Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread... Day 19
Thanksgiving down. In the next forty days: Hannukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Year, a blitzkrieg of temptation, consumption and debt. I'm reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau, a strangely appropriate...
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I'm a seeker. While I'm not sure what I'm looking for, I often feel close to finding "it." When I was young, I liked those games in Highlights magazine. You had to find a dozen common items, like a...
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I woke up with a headache, the word, "Calliope" left over from dream, and this Tom Petty verse: "My sister got lucky, married a yuppie. Took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger, dating a...
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Day 22, dead swallow on deck
Dead swallow outside my studio Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker. Sometimes there is nothing I can say....
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Who did I touch today? The horse with no name. Jim Cox heard they were sending her to the glue factory, so he brought her here. Now this lovely creature who answers to "Horse," nibbles tall grass on a...
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Yin and Yang, Salt and Sugar
Yin and Yang, Salt and Sugar Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker. Today I found this salt rock that had been nibbled by Sugar, the toothless horse. To see more Big Sur photos, click on this.
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One Passionate Car
One Passionate Car Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker. Susan Thacker says:I don't miss television living on this mountain. And telephone calls from survey takers and political workers are no longer...
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Sunday in December. It's as warm as summer. I had some visitors at my studio this morning, a swarm of carpenter ants. They're big. Imagine black Harley-Davidsons with wings. They were dropping from the...
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Sunday night sunset in December in Big Sur
Sunday night sunset in December in Big Sur Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker.
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Today began with bugs. Another morning invasion of carpenter ants in the studio. But I managed their elimination in what I thought was a fairly ingenious way: I used artist tape to pick them up as they...
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artists tape used as a weapon
artists tape used as a weapon Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker.
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Where I paint at Glen Deven
Where I paint at Glen Deven Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker.
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My friend Erin Gafill called this morning to ask if I wanted to paint with her at Sobranes Point. Did I die and go to heaven?Finding this particular location proved slightly more difficult than...
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Which is the masterpiece, the art or the artist?
Which is the masterpiece, the art or the artist?Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker.!!>
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Of all the cool moments in my life, my favorites involve the combination of friends and foreign territory. Pleasure, multiplied. Maui with the Greenwoods and all our young children. The English Lake...
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Sunrise in Big Sur, December 8
Sunrise in Big Sur, December 8 Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker. The way the children would wake me in the middle of the night, the window behind the four poster bed in the guesthouse, taps me on...
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Stormy Waves. Click here to see more Big Sur photos.
Stormy Waves. Click here to see more Big Sur photos. Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker.
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Last Pear on the Tree
Last Pear on the Tree Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker. The last week of the Big Sur Residency, the beginning of the end. We are in the second day of the first winter storm. My companions today are...
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Sunday Storm
Sunday Storm Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker. As time is condensing, so will this post. The last few days fuse into a blur of motions, weather, locations, color, light and darks. Late Saturday...
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Reflection in Artist Retreat Studio
Reflection in Artist Retreat Studio Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker. The reflections in Virginia Mudd's studio inspire more reflection. As this Big Sur Artist Residency experiment winds down,...
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Rainbow Over Glen Deven
Rainbow Over Glen Deven Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker. The view from here is like a movie that just keeps getting better. Today around sunset, it started to drizzle. I was writing in the studio...
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Big Sur
Big Sur Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker. These are the last days of the residency. Winter has arrived and the weather will change the paint on the artist's palette. When I first arrived in...
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Sede II
Sede II Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker. I have been painting a series on paper of Big Sur, expressionistically rendered with furniture floating in the atmosphere, often, a white chair. The white...
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Leaving Today: Pine Cone on Redwood
Pine Cone on Redwood Stump Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker. Wednesday, December 20, 2006I am leaving Big Sur this morning. I am cleaning the studio with a heavy heart. I am filled with thoughts...
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I am waiting...
Frog and Priestess Originally uploaded by Susan Thacker. January 26, 2007I am listening. Rain on roof. Appliances humming. Horse hooves on wood. I am waiting to see if there will be a rainbow. I am...
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