Saturday Haiku: Tree Time

 in the sturdy oak

surrounded by springtime green
the squirrel pauses

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Photo by Charles Kinnaird

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"Tethered," a New Art Exhibit

“Tethered” is an exciting art installation currently at Ground Floor Contemporary art gallery, 111 Richard Arrington Jr Blvd South in Birmingham, Alabama. The work of three artists – Elaine Farley Kinnaird,  Anita Gómez-Ronderos, and Miriam Norris Omura – will be on exhibit, July 1-18. Gallery hours are Sundays 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. There will be an artist talk via Zoom Sunday, July 11 at 2:00 p.m., Central Daylight Time (check the gallery website for Zoom link and details).

 

 

My daughter, Elaine Kinnaird, is one of the artists featured. With her photographs, she offers us a peek at her exhibit and also a look into the process of creating art.

 

 

“I grow my cotton, pick, gin, spin and dye it,” she states on her Instagram post about the exhibit. “This piece is stained with turmeric. I like feeling like I'm really a part of the material process.”

 

So once she grew and harvested the cotton and after she hand spun it into yarn, she stained it to get the hues she wanted.

 

When she had the concept for her piece, she had to carefully plan how to execute it. Eye hooks were placed in one wall, measured and spaced with precision.

 

A hook on the adjoining wall anchors a metal ring that holds all the strands of yarn which then span out to the eye hooks on the other wall. 

The doors are open on Sundays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Come see this and other works of art at Ground Floor Contemporary. If you can’t make it in person, log in to the Zoom Artist Talk on July 11 at 2:00 p.m.

To see more work by Elaine Kinnaird, check out her website at https://efkinnaird.wixsite.com/elainefarleykinnaird

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Monday Music: Ringo Starr's Birthday WIsh

Ringo Starr will be celebrating his 81st birthday this week, and he’s inviting everyone to “spread peace and love” on the landmark date. Here's a nice track off of Ringo's 2019 album, What's My Name. The song is called "Send Love, Spread Peace." I posted it on my blog soon after the album was released and thought it would be good to repeat it as part of his long-standing birthday wish. He will be 81 on Wednesday, July 7.

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