Echoes of Play and Peace

Today I finished the last of my work schedule in preparation for our two-person exhibit at Pacific Grove Art Center which opens on September 2.  It included a lot of dusting, and then cleaning all the surfaces with a very soft cloth and sometimes warm soapy water and cleaning up all the backs and removing old tags from other exhibits. Even the enormous fire we have just had here, above Big Sur, is a dusty environment with firetrucks, and gigantic flatbed trucks carrying every manner of  earth moving equipment going up and down HWY. all day and night........Then all the wires had to be checked, a few sides 'finished', some collage 'repairs' made with glue.  Any changes have to be re-varnished as well.... and the final list of pieces submitted.  The ones from James Joyce are such a different mood!  I keep saying that I have finished that series, but then I discover such wonderful and original images in the pages of Ulysses that I go back and try one more.  Who would expect me to have so many interiors or people, etc.?  I am so glad I did it.  I never heard back from the Cherry Center so I guess that plan will not really take place after all.