjHvG48ir591q0NULPXR9SV35uA/s1600-h/Pole+Dancer.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvHG7hnXrwXukVZZfGIKOQnK4Wx3b5YmuieB6a0mpsvJzgv8D0OMkd9ke5k2cYxJI9sYK3VTnKwkekX8gIsaZcozC3TCpfVBxdyehydQmtQU-HAfipDsFh9orwr5Cs4EGu3miVu4wb4KE/s320/DCA+Ribbons.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101581369059219234" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-size:85%;" >From Exhibition, <span>THREE MENDACIOUS MINDS,</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-size:85%;" >(The Return of Paris' New Pestilence School)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-size:85%;" >David Schoffman, Currado Malaspina, Micah Carpenter</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-size:85%;" >July 23- August 31, 2007</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-size:85%;" >310-770-2525<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook<br /><br /><br /><br />******************************************************************************************************************<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" >SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">TAG Gallery</span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);">TAGtheartistsgallery.com<br />Elizabeth Sadoff<br />Gallery Director<br />2903 Santa Monica Blvd.<br />Santa Monica, CA 90404<br />310-829-9556<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAwODSmw_O771ugDJigp_LbRPAxy2M4RaUcxj7ugZ3iWes7yw65CbBFRTKWrqi9DS8u_Mvw7NZ9Hr9s0Orw7n9MLgZwmKII0dHZn02OFvsiGbUDTXaEgcPyDtBVSwzO74y8gcoD0L3C60/s1600-h/Elizabeth+Sadoff.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid7EW-8U0YaHZBxWET7Lo1gSm146F2sHfCgCk9IVkCh-xbgalAIoU38gEdSwGrjWWxf1V9Qe8h2VTyCtg-FSaqC9Uj-CatTnUjUTuoq4EWKh_lD-A_HUEBoFm36_HNzW-6sJhFn8Jj1H4/s320/JasongetsAward.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101615922071115682" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" >Jason Cimenski accepts award from Peter Frank and Elizabeth Sadoff<br />TAG Gallery, August 18, 2007<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYl53mWSyb7NMlFp0whY2wF0U-T-0XIFFTsM8PhOSEqMXdg9ZDMF3r9vNlZxdNLTkVZxOergsV1GzQOz7Cpd6Vq00ZQ6dk6eJ7k9wKZvhiAzJ1Zfd3gPYDvTRL-ztScVzfnF1MNFkvZFU/s1600-h/Jason+Cimenski1stPL.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYl53mWSyb7NMlFp0whY2wF0U-T-0XIFFTsM8PhOSEqMXdg9ZDMF3r9vNlZxdNLTkVZxOergsV1GzQOz7Cpd6Vq00ZQ6dk6eJ7k9wKZvhiAzJ1Zfd3gPYDvTRL-ztScVzfnF1MNFkvZFU/s320/Jason+Cimenski1stPL.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101612911299041170" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: normal;">First Place Winner, Artist, Jason Cimenski with his daughter</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">"The Flooded Room"</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">TAG Gallery, August 18, 2007</span> <span style="font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYcq_Az5gj_POX-_sbaOabmLCCO8oXhjU5CM4Sqy5a-z981Z020sxUtTu6ZXHcCqDSwOCjLDPH1RhDwLdDddCcFWNC8Q9dzJLCKZkbxhodKPBXQ5lICpP8zyrRxwB3QMxo8Vz1bNyMD74/s1600-h/KimKimbro.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYcq_Az5gj_POX-_sbaOabmLCCO8oXhjU5CM4Sqy5a-z981Z020sxUtTu6ZXHcCqDSwOCjLDPH1RhDwLdDddCcFWNC8Q9dzJLCKZkbxhodKPBXQ5lICpP8zyrRxwB3QMxo8Vz1bNyMD74/s320/KimKimbro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101618421742081970" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" >Artist Kim Kimbro, TAG Gallery, August 18, 2007<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzH6T3GoS8NbJMKrR7qm-HA32e12vyamr-nr3_PiGpSDErFUYzlu0J88FlIelNH30EVLS37fvnOBttlUdrXmOeC68vwxnrDOVuthzOJ6dUagWhbPpx92_se9QMseDbYNQKBuMBeSQep2w/s1600-h/P8184296.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCkOSQiNYvwxgmzzs0SIYAlrVxGNaLfEFs_rRUeCBBazEObrIx0UkqkuhXPm3k7wpcjiApwyN2YLntLYuGsMOfV_WX0LIAPqI1_F06yaLoXW7bM3_SEnr94TkMhKruzUDTMv1oWwSTpfs/s320/CarlosDaub.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101596976970372946" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">Artist, Carlos Daub,<br />TAG Gallery, August 18, 2007<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook</span><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg10K7bv8hlAihT6QDCFAL0tNqVEEHr3mc6FiwDxAXqwhfCW6zX-TpxGVOiTGywTSYISf5mXdUsCEUFBbhREumyetxBcyT9HHi4h7flkfY4kpiBLcxhTAgTSR1d0hvkFYpdIYYMAh3D42o/s1600-h/DerekLukeDennis.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg10K7bv8hlAihT6QDCFAL0tNqVEEHr3mc6FiwDxAXqwhfCW6zX-TpxGVOiTGywTSYISf5mXdUsCEUFBbhREumyetxBcyT9HHi4h7flkfY4kpiBLcxhTAgTSR1d0hvkFYpdIYYMAh3D42o/s320/DerekLukeDennis.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101599695684671330" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Derek McMullen, Luke Van Hook, Dennis Treretola</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Three artists, oil painters, from the same graduating class at Otis College of Art and Design, 2004<br /></span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">TAG Gallery, August 18, 2007<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook</span><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG9E3kmSnL9_d5TNaHMvmYF8faERiO5uF_VuzQiac_VvKtr5IZSJSAhuAbqYY-bqqeukxcDy9ok5hXog1HjKhSzvLk0Pa5sKbuZuH7WGtcV5JIb3Y7QPu7bBDXcOG-oxGHUcpuOYQKvSs/s1600-h/CarlosLukeDennis.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG9E3kmSnL9_d5TNaHMvmYF8faERiO5uF_VuzQiac_VvKtr5IZSJSAhuAbqYY-bqqeukxcDy9ok5hXog1HjKhSzvLk0Pa5sKbuZuH7WGtcV5JIb3Y7QPu7bBDXcOG-oxGHUcpuOYQKvSs/s320/CarlosLukeDennis.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101603015694391154" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">Artists, and fine art painters, Carlos Daub, Luke Van Hook, Dennis Treretola</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><br />TAG Gallery, August 18, 2007<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook</span> </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNFISQnfKI65RI0MF-GpuKn1YuVBZdQ-IiVSC3HnLBAedUG1dZnMXWCUhHx3BY6IzsmA4gr6kZiN9o5DVgoJq_48IJezzOA1t66YeO6Q9VMDFeGx5yW_zMR8SRWj-9vwlkSTviTR3Z77E/s1600-h/Carole+Garland.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNFISQnfKI65RI0MF-GpuKn1YuVBZdQ-IiVSC3HnLBAedUG1dZnMXWCUhHx3BY6IzsmA4gr6kZiN9o5DVgoJq_48IJezzOA1t66YeO6Q9VMDFeGx5yW_zMR8SRWj-9vwlkSTviTR3Z77E/s320/Carole+Garland.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101610901254346626" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Artist, Carole Garland, </span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">"Midnight Mystery", oil on canvas</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br />TAG Gallery, August 18, 2007</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Photo by Ginger Van Hook<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC8fHAC9yQRqLos3C6k1LJeG2_FRPAXyFESyAlAdUq-8yRQLO3b_ABkiE2yyAqKIweFd5epdl6LH0_FaIV91D9frNBiHbmAiKTJ7fmvg1b54fWhGDb-AxkNLyTjkOND3xQ9w5cUiqGl6A/s1600-h/TAG+Guests.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC8fHAC9yQRqLos3C6k1LJeG2_FRPAXyFESyAlAdUq-8yRQLO3b_ABkiE2yyAqKIweFd5epdl6LH0_FaIV91D9frNBiHbmAiKTJ7fmvg1b54fWhGDb-AxkNLyTjkOND3xQ9w5cUiqGl6A/s320/TAG+Guests.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101625899280144322" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California<br />August 18, 2007<br />Standing room only at the popular show<br />CALIFORNIA OPEN EXHIBITION</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYtIm9uAcmc3qu4pOmHmaJNy-741RkVLTXbe4OcYcn6jVAKrhulv3-7lMPS2fKxZqdg_Dd_P0oWrmdirHruVrdYl0YkPlX-DnD4yyZflxTMj6X2VWZYEk1v9sNl8frRxAA-CmmVQleHP4/s1600-h/TAG+Gallery+artists.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYtIm9uAcmc3qu4pOmHmaJNy-741RkVLTXbe4OcYcn6jVAKrhulv3-7lMPS2fKxZqdg_Dd_P0oWrmdirHruVrdYl0YkPlX-DnD4yyZflxTMj6X2VWZYEk1v9sNl8frRxAA-CmmVQleHP4/s320/TAG+Gallery+artists.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101632118392788946" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:85%;" >Peter Frank thanks the artists and their guests who have participated<br />at the TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, California Open Exhibition,<br />August 18, 2007<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo by Ginger Van Hook</span><br /></span><br /></div><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span></div>Ginger Van Hookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09048735472570942637noreply@blogger.com3