Musing

today’s Musing written and published from south Calgary, near Fish Creek Park

3C/37F, Gusta can’t seem to understand where the squirrels go when they go behind a tree, a few poodles out walking their owners, sunny, chilly in the shadows,

“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.” – James Arthur Baldwin

writer inks a page, painter covers a canvas, chef decorates a plate; creation from inner angst, joy or just a task in the moment – it depends on how we see it - sculpture touched, passages read, paintings drunk – art, madness made civilized, reviled or revered

art in many forms yesterday – the wok chef, the painter, the chocolatiere, the fish monger – and a great painter like great writers, whose art stays alive long after they’ve gone; not clear what was their best work and real message – we visit libraries and galleries where this work is stored, like a mausoleum, the message lurking somewhere in a shadow

nature did it once, the rest, just copies, views through some lens transferred to paper or canvas or film; a view, one vision – drawn out and painted, every inch of canvas dark, little room for light - not as nature made it, not as you might see - deeper, sharper, knowing the tree, feeling the forest, transferring the history as Carr saw it

she was not just a Canadian treasure but a world class one - Emily Carr, probably the best friend a west coast tree ever had, depicted them on a grand scale - one at a time - both before and after they became totem poles, darkness draping most everything, absence of light most of the time – we saw a great retrospective on a peculiar artist with peculiar talents in the peculiar hat - awesome or twisted or both, depends on how we see it

pretty butterfly and I – made a day of it - dim sum in Chinatown, the Emily Carr exhibit at the Glenbow Museum, ice-cream bars at Bernard Callebaut, the Billingsgate for fresh west coast halibut and some Digby scallops – not a perfect day but some masterpiece moments

at day’s end - much talk of art, halibut under cover of a red pepper salsa by candlelight – maybe not a masterpiece, but a pretty nice picture - that’s how I see it

Mark Kolke
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