For the first time in many years, I entered the California State Fair’s Fine Art Exhibit. There were over 1200 entries and the jurors could only choose 180 pieces for the exhibit, but they chose one of my artworks, which I delivered to the the Expo building today.
Needless to say, but I am pretty tickled. If you’d like to see the exhibit, it will be open with the fair July 10-26, 2015 and you can purchase tickets at their website.
It’s title is “Waiting for You”, taken from a quote by Italian Poet Cesare Pavese, “You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.”
It illustrates the place where one comes from, where you can never go back, yet never leaves you. The place whose map is etched in your brain like the lines in your hands, where the leaves on the trees and the birds are all comfortingly yet painfully familiar to you. The place where they have to take you back, but they never fully understand you. The place we call Home.
I hope you can visit it in person, and if you fall in love with it, you can also purchase it and make it a part of your home.