Hyde park, NY]]>
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October 7, 2023]]>
Lieb mostly sharpened pencils for Catherine and with the remaining time we had left, we worked on the sound for Installment #13, specifically adding laughter for the flight attendants and Judith talking about my fitting in with my surroundings. I didn't sleep well the night before because I hadn't been able to find this Judith part and then other things started to plague me. It wasn't a full day because Catherine (Murphy) and I had to leave early to go to Gregory Amenoff's opening in Hudson. We also picked up some art supplies as well as four of my photographs that were mounted for my installation at Haddad's in Poughkeepsie at the Rhinebeck Artist's Shop.]]>
October 7, 2023, Saturday]]>
Hudson, NY]]>
On our front porch.]]>
Thursday Morning]]>
Lieb did his regular chores. Lieb BBQ'd eggplant while Cathy (Murphy) n and. I finished attending to the cheesecake. Cathy made the cheesecake for dessert for lunch tomorrow for Katie Rashid and Eneas Capalpo. Cathya nd I had leftover hamburger from our dinner last night and Lieb grilled it and add it to his sandwich for lunch. After that he set up for Catherine's outdoor painting. For the rest of the afternoon (until he had to help Catherine unset up) Lieb and I worked on the sound for installment #13 of China 1987, tentatively titled - From Here to There.]]>
The first thing we did was to bring in the plants from the garden. Lieb, Darren Puover, and myself. He went up to Catherine's (Murphy) studio with her and showed her how to use the earphones we had ordered. After lunch, he and I worked on Trailers for my Video that is being screened at the Video and Experimental Film Festival in NYC (more about this later). We sent in both of the ones we made and told them to use whichever one or both if they wanted to. In the later afternoon, Lieb and I put the velcro on the back of the four large photographs we're going to install at Haddad's in Poughkeepsie. This is going to be a new Local business Installation of mine.]]>
He came in and we had coffee. He had come to put in a piece of moulding upstairs in Cathy's studio or a new painting she is going to do, called, Backstage. Before we saw him he had already straightened a pole in the garden so an electrical line would be higher.]]>
I forgot to take his photograph]]>
This day we sent a file of Temple of the Six Banyan Tress, Guangzhou, Chin to Yean at the Video and Experimental Film Festival. This was because they were having trouble getting it from FilmFreeway. This is for a screening on either the 18th or 19th of November. Files that I needed to use to have flipbooks made were giving me trouble so Lieb fixed them. We worked for a bit on Audio for China 1987 Installment #13. After lunch Lieb and I went up to Catherine's (Murphy) back studio to figure out (with her) the size of an upcoming new painting. He then sharpened p4ncils for Catherine. Suddenly it was 6:00 p.m. and Lieb went home.]]>
This day after Lieb did his regular chores, he painted a board to go under Catherine's (Murphy) window in her upstairs studio for a new painting she will soon start, Backstage. He ordered paint online for Catherine that we were having trouble getting locally. He and I went over to my studio across the driveway to look for varmints. Then we took the velcro off the backs of the photographs I was working on for an installation at Haddas in Poughkeepsie and added a different kind of adhesive. I ruined one of the photographs by spilling coffee on it. Then we had lunch. After lunch, Lieb and I worked on the sound for the Number #13 video and I still started the storyboard for #14.]]>
In the morning Lieb and I helped Catherine (Murphy) move her paintings around so she could sign them. In the afternoon we did errands. We also had lunch at Adams. Lieb and I went to Haddad's and installed four photographs for one of my local business instalations. When we returned we worked on sound for my China 1987 #13 video. I forgot to take Lieb's photograph]]>
We asked him to com to work at 9:00 a.m. this morning because the art movers were coming here at 9:00 a.m. to wrap and pick up two drawings and 2two paintings to bring them down to the Peter Freeman gallery. they got here 20 minutes early and Lieb got here 10 minutes late. I was able to get them set up and get things out of their way. They swept the floor. Lieb worked with Cathy during the morning, I had to go see Dr. Murthy to have a deeply embedded tick taken out and to show him my swollen lip, which was an allergic reaction to Doxycycline. I had lunch out and Lieb and Cathy (Murphy) had lunch together. After I put away the groceries Lieb and i worked the rest of the aftternoon on the sound for China 1987 #13.]]>
Brought up Cathy's Still Living Painting to Coop Studio and we hung it up . He took down the setup for Cathy's Still Living painting and set up sticks so we would know where it goes when it is set back up in the spring. then worked on Audio for China #13 the rest of the day.]]>
Today Lieb took out some cans of paint and a few other things and put them down in the basement so we could park the car in there in the winter. He also changed the screen to the windows in the door to the outer hall of the kitchen, he and I went up to Catherine' 's (Murphy) coop studio and moved the pine tree painting from one wall to another. The rest of the day he worked on sound for the China #13 video.]]>
He vacuumed and sprayed with Peppermint oil in the Dutch Barn Studio.<br />
Brought some flower pots down the basement and worked on Audio the rest of the day. I forgot to take his photograph.]]>
After Lieb did his regular chores he took 5 metal outdoor chairs to K&S Powder Coating in Poughkeepsie to be sandblasted and coated. We worked s good part of the day on the sound for China 1986 #13. In the later afternoon, he cleaned the sink in Cathy's studio up back. When that was done we worked some more on the sound.]]>
Shirley was spending time in NYC as part of her recuperation from the death of her partner Alexis Kuhr. We had a great visit and had lunch here. We had not seen Shirley or her partner Alexis since 2018. It is a complicated story and not one I will go into. We were all very close and had an intense friendship. It was wonderful to see Shirley. We had very much missed seeing both of them. ]]>
In front of a Michelangelo Pistoletto at Magazzino. In addition to Peter and I the parents of the couple that founded Magazzino are in the artwork.]]>
In a work by Michelangelo Pistoletto at Magazzino Museum of Italian Art in Cold Spring, NY]]>
November 10 Friday]]>
at Adams Fairacre Farms]]>
He has been there for eleven years. He is originally from Burma.]]>
In the front right section of the photograph is James Sheridan. See next post to explain)]]>
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Marta Renzi called me this morning because she was worried about the leaves on the floor of the Rod House. She is planning to do and film a dance in that structure and heard it was supposed to rain that day. The leaves on the floor of the open-air structure are an integral part of the dance. If they got wet they wouldn't move around as well when the dancer moves. So Lieb was terrific and agreed to come over and rake up the leaves. He and I carried them on a tarp to the Dutch Barn to keep them dry until Marta and Rob came back the next time.]]>
Many years ago Dixie Sheridan gave me 5 Madame Alexander dolls in their original boxes. About 5 months ago she called and asked if she could have them back. A friend of hers collects them and she wants to give them to her. I said OK, though I thought it unusual for her to ask for them back to give to someone else. She asked if could bring them to NYC at some point. I said I would if I could. Or if I could bring them to Jim Sheridan's house in Poughkeepsie. I got busy and kept forgetting to deal with this. When she heard that a film of mine was being screened in NYC she asked if we could bring them to her friend's house. In the middle of dealing with the screening, I was reluctant to do this so said no, it would be too difficult. She emailed me the other day, seeming disturbed that so much time had gone by. I told her I was very busy and kept losing track of this. On Saturday evening (I saw the Email on Sunday morning) she Emailed to ask if Jim could come by at 8:30 am on Sunday. It was 8:30 when I emailed her back. We had arranged for him to come here a bit later. So he did.]]>
We worked on lots of things today. He worked on my Adobe Creative Suite. We went to Haddads to hang up the last two photographs in the installation there. A couple of days later I realized I should have done something different and I asked Tom Murcko to reprint one of the photographs differently. He helped me figure out how to photograph from the computer while working in it.]]>
December 6, 2023 Wednesday]]>
The first thing we did was to go to K&S Powder Coasting to pick out colors for the chairs that Lieb (Mathieson) bought to them about two weeks ago. Then to Adams Fairacre Farms to buy groceries. We brought the groceries home and ate lunch. Then we headed to Rhinebeck to Warren Cutlery to drop some knives off to be sharpened, which I picked up the next day. Then to Rhinebeck Artist's Shop where I dropped off a drawing of Catherine's(Murphy) to be matted as a gift for Gabriel and Mickey Wolfsberger. While there I took another photograph for the installation I will be doing at the art store (part of my series, local business). Then we met Carole and Helen for dinner.]]>
At On Location Studios]]>
We spent most of the day working on the China Videos. We also met with Silvia on Zoom to go over some work. We put 4 short videos together to make a longer film. It is called, China 1987, Guangzhou. I am going to send these in for the Rooftop Film Festival.]]>
at the Crafted Cup, Poughkeepsie, NY]]>
Tanner took over ownership of the Krafted Cup in 2013. It is on Raymond Avenue, in Poughkeepsie, Near Vassar College.<br />
Part of the local businesses sub-category in my Self-Portrait series.]]>
Back Row with Poka Dot Bow Tie, Chip Zion, To the right of Chip, Liz Larson, to the left of Chp, Malcolm Getz, To the right of Liz, Michael Mandell, In frontiers of Malcolm, Penny Fuller (I think), Mary Testa, Kristin Chenoworth, John Jellison, Kieth Bryon Kirk, ]]>
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