Portrait Show, January 10, 2010, Dorset, Vt. – "Portraits of My Life."
Posted At: Sunday, October 25, 2009 1:30 PM | Posted By: Jon Katz
Minnie, flirting with me
So I’m having a second fine art photo show, dont’cha know, this time at the Redux Art Gallery in Dorset, Vt., on January 10, 2010. The theme of the show is “Portraits of My Life,” and I will at the Redux with Izzy and Lenore to talk about my photography and show some of the portraits that have told the story of my life over the past few years – dogs, cats, cows, donkeys, sheep, and whatever else we decide to show at Redux’s new gallery in the middle on Route 30 in Dorset (details to come.)
These photos will be for sale, but we will try and do it as cheaply as we can.
I’m excited. I’m having a second photo show at LARAC (Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council) in August of next year, the “Last Days of A Dairy Farm” photos posted on the blog earlier this year from John Clark’s farm.
I am truly humbled to have two shows of my photos coming up, and excited. I have always been reluctant to sell dog photos, but I feel now that I am approaching them as portraits, I’m more comfortable with it. Don’t know exactly why, perhaps ego.
Christine Nemec and I are going to meet in a couple of weeks to pick out the portraits and I’ve already begun scrolling through my many thousands of photos to look for some.
Portrait: Daily Potholder
Posted At: Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:24 AM | Posted By: Jon Katz
Dog in the grass
Posted At: Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:22 AM | Posted By: Jon Katz
Lenore loves to take photos with me. I am crazy about Lenore. Maria says it is ridiculous to see the two of us together. Hmmmph. She is snoring at my feet, having just thrown up some revolting stuff on my shoe.
Greetings from Bedlam
Posted At: Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:14 AM | Posted By: Jon Katz
McEachron Road.
October 25, 2009 – Where the sun is struggling to break through, the ground is soggy from a lot of rain, and expectations are high of a Yankee victory. I am especially grateful today for the gift of photography, which helps me share my life and which forces me to be honest about it – photos do not lie. Cows are everywhere, and they always remind me to calm down, accept life and move through it more slowly.
It takes time to learn and grow and really change and among my many shortcomings, none is more toxic than impatience. I don’t really even grasp the concept of patience and of accepting the powerful reality that time is its own master, and I am a bug on the windshield next to it. Cows seem to know this.
Time is the enemy of fear, in some ways. When you kneel to time, fear weakens.
