(Out to lunch / visit the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro, VT. Amazing artwork by Kate Emlen on display in their gallery. Click her link below to see more of this magnificent work. As usual, the computer screen does not do justice.)
He hopes she travels to the places she paints because no one should be burdened by the task of carrying that much natural beauty around in their head, let alone finding some method of transferring it onto canvas so effectively that the viewer, inevitably mesmerized, transfixed, finds it nearly impossible to move from one painting to the next.
The Center prides itself on promoting and presenting what it refers to as “performing” arts, but as he moves through the lobby from one painting alcove to the next, it becomes increasingly obvious that a brushstroke, in this case, is no less a performance than the masterful arias and pas-de-deux presented on the stages within.
After a small feast in the Center’s equally remarkable café, his meal itself yet another masterwork to be savored and praised, he reluctantly gathers himself and leaves for home, carrying with him an Irish soda bread scone for his Beloved in the hopes that she might accompany him back sometime because true beauty, shared, is always amplified.
