These photos were taken a couple of days ago. This is one of the many reasons why I keep thinking about Spring. My stain paintings that I had placed in the backyard a month ago are finally starting to show through the snow.
February 13, 2010
Random thoughts.
It has been a while. I am terribly sorry. I'm still making art, I just haven't had time to document my work. A lot of things have been running through my mind recently. I love makings lists so here it is, a list of my thoughts.
1. Today (February 13,2010) feels like Spring. I keep having random flashbacks of various times spent in Waterbury CT. My grandparents live here and have a beautiful backyard. So beautiful you forget you are in the center of a city that is slowly deteriorating.
2. My sister's birthday is tomorrow!
3. I applied to Skowhegan at the very beginning of this month. I find out in April if I got into their summer residence program. Please feel free to click on the link provided, you can get a better idea of what the program entails.
4. I've been thinking a lot about kites and more specifically kites that resemble the sun. This was inspired after watching Black Orpheus, directed by Marcel Camus.
5. I recently saw the movie Coco Before Chanel at the Cabot Cinema. I would highly recommend seeing this movie.
January 14, 2010
The Origins of Mother Teresa
For those of you who follow my blog or on occasion read it, I thought I would take a brief moment to talk about why I decided on the name Miss Sara Lynn Mother Teresa Santarsiero.
It was my father who decided on my name, Sara Lynn. His last name also being, Santarsiero originates to the Italian meaning, Saint of the Mountain.
My father and my mother were both raised Roman Catholic. That being said, when it was time for me to become an adult in the eyes of the Church (the year I turned 15) I had to take the responsibility of choosing a Saint to honor. Basically,one must pick a Saint and then carry on his or her legacy by adding said name to her own.
The next obvious statement to follow, I decided on Mother Teresa. It was only recently that she was made a Saint. That being said, she was probably the most modern among Saints that I had learned about over the years. She is a truly remarkable woman, having won the Noble Peace Prize back in 1979 and committing her entire life to help others.
I don't considered myself affiliated with the Catholic Church these days but I still hold a special place in my heart for Mother Teresa.
On a side note, the day before my Confirmation my mother told me that when they announce my full name (Saint name included) it would be "Sara Lynn Mother Teresa Santarsiero". I didn't realize they would include "Mother". Clearly this was a good piece of news!
January 6, 2010
First Snow In 2010
The first snow fall of the new year.
(First half of the hour)
Here is a stain painting I have been working on since the summer. I had put it aside for a couple of months and then recently started working on it again right before Thanksgiving. To see the finished piece, please click here.
This painting was then brought home to CT. where I used it for a small performance early afternoon on Thanksgiving Day. Video posting of the performance still to come!
Here we are now, Jan 6, 2010. Three days ago it continued snowing in Beverly Mass so I decided to take the stain painting and place it on top of the snow in my backyard.
These series of photos document the first hour the stain painting was left outside. At this very moment in time the painting is still laying out in the backyard, underneath all of the snow.
(The last half of the hour)
Raw Canvas, Acrylic, Snow
January 5, 2010
Late Afternoon At The Ocean (Recap)
Here is a small recap.
Three pieces of unstretched canvas moments away from being used in my ocean performance. I ended up losing one of the canvases in the ocean that day.
To visit more photographs from this day please click here.
Weeks following, I left the canvas out to dry on my porch. The canvas is stiff, dried out, salty with bits of seaweed still attached. Oh, they smell horrible!
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