On Friday night, Emily disappeared into her room for about 3 hours, only emerging briefly and intermittently, looking increasingly like a chimney-sweep at the end of a hard day each time I saw her. My curiosity was, of course, piqued, but she refused to let me see what she was up to until she finished what she’d been working on. I was therefore floored when she brought this out into the living room:
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It’s a stunning piece. She has actually been working on for much longer than the 3 hours she was tucked away in her room. A few weeks back, she asked if I had any sheet music she could use. We dug through my music drawer together, eventually coming up with some dense piano piece with lots of black notes. She tore that up and mounted it on a large canvas, tearing off the margins and tiling the sheets as densely as she could manage. Thursday’s 3 hour marathon was just charcoaling the image on top of the sheet music base.
Kathy was so impressed with the work that she immediately bought it from Emily and mounted it over the couch in our living room — a good step up from the refrigerator where the kids’ art usually ends up!
Emily continues to impress me with her artistic skills, not only because I completely lack them, but because of the increasingly ambitious and skilled work she is taking on, and because she continues to push herself and to get better and better. Great stuff!
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The wife and I saw the piece out on the back deck yesterday. We were truly impressed with it.
That’s an incredible piece of art!
YEAH! Well done!
Parsons School of Design, here she comes!
Holy cow. Watch her carefully. If she exhibits the desire to chop off an ear then…. be proud.
Nice work!
really, really nice.
oh. my. word.
too bad kathy already bought it. if she hadn’t, i would have. i am in awe.
I picked this blog entry at random. I really just wanted to comment on your site. It’s glorious. I’ve had it set as my home page for a few days so I won’t forget to explore some more of it now and then. I could aspire to all you have here, whether in form or content. Emily’s piece of course is fabulous too and you can tell her I named it “Score-Face.” Or don’t. Irene was also impressed with that piece, which brings us back to your boffo web site: because during a lucky moment I had seen the art work in material reality, whereas Irene was viewing it here on your site, your splendid site.