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Here are some images from last Saturday. Some pretty unique stuff!

Although I wasn’t really too interested in this reading I did find some of the ideas worth exploring and thinking about both verbally, and visually. The idea the Vermeer created littler pieces of, well, peace was very thought provoking. When presented with what we do as artists, Vermeer made little illusions of hope. When his world was in chaos we depicted beautiful scenes washed in light and blended in enchanted color. I adored what he decided to do in a time where he could have been like the german expessionist and depicted all of the horrors of war. His work reminds me of what the wizard of oz did in the 1900s. It was a little piece of hope, and peace.

I figured I would post the images of the trees in separate posts because there are so many 

As I’ve mentioned I have been working on a very large community based project with my students and it finally came to fruition! This weekend was the sinterklaas send off ceremony at “the Strand” in Kingston. The honored animals was an owl and for everyone that knows me, knows how important these birds of prey are to me. My students and I build three large trees with scanned drawings on the inside and owl eyes peering out from the depths of the trees. Our blood, sweat and tears, went into this project. I will post the photos next.