“My body is a temple.
With a large fellowship hall in the middle.”
-Zack Hunt
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Especially if you’re used to washing them down with a Bloody Mary (and even more especially if you pronounce that too, repetitively).
Not based on direct experience.
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Checkmate, Liberals
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That’s a nice one right there!
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A girlfriend of mine pointed out that Jesus is leaning left here.
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So my wife has work in a show put on by a small gallery in the north bay. Across the street from is a store that sells some funny things. Last year I posted a picture of a sign that reads “children left unattended will be given an expresso and a puppy”. Still my favorite. But here are pics of some others I took just now through their front window.
[spoiler]And just because here are her pieces in the show, all are weavings from photos taken in our garden.
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The Gary I went to high school with was very like this one!
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My friend at work snuck a plaque like this one (grammar) into my office a few years ago. I keep it where others don’t immediately see it, but it is so true.
I adore Lia’s work.
Half her life ago, my oldest spent 8 weeks in the local regional hospital’s PICU and then 4 more in rehab at Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, and she has been back for many appointments and surgeries.
Mott is part of an enormous complex of University of Michigan hospitals that are all connected by a the second floor walkways. We got to know that walk very well. The complex is really also the largest art museum I’ve ever been in. There is art everywhere in every public space in every building we explored, and we explored a lot.
On the wall along the walk between Mott and the Taubman Center, opposite the windows are two weavings I have studied hard. They are photorealistic like Lias, but different in content, fiber and color use. I think one is a boot print in the mud, and the other is a tire track. (Actually, I”m relieved that the details are no longer as clear as they used to be. Distance from that experience is good.)
The artwork throughout the complex was an important part of my survival of that ordeal. It provided not so much an escape from reality, but a different reality to engage with in a different way. It made me use my brain differently and in very good, kind ways. So, Lia’s weavings are not merely art I would have valued and enjoyed anyway, but pieces I had a meaningful attachment to before I ever saw them. The first time I looked at her website, I was sure I had seen her work before.
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Here is the link to information about Mott’s art collection, which is only one part of the entire complex’s collection. Scroll to pages 16 and 17 to see Lois Bryant’s weavings.
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