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Apologies for a title that only means something to me! It's Sunday night and rather than blogging, I should be getting ready for my life drawing group. I rush off first thing on a Monday morning to a group that has been together for 25 years. I have been going since I moved to England, in 2000. So, thomas Kerr's words hold lots of significance for me. Sticker Dude and I are in synch and nearly in time.
As for this election, we are all on tenterhooks and there better not be any surprises. My 80+ year old mum was telling me that she wore her nasty women vote badge and got treated badly by someone in her hometown of Orlando. It's good to be alive to witness this event, but the whole thing makes me nervous.
Love all the postage stamps, Vittore Baroni's collab and all of the wonderful stamps that adorn the envelope! Now off to mail a few more America Agast stickers...
Jane Lewis reminds me that Monday mornings has its own special ritual...somewhere in Sudbury, most Mondays, you will find a group of people who love to draw the model. They are covering the windows with plastic, stretching a sheet over a bed sized piece of foam, carrying furniture from the hallway, unpacking their charcoal, pencils, ink and pastels while preparing for the arrival of the model. We have a series of different models and Sue organises the whole thing brilliantly. Some models have been coming since the group began. It is a very special gathering.
There is a ritual to the process: we sign in a book, pay our contribution, look intently, make as little noise as possible, hoping to capture the model in some way while she moves from pose to pose (before tea). We look at each other's work, refill the kettle and discover each other as another week passes. After tea there is always a twenty minute pose, but someone always forgets this 'rule' and it's been that way for twenty years. I agree with Jane, our life drawing group is the quintessential ritual!
What a fabulous idea, and what a beautiful piece of mail art!
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