Gene Davis

Hello wonderful Misses Shannon and Eva!

 

How are you today?  It was cold this morning, so of course, as I shivered on my way to work I thought of my lovely Florida nieces, all warm and happy down there in the sunshine state.  I’m looking forward to seeing you at Christmas, but of course, first we need to have Thanksgiving.  J

 

So last weekend your uncle and I, and some very fun friends of ours went to a thing called the “Pumpkin Blaze” where there are THOUSANDS of carved pumpkins, made into amazing things – it was AWESOME. Check out some of the things we saw there!

 

  

 

So that was my artistic adventure for the week.  I totally want to make pumpkin sculptures now.

 

But I also want to introduce you to a new artist, and this guy is pretty cool. Gene Davis at one time had the record for the world’s largest artwork (most of his work happened in the 1960s and 70s).  It was called Franklin’s Footpath, and was happy colored painted lines in a street in Philadelphia.  How pretty would it be if all streets looked like that?

 

He also did work with light and color in other mediums, like this awesome piece called “Sun Sonata”, made of tubes of liquid lit from behind.  Isn’t it beautiful?

 

A lot of his work was kind of stripey, and colorful, but some was black and white, and he used a lot of different stuff to make it.  I like that it’s not matchy stripes, but there’s a rhythm to it so it almost pulsates – like music made in colors.  Sun Sonata reminds me of the UFOs in a movie called “Close Encounters” that was way before your time, but was pretty cool when I was a kid.  The aliens communicated for the first time with people through patterns in light and music.

 

So that is a bit about Gene Davis!

Know that I love you and think that you’re awesome.

Hugs and kisses,

Auntie Paula

xoxoxoxo