a rose for today

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good morning Jessicca

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

A bit up the road from Kill Devil Hill

where the Wright brothers set up shop.

Their first powered flight was a short hop,

just to make sure things worked.

There were four flights that day

with Orville and Wilbur alternating.

The morning was early.

There was a breeze.

Orville held the stick with his left and

grabbed tight the plane with his right.

Small wings in front controlled up and down.

Shifting your hips in a cradle gave it left and right.

The tail looks like a ship's rudder

because it works the same way.

This track gives you sixty feet to get off the ground.

Townspeople were there.

They often chipped in.

John Daniels was given the camera

and snapped his first-ever photo

capturing a moment in history.

              love,

                Dad

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good morning Justin

adrift now for some time

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good morning Jacob

to vandalize clean paper you need to leave your imprint

            love,

             Dad

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good morning Christa

Headed out the door shortly.  

Gotta buy a canvas and get brushes and such out of storage.  

I hope to experiment.  How about unprimed canvas for starts?  

The idea is only about finding something I do that I can like... 

burlap, pencil scratching a hard oil surface, a knife for smearing, maybe.  

It’s a good mood - like a spring Saturday afternoon with the fragrance of 

lawn clippings drifting my way.

Fairfield Porter:   Katie and Anne    1953

I’m seeing realism at first glance.  But it’s just flat patches of color.  

Modeling is gone.  This internet picture doesn’t do it justice.  It’s in 

American Realism by Edward Lucie-Smith - page 163. The book introduces me to a number of quality artists with good color reproductions of their work.  The pages are light, bright and have no hint 

of a musty twelve hundred page museum tomb.

This sight has other paintings of Fairfield Porter:

http://readingandart.blogspot.com/2015/09/fairfield-porter.html

Salvatore Scarpitta

Lee Boutecou

Otto Muehl

These are all examples of works found in the book:

     Destroy the Picture

     Painting the Void 1949 - 1962

Muehl has turned his painting surface into some alcohol-driven bedroom battle while Scarpitta has crafted an engaging travel poster.  

Muehl is one here painting the void.  Boutecou feels himself a rodent 

scrambling amidst the shadows of industrial bellows and towering machines 

stamping out metal miracles.

Yada yada yada.  Time to get my supplies.

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good morning Jack

tuesday, 15 march

Jack

Amos McClory and Dr. William Barber confer at recent NAACP meeting.

Life intervened this week making Tuesday my Sunday note to you.

love,
  Dad


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good morning Jessicca

sunday 6 march


       j  e  s  s  i  c  c  a

w h a t' s     w / f l o r i d a ?

               love
       dad



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