Fast and Competent

My thanks go out to Andy Piper, the man from Ann Arbor, who came out here with his camera and took 871 photographs in less the one day and a half, and got me caught up almost on all my art photographs.  

We were like workers in the old Ford plant as we delved through the boxes of paintings, piece by piece, and with intense speed and accuracy set them up with the inventory numbers (that my wife had printed for each one)  and no we don't know what the numbers are for, they come from the department office upstairs, and then after the photograph we take them down and put them away again,  it was spinnin' and we were laughing and having a crazy fun day of it.

  His competence and confidence were awe inspiring to me.  Man he has learned a whole lot in these years of education.  I can't wait to get them downloaded and ready to show.

It makes one feel proud to know someone like that, as if I am the smart guy.  And I'm not.

I just keep pouring through these images like student doctor going over the x-rays again and again.

Or studying poetry line my line syllable by syllable, studying the iambic pentameter and listening to each phoneme as it grates against the next, listening to the subtle light inner language...

And most end up sort of idiotic like they got pulled from the oven too early and occasionally they are  over-baked and burnt to a crisp...and every once in a while, they arrive just honey baked and glow in their happy youthfulness...