mobile listening service at blankspace..

             mobile listening service* will launch on monday, march 2nd at noon in front of blankspace gallery and be available to anybody in need of an open ear. the service will be available until 2, but the gallery is open all afternoon. 

it is also national reading day...i hope you are able to find some quiet time with one of your favorites.

in addition,  the listening service* will be in operation at blankspace gallery  for

ArtWalk on friday, march 6 from 7-10.

please stop in and join me and the blankspace folks for either event....

*mobile listening service  is a place to come and be heard. in an attempt to offer the gift of impartial listening, free from advice or judgement, i have pieced together mls. you are cordially invited to take a seat at my table and release some of the thoughts and stories that are weighing you down. i am not a therapist or counselor, but hope by listening to you and  allowing you to unload, the day becomes a little bit lighter for you and those that you come into contact with.   

 

formations opening tonight....

please, if you happen to be in the area of 6608 san pablo in oakland, come by the opening of formations at blankspace...from 7-10 tonight, a rainy friday the 13th.

i will be sharing the show with erik parra and his paintings and drawings, the work is all new..i have some three dimensional work mixed in with painting and drawing.

hope you can make it.

i have come here to listen...

elsie aurora clark had a gift with words, committing to prose the thoughts which were too private to speak aloud and too layered to unravel in sensical, linear conversations. faithful to her word puzzles every morning of the past 30 years and always with a dictionary, thesaurus and set of encyclopedias by her side. the latter of which she read through twice, A-Z. 

she had a deep respect for the power and meaning of language, although she had become almost completely deaf in the last year, her vocabulary included words and phrase from english, spanish and hungarian.

she experienced great loss in her life, losing her mother and sister at 9 to disease and then her pop and two brothers in their return to hungary....consequently, growing up somewhat an orpan in a catholic orphanage. faith was central to her existence and brought her family back together eventually to live a rich life in each others company in california.

raymond clark was her constant companion and best friend. they had many friends and ridiculous escapades throughout their life together here on earth and it was clear that their connection was unbroken upon his passing 14 years ago. he was the best grandpa, mentor and friend that anyone could ask for and sorely missed by his friends and relatives. together, they brought the joy of celebration and a deep sense of purpose and spirituality to all of those they touched.

it is no great surprise that my grandma, aurora (her proper name), chose monday, february 9th to pass on to the other side...it would have been my granpa's 93rd birthday and i believe he held her hand across the threshold as she decided her work on earth was complete.

in honor of her memory and the ears that received my secrets, i will be launching the mobile listening service after a period of bereavement on monday, february 23rd from 12-2 in front of blankspace gallery. you are gracefully invited to be present and be listened to confidentially, quietly and in honor of just having a place to rest your thoughts.

and everything we could never remember

ernst haeckel and dreams of the microscopic sea

if i could give you a simple reason for beginning to write it would be that half of my life is spent there and half spent here. there is a small distance between but nonetheless, a distance there is. and this distance creates gap and pause...and places in which bits of communication get lost or forgotten.

in an attempt to bridge this interval and tell you all the things that i am thinking but usually forget in the space from me to you, i vow to return to this virtual space and share with you all the little things that are running round my head. 

and please post the things that you have forgotten to tell me when last we met...or the one thing that you know we will both enjoy.

warmest wishes and come back so soon. good night.