I have few preconceived ideas I just begin to paint in an effort to create the character.
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These experiences are lessons that remind me how to live.Īs an artist, I feel I can give everything I have to the creative process without becoming mired in the issue of whether I’m doing it “right.” I rely on my intuitions. To be at an estate sale is to witness something about the shape of a person’s life just at the point where that shape is losing its form, where that spirit is perhaps drifting away in bits of cloth, pieces of kitchenware, odds and ends of furniture, the accumulations of a lifetime. A personal fragmentation is occurring before your eyes. A household, a home-a life-is being dismantled and sold off in bits and pieces. Through these experiences, I create a character and paint a story. I honor the thoughts and the emotions that I feel. I recognize these experiences as being important.
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A life unfolds impressions of people and a story evolve before me. Estate sales intrigue me artistically and spiritually. I noticed then, as I have noticed at other estate sales that the auctioneers and the potential buyers understandably separate themselves from the emotions of the situation, from the personal dimension of what is happening. She was obviously a consummate hostess (I counted at least three different sets of china). All around the house I felt the presence of the woman who had lived there for years. My reason for showing up at this old home in Ward Parkway area of Kansas City, Missouri, was to find a few household items-linens, vases, maybe some gardening tools.
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I had four little kids with me, two of my own and two neighbor kids. In 1994, I walked through an estate sale for the first time.