
I haven’t exactly been keeping on top of this blog because my life has been way too hectic. What have I been doing you might ask? Well, the first week of December was the end of the semester and I had to schlepp all of my art supplies, papers, books and office goodies back home because it was my last semester there. Next, I had to grade my students’ final projects and turn in their grades. After that, I needed to select work for an exhibit I will have in February at the Print Center in Philadelphia. I needed to get all my ducks in a row (organize, organize, organize) because I was leaving our home in Philadelphia to move to Phoenix. I could only take 3 suitcases of clothing and assorted belongings with me (o.k., I admit they were mostly filled with shoes and handbags).
After arriving in Phoenix and setting up house in a temporary apartment, there were all those chores one must do to buy a house: calls to arrange for insurance policies and loans, calls to set up telephone service, gas, electric, cable, internet service, garbage pick up and pest control (did I mention there are scorpions in Arizona???). In addition to all these tasks, there are still wedding plans for E & M that must be attended to, and, well, I think you get the picture. I am overwhelmed and reeling from it all. It’s a wonder I can function! Am I functioning?
And yet, I have been able to take a lot of photos while exploring my new environment and thought it would be a good way to get back into the swing of things by posting a sampling of them. Here is a little eye candy from the new town I call home. I hope you enjoy the colorful visual stimulation–it is sure a lot more colorful and brighter here than in Philly.
A hummingbird mosaic on a bench at Phoenix Children’s Hospital.
Graffiti to knock your socks off…

A big, red sculpture at The Phoenix Theater/Art Museum…The rules of art are: if you can’t make it good, make it red. And if you can’t make it red, make it big. This is all three: good, red and big! (can you believe that blue sky?!)

Some bicycle graffiti for Rich…

Interior light at The Burton Barr Central Library…it is an amazing architectural wonder filled with light and wide open spaces and a really huge (massively huge) collection of printed matter.

And the obligatory cactus…

More eye candy will be posted on this blog as soon as possible. If you really can’t wait, then go to my Flickr site. I post photos there just about every day.
Content and photographs copyright 2007 by Janet Towbin