This week my post for Sepia Saturday is early...since last week I didn't post till Sunday!
by Hazel Larsen Archer, Black Mountain College Studies Building, c. late 1940s. Black Mountain NC campus. Vintage gelatin silver print. Courtesy of Erika Archer Zarow.
This building is among my 2008 photos on my blog about Lake Eden, also on that campus site.
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“The aim of human life is to know thyself,” says Timothy Leary.
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Check out my continuing rambles over on Inner Workings. It's allowed me to let my hair down (figuratively) while focusing on beauty, peace and love over here on this blog. I also have begun a new series started this month "Living till Dying."
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A new land trust will be building low and moderate income homes near where I now live. It is presently a horse pasture. My road, Blue Ridge Rd. is soon (whenever the funding comes through) to have an exit from I-40. It will be around 1/2 mile from the new homes. The little road will definitely need to be widened and revamped. Civilization is coming into the country. Here's the article in The Valley Echo.
...had I been a bit older, I would have enjoyed attending Black Mountain College. Barbara, I wish you a Happy Mother's day.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly influenced education and the arts, even though it was in existence for such a short time (27 years I think.) I would have gladly been a student there also!
DeleteA day early after a day late restores a balance in your universe. 😇
ReplyDeleteSounds good to me. But there's the catch-up energy needed, so perhaps a more steady pace would be preferable.
DeleteDid I ever know that you have another blog. Perhaps I did, but I forget.
ReplyDeleteHa ha...I have lots of blogs. It's questionable that I have another life outside of this computer. (Hear Twilight Zone music here.)
DeleteI love that concept of the Cosmic Vine!
ReplyDeleteIt does make me feel very small!
DeleteSame here, housing developments filling in the spaces in between, losing agriculture fields and grazing pastures.
ReplyDeleteThis poor little town, where really they need more lower cost housing, but at what cost to the environment!
DeleteThe cosmic vine is beautiful. And the Black Mountain College building reminds me so much of my Jr. High School. Those windows! One warm summer day I was sitting in class two stories up, bored, bored, bored. The windows were open. I made a paper airplane & since I was sitting next to a window, I flew it out the window. A few minutes later the vice principal came to our classroom holding my paper airplane which had flown right smack into him as he passed by the building below. He knew which classroom the airplane had come from, but not the exact window. I was the only girl in that window row,.so I was pretty sure, if no one said anything, he wouldn't suspect it was me. No one said anything and he didn't ask who threw it - just warned us not to do it again as it could have flown into someone's eye. Whew.
ReplyDeleteOh you daring girl you! But glad you didn’t get caught!
DeleteMy art mentor who was so helpful in getting me going with my exhibiting life was Maggi Johnson, printmaker and papermaker, who was at Black Mountain College, worked with the greats there, including Albers.
ReplyDeleteShe was in her 90s when she arranged a ride to visit a solo show of mine and give me wonderful feedback. So I have a lot to thank Black Mountain for.
Me too, a mentor from BMC...Mary Caroline Richards taught ceramics, wrote the book "Pottery, Poetry and Person." I wrote her while I was in art school and Counselor Education in the 1980s...at the time she was working in a community in Pennsylvania. The book included some of the things that were being taught in the 80s which were directly descended from the educational ideas of the BMC groups from the 40s.
DeleteGlad to see some low/middle income housing being planned-- though I hate the loss of the pastures.
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