Robert Motherwell - Process

Ah, polyamory. Departing Albuquerque to meet with She of the Capri all the while continuing intimate conversations with the one in Nevada. Michelle reminds me it's a new phase.

I had a strong commitment to disembarking -- I was sure I'd reached the "last stop." As strange as the changes feel, my cat-like curiosity won't let me "quit." 

From The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell edited by Stephanie Terenzio:

"I begin a painting with a series of mistakes (psychic automatism, artful doodles).  The painting comes out of the correction of mistakes by feeling…ultimate unifications come about thru modulation of the surfaces by innumerable trials and errors…in a state of quickened subjectivity.”

“The artist is constantly … relating and rupturing relationships.  His task is to find a complex of qualities whose feeling is just right — veering towered the unknown and chaos, yet ordered and related in order to be apprehended.”

China Mountain - Late-breaking News

This just in from Northeast Nevada. SNOW on China Mountain.

China Mountain is at the south end of The Granites. The Granites are about 15 miles south of the Idaho-Nevada border on the east side of highway 93.

Maybe this is the year to check out Chiang Mai.

Contact

Her Mom taught school here in the '40s and her Dad worked for the Highway Dept. Other family members had businesses, mining claims and homes. Now there are maybe eight people, a dog and some cats.

A plaque on the highway offers a little history, but a fire in 2005 took out most of the remaining buildings. The firefighters managed to save Uncle Lester's old homestead but there's no evidence it was near the center of town. Her surviving aunt lives up by the spring.

Tabletop Mountain, an iconic marker, is visible for miles.

As of September 2022, we're no longer friends.