Day 4773: Artist, Isabelle Ducrot & TBT & Raft of Otters.

"Fantasy": junk paper & digital collage.

        

  

Want music?

    Click: Maze, Happy Feelings.

 

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A Woman Artist You May Not Know: 

Isabelle Ducrot (b. 1931)

This 95-year-old Italian artist didn’t pick up a brush until her 50s - now her textile paintings are shown in galleries around the world.

Ducrot, in her apartment in Rome. This summer, she has her first international solo museum show, in Dijon, France

A work from the series “Bella Terra.” Ducrot, in her ripe ebullience, seems to have leapt directly into a late-Matisse phase—full of color and shorn of fuss.Art work © Isabella Ducrot 

A work from the “Tendernesses” series.Art work © Isabella Ducrot

I found a wonderful, inspiring story (yet, too lengthy for this blog,) by Rebecca Mead in July 22, 2024 issue of The New Yorker 100, here.

Throwback Thursday: Many of us still miss Demura Sensei's former  honbu dojo, 1429 N.Bristol, Santa Ana, CA. The City of Santa Ana planned to widen Bristol Street and took the property by eminent domain, the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation. Ironically, Bristol was not widened as originally said. The dojo property is now a extra parking lot for the busy McDonald's next door, which is still there and operating. 

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A 2+ minute video, Burger, here

 

  

 

Just because ...

Spot-breasted Oriole

 Thursday's Smiles ...