travel

Haiku May 31, 2012 Poolside

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Splash of chlorine wafts

Smell of coconut lotion

Hot, it’s poolside time.

Art Prescription:  My neighborhood pool is open for business. People are out of their winter hide-away and into swim-suits by the pool. Kids splash about with floats while mothers and fathers tend to their youngest swimmer. Happy memories for these kids, summer at the pool. As a kid, summer lasted a lifetime, and the pool was the center of our universe…swim for fun, swim practice, swim meet, swim all day long. Course their were Popsicles  involved, especially during the break each hour for “rest” time. Each season brings about a new set of memories old and new…it’s summer time!

Haiku May 27, 2012 Wide Country

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Vast flat fields, new crops

Red barns, white houses, horses

Sky meets horizon.

Art Prescription:  Took a road trip to Clinton, NC today.  A relatively short ride from Chapel Hill lands us in farm country and field after field of fresh green crops. In NC farmers grow tobacco, soybean, cotton, corn, wheat, tomatoes, cows, pigs, and families. What a total juxtaposition from New York City! Joy to be able to see and experience both. Where you are is where you are, and if you enjoy the scenery it makes life sweet.

 

Surtex 2012 New York City!!

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Sam and I arrived in New York by 10 am Saturday. Took a frantic taxi ride to the Jacob Javits Center to set the booth up.

When you first get there the isles are filled with crates and cases, the beep, beep, beep of cranes and other industrial machines sound off against bare walls. As exhibitors file in the booths begin to shine with art and design.

You walk out of an industrial zone and the next morning the carpet is down and the show is open for business!!

We spent the next full three days meeting other exhibitors (this is awesome!), art directors, creative directors, product design and development directors, publishers, buyers, retailers, merchandise managers,  CEO’s, presidents,  licensing directors, fine art companies, poster companies, manufacturers, and new artists walking the show to learn about the industry. Also we took turns walking The National Stationery Show.

Now the work begins! Follow-up Follow-up Follow-up

I have to say I’m most excited about the opportunity to have my art licensed for stamps, fabric, and kits to encourage creativity in others. To share the joy of art-making is part of my mission via The Art Prescription!! Cheers! Beverly

Haiku May 23, 2012 Home versus Travel

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The horn is culture

Gray and brick and neon flash

Land in sea of green.

Art Prescription:  Home from New York City; YEA! Surtex was a blast and I’ve got lots and lots of following up to do; YEA!

I’m thrilled with the contacts I made and I need to vent…be patient…I’ll get back to the positive.

Top Ten Reasons I Don’t Like To Travel

1. sitting, which to me means wasting time

2. taxis, buses, trains, airplanes

3. lugging too much stuff and going through security

4. packing

5. miss my cats

6. eating out

7. waiting in lines

8. noise overload

9. not my routine a.k.a. OCD

10. definitely don’t have my stuff – a.k.a. really like home!!

Okay – now let’s be positive!!

Top Ten Reasons Surtex Was Worth It!!

1. lots of clean white towels

2. room-service and/or take-out and eating in bed

3. meeting other artists

4. walking the National Stationery Show

5. walking Surtex

6. meeting art directors and creative directors

7. talking with people about my art and the story of my art

8. Spending time with my one and only husband, best-friend, and business partner Sam Dyer

9.Feeling proud that 6 months of planning all came together

10. The total excitement about the future and new product!!!

Haiku May 22, 2012 Crowd

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Like a New Yorker

We weave in and out of crowd

Everyone on go!

Art Prescription: New York city is not for the slow and methodical. Not for the wanderer who wishes to pause and take it all in…do that and someone will run you over…maybe a bus!! Walking the streets I heard not one word of English, except for the highly accented personnel selling tickets to shows, comedy, bus rides, psychics, weed, or a photo with Spiderman, the Naked Cowboy – hmmmm, or the folks just flat out begging for money. “The Melting Pot.”  How extremely lucky are we to be able to drop in and visit this magnificent city and fly out again to the green, green, grass of NC. Knowing where you belong is worth a life-time of wants!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haiku May 21, 2012 Times Square

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Brown-eyed gentle horse

Stands confident, guards Times Square

Officer sits proud.

Art Prescription:  These horses amaze me. Amid the millions of people, honking horns and sirens, they stand calm and sure. Just beautiful. Not surprising that they themselves land in the photos of tourist from all over the world. Guess brown eyes speak a universal language!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haiku May 19, 2012 City

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Backyard birds, pigeons.

A flock lined-up over noise

Traffic, honk, siren.

Art Prescription:  I’m just not a city girl. I miss my quiet backyard with my garden and studio. And I’m perfectly okay with that!! You cannot fit a square peg into a round hole, and you shouldn’t try. My booth is set! Looks peaceful, airy, and romantic. Makes me happy to see this! Show starts tomorrow. My mantra: “be true to yourself.”

Haiku April 15, 2012

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Bike wheels round and round

White wildflowers line the trail

Blackberry cobbler!

Art Prescription:  We rode bikes on the American Tobacco Trail today. What was once a busy rail line to Durham, NC (at one point about 25 passenger trains came in a day), is now a meandering paved bike trail that leads to downtown. The ride takes you through kudzu infested woods, along newer and older sections of housing, and lands you right smack in the middle of the Durham Bulls Ballpark, restaurants, etc. We continued our ride to check out my friends art installation parasolb.com  What a wonderful day filled with lots of scenery and surprises!!  It’s good to wander! Oh, and the white wildflowers are blackberries!

 

Haiku April 12, 2012

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Vulture stands pole top

Peers out on intersection

Human cars speed by.

Art Prescription: On the way to work this morning I saw a lone vulture preening calmly on top of a telephone pole. As I sat waiting for the green light, her calm stature captured my attention.  Cars were flooding in every direction in a hurry. There were five wires leading to her stand, an interesting composition. Always be on the look-out for something out of the ordinary to move you.