Follow The Sun Novel Now Reinstalled...Volume 1 follow-the-sun-by-e-v-pete-hester This novel, click on the title and when reading, it moves right to left by using your little wheel on top of your mouse. A little different but you soon get used to...
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A Repost On The Abortion Debate Doesn't Belong On Billboards Kathleen Parker wrote: Abortion Debate Doesn’t Belong on Billboards Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 24-05-2019 2 Pete Hester wrote Kathleen the following e-mail today: I...
Coalfire Stories....from an earlier posting There is no Wikipedia information on Coalfire, Pickens County, Alabama….It is not included…So, you are gonna have to just trust me or the twenty-five or thirty or fifty other people who can talk...
St. Jude Children Research Hospital. Please Give. ... Luke 18 verses 15 - 17...."Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belong to such as these"....I try to give something every month to St Jude. What an institution...
No, no, I don’t mean, rocks as in having a big time, etc…I mean rocks that I have painted with Christmas scenes on them….Wanna see? ok, I’ll show you…One side is the front the other is the reverse. click on the pictures and it will enlarge them.
Where did Pete get such talent with a pen (computer word processor) and a paint brush, and on an unforgiving medium like a common old rock that has no use other than holding together the world, reinforcing a road for cars to run over, or prividing a safe haven for small animals. It is one thing to make art on a nicely prepared, expensive canvas. It’s quite another to make art on a common old rock selected and prepared from the field. The latter requires talent. You’ve got it, Pete! I still haven’t found the hawk. Perhaps you could paint him eating his lunch of one of those rocks.
Thanks…..I am not sure it is a talent but I do enjoy doing it…
It definitely is a talent if the image on the rock medium conveys the message intended by the artist to the beholder. If it doesn’t to this, then it becomes just another gaudy, colorful rock in the field of many, destined to reenforce the roadbed underneath some highway for trucks and cars to travel. To know whether or not it is art, just ask yourself what message does it convey. If it conveys a message, then it is art.
My first contact with a message painted on a rock (or rocks) was the great big “J” which I noticed as I looked towards the Jemez Mountains (to the west)as I walked out of my transient barracks at Kirtland on the morning after I arrived at KAFB. I didn’t know what the “J” meant that morning, but I found out a few days later when it was explained to me by some people whom I met later in the Air Force Weapons Lab. Is the “J” still there? This “J”, although it is an arrangement of white painted rocks to convey a message, probably isn’t art because the message wasn’t obvious to this stool pigeon from Alabama, newly arrived in an enchanted land. It had to be explained to me. The message conveyed by art shouldn’t have to be explained. It should grab and hold a person forever. I still remember that “J”. It and the mountains were my welcome to the “enchanted land” of New Mexico and Albuquerque.
I have not seen the J you refer to. So I’m not sure if it’s still around or not. Per your definition maybe I am an artist.
If you haven’t seen it out in your “neck of the woods”, then it must not be there today; or, else, it hasn’t been maintained; the rocks got scattered, and were never repainted because the “J” was very obvious from just about every vantage point all over Albuquerque. The white “J” against the grey-brown of the mountains really stood out, especially in the afternoon sun. It couldn’t be missed then. I guess it fell victim of the ravages of time. So be it! The ravages of time are about to get me too.