Hi Peter,
I hope you and Ellie got to the beach and have enjoyed the summer. Our life got to busy we just took it day by day...
My brother had such a great time, I set him up to paint for 10 days out in the garden, even though he is very abstract in nature it really made his spirit come alive. I fed him from our organic garden and he went home with 10 paintings to Detroit. Frontal Lobe Dementia takes your verbal world away, think of becoming instinctive like a domestic animal but more. He still is very cogent and funny, his humor has kicked in. His visual world has become more lucid and amazing.
We then had 19 people here for almost three weeks. So wonderfully fun, to the beach each day and the pond and dinner by torch light everynight. Whew I just couldnt write at all. It reminded me of our time in Cuba the way people stay outside and then the nights are so alive.
While touring with our 17 year old granddaughter looking at colleges where she is being recruited in a way by the theater programs, we went to Boston College and realized that the WILFREDO LAM , show is coming there in September what a small world. Our college professor Marie Canaves fled Havana as a child and she has shared so much with me. I am taking her gifts for the 60th birthday I brought from Havana on Sunday, There have been many documentaries on CUBA on PBS all summer. We can never get enough.
Still working with Deede Tonelli at the Cape Cod Museum of Art on bringing you here. It would be such a gift to our art community. I have actually been reading Persist at night, what a wonderful book. Thanks for writing it.
This is the craziest request but I will post it. Our house exchange in San Francisco fell through due to illness for the people there. We are coming anyway. Do you know anyone, who you would trust to take care of a beautiful house and art collection who would like to use our house from Sept 14 to October 25. It has to be someone who we can get a reccomendation on. We dont rent this house, its not a rental in any way with a big art collection and gardens. but we have had writers and artists do residencies here. Just a crazy thought but perhaps there is an artist or writer who would be able to rent such a place but might enjoy staying here on a retreat while we are gone?
Hope you are doing good, and that you had time to relax, enjoy , write and make art.
Love to all the LA crowd, Kate and Steve
www.studioonsloughroad.com
PS I made a typo , the house would be free, we never let people pay to stay here but we love it when artists or writers come and stay while we are out to see our kids in California. Its an offer of a place for people to come and get inspired. Rentals go for 4 to 5 thousand a week on Cape Cod in August, but we would never charge artists or writers , not in our nature, yet we are very careful about who stays here? does that make sense?
