[stylist] The Snow Bunnies

Mon Dec 23 13:04:50 UTC 2013

Hi,
I have to go listen to that song - I forget it.
Now that you have brought that UP, I am thinking that the color "black" 
appears in a great deal of my work.
I wrote a sestina that was published in a really nice literary journal in 
Pittsburgh shortly after I wrote it. The journal was "YALP" and it no longer 
exists, but the poem is "Wet and Black."  One of my earliest sestinas. The 
sestina if my favorite form of poem and I have written many of them over the 
years. It seems to come very naturally to me.
Right now, I am working on a series of visual mixed media fiber works that 
will be mounted on black suede cloth so that they can hang freely and be 
suspended out from the gallery walls in upcoming exhibitions.

And, in college I did an enormous amount os black paintings, both as an 
undergrad and as a grad student.
My friend has done me one better though. Her entire bedroom is black - she 
says it is soothing and she can sleep very well in the black room.
And, then there is the black clothing - most artists dress in black - when 
you attend art openings, and look around at the people, it is black that 
they are wearing for the most part.

Lynda
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> Hi,
> I wonder what causes some item or event to have such significance. At the 
> right time, or wrong time, you will see something, or someone will say 
> something to you, and it sticks with you for life.
>
> Jim
>
>
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> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bill Outman
> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2013 4:55 PM
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> Hi, Lynda.
>
> Your story made me think of the old Rolling Stones song, "Paint It, 
> Black."
>
>
> Merry Christmas
> Bill Outman
>
>
>
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> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda 
> Lambert
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 3:06 PM
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> OH, My goodness, Robert, you have made me laugh out loud!
>
> OK, the color of the house story:
>
> My husband and I were driving through   another town up in the PA 
> mountains,
>
> Indiana, PA. As we rode past a house painted BLACK, we were absolutely
> thunderstruck by it's beauty.  We rode back to have a closer look at it.
> Yes, it was black.  But, the next thing we noticed was the sigh outside 
> the
> house.  It was an attorney who had this house, and his last name is
> "Lambert."  This was just too much. We could not believe what we had 
> found,
> and that we had the same last name, too. We simply had to have a black
> house.
>
> We drove to our daughter's home after we had looked at the house the 
> second
> time. We told our daughter and her husband about what we had seen and how 
> we
> wanted one like it. And, here comes the third amazing thing:  our 
> son-in-law
> is a professional contractor and HE HAD MIXED the COLOR for this job!  He
> GAVE US his RECIPE for the color - and he had it mixed up at the
> Sherwin-williams store there in Indiana, PA.  So, we took the recipe back 
> to
> our city, and had it mixed up for our house.
>
> When I told my mother we were going to paint our house black, her response
> we not very positive. She said, "OH, NO, people will think you are a 
> witch!
> Nobody has a black house, and it will stand out like a sore thumb."
>
> We got the paint, and Bob painted the house. My mother happened to be
> driving by our home shortly after it was finished.  She told me, "I had to
> turn around in your neighbor's driveway, and then sit there on the hill 
> just
> looking at your housse for awhile. It was so beautiful I could not believe
> it. It looks wonderful!"
>
> The black is mixed using a green BASE - so the Black is a soft black, and
> because the house sits in the woods surrounded by very old trees, it seems
> to just hover there in the shadows. It has a magic quality to it, and 
> people
> come by just to look at it. I always give directions to tell people, "When
> you are driving along the river road, just keep going. You will come to 
> only
> one house on that entire road (it's a couple miles long). When you come to
> the black house, pull in, you are there.  You will see no other house on
> this side of the road but ours."
>
> That is the story, and I am sticking to it. lol
>
> BTW, my motorcycle is for SALE at Moravia Motorcycles in West Pittsburgh, 
> PA
> if anyone is interested in a super cool, and fantastic motorcycle.  I 
> cannot
> drive it any longer and I want it to be enjoyed by someone else who loves
> dragons and magical scenes on a motorcycle.
>
> Lynda
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>> Linda
>>
>> Snow Bunny's --- And gee, taking a early morning walk while in your night
>> clothes? MMM, not surprised, not coming from a motor cycle riding
>> woman/lady! But tell me the story about the color of your house, BLACK?
>>
>> Thanks for sharing your story.
>>
>>
>> Robert Leslie Newman
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