It's Funny How things Fall into Place.

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Have you seen my spiffy big cats? 



A nice look for Fall

the King of the Jungle in Ralph Lauren



 I had just decided to write this week's blog about my Big Cat collages when I heard on NPR a story about Bertie Gregory, nature photographer and filmmaker, talking about what it takes to film wild animals--that would be passion and persistence. He followed a pride of lions for months, working with conservationists to attach tracking devices on them. He got to hold a Lioness's head while she got pinned and said he'd never realized how really big a lion's head is.  



He learned that among the greatest threats to the lions is snares; they get entangled in the traps set for smaller animals and then they're in real trouble.  My first thought was, "Call the mice!" Remember Aesop's fable of the Lion and the Mouse? Where the Lion caught a mouse but didn't eat him and later he got ensnared in a trap and the mouse gnawed away the ropes and the Lion was free.  Aesop's moral?  

An act of kindness is never wasted.



That very same day the Times ran a piece on the wellness page of the science section about random acts of kindness and how they benefit the giver maybe even more that the receiver. They make you healthier!

I have to thank the universe, or the muse because whoever it is wrote this blog for me. 

 Don't you love it when that happens?




It's a busy fall with a lot of art to see. I have a bunch of shows to recommend but here are  the ones I'm most directly involved with.

I helped to curate, with nine other artist/curators;
 
Shifting Balance at Artists Equity Galley
 245 Broome Street
  • Saturday, September 10, 2022


Art at First presents;

 STOP THE INVASION! 
an international show of artists opposed to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The artists are from many different countries including Ukraine, Russia, Italy, France, the UK, Poland, Georgia, the USA, Israel and Palestine.

In the Great Hall Gallery, 12 West 12th Street
September 10-October 30th
Reception Sunday, October 2
Open Sundays, 12:30-4pm or by appointment 

My drawing, House of Green Interior, is on view in this virtual show and there will be a Zoom event.

Here's a link to the show;
https://nyartistscircle.com/curated-shows/elsewhere

Elsewhere

Traversing the dimensions outside of our immediate present.

"Elsewhere" Zoom Opening Event Link 

Join our Virtual Opening Zoom event on Tuesday, September 13, 2022,
6:30-8pm (Eastern Time - US and Canada)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88193062447?pwd=WjZwQ3BUa2JwR1FyeDJDVC9FVlJSUT09

Meeting ID: 881 9306 2447
Passcode: NYAC


And don't forget, tonight's the opening of Fran Beallor's SELF

SELF: 2020 HINDSIGHT / 366 PORTRAITS BY FRAN BEALLOR 

Daily Self Portraits drawn through the leap year of the global pandemic

Opening Reception - Friday September 9, 2022 from 6-9pm
El Barrio's Artspace PS 109
215 E. 99th Street New York, NY 10029

Exhibition dates: Wednesday, September 7 - Saturday, October 1, 2022 
Show open daily: 10am - 7pm


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