5/1/2022

 

Weekly Update 5/1/2022

Not much going on this week. I did have a delightful day on Thursday. I met Helen, Denise and Jane for a late breakfast at Clary’s, and that was very nice (blueberry pancakes). After that, I decided to go to the Jepson Art Gallery to see two new exhibits that had recently opened. I had watched a youtube video by the curator of the Jepson about the drawings of William O Golding, and wanted to see the exhibit. William O Golding was a black mariner who was born in Georgia in 1874. He spent most of his life sailing around the world, but became disabled and spent the last two decades of his life in the Savannah Marine Hospital. He died there in 1943. While he was in the hospital, he used pencils and crayons to draw many ships that he had sailed on, or just knew about, and also many of the ports he had visited all around the world. The drawings are all on 8 ½ by 11 sheets of paper. Until recently, he had been undiscovered, but the appeal of the primitive drawings has made him popular lately, not only in Savannah, but in collections around the country. The details are amazing.

The other exhibit was of photographer Bruce Davidson. He is a contemporary photographer who has worked through the 1960s to the present day. He attended RIT and Yale University. He is most noted for taking photographs of people or groups usually hostile to outsiders, like the children in the slums of Harlem and street gangs of NYC. He gets to know his subjects and his images reflect the mutual respect between him and them. Another very interesting exhibit.

On Tuesday, as I was walking from Forsyth Park to City Hall to volunteer, I was happily wandering through the park. A lady sitting on a bench called to me to tell me she liked my dress. It was the one I had made from a BED SHEET! I have had many compliments on that dress, but I only wear it because it’s comfortable and washes well. It’s embarrassing.

Saturday, I went to the MountainFilmSav show at the Trustees Theater with Jane and her sister. It was a series of nine short independent films, and the whole program lasted about an hour. The films were documentary style, and interesting. My favorite was a cartoonist who uses sidewalk chalk to make creative images in public spaces. Another was a young boy surfer in Ireland who befriended a dolphin. There was also a plea for safe havens for whales. I enjoyed that very much. It’s too bad the lines at Leopold’s were so long, because I would have liked to have an ice cream, too.

Adrian is wonderful! I think he’s been a little under the weather this week, and there were fewer photos posted. One really cute one is of him walking behind a push toy. The cart gets away from him a bit, and you can see him struggling to figure out how to get his balance back. Precious.