Paintings and Conversations » majka http://www.ubaowl.com/blog by Uba Owl Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:52:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Holidays http://www.ubaowl.com/blog/2009/12/holidays/ http://www.ubaowl.com/blog/2009/12/holidays/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:41:00 +0000 admin http://www.ubaowl.com/blog/2009/12/holidays/

Good news is , my friend Majka got a clean bill of health. She does not need to do chemotherapy.
Hip hip hurrrah!. Now, get back to painting Majka! No excuses.
I sent a Holiday card with a painting that I re – worked this summer. I got some beautiful comments. Here is one, from Paul Pauper of Form / Space Atelier in Seattle.


Your painting reminds me of a silent film by Jean Renoir, 1927 : Charleston

Parade (Sur un air de charleston). An inexplicable moment comes in the film

when these winged heads are talking on the telephone to a charleston dancer

and a blackface explorer. As I said, inexplicable. But that was the Jazz

Age and everyone was soused to the gills on bathtub gin. I commend your

thoroughly original painting. Thought-provoking.

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It is so exiting to start the alterrealism adventure! Working with Steve Yamaguma and Joshua Peterson, the movement members, we are making progress , working on a definition and a manifesto. It has been two years since I came up with this idea, and not being good with words, started asking for help in verbalizing the idea. More to come.

Here is one of my latest paintings. I have been working a lot and have a series of about 9 paintings. I will post them when I finish the last two. I feel very exited about it. Mable Yee and Sylvia Paul are coming this Friday to see them. Can’t wait to hear their comments.

I don’t even now how to describe my feelings about finding out that my best friend Majka has a lung cancer. I was 17 when we met…. and life was exiting and endless. She had a surgery, and is doing OK. Lucky it was caught early. She is a wonderful painter, and the best friend one can have.

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