Never say never again.

   


     Last year, in a posting on this blog, I said that I thought I had participated in my last outdoor art show.  There does come that time in life when one feels that he can no longer muster enough energy and enthusiasm  to deal with all the problems of presenting an elaborate outdoor showroom and also have to deal with the sometimes extreme elements of the weather.  But since I said that, I have gradually been persuaded to have some second thoughts.  After being urged to come back again, by the planners of the upcoming UNplaza Fair, I said that I could only try do it again if a couple of conditions were met.  Well, the conditions seem to be in place, so, after due consideration, what can I say but "Here I go again.".   After all, I am still alive, and I might just as well keep on trying, until the undertaker comes knocking, or I become truly physically incapacitated.
     People who choose one of the arts for their profession, tend to hang on to the end, working in whatever capacity they can maintain, in order to remain, at least figuratively, on stage.  Art is what we do, and to stop doing it is to die.  So, perhaps I will never say never again, and just let Father Time make the decision for me.  But who knows?  Ask me again when I'm cleaning up, after the fair closes.

     As things stand now, I will be at the UNplaza Art Fair, in Kansas City, Mo., in Southmoreland Park, just west of the Nelson Atkins Art Museum, on September 21 and 22.  Everyone is invited.  If you are going to be in this area on those days, stop by to say hello.  It would be nice to see a lot of old friends and make a few new ones.


     There is an original, acrylic painting which I thought would be an appropriate one to show with this posting, but it was evidently not photographed.  It is a painting from what I called the "books series", some paintings featuring an opened book, lying forgotten outdoors.  The one I was thinking of showing is titled 'The raven is lost in the garden", because it features Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem "The Raven", and of course because, in that poem, the most frequently repeated word is Nevermore.  I will try to get it photographed soon, and post it.