5/2/2024 0 Comments Tina mom of two watertank![]() ![]() Eventually she added a kitchen and a bathroom (initially with a composting toilet.another job I didn't like much.) and finally a loft. She added onto the initial structure incrementally, pouring a concrete floor ½ at a time as she could afford the cost of radiant heat, insulation and paint (a job I really didn't enjoy.painting the styrofoam insulation walls and ceiling from scaffolding.with a BRUSH!). For the first 12 years from when the building was built, the walk from the house to the studio happened in all seasons with Yak Trax in the winter, Birkies in the summer. The new studio, a 32 x 48 pole building, was the new beginning for my mother and became the focus of her intention from then until the day she died in her bed in her home in that studio in 2007. My mother used to like to tell the story that Daddy's friend Louis Pennfield obviously wrote a better letter of recommendation for Bob than Bob had for Louis, because Dad got the job (that he was applying for) and Louis did not! Some they'd hauled with them from Lubbuck Texas to Bozeman, Montana to start their new life as faculty and family of the MSC Art Department in 1949. ![]() The trailers had worked pretty well, and Dad was really quite proud of the shelving he'd cobbled together to hold and organize primarily paintings that they'd accumulated over 40 some years, some of which was their collection of friends work, some was their own. began by transferring all of their work from the two truck trailers that they'd acquired sometime in the 70's for storing their art. In 1991, the year after my dad died, the process of helping my mother take care of the work left behind. ![]() Now imported into my Aperture Library, this task has made me ecstatic at times.that I can see these bones in context of the lives that they carried. These images from the slides were very clean, relative to the funky skewed images I'd sent away. My dad would have been thrilled to see his work in such clean presentation.like Fraces Senska commented, a little disoriented, when she saw his work so beautifully framed at the show at the Holter in 2006, “A Look Ahead”, “They're all so CLEAN!”. They did a great job! By the time we were finished with over 2000 images they understood that this was important archival work, that the quality of the slides didn't necessarily reflect that of the work! The digital images came back to me color corrected, cropped and squared up, many with a black border. I had long email dialogs with the technicians in India, as I paid an extra 6 cents per slide for them to take time to correct for parallax. They took photos with whatever camera was around.an old Brownie as we were growing up, but in later years my Dad was proud of his Canon Sure Shot that he could snap the pieces as they shuffled through his alchemical transmutation of ideas in the studio downtown until they moved out of town, and in the basement studio he occupied for 40 years in Cottonwood Canyon. Neither of them were photographers, it didn't cross their mind to hire professionals on their budget. I ask your awareness that most of these images were recorded through the years as Bob and Gennie made the work. paintings, sculptures, prints.eras of ideas.and the SLIDES! SO much information, visually, physically and over the years as they've become organized into categorical files that make sense.physically sent to India to be scanned for so much less cost than here.I have to confess, I out-sourced a serious task of digitally transcribing all those images so I can gather them into a way by which we can SHARE with all of you, the magnitude of the blood of the bones these two left behind! Doctors and plumbers don't leave so much behind.artists? They leave their bones in so many ways, physically, metaphysically.
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