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Now Not Serving

8/24/2020

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"Now Not Serving" - a triptych.  Each 6" x 6", water-based ink and acrylic paint on aquabord panel.   Available here.
Let negative thoughts come into your head but don’t serve them tea  - comedian Joe List

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I've been getting my "aha" moments in odd places lately.  Likely you have, too, as our lives become weirdly wired to streaming and reading things we might never have known about in ordinary times.  A new friend recommended several comedy videos recently, and I actually found myself jotting things down as I listened.    I suppose comedy, like art, finds its best fodder in hard places - the things we might think, do or say that we probably wouldn't generally share with the world.
This particular quote is a version of something I've heard a time or two...but the idea of not serving tea to the negative thoughts made me chuckle.  I mean, that's what we do, right?  We allow the negative thought in and then offer it enticement to stick around awhile and enjoy itself there, rolling around in our consciousness and eating all the sugar cubes.  We are the perfect host or hostess for the thing that should actually receive a boot in the behind.

So this week, dear reader, let's post a NOW NOT SERVING sign in our minds whenever those pesky thoughts pop their heads up and ask for a cup of  Earl Grey.  

​About the art - pausing from a marathon of portraiture to continue my quest for the fine line between abstraction and realism.  In this case, pursuing seascapes which could nearly-not-be.  The water-based inks are fickle but lovely on their own, and dreamy when mixed with a bit of titan buff acrylic paint.
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Carl Stoveland
8/24/2020 10:46:35 am

What a lovely series. Perfect colors and wonderful movement. This is a case of knowing when to stop. Bravo!

Yeah. I like the no vacancy idea for negativity. These days it’s incredibly important.

Carl

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jen
8/24/2020 07:21:47 pm

Carl! Woot! Thrilled to have stopped at the right time here. That doesn't always happen. :) And yep - no vacancy here. Now not serving tea!

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Dotty Seiter link
8/24/2020 11:18:16 am

Your words/thoughts, Joe List's humor, your PAINTINGS—all calling out to me today. JUST what I needed.

Thank you, Jen!

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jen
8/24/2020 07:22:09 pm

Dotty! It is my pleasure. :)

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Carol Edan link
8/24/2020 11:29:34 am

So true! Why do we let them in, feed them, till they take over!
YAY for NO TEA/COLA/BEER anything.... not allowed social distancing!
Small with great PUNCH!

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jen
8/24/2020 07:22:51 pm

Carol! YesI I love the idea that there is no room for negativity because we are social distancing from it. So SMART!

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Stan Kurth link
8/24/2020 12:43:32 pm

These are excellent, Jen. The soft edges, colors and shapes make for ethereally serene seascapes leaving one to ponder. Beautifully done!

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jen
8/24/2020 07:23:25 pm

Stan!!! Woooohooo! Thanks for making my day, grand master!!!

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