Art vs. Life

Dreaming in Shades of Saffron and Yellow

Starting our Third Year the Studio on Slough Road

Next Weekend The Studio on Slough Road opens on Saturday for a third year.  So much has happened in those three years it seems like some sort of  dreamstate to imagine we are arriving at this birthtime again.   The Studio Family, neighbors  and visitors are invited by the Sidwells and Labdons to an open party at 75 Slough Saturday 2 to 5.  The highschool jazz combo will grace us again with neighborhood sounds, art, gardens, chatter and food, sports trivia and just hanging out are all on the menu.   Come joins us in welcoming spring to Brewster.  For directions look on our website.  

It seems almost surreal the way Cape Cod comes to life the last week in April every  year.  It seemed to be the longest, grey winter that would never end,  the last month of the year 2007 and the beginning of 2008.  We even took to the snow to raise the dead of our winter souls.  Not without saying, I adore the silent salt marsh and quiet beauty on Cape Cod.  This year though, perhaps with the passing of so many dear to us,  a deep sadness started to veil the beauty of my treasured winter. The birth of new little girl, and the freezing trek through the Hudson Valley to Syracuse,still seemed to all be done in the dark haze of shorter than a nano second winter days,those ones that start at mid morning and end by three in the afternoon.

Somewhere in the reverie of old Seattle moody , short, damp days I had lingered over Joyce, and Proust, lying in bed with a down quilt reading 'Rememberance of Things Past' and being  glad the sun had not beckoned me forth.  But not this year.

Then right like clock work my yellow dreams appeared with the lengthening of the days.  The  Yellow Thing, that amazing phenomena when daffodils and forsythia take over my dreams again, and here it is, Spring in my artists heart again. As we cleaned up the studio and hung the new work, the gardens bloomed almost overnight.   It feels so good to be above ground again.  For all who have joined us at our gatherings, welcome again, for those who are new to us. come by join us on Slough Road.   Like an old fashioned block party, or as they say in New Orleans a "Cochon d' Lait" come by and enjoy the 'Laignappe' ,   Saturday, Brewster in Bloom, May 3  2 to 5.