LEAPING (RESTING) CAT BLACKBERRY WINE

MARCH 2021

More finds from the past.

I have had 6 filled portable file boxes with finished commissions/subject matter from at least 1991 and haven´t been able to access them in at least 16 years because I have been using them under my boards to dry my abstracts, to store paper on – to - - - you name it.  So it is Christmas in March opening these file boxes and finding this wealth of work.  Some were done so long ago - that I didn´t have a scanner – but I took photos of the work.  I didn´t have email – so I had the client send me photos (all to be returned with the finished commission). And all with letters-eventually emails with stories from the clients – about passed away loves - rescues found - and here- wine bottles to be labeled.

    When we had the gallery on Mesones next to the Angela Peralta Theater here in SMA (Mexico), many of the performing artists would come over to see our gallery before or after their performance next door.  One was Evan Price of the Turtle Island Quartet.  He even gave us tickets to see his show by way of having me do his commission first so he could label gift wine to friends.  It´s so long ago-it must have been during some hospital repair work I had done - and I couldn´t do the commission on time.  So in the meanwhile, he used my “WAITING FOR SUPPER” cat drawing.  He chose one drawing that I finally did of his happy pudgy cat leaping on one foot after a toy he dangled on a wand affair. And I threw in another - not sure which - for all the delays.

 It´s fun to look way back and to try to fit all the pieces back together again - from the physical photos and letters sent and received.