Another Fabulous Souvenir

Finding our way back from Lobster Cove to our cottage on Monhegan on one of our hikes, my dad and I met a woman walking uphill towards us toting groceries in a backpack and a gallon of water in each hand. The gallons were doing her in, and it was as she set them to rest on the packed-dirt lane that she struck up a conversation. A conversation that included her stating that she was an artist, she was living at Alison Hill's gallery up the road, turn right at the fork, did we know where it was?, stop by!

That afternoon I did stop by! I took myself up that road, turned right at the fork, found the gallery, found Judy, hung out with her, and talked art and life for a good forty-five minutes, laughing, exchanging ideas, asking questions, exclaiming, both of us barefoot in the hot August sunshine, walking back and forth on top of several works in progress she had taped to tarps on the huge deck at Alison's place.

Judy, thank you: meeting you = a fabulous souvenir! I'm bookmarking our afternoon together.

Barefoot at Breeze Studio
1.5x5.5"; acrylic, India ink, oil pastel, and collage on watercolor paper
abstract bookmark
2018
[gift]