[MD] Painting

[MarshaV]

At 11:21 AM 9/21/2007, you wrote:
>Hi Marsha,
>
>do you know why you destroyed your journals and sketchbooks; of course
>that's a rhetorical question and only for you to answer for yourself.
>
>I have destroyed journals too in the past mainly because they contained
>private/embarrassing stuff and I got fed up of holding on to them. I don't
>currently keep a journal now, probably because I know I'd write stuff in it
>that I'd later want to throw away. Now I wont write anything that is
>throwawayable.
>
>The subject of your email was 'Painting'; if I recall you don't usually sell
>your work, so you must have many 'works'. I'm in the same boat and have many
>items from many years ago that hold I on to, I gaze at them and wonder about
>improvements but I practically never go back and alter. I'm destined to lug
>all those canvases around for the rest of my life; a labour of love? Will my
>son have to throw them away for me after I die?
>
>regards
>
>-Peter

Hi Peter,

I'm not sure, but I wanted to know what it would be like not to have 
them.  These were my art journals, sketchbooks with poetry.  My 
personal journals I burned a year after my husband died, on the date 
of our anniversary.  A couple of months after that anniversary date I 
woke up and took all my clothes (everything) to the Salvation 
Army.  I had become quite unglued.  Not sure why I destroyed the 
stuff more recently, curious maybe.  It was a tea party, an emptying.

I do identify with the stacks of paintings situation.  A couple of 
years ago (maybe less, maybe more) I took a bunch to the Goodwill 
Store.  But I have again many, too many.  I've giving some away.  I'd 
love to give more away, but to whom?  I'm not sure who would want 
one.  I told my son that when I die to take them to the 
Goodwill.  Maybe some will find a good home.

Very much a labor of love.

Thanks for writing.

Marsha





>On 16/09/2007, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > A few months ago, I destroyed 15 years of journal/sketchbooks.  This
> > morning I started a new book.  Thank you.
> >
> > Marsha
> >
> >
> >