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Still Pink Copyright by Lynn Bridge 6 3/8″ x 5 5/8″ x 1 3/8″ This is your third installment of the short story “Pink” (copyright by Lynn Bridge).  The main character is Harry, a man trying to live his life in spite of his dementia. The story is about

To catch up with where we are in this short story, read Part 1. This story is not about dementia, but dementia is an ever-present character in the story “Pink”. The artwork is inspired by the short story (Story copyright 2000 by Lynn Bridge). Pink Again Copyright by

Pink Copyright by Lynn Bridge 12″ x 12″ x 1 1/4″ Last fall I blogged a short story which I wrote about 10 years ago and recently used as a take-off point for more art. It involves dementia. You never know when and where inspiration will strike! The story will

Today, I’m hearing voices in my head!  One of them is telling me to get busy on my new ‘Blog Triage’ class assignment from Cynthia Morris and Alyson Stanfield:  write a topical post three different times, each to a different type of person in our lives, or even

Path Through Life Copyright by Lynn Bridge 18″ x 12″ Today I am making a departure from my usual blog style, if that is even possible!  This is my first day as a student in an online class co-taught by Alyson B. Stanfield at http://artbizblog.com and Cynthia Morris at

For the third year in a row, I have made a piece of art for the annual “100%” fund-raising silent auction benefiting the educational programs of Austin’s George Washington Carver Museum.  Each year the museum asks 100 citizens to make  12″ x 12″

So, if Barton Barriers has many meanings, including all those the artist never envisioned, but expected us to formulate, I am taking the liberty of looking at the sculpture and drawing some conclusions of my own.  Many thoughts trail through my mind when I look at Barton

As soon as it was installed almost three weeks ago, a brouhaha brewed in my neighborhood over a temporary sculptural installation on a nearby city right-of-way. The name of the project is “Barton Barriers” and the artist is Stephen Dubov.  Here is an overview of the

The other day I was polishing this thing, this butter-keeper, which has been passed down in the family, and I started wondering about the young bride who received it as a wedding present back in 1873 or so.  How much time did she spend polishing it?  Did she relish figuring out

Spring is starting in Austin, Texas.  The native Mexican plum trees, an understory plant, are flowering white under the bare branches of the taller trees.  This non-native shrub in my yard is flowering pink already, and its sibling shrub is thinking about blooming sometime this