(All images 12x12in. acrylic $160.00 ) 1)Farmer Hats 2) World's Tallest Love Letter 2 SOLD3) Summer Hats 4) World's Tallest Love Letter 1
Just as I told you friends, the Shoppe will be constantly updating itself over the next three weeks until the show "Lost Houses" opens at the Cameron House on November 11th.
As things have been getting more settled around the Shoppe and more distance and perspective establishes itself in my- what am I saying ? I told you I'd never lie to you Shoppers, I am gripped by a bout of insomnia right now and find myself up at all hours of the night rolling over things in my head and heart and never reaching any conclusion. One way to make the noise go away is to paint, and that is why this show is going to be so interesting for me, I know how it started and now I want to see where it ends up, what's at the end of the brush now that my life has changed, there's something about, what would you call it ? Empty Bed Syndrome, that can make you dread going to sleep, there's too much noise in my mind to sleep but I'm not telling you anything we all haven't gone through at one time or another...
The images above came from Blyth, Ontario, home of the Blyth Festival where I spent four eventful summers of my life painting sets and mucking about Huron County. (Actually it was about half way through Season Four that I lost all interest in set painting as a profession, endlessly painting new wood to look like old wood can really wear a fella down) I've been paging through some of my old sketchbooks that I'd recently unpacked and these pictures stuck out for me. The Second and Bottom images titled,"World's Tallest Place to Write Love Letters 1 & 2" is a water tower that was on the way to a bike bath/excercise trail where I spent alot of my quieter times away from my coworkers, and the other two images were taken from one of my (stir crazy in Huron County) photo projects of the extensive Blyth wardrobe and their massive collection of period hats.
I'm excedingly happy with these, it's a nice step towards something new.
thanks to all who came out to the 25 years Opening tonight, much fun was had.
madcraftshoppe@hotmail.com
A.S Hahn
