Art is Life is Art: Susan Reep Photo Art

What the heck?  What’s happening to me!  I painted some pears today.  Badly, yes, but I don’t mind.  I used them as a backdrop for today’s Art Every Day Month piece.  I am enjoying setting up and photographing still lives.  I’m stuck in the fruit mode at the moment, but Cezanne did a lot of fruit, so I can too.

Jeanne-Claude Dies

I am very saddened by the death of Jeanne-Claude today.  She’s Christo’s wife, and the two of them collaborated on their wonderful temporary art installations.  My husband and I worked on two of them:  The Umbrellas and The Gates Central Park.

She was a vibrant, warm, and exciting woman.  We’d see her walking around with her flaming orange hair as she checked on the projects, talked and ate lunch with people, etc.  I’ll put up a picture of my husband eating lunch with Christo and Jeanne-Claude during the Gates Project.  I’ll also put up one of my photos of the Gates.

This photo of the gates may be the most interesting I’ve ever taken.  It is absolutely as photographed – no photoshop, no boosting colors, nothing.  Yet it has a strange cartoonish , illustrative quality.  I just love it.

The New York Times reported that she died from complications of a brain aneurysm.